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🥫 Nick Hamze made a great…

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Dan Knauss

🥫 Nick Hamze made a great point about developers dogfooding their own Gutenberg blocks: "...the best you can hope for now is that someone will have a simple blog rocking a Twenty-something theme with a vanilla set of blocks. If…

Video and podcast picks

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Brian Krogsgard
📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…

Rich Tabor has posted his reflections…

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Dan Knauss

Rich Tabor has posted his reflections on 2019, which included joining GoDaddy and selling CoBlocks and ThemeBeans. His goals for 2020 are "to simply read more," "produce music," and "get involved with core Gutenberg on a deeper level." Rich predicts…

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Video and Podcast…

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Dan Knauss

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here's my video pick of the week: An interesting discussion over at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience…

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It…

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Dan Knauss

Gutenberg 7.4 🇰🇷 is out. It includes an official tool to scaffold blocks quickly, a handy color tool for Group and Column blocks, updates to the link UI with RichText formats, prettier formatting, and more.

I have been enjoying Nick Hamze’s…

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Dan Knauss

I have been enjoying Nick Hamze's posts over at block.garden lately. They are short, "open thought" posts on WordPress and Gutenberg (editor) blocks. 🏡 Nick's latest piece talks about supporting blocks that may have been abandoned by developers: "I’m just…

Gutenberg 7.3 has rolled with lots…

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Dan Knauss

Gutenberg 7.3 has rolled with lots of bugfixes, enhancements, and performance gains. The most notable new features are the text and background color selectors. 🎨

Tim Nash shares how one might…

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Dan Knauss

Tim Nash shares how one might go about finding all the Gutenberg Blocks used on a site. It's more complicated than you think. Tim also shares five languages he thinks WordPress Developers should learn in 2020: PHP 7, Javascript and…

10up released Autoshare, a plugin that…

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Dan Knauss

10up released Autoshare, a plugin that automatically tweets your posts as soon as they’re published. Autoshare integrates nicely with the Gutenberg publishing flow. Once you click the publish button, the plugin sends your post's title, featured image, and link to…

Jeff Ong at ThemeShaper shares how…

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Dan Knauss

Jeff Ong at ThemeShaper shares how to create a block-based theme using block templates that can be fully edited with Gutenberg — including headers, footers, and sidebars. As of Gutenberg 7.2.0, block templates are an experimental feature on the path…

Ella van Durpe notes “the first…

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Dan Knauss
Ella van Durpe notes "the first Gutenberg release of 2020 includes not less than 180 PRs 😍crafted by more than 56 contributors." Highlights include a new block for multiple buttons, accessibility improvements to the editing interface, and a refactoring of…

Haris Zulfiqar says he is “betting…

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Dan Knauss

Haris Zulfiqar says he is "betting on Gutenberg" because it's addressing the needs that page builders currently fill, although Gutenberg will never (in Haris's opinion) replace them. 🃏

Here’s Nick Hamze on building Gutenberg…

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Dan Knauss

Here's Nick Hamze on building Gutenberg blocks for the next generation: "Give blocks a chance and maybe ask your kids what they’d like their WordPress to look like." This is a good read, and it takes on a subject I…

Speaking of Matt, Ella van Durpe,…

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Dan Knauss

Speaking of Matt, Ella van Durpe, Tammie Lister, and a few others who were involved shared the story of how Gutenberg was used to make Matt's slides for the WordCamp US 2019 State of the Word presentation. This nifty use…

Gutenberg 7.0 🇷🇴 was released at…

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Dan Knauss

Gutenberg 7.0 🇷🇴 was released at the end of November. It included "a big number of fixes and enhancements to the Navigation block," which is now stable. There are new APIs allowing the internationalization of strings, a new Card component,…
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