Jeffrey Carandang explains how to add…
Dan Knauss
Jeffrey Carandang explains how to add custom Gutenberg block styles with ES6 and ES5 Javascript.
Joshua Wold explains from a design…
Dan Knauss
Joshua Wold explains from a design perspective how WooCommerce widgets are being converted into Gutenberg blocks. A lot more work goes into this than you might think!
Video and Podcast Picks of the…
Dan Knauss
Video and Podcast Picks of the Week 📹 Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: Alex Young
Gutenberg and Full Site Editing Gutenberg…
Dan Knauss
Gutenberg and Full Site Editing Gutenberg 6.1 was released this past week, and it includes some significant interface enhancements you will notice right away. The most noteworthy is the introduction of motion/animation when you are reordering, adding, or removing blocks.…
Mel Choyce has shared some Gutenberg…
Dan Knauss
Mel Choyce has shared some Gutenberg block directory and block management concepts for the WordPress admin interface and is asking for feedback.
Honey Code is a new Gutenberg…
Dan Knauss
Honey Code is a new Gutenberg Syntax Highlighter Block from Chris Kelley. It handles syntax highlighting quite nicely. ✨
More WCEU Recaps Here’s an excellent…
Dan Knauss
More WCEU Recaps Here's an excellent WordCamp Europe contribution day recap from the Make WordPress Design team. I appreciate seeing how the discussion about Gutenberg and interaction resulted in designers opening issues in Github. Codeable had a nice recap as…
Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg…
Dan Knauss
Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg 6.0 is out with significant enhancements to the column layout block, widgets block, and block group functionality, among other things. Felix Arntz explains how to leverage the power of Custom Elements in Gutenberg. Like…
WCEU 2019 in Review
David Bisset
WordCamp Europe 2019 hosted a record 3,200+ people, according to ticket sales. WCEU started with a contributor day on Thursday, June 20, followed by the two main conference days on Friday and Saturday.
Jonny Harris, a WordPress core contributor,…
Dan Knauss
Jonny Harris, a WordPress core contributor, is looking for feedback on a feature plugin that gives REST endpoints to menus. This feature would be great for Gutenberg and headless WordPress sites. 🔌
Gutenberg plugins are maturing rapidly! 🌾 Some…
Dan Knauss
Gutenberg plugins are maturing rapidly! 🌾 Some new examples: Grids is a "layout builder" that lets you visually define layouts. You can specify a section for blocks just by dragging its margins. Automattic too is experimenting with a "full site editing"…
📺 Two recent videos worth watching/listening…
Dan Knauss
📺 Two recent videos worth watching/listening to: Ella van Durpe (JavaScript Engineer at Automattic) talked about
The WordPress theme review team is…
Dan Knauss
The WordPress theme review team is adopting a new policy: Trusted Authors "will need to review [one] ticket a month to be able to have their themes set live." 🎫 Some folks have chimed in on this policy, including Justin…
A new version of Gutenberg was…
Dan Knauss
A new version of Gutenberg was released. It will be part of WordPress 5.2.1, which is close to a first release candidate. Improvements to Gutenberg include the ability to set different widths for each column in the columns blocks, improved usability…
Advanced Custom Fields version 5.8.0 is…
Dan Knauss
Advanced Custom Fields version 5.8.0 is available now. This release contains the long-awaited PHP-based framework for developing Gutenberg custom block types. Many people are already publishing some demos on Twitter using the new PHP method, which seems sure to open…
WPCampus released the results of the…
Dan Knauss
WPCampus released the results of the much-awaited Gutenberg accessibility audit. Tenon LLC conducted the tests and produced the report at the cost of $31,200. On top of donations raised by WPCampus, Automattic covered about two-thirds of that total. The testing…
