In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the upcoming WordSesh schedule and go spelunking through make.wordpress.org to surface some recent gems making their way to WordPress.org – both the project and the website.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss meta data in WordPress, including the challenge of implementing data into new tools, such as the REST API and the Gutenberg editor.
Gutenberg 2.7 was released last week. Among the bug fixes, it also added an official pagination block, updates to the link insertion interface, and (according to the update) it “pushes much of the Plugin API out of its experimental stage.” Version 2.6 also added some nice new features including the long-awaited drag and drop functionality to…
As usual, we start off with a few Gutenberg updates. Gutenberg 2.5 was officially released on March 29th, with a heavy focus on new and improved tools to extend and interact with the editor. On the user side, there are updates to shared blocks, font size UI, accessibility, mobile, stability, and many bug fixes. Zac Gordon explains…
Scott Rollo heads The Theme Foundry, which may be best known today for its builder theme, Make. They recently rolled out HappyForms, a custom form builder plugin.
First, some recent highlights from the ongoing effort to get ready for Gutenberg. Dev4Press has a summary of the current state of Gutenberg (version 2.4). Antonio Villegas shows how you can create your first Gutenberg block. He briefly covers the edit and save methods in his example. Advanced Gutenberg Blocks is a plugin that adds some…
Jim Zarkadas has a nice post summarizing Gutenberg and some resources to check out if you are ready to get started with it.
The latest version of Gutenberg includes nested blocks — a huge feature for making them even more dynamic. This will be especially helpful for managing columns, but other block types as well.
GeneratePress has earned a substantial user base, surpassing a million downloads last year. Here’s what it’s creator and founder has to say about the journey.
Gravity Forms released a Gutenberg block add-on to be able to use Gravity Forms, as well as their popular conditional form functionality, within the Gutenberg editor. Carl Hancock tells me it’s the first of many Gutenberg focused efforts, and it’s great to see. This will make including forms for lead generation or whatever else simpler…
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber’s Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
The latest version of Gutenberg (2.1) is out with another healthy list of improvements and additions. As Matias Ventura reports, the update iterates further on aspects of the design and writing flow with enhancements like lighter up/down movers. It also brings many extensibility API improvements. As the final stages for features are approached, Matias notes…
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss market segmentation across the WordPress ecosystem.
There are two great Gutenberg posts out now: Bill Erickson relates his experience about building a Gutenberg block, and how he added one for one of his plugins. He notes that it was, “more difficult than he expected,” but in the end a nice learning experience. Matthew Haines-Young, a senior Developer at Human Made, shares his…
As we move forward in 2018 with Gutenberg‘s release looming closer, more is being written about its possible impact, the currently foreseen problems it may solve, the potential problems it will create, and so on. Here are a few recent contributions from the WordPress community that I’ve been thinking over. Bridget Willard expressed her concern…
The first WordPress conferences of 2018 will soon be upon us. Two to point out: LoopConf is happening from February 21 to 24 with a solid speaker lineup. It’s back in the same venue at Salt Lake City, Utah. If you’re a WordPress developer, or if you want to mingle with some, this event provides an…
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