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Still on the subject of Gutenberg,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Still on the subject of Gutenberg, Tony Perez shares his thoughts after watching Matt's State of the Word where Matt talks about the ways Gutenberg may affect the WordPress business ecosystem. For those most likely to see their niche market disrupted…

The age of Gutenberg

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Brian Krogsgard

Gutenberg was the talk of town at WordCamp US, as you may expect. Most people have their own thoughts on the product itself, the necessity of its existence, the process in creating it, or a variety of other things. I…

Gutenberg engineer Matias Ventura explains on his…

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Gutenberg engineer Matias Ventura explains on his blog how the new editor will simplify tasks that are complex and difficult for WordPress users today. Matias reviews some of the architectural features the Gutenberg team decided to focus on, such as placeholders, blocks,…

The latest Gutenberg update is out.…

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Brian Krogsgard

The latest Gutenberg update is out. In the changelog: block conflicts have been resolved, there is new support for custom fields in block attributes, and crash recovery has been addressed. Omar Reiss brought up Gutenberg while sharing his thoughts on the WordPress…

Facebook relicensure of React and where that leaves WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard

After Matt Mullenweg blogged about the decision to ditch React for Gutenberg and core WordPress development, Facebook pulled an about face and changed the license. It was a shocking move, and some suspect WordPress's decision was an impetus for the…

Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of…

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Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of his thoughts on Gutenberg on his personal blog. He says, "Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward," and goes on to touch on various ways developers, agencies, plugin developers, theme developers, web…

Mel Choyce recently published a working…

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Brian Krogsgard

Mel Choyce recently published a working docoment for tickets and improvements under consideration for WordPress 4.9. Among them are improvements to the code editor, customization efforts, better theme switchingm, improved processes for uploading updated theme and plugin zip files, iteration…

Gutenberg development continues to move at…

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Brian Krogsgard

Gutenberg development continues to move at a fast clip. Here's the most recent changelog. Tammie Lister recently shared milestones that are "not set in stone" but roughly slate the merge proposal for the end of the year. That's optimistic, but I like…

There’s been talk of how difficult…

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Brian Krogsgard
There's been talk of how difficult it is to stand out in the WordPress professional theme space lately. David A. Kennedy at ThemeShaper says Gutenberg is going to change this "in a big way." David thinks the new editor will add such…

Gutenberg is in beta, and an…

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Brian Krogsgard

Gutenberg is in beta, and an official testing page has been published on Make WordPress, with links to forms to provide generic feedback via a Google form, or you can contribute via GitHub. They are looking for specific task based…

WordCamp Europe is in the books,…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordCamp Europe is in the books, with the usual strong lineup of quality talks from excellent speakers. I (David) was unable to attend physically, but I watched both days of talks on the livestream. Since there were far too many…

Speaking of Gutenberg, you can download the…

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Speaking of Gutenberg, you can download the Gutenberg plugin from the plugin repo as well and try it out yourself. Some are already sharing their first impressions. Matt Cromwell notes it's flexible, but also mentions some weaknesses and concerns. Chris Lema…
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