It’s not meteoric growth by any means, but it’s good to see over 127 block themes listed in the WordPress.org theme directory. Highlighting block themes in the navigation was a good idea and an odd one to oppose, but I guess change is always hard. Even the most popular themes and builders like GeneratePress are…
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Some highlights and an overview of WCUS 2021 from David Bisset. Catch up on anything you missed and learn how you can get more involved in WordPress.
With the release of WordPress 5.8, block templates have been on the minds of some developers. Rich Tabor has a great guide to building your first block template, and it explains how to leverage template parts within block templates. 🦮 For Rich this is clearly the dawn of full site editing: “Block templates are absolutely…
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…
Rich Tabor gets deeper into the process of building and publishing block plugins to the WordPress block directory. 🤿 “Eventually, the Block Directory will become the de facto way to discover new blocks. It is on each of us to take part in envisioning, designing, building, and deploying blocks that will further empower publishing within…
Rich Tabor has authored a new block plugin for adding markdown comments that only display while editing a post with Gutenberg in WordPress: “Having the ability to add, and keep, any relevant editing comments within my posts, without rendering them on the front-end, means that I am freed up to mentally jot any idea down…
Rich Tabor asks on Twitter, “What do you need Gutenberg to do, to enable you further?” There’s a variety of interesting and well-thought-out responses in the replies that followed. 🐦
Rich Tabor is encouraging anyone interested in Block Patterns for the WordPress editor to dive in with him and discover how to leverage the new Block Patterns API to “build beautiful patterns.” 🏊♀️ Rich shows how you can “block out the pattern” in the editor and then register it, along with additional categories.
Markdown on Ice Rich Tabor and Jeffrey Carandang have announced the release of Iceberg, which describes itself as a “beautiful, flexible writing editor for crafting posts with the WordPress block editor.” In other words, install the plugin and open the block editor to bring up a minimalist authoring environment that supports Markdown. 🐧 The Iceberg…
Block Test Patterns Rich Tabor explains why block patterns are the future of page building in WordPress. He also describes what a Block Patterns API may look like. 🏗️ Right now you can copy whole templated sections of block patterns from Munir Kamal‘s block template library at Gutenberg Hub and paste them in any site’s…
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 this is going to be “an even bigger year for the block editor” than 2018…
As Rich Tabor announced on Twitter recently, the GoDaddy “Go” Gutenberg-first WordPress theme is available on the WordPress theme directory.
What does the future hold for WordPress themes, for theme developers and end users? Are we ready for a single master parent theme?
Rich Tabor announced that GoDaddy has officially acquired CoBlocks, ThemeBeans and Block Gallery. Rich was approached by GoDaddy “a few months ago,” and naturally it was a big decision Rich gave considerable time and thought. ThemeBeans subscribers will continue to receive support and remote updates under their current license until April 8, 2020. All premium…
Rich Tabor shows how you can conditionally load front-end JavaScript for Gutenberg blocks. Rich walks you through some checks for specific blocks on a page using methods drawn from his own plugins.
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