Rich Tabor • Post Status

Design | Notes

127 Full Site Editing Block Themes

ByDan Knauss September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

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…

Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of February 28

ByDavid Bisset March 3, 2022July 21, 2022

It’s David’s picks of the week from the wide world of WordPress and webtech podcasts — and videos.

Business | Planet | WordPress News

WordCamp US 2021 Summary

ByDavid Bisset October 5, 2021November 19, 2021

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.

Business | Design | Hosting | WordPress Community | WordPress News

Footnotes #456

ByDan Knauss July 23, 2021August 16, 2022

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…

With the release of WordPress 5.8,…

ByDan Knauss July 23, 2021August 15, 2022

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…

Rich Tabor gets deeper into the…

ByDan Knauss July 16, 2021

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…

ByDan Knauss July 2, 2021August 15, 2022

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…

ByDan Knauss June 18, 2021

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…

ByBrian Krogsgard July 22, 2020

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…

ByDan Knauss May 20, 2020

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…

ByDan Knauss March 13, 2020

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…

ByDan Knauss February 5, 2020

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…