Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

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Written By Brian Krogsgard

16 thoughts on “Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0”

  1. Great write up Brian, and thanks for referencing my post. I tend to agree with you that content blocks might be a little too far off in it’s current state, unfortunately it hasn’t really gotten much developer attention after the initial concept. (But that was partly my hope in mentioning the plugin so early on)

    Platforms like Medium and Squarespace make content management really easier, and Mark Jaquith’s Velocity Page plugin shows just how far you can take the concept with WordPress. I’d love to see WordPress tackle this sooner rather than later.

    Although, taxonomy meta and post relationships would be a solid runner up in terms of features.

    • I imagine Brian is referring to there not being a shiny UI feature for end-users, and that’s definitely a true statement. And also quite OK — I’m not complaining that auto-updates “just work” and he isn’t either.

      • Precisely. I think auto-updates are amazing. But not particularly “shiny” for end users, especially when not full of drama and on all updates and not just minor ones 🙂

  2. Great read Brian! I love how you point out how we don’t have to over speculate, when we can see publically a lot of what’s planned and when it’s realistically planned for. Great article 🙂

  3. Hi, Brian!

    First, I’m really happy to see a post talking about the Content Blocks User Experience (a.k.a. CEUX) project. I mostly read articles mentioning the Front End Editor (maybe because it’s more ready and it’s actually working right now if you test it). As Lachlan mentioned, the CEUX project hasn’t gotten much developer attention, which is sad because I think that it’s a project that could really change the way that we work with WordPress.

    Right now, I think that I’m currently the only one working on CEUX project. I’m really not an expert at working with Javascript libraries like Backbone.js (that powers the current UI of the project), but I’m really learning a lot working on that. And Yes, the project really could use some more devs. This is why I’m so happy to see someone mentioning it!

    The development of the project was kept mainly among those who has commit access of the SVN repo of the plugin. But Mel Choyce has made a public repo at Github at the beggining of the project. I currently brought the project to this public repo because I think that it will be easier for anyone that wants to help. I’m working on a fork and doing pull requests as I make some progress on it.

    So, for anyone that want to contribute to the project and likes Git / Github, heres the official repo: https://github.com/melchoyce/CEUX

    Let’s change the way we work with posts at the Backend!

  4. Any time I see WordPress and content blocks I am happy! It doesn’t really matter if 4.0, 4.1, etc are too early for it. Just hoping for ‘soon’ and ‘it will happen’. It would make so much difference in my opinion.

  5. I have mixed feelings about the changes to the visual editor. Love the pinned bar, don’t love that I can’t resize the editor window. Might be a bit of OCD for me, but I liked having that control there.

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