Volume #120

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“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
– Albert Einstein

Gutenberg Times Weekend

Curated News & Resources about the WordPress block editor.
Curator: Birgit Pauli-Haack.
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Howdy!
Big thank you for your comments this week. I really appreciate the time you spent providing details along with your questions. My responses are waiting in the draft folders to be finished. So glad you wrote. You warmed my heart. Keep 'em coming! 🥰

How has your week progressed? I am on day 60 of our Stay-at-home time and I marvel at the life outside our windows, with bird mating, iguanas chasing one another and Frangipanis in full bloom.

I took a mental excursion into our legacy Coldfusion app, updated some features and hunted down some bugs. 🦗 For this weekend, I am looking forward to installing CiviCRM on the server of an organization's WordPress site. Wish me luck.😅

Various WordPress teams posted about Gutenberg and their work in progress. Read updates from core, design and theme review teams below. And more.

Stay safe and be well.

Yours, 💕
Birgit

PPS: Gutenberg Changelog podcast: 🎙️Episode #19 is out with a transcript Don't miss the next episode and subscribe via your favorite podcast apps: Spotify | Google | iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast / RSS Feed with over 3,900 downloads.

How to Create Custom Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress

On YouTube, Alessandro Castellani @alecaddd published a great tutorial series on how to develop Custom Blocks in 7 to 15 min segments. He walks you through the details of building a Call-to-Action block with background, title, description and buttons.
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Block-based Themes Meeting Notes May 6, 2020

Did you know the WordPress Theme Review Team discusses regularly Block based Themes? In this week's meeting notes, they announced a few changes so Theme developers can stay more in touch with the upcoming changes. A new [Themes] label on GitHub issues and a weekly news digest about the work in progress.
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The Future of WordPress: The Block Editor Is Here to Stay – WordPress Tavern

Earlier this week, Justin Tadlock shared in this opinion piece two truths about the future of WordPress:

Truth #1: Blocks are Here to Stay

Truth #2: Love of Blocks and "seeing the face of an inexperienced WordPress user light up for the first time because they get it."

The post, not unexpectedly, brought out also some dissenters in the comments. All agree that there is still a lot of work to do.
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Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #52

Mark Uraine, design lead on the Gutenberg team, has some interesting design updates for full-site editing experience being worked on. Specifically for the Page & Template navigation with two options on how to solve some UI issues. Check it out!

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What’s next in Gutenberg? (May)

Riad Benguella, @riadbenguella, lead developer on Gutenberg team posted the high-level focus items for Gutenberg contributors: Full-site Editing experience, Global Styles, the new Navigation screen and refining the interface for patterns, and inserter.
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Joy of WP: The NPR Of All Things Gutenberg – an Interview with Birgit Pauli-Haack

Slide from Ellen Bauer's presentation at WPBlockTalk: "Tips on how to stay current on Gutenberg development" as a theme developer. Look at #3! 💕

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