WordPress starter themes provide a solid foundation for building your own custom WordPress themes. In this article, I share my two Gutenberg-optimized starter themes. What is a starter theme A…

🐰 Gutenberg blocks beautifully arranged in ready-to-use sections.

WordPress 5.1 has been downloaded more than 3.6 million times since its release last week and work on 5.2 is now underway. The upcoming release will be led by Matt Mullenweg with Josepha Haden acti…

Lists all default Gutenberg blocks that will ship with WordPress 5.0. The blocks are triaged by category, with a screenshot of their icons, and the unique identifier used by Gutenberg.

These are the results of a user research study investigating mental models related to building and customising a website. Results are split across five posts: Background | Segments: Bloggers · Smal…

Phase 1 of Gutenberg was intended to make post and page editing easier and more flexible for users, leveraging blocks as the main mode of interaction offering greater virtuosity, especially for non…

Exploring ideas about the evolution of layout and presentation in a post-Gutenberg world

Introducing the Highrise ACF Blocks Plugin. A plugin which takes a lot of leg-work out of creating Gutenberg blocks, working alongside the excellent Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin.

Playing with Gutenberg can be fun. But creating blocks in JavaScript can be tough. But ACF will be giving developers help in the future.

Every block type in the WordPress editor can have multiple style options. I'll show you how to add and remove style options from blocks.

I had a realisation: WordPress isn’t focussed on agencies and developers right now - it wants users who can fend for themselves.

Two independent and highly-experienced WordPress developers offer professional opinions on Gutenberg and what it means for industry experts.

Block Navigation sidebar panel for the new Gutenberg editor.

The new Blocks include baseline support in all themes, enhancements to opt-in to and the ability to extend and customize. There are a few new concepts to consider when building themes: Editor Color…

When building themes with custom styles for Gutenberg blocks you need to make sure those styles match in the editor as well.

A developer's guide to creating a WordPress color palette and applying the styles to Gutenberg blocks.

Create a custom Gutenberg hero block with me the easy way with ACF and the new acf_register_block() function.

Learn how to easily create a configurable testimonials block in Wordpress with Gutenberg and Advanced Custom Fields.

We answered the frequently-asked question about Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0, "What about my shortcodes?". Learn how to convert your shortcode into a block in this step-by-step guide. Plus free examples!

Our friend Josh Pollock recently published a guide which I wish I’d written (and which I may yet, because it’s a good idea, and I’m sure going to be growingly-common question). It’s about how to go from a shortcode, which is that [square-bracketed] things of the past, to the Gutenberg-y thing of the future: blocks!

Before WordPress 5.0 arrived I came across a few premium WordPress themes already advertising that they were ‘Gutenberg-ready’ or ‘Gutenberg-compatible’. Huh. But how could a theme not be compatible with… Read more

Introducing the new CoBlocks, a suite of page building blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor. This is the Gutenberg page builder you’ve been waiting for. CoBlocks will make you rethink what WordPress is capable of.

Having trouble figuring out how to get involved in the Gutenberg Phase 2 effort? Understandable! There are a lot of teams (and channels and blogs) to keep up with. This post will help you find the …

No React, No Problem Advanced Custom Fields now offers a simple way of converting traditional ACF field groups into Gutenberg blocks without writing a line of React. This exciting announcement from the ACF team is really appealing if you aren’t ready to dive head-first into building custom Gutenberg blocks, which can be a time consuming and daunting

Gutenberg phase 2 development is underway and one of the first orders of business is porting all existing core widgets to blocks. This task is one of the nine projects that Matt Mullenweg outlined …

WPCampus is excited to announce our selection of Tenon LLC to conduct an accessibility audit of the Gutenberg content editor. Founded by Karl Groves, Tenon is a leader in the accessibility testing field. We look forward to working with the team at Tenon over the coming weeks. Thank you to all of the companies who […]

As you may know, WordPress 5.0 introduced a new editor experience (for those that haven’t decided to explicitly disable it), and the response has been mostly “ok, cool.” from users, despite the controversial release schedule, and the decision to punt many accessibility and performance issues to subsequent patch releases. And while I won’t try to […]

The new WordPress block editor includes two new alignment options. To take advantage of the new alignment options, your theme must first support them. Include add_theme_support( 'align-wide' ) in your…

The future is Gutenberg and it is coming. Will you be ready? Gutenberg is a whole new editing experience for WordPress. If you are a WordPress developer you will not want to miss this talk where we…