There have been some important questions and concerns about accessibility in the upcoming new editor. First and foremost, it goes without saying that work on these areas is never finished and we ca…
ACF | ACF 5.8 - Introducing ACF Blocks for Gutenberg
There has been a lot of excitement surrounding Gutenberg, the new block-based WordPress editing experience. One of its most compelling features is the ability for developers to create their own custom block types. This opens up an endless array of possibilities for customization. There’s just one little problem.
Last week the WordPress development team announced a tentative roadmap with real dates for the release of WordPress 5.0, which would include the merging of Gutenberg into Core. Here is the
Contributing to Gutenberg: A New Contributor’s Experience
The following is a guest post by Chris Van Patten who shares his experience learning and contributing to Gutenberg. There’s been a lot of talk of Gutenberg’s higher barrier to entry for…
Now that we have official support for nesting as of #3745, let's consider adding a Section block that can act as a generic block container. This block would have the following settings: Columns...
Do an accessibility audit and make a blog post about it · Issue #10318 · WordPress/gutenberg
Right now there is a perception that Gutenberg is quite inaccessible, both in general and compared to the Classic Editor. Below is more/less a copy+pasted comment I made in a recent Make Post about...
Tiny Raises $4M in Series A Funding, Publishes Gutenberg FAQ
Tiny, the company formerly known as Ephox has raised $4M in Series A funding from BlueRun Ventures. Tiny is the company behind TinyMCE, a popular text editor used in many opensource projects, inclu…
Usually during major releases of WordPress, the dedicated release lead chooses a few folks to help them through the time-consuming work of managing an excellent release cycle. We are blessed with s…
4.0 is at the release candidate stage, which can be grabbed here. Our 40th release is going to be a long one. Main changes are the introduction of a new data structure for RichText that will allow …
A pre-release of Gutenberg 4.0 RC 1 is now available for testing. During today’s core developer chat, Matias Ventura, the project’s technical lead, said he plans to post a full changelo…
Getting Started Contributing Code to WordPress Gutenberg in Laragon
This post documents how I setup WordPress Gutenberg for local development on Windows 7, using Laragon instead of Docker, and made my first pull request to the project. Most folks wanting to test an…
This 17-part video course from WordPress Educator, Joe Casabona, will introduce you to the all-new Gutenberg Editor in WordPress and show you how to use all of its exciting new features!
Jetpack 6.6 Improves Site Verification Tools, Asset CDN Module Now in Beta, Gutenberg Blocks Coming Soon
Jetpack 6.6 was released today with an update to the Site Verification tools that enables one-click verification and sitemap.xml registration with Google. This release also introduces the beta of J…
Alexis Lloyd and Riad Benguella Will Lead Phase Two of Gutenberg
As activity ramps up to try to get WordPress 5.0 released in November, Matt Mullenweg has announced who will lead phase two of the Gutenberg project. Phase two focuses on Customization and entire s…
Do You Need to Know React as a WordPress Developer?
The new WordPress content editing system Gutenberg will be powering the WordPress post editor in WordPress 5.0. Gutenberg is a “block-based” editor. When creating content, everything is a block. If you have a post that is one paragraph, one header, and then two paragraphs, that’s four blocks. Gutenberg comes with a set of default “core” …
Block comparison: show difference between invalid block conversion options by johngodley · Pull Request #7995 · WordPress/gutenberg
Description When you have an invalid block the result of the available actions can be unknown. This PR adds a 'compare conversion' option that shows the actual HTML difference when 'co...
The user should be able to align/convert a selection over multiple paragraph blocks. I guess this could be solved by having one text block for multiple paragraphs, but how do you then align/convert...
Gutenberg 3.9 Introduces Reusable, Exportable Templates for Multiple Blocks
Gutenberg 3.9 was released last week with a new feature that allows users to group multiple blocks into reusable templates. The templates can also be exported and imported as a JSON file. The idea …
To better understand how we can integrate Gutenberg into WordPress, it’s crucial to know how the Gutenberg plugin is organized. JavaScript Packages The Gutenberg plugin is mostly a JavaScript…
Yesterday, we started the WordPress 5.0 release cycle with an announcement post. Make WordPress It’s a very exciting time to be involved in WordPress, and if you want to help make it the best…
A tentative 5.0 release schedule was published during today’s core dev chat. The official release is targeted for November 19, 2018 with beta 1 expected October 19 and RC 1 released October 3…