Ability to convert existing shortcodes to blocks · Issue #4576 · WordPress/gutenberg
Issue Overview If a plugin currently uses a shortcode in the post content field for including its functionality, and the plugin is updated to also implement this functionality as a Gutenberg block,...
Anatomy of a Custom Block: How Gutenberg Blocks Work - Content Blocks
If you’re a WordPress developer who is getting started writing custom content blocks for Gutenberg, you’ll find that this is a very different kind of development than you are used to doing. Gutenberg relies heavily and JavaScript and React instead of PHP, and the underlying architecture is unique. When I first started writing custom blocks […]
New Toolkit Simplifies the Process of Creating Gutenberg Blocks
Ahmad Awais, who created the Gutenberg Boilerplate last year, has released a Guten Block Toolkit. The toolkit substantially simplifies the creation of Gutenberg Blocks by providing no configuration…
I am excited to launch Create Guten Block. `create-guten-block` is a zero-configuration dev-toolkit (#0CJS) to develop WordPress Gutenberg blocks in a matter of minutes without configuring React, Webpack, ESLint, Babel, ES6/7/8/Next, etc.
How to Add Block Templates to Your WordPress Theme or Plugin
While working on my Gutenberg Development Course, one of the hardest things I found to research was how to add block templates to your WordPress theme or plugin. Block templates are a way to have c…
Zac Gordon Launches Gutenberg Development Course, Includes More Than 30 Videos
Zac Gordon, a technology educator, has released his Gutenberg Development course. The course is $79 but is available for $49 using the coupon code earlyadopter. Gordon says the course is aimed at d…
Gutenberg 1.8 Adds Greater Extensibility for Plugin Developers
Gutenberg 1.8 was released this week with several notable improvements that will give plugin developers more flexibility in extending the editor. It introduces block templates, which developers can…
If you're already familiar with WordPress, you're probably used to its content editor based on TinyMCE. Creating content in WordPress did not really change for many years now. But with ne…
One thousand and one way to extend Gutenberg today
If there's one and only one feature that made WordPress gain 30% of the web's market share, this feature would be Extensibility. What is WordPress without Yoast? What is WordPress without…
Introducing Gutenberg Boilerplate For Third Party Custom Blocks!
I have built a Gutenberg boilerplate to help WordPress theme and plugin developers kick-start their development with the new editor in town. It's heavily inline documented. This post also contains my …