A couple of WordPress contributors are currently looking for folks to sponsor them to work on the documentation for the WordPress block editor (often referred to as “Gutenberg”) and this is your chance to support them.… Read article “WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs”
WordPress Block Transforms
This has been the year of Gutenberg for us here at CSS-Tricks. In fact, that’s a goal we set at the end of last year. We’re much further along that I thought we’d be, authoring all new content in the block editor¹, enabling the block editor for all content now. That means when we open most old posts, we see all the content in the “Classic” block. It looks like this:… Read article “WordPress Block Transforms”
How to Use Block Variations in WordPress
WordPress 5.4 was released not so long ago and, along with other improvements and bug fixes, it introduced a feature called Block Variations. I had a chance to use it on one of my recent projects and am so pleasantly surprised with how smart this feature is. I actually think it hasn’t received the attention it deserves, which is why I decided to write this article.… Read article “How to Use Block Variations in WordPress”
How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020
Peter Tasker on creating blocks right now:
… Read article “How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020”It’s fairly straightforward these days to get set up with the WP CLI ‘scaffold’ command. This command will set up a WordPress theme or plugin with a ‘blocks’ folder that contains the PHP and base CSS and JavaScript required to create a custom block. The only drawback that I noticed is that the JavaScript uses the old ES5 syntax rather than modern ESNext. Modern JavaScript allows us to write more concise
