On the podcast today we have Nick Diego. Nick is a Developer Advocate at WP Engine. He can be found creating educational content, building plugins and themes, and contributing to WordPress Core. He’s on the podcast to talk about his passion and optimism for the future of WordPress using blocks. At the recent WordCamp US,…
On the podcast today we have Alex Ball. Alex is a Lead Software Engineer at Mindgrub, a digital agency in Baltimore, Maryland. His website leadership experience continues to inform his decision-making today, especially for training clients and making the block editor as easy to use as possible, and that, in essence, is the subject of…
On the podcast today we have Aki Hamano. He’s a fan of creating WordPress blocks and currently has five available in the repository. We talk about the WordPress community in his home country of Japan and then give deeply into what all of this blocks do, and why he’s been creating them. It’s an interesting…
Block Protocol is a new project that aims to build a block system for embedding […]
Blocks are the future of WordPress. They offer an easy way to create content and display it on your website in interesting ways. The only problem is that, although they are easy to use, blocks are hard to create. There’s a fairly high level of technical concepts and processes which you need to master if…
The advent of block themes delivers more creative power into the hands of users, but […]
On the Jukebox podcast today we have Lee Shadle. Lee is a WordPress developer at WP Draft, and by his own admission is obsessed with building block based themes, plugins and websites. He’s been using WordPress for many years and as soon as the Gutenberg project was announced, he decided he was going to explore…
So today on the WP Tavern Jukebox podcast we’re talking to Benjamin Intal from Stackable, which is suite of WordPress blocks. We talk about why he’s betting his business on blocks and how the company have evolved their product line over the last three years. From a period in which the adoption of blocks was…
In this, the second episode of the WP Tavern Jukebox podcast, we talk to Anne McCarthy. Anne is Developer Relations Wrangler for Automattic. Her work is focussed on the WordPress.org space, and she is leading the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. She explains what Full Site Editing in WordPress is all about. Why it’s needed,…
BuddyPress 7.0.0 “Filippi” was released this week, following WordPress 5.6 to ensure compatibility. This version […]
BuddyPress has entered the world of blocks with the release of version 6.0, the latest […]
How do you know what blocks are in use on a WordPress site? I recently […]
It was about a year ago. I was happily designing a theme for aspiring novelists. […]
BuddyPress 5.0.0 “Le Gusto” was released this week with the long-awaited BP REST API, a […]
WordPress core committer Felix Arntz is working on an experimental Block Areas plugin that would […]