Tag: gutenberg

  • WordPress Accessibility Team to Host Hackathon with Deque Systems at WordCamp US 2018

    WordPress Accessibility Team to Host Hackathon with Deque Systems at WordCamp US 2018

    WordPress’ Accessibility team will be hosting a hackathon at Contributor Day on Sunday, December 9, at WordCamp US in Nashville. The team will be joined by lead developers from Deque Systems, a widely respected accessibility firm in the industry, with the goal of setting up automated accessibility testing for WordPress core. The event has been…

  • WPWeekly Episode 338 – Inflation, WordPress Release Dates, WP GDPR

    WPWeekly Episode 338 – Inflation, WordPress Release Dates, WP GDPR

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss the news of the week. We talk about the delayed release of WordPress 5.0 and which day would be a suitable release date. We share our opinions on Matt’s answers from his Q&A appearance at WordCamp in Portland, Oregon. We also talk about the changes in…

  • NextGEN Gallery Plugin to Add Gutenberg Support Ahead of WordPress 5.0

    NextGEN Gallery Plugin to Add Gutenberg Support Ahead of WordPress 5.0

    If you’re a NextGEN Gallery plugin user and have been wondering about Gutenberg compatibility, Imagely CEO Erick Danzer announced today that the plugin will ship a gallery block in a release planed for next week. The plugin is currently used on nearly a million WordPress sites (900,000+ active installs). NextGEN Gallery’s Gutenberg block has been…

  • Drupal Gutenberg Showcased at DrupalCamp Oslo 2018

    Drupal Gutenberg Showcased at DrupalCamp Oslo 2018

    Gutenberg appreciation is running high across the CMS pond in the Drupal world. DrupalCamp Oslo 2018, Norway’s biggest national camp to date, was held over the weekend. The event featured two sessions on Gutenberg – one for site builders and one for block developers. Frontkom, the team behind Drupal Gutenberg, took home two Splash Awards…

  • Google Developers Demo AMP Stories Integration with Gutenberg at Chrome Dev Summit

    Google Developers Demo AMP Stories Integration with Gutenberg at Chrome Dev Summit

    Alberto Medina and Weston Ruter gave a presentation on Progressive Content Management Systems yesterday at Chrome Dev Summit 2018 in San Francisco. Medina is a developer advocate at Google and Ruter recently transitioned into a new role as a Developer Programs Engineer after eight years at XWP. Medina began the session with a quick overview…

  • Matt Mullenweg Addresses Controversies Surrounding Gutenberg at WordCamp Portland Q&A

    Matt Mullenweg Addresses Controversies Surrounding Gutenberg at WordCamp Portland Q&A

    Matt Mullenweg joined attendees at WordCamp Portland, OR, for a Q&A session last weekend and the recording is now available on WordPress.tv. The first question came from a user who tried Gutenberg and turned it off because of a plugin conflict. She asked if users will have to use Gutenberg when 5.0 is released. Mullenweg…

  • WordPress 5.0 Release Date Update to November 27

    WordPress 5.0 Release Date Update to November 27

    The WordPress 5.0 release date has been pushed back to November 27. The previous schedule outlined the possibility of a slip date where the first target date could slip by up to eight days if necessary. “As discussed during the Core devchat this week, the initial November 19th target date is looking a bit too…

  • Adding Aligned Images to Paragraphs in Gutenberg Is Not as Tough as I Thought

    Adding Aligned Images to Paragraphs in Gutenberg Is Not as Tough as I Thought

    Last week, I published an article that describes the process I went through in Gutenberg to try to add an aligned image to a paragraph block. I concluded that performing the task in the Classic Editor was easier than in Gutenberg. In response to the article, William Earnhardt compared the process and showed how it…

  • Classic Editor Plugin May Be Included with 5.0 Updates, Support Window Set to End in 2021

    Classic Editor Plugin May Be Included with 5.0 Updates, Support Window Set to End in 2021

    Gary Pendergast announced this morning that the Classic Editor plugin will be officially supported until December 31, 2021. The plugin eases the transition for sites where plugins or themes are not yet compatible with Gutenberg and gives users the opportunity to preserve their existing workflows. “Since the Classic Editor plugin is central in this transition,…

  • WordPress 5.0 Beta 3 Released, RC 1 Expected November 12

    WordPress 5.0 Beta 3 Released, RC 1 Expected November 12

    WordPress 5.0 Beta 3 was released this morning. This beta incorporates all the changes from Gutenberg 4.2 RC1, which was released last week. It fixes a bug with the display of the custom fields meta box and also improves REST API requests. Gutenberg has undergone a few UI tweaks and introduces a Formatting API for…

  • WPWeekly Episode 336 – Interview With Andrew Roberts, CEO and Co-founder of Tiny

    WPWeekly Episode 336 – Interview With Andrew Roberts, CEO and Co-founder of Tiny

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Andrew Roberts, CEO and Co-founder of Tiny. Tiny is the company behind the popular open source library TinyMCE. Roberts shares his entrepreneurial journey, what the company plans on doing with its recent round of funding, and the relationship between TinyMCE and Gutenberg. Here is…

  • How to Add an Image to A Paragraph Block in Gutenberg

    How to Add an Image to A Paragraph Block in Gutenberg

    WordPress 5.0 is on the horizon and with it comes a number of opportunities to explain how to get things done in the new editor. Testing Scenario A user has written three paragraphs and decides to add an image to the second paragraph. This user wants the image to be aligned to the right. Accomplishing…