In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Scott Kingsley Clark, lead developer of the Pods framework. Clark describes what it was like to lead the Fields API project, the difficulties of working hard on a project and not getting core buy-in, and why building the Fields API into core first would have made the transition to Gutenberg easier for users and developers.
He looks back and describes what he possibly could have done differently and provides an update on Pods Framework’s compatibility with Gutenberg. To wrap up the show, Clark played us a song on his electric ukulele. To hear more tunes from Clark, check out his channel on SoundCloud.
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WordPress Core Fields API Project is Seeking New Leadership
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Note that alread last year Scott pointed out the problem regarding Gutenberg in Q&A of Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2017 (at about 1:04:50) by asking about importance of REST API vs. Fields API and got the answer “Fields API won’t happen in 2018″…