One of the goals of the third phase of Gutenberg is editor collaboration. Automattic has sponsored Kevin Jahns, who has worked to add collaboration to other tools, to work on adding collaborative editing to Gutenberg. He developed a framework for building collaborative apps called Yjs.

For power users and developers – Nick Diego shows how to create a “clickable card” by creating a Gutenberg block extension to enable a linked Group block.

The wraps are off of Etch and we can now talk about what is known. I’ve summarized some of the main points from the live stream presentations.

The website WPHelpers by Aurooba Ahmed is an interesting resource for exploring core blocks and their properties.

WordPress has added the DataViews react component to core. It is currently being used in the Site Editor area for displaying Pages, Templates, and Patterns. In this developer blog article JuanMa Garrido shows how to use DataViews in your own projects.

In this video I look at WP Cron and the free WP Crontrol plugin. Many users don’t even know that WordPress has an event scheduler, how it works, or its limitations. However, this is good information to have, if only for troubleshooting and site maintenance purposes. The WP Crontrol plugin provides a nice interface for managing WP Cron.

Joshua Gugun Siagian created an implementation of Tailwind CSS 4 for WordPress called WindPress (previously called Yabe Siul). WindPress is lightweight, fast, and compiles in the browser, so no calls to an external server are needed. The developer has just released a free version on the WordPress plugin directory for Gutenberg, Greenshift, Kadence, and Timber. Builders such as Bricks, Breakdance, Oxygen and others require the pro version.

For plugin developers – the Gutenberg plugin has introduced the ability to register block templates using API calls which makes it easier to include templates in plugins. This feature is scheduled for inclusion in WordPress 6.7.

This is an interesting interview with Matthias Pfefferle, the creator of the ActivityPub plugin. This plugin helps to integrate a WordPress site with the “Fediverse,” or the decentralized web. There is some discussion about what the Fediverse is and also about what sharing and commenting looks like.