Brian Gardner @ wpengine.com • 6 months ago
If you want to get up to speed on Gutenberg and the Site Editor, Brian Gardner has a 5 part video series that nicely explains: how to install Google fonts, adding a site icon, understanding list view, WordPress patterns, and getting started with global styles.
Nick Roach @ elegantthemes.comCool • 6 months ago
Another Divi 5 progress report. This one talks about the transition from Divi 4 to Divi 5 and speed improvements.
They have been doing a good job communicating. I’m sure that helps to inspire confidence for their users.
David McCan @ youtube.com • 6 months ago
See the Breakdance dynamic data features in action. In this video David McCan uses the new Breakdance version 2.0, together with Meta Box, to show how to create templates for a Custom Post Type. I also show how to display the Meta Box group repeater field.
Brian O’Connell @ youtube.com • 6 months ago
In this video Brendan O’Connell uses Pinegrow and ACSS to create some custom blocks. It is an easy to understand video that highlights the flexibility of these two tools.
Roger Montti @ searchenginejournal.com • 6 months ago
Roger Montti interviewed Adam Zieliński, the WordPress Playground Architect at Automattic. This was my question, which got answered:
“Site builders often have one or more “starter sites”, which seem to squarely line up with blueprints, though they usually include premium themes and plugins. Drupal has “Distributions,” which are basically pre-configured starter sites often with a niche focus.
Imagine a pre-configured install of core, a theme, a membership plugin, and payment setup (waiting for gateway API keys). If you want a membership site then just install this and start adding content. Or a pre-configured help desk system and so on.
So, I’m wondering if the vision is that Blueprints will provide something similar?”
Matt Mullenweg @ developer.wordpress.com • 6 months ago
Studio, the local development environment from Automattic, is now available for Windows. It uses the Playground technology.
Jamie Marsland @ youtube.com • 6 months ago
This was interesting. Ben Ritner from Kadence used Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks to create the home page of the Rolling Stone website. Justin Tadlock used Gutenberg for the challenge. They had 30 minutes to see how far they could get. It seemed like Ben was going a little faster and smoother. I was surprised that Justin didn’t work in the Site Editor, but in a page. He brought his own custom theme.
Clicky Steve @ transparency.automattic.com • 6 months ago
Automattic wins a freedom of speech case in Turkish Constitutional Court. I wasn’t aware that they were very active in response to take-down orders. (lol, the article is by “Clicky Steve”)
lowlighter @ matcha.mizu.sh • 6 months ago
Matcha.css is a semantic CSS library that provides styling based on the element names, rather than classes. These types of libraries are good for providing default styling for HTML for simple sites.
