This proposal on the Make blog using “Bits” as dynamic tokens as a replacement for shortcodes. Bits are placeholders for content and use an HTML comments syntax.

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.

There is a push in the upcoming WordPress 6.6 release to make Gutenberg styles easier to override, even reducing the specificity down to zero. If I’m reading this correctly, it appears there may be some backwards compatibility issues.

It is good to see some progress on Phase 3 of Gutenberg, the collaboration phase. This is an experimental feature allowing for commenting on blocks, I imagine similar to Google Docs comments.

It seems they’ve changed with every WordPress release. This article gives a high-level overview of the history and evolution block patterns.

Justin Tadlock is very excited about the Block Bindings API, even in its current state. He released a detailed tutorial on how to use it to create a Book Review site. When I looked over the tutorial it seems painful. Perhaps his approach would make sense for someone creating an enterprise or high priced build for a client. However, from an end-user’s point of view, this looks like a non-starter. Am I wrong? Of course, it is published on the developer blog.

Here is an interesting development, MicroThemer now has deep integration with Gutenberg. Here is a video showing how it works.

Drupal is planning their site builder solution and this discussion talks about their considerations for using Gutenberg. It is interesting to see how they evaluate the user experiences, goals, and where Gutenberg doesn’t fit into that vision … kind of along the lines of critiques of our Site Builder.

Reusable and overrideable patterns are currently available in the Gutenberg plugin and scheduled for WordPress 6.6 in July. Here is a demo of this feature.