Work is beginning on WordPress 6.6 and there was a “Hallway Hangout” today going over some of the work being done on Gutenberg and the Site Editor.

On Wednesday there was a “Hallway Hangout” to discuss using the Site Editor for client sites. Here is a recap summary and the video recording. From the recap it looks like a number of pain points were identified.

WordPress 6.5 will include a new hook for registering block variants using PHP. Here is an overview and tutorial from Justin Tadlock.

The latest version of the Gutenberg plugin, 17.8, includes basic grid support. This version of Gutenberg (and this feature) won’t be in 6.5.

Creating and managing block patterns is pretty straightforward. Here is a tutorial on the process.

In this video Paul Charlton shares his enthusiasm for GutenBricks, a plugin that lets you create Gutenberg blocks from Bricks Builder templates. It is a way to provide Gutenberg blocks for clients so they can edit the content, without changing the layout and styles.

I was a bit surprised to see this blog post by Anne McCarthy on Gutenberg inconsistencies and missed opportunities.

Here is a cool video from Anne McCarthy showing a new feature for synced patterns coming to WordPress 6.5. It allows you to set on a block by block basis the ability to customize the content of individual instance while keeping the overall layout intact.

Matias Ventura has proposed a directory of stand-alone core blocks supported by the WordPress core team. What do you think?