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  • The Gutenberg User Experience

    You can set your clock by it – the recurring flare-ups of Gutenberg frustrations that turn into tweets that turn into videos that turn into livestreams that turn into… what exactly? I’m not entirely sure. What are we frustrated about? Leadership. Vision. Direction. Governance. Inflation. But above all: Gutenberg. I won’t retread the arguments about…

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    Will WordPress 6.6 have components?

    A true component-based web design system inside of WordPress would be the developers dream, but I just don’t think we’re there yet.

  • Section Styles in WordPress 6.6

    Let’s dig into Section Styles- the pros, the cons, and will theme developers be using them? (coming in WordPress 6.6).

  • WordPress 6.6 is changing the game for Custom Fields

    WordPress is bringing Custom Fields to blocks. The Block Bindings API is going to change the way we code for postmeta, and WordPress 6.6 is our first glimpse.

  • Registering Block Settings in PHP?

    Thoughts on adding custom fields to Gutenberg blocks- using PHP, no JavaScript or React. Should WordPress let us register custom fields on blocks?

  • WordPress Playground Blueprints and 6.6 Beta

    Let’s dig into WordPress Playground and see how you can use it to do anything with WordPress, including beta test the next major release.

  • What is “modern” WordPress development?

    It’s a phrase that I’ve started to use more often, to the point where it starts to lose any sense of meaning. Does it mean anything?

  • Bricks vs Block Themes: My Followup to Bridge Builders

    Followup to the Bridge Builders livestream, going over the custom block theme and my (minimal) set up, and thoughts on the page builder YouTuber community’s obsession with “dynamic data”.

  • Generate CSS Variables for any global style assigned in the site editor

    How to reference a CSS property that was assigned to a specific block or element by automatically rendering our own CSS variables.

  • Gutenberg Dialogues and Monologues

    Tomorrow I’m going head-to-head in a friendly “page building” livestream with Bricks Builder aficionado Kevin Geary (click to get notified here). We’ll take turns building the same landing page, talking the whole time about the tools and workflows and trying to compare apples to apples (Bricks to Gutenberg) as much as possible. I’ve responded to…