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<p>Speaking of <strong>DevNotes</strong>, the Gutenberg team tracks their progress on the  DevNotes via <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">this GitHub issue.</a>  You can get a head start on <a href="https://gist.github.com/gziolo/cbea77500316a243e445d509ced3c231"><strong>&#8220;Block API Enhancements&#8221;</strong></a> by <strong>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</strong> or <strong><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365#issuecomment-853726663">&#8220;Contextual patterns for easier creation and block transformations&#8221;</a> </strong>by <strong>Nik Tsekouras</strong> before they are published on the Make Core blog. </p>



<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> posted about other <strong>Block Editor Enhancements:</strong> </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/20/core-editor-improvement-contextual-patterns-for-easier-creation/">Contextual patterns for easier creation</a>  and </li><li>How to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/09/core-editor-improvement-improve-your-workflow-with-list-view/">improve your workflow with List View</a>, the former Block Navigator feature. </li></ul>



<p>On the WordPress News Blog, you found earlier: <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/05/coloring-your-images-with-duotone-filters/"><strong>Coloring Your Images With Duotone Filters</strong></a> by <strong>Alex Lende</strong>. Yes, I am in love with it, that&#8217;s why I mentioned it again. Gutenberg 10.7 also brought the methods to <strong>disable  duotone </strong>via the theme.json file. <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/32002">The details are in this Lende&#8217;s PR</a>. </p>



<p><strong>Adam Silverstein</strong> published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/07/wordpress-5-8-adds-webp-support/">WordPress 5.8 adds WebP support</a> dev note. It&#8217;s not directly a block editor update but crucial for content creators and developers alike, especially in context of the Core Web Vitals when speed is becomes of the essence. </p>



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<h2>Gutenberg Changelog</h2>



<p>It&#8217;s been two years since Mark Uraine and I started the <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast">Gutenberg Changelog</a> podcast, and he was my co-host for the first 40 episodes. Grzegorz Ziolkowski joined me as co-host with episode 41. In February 2021, we celebrated the first 10,000 downloads. Now four months later, we passed the 26,000 mark of downloads. For such a narrow niche show, these are mind-boggling numbers.  It is very humbling.  We are very grateful for our faithful listeners! Thank you all very much. </p>



<p><strong>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</strong> is back from vacation, and we recorded episode 45. We covered Gutenberg 10.7 and 10.8 releases, WordCamp Europe and WordPress 5.8.  It will be published later this weekend. The similar t-shirts? Mere coincidence! </p>



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<h2>Gutenberg 10.8</h2>



<p><strong>Gutenberg 10.8</strong> was released this week. It had quite a few enhancements, and a ton of bug fixes and underlying code change for quality and tooling. <strong>Sandip Mondal</strong> work on his first release and published the release notes: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/10/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-8-9-june/"><strong>What’s new in Gutenberg 10.8? (9 June)</strong></a>. </p>



<p>Justin Tadlock has more details <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-10-8-adds-new-typography-controls-and-block-previews">Gutenberg 10.8 Adds New Typography Controls and Block Previews</a></strong></p>



<p>The enhancements for full-site editing and theme design controls are already for the next WordPress release (5.9) in December and require more testing before they are available for WordPress Core. </p>



<h2>Block Patterns</h2>



<p><strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> posted an invitation for the WordPress community to submit Block Patterns to the official WordPress directory. In his post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2021/06/08/initial-patterns-for-the-wordpress-org-patterns-directory/"><strong>Initial Patterns for the WordPress.org Patterns Directory</strong></a>, he explained the details of the submission process.  </p>



<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong>, a big fan of block patterns, wrote about the invitation on the <a href="https://wptavern.com/open-invitation-to-contribute-to-the-wordpress-block-pattern-directory">WordPress Tavern </a>and showcased some of his creations. <strong>Ana Segota, </strong>co-founder of <a href="https://www.anarieldesign.com/">Anariel Design</a> shared <a href="https://twitter.com/Ana_Segota/status/1402688373421187080">her submissions via Twitter.</a> </p>



<p>You can <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/pattern-directory/issues?q=is{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}3Aissue+label{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}3A{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}22{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}5BType{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}5D+Pattern+Submission{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}22+is{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}3Aclosed"><strong>review the list of submissions on GitHub</strong></a> and learn from the comments on by the design team. Brian Gardner, Tammie Lister, Mel Choyce, Kjell Reigstad and Beatriz Fialho also contributed patterns to the directory. </p>



<a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns"><img /></a><a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns">Block Patterns on WordPress.org</a> submitted by members of the design team and from the WordPress community. 



<p class="is-style-default">In total, I counted 54 block patterns available to WordPress users. What a great start! </p>



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<h2>Full Site Editing</h2>



<p>At WordCamp Europe 2021, the Panelist <strong>Danielle Zarcaro, Grzegorz Ziółkowski, Koen Van den Wijngaert and Milana Cap</strong> discussed Full Site editing and what it means for the broader WordPress community. <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordcamp-europe-full-site-editing-panel-discussion/"><strong>We have the recording and the transcript for you</strong></a></p>



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<p>We added the Blockbase Theme to the list of<a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/themes-for-full-site-editing-and-getting-ready-for-wordpress-5-8-weekend-edition-172/#fsethemes"> available FSE themes</a> last week. <strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> published <a href="https://themeshaper.com/2021/06/07/using-blockbase-for-a-theme-experiment/">Using Blockbase for a theme&nbsp;experiment</a> on the ThemeShaper blog and take you on a journey on creating a child theme of Blockbase. He wrote &#8220;Overall, I found that the benefit to using Blockbase was peace of mind. Compared to starting fresh or using&nbsp;<code>emptytheme</code>, Blockbase ensured that I had a fully functional block theme immediately.&#8221; Kjell also shared his code on GitHub.</p>



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<p>The <strong>WPMarmite Team</strong> publish the results of their <a href="https://wpmarmite.com/en/fse-study/"><strong>Full Site Editing Study: Will WordPress theme shops embrace this new paradigm?</strong></a> They studied the involvement in the current FSE development of 127 Theme shops.  </p>



<p>At first glance, these seemed to be a little premature, considering that only architecture for themes supporting FSE is coming to WordPress at the end of July. It certainly sets the base numbers to see what will happen until December. These are the numbers to watch changing in the next half year, and it will answer the original questions. </p>



<ul><li><strong>57{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}</strong>&nbsp;of theme shops&nbsp;<strong>feature their Gutenberg compatibility</strong>.</li><li>Only&nbsp;<strong>17{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}</strong>&nbsp;of theme shops&nbsp;<strong>offer custom Gutenberg blocks</strong>.</li><li><strong>3{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}</strong>&nbsp;of theme shops&nbsp;<strong>provide block patterns</strong>.</li></ul>



<p>The team also talked to 22 theme shops about their intentions regards full-site editing.  <a href="https://wpmarmite.com/en/fse-study/">You need to read the article to learn more</a>.  </p>



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<p><strong>Fränk Klein</strong> at WPDeveloper Courses, released his new course: <a href="https://wpdevelopment.courses/courses/building-block-based-themes/"><strong>Building Block-Based Themes</strong></a>. If you want to learn how to build a real-life example theme and all the ins and outs for a theme using the full-site editing capabilities and theme.json.  </p>



<p>On Fullsiteediting.com, <strong>Carolina Nymark</strong> has been offering her <a href="https://fullsiteediting.com/courses/full-site-editing-for-theme-developers/">Full Site editing course</a> for free, but that might change soon. </p>



<p><strong>Joe Casabona</strong> at <a href="https://creatorcourses.com/">CreatorCourses </a>is also working on an update of his Gutenberg Theme course. </p>



<p>My take-away from the acquisitions of Atomic Blocks, Co Blocks etc. is that early adopters found it quite worth their while to deal with the ever-moving goal posts while developing along site Gutenberg developers.  The future is yours! </p>



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<p><strong>June 6, 2021</strong> <strong>7:00 pm EDT / 23:00 UTC</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-WordPress-Meetup-Group/events/278507419/">WordPress Meetup Philadelphia</a></strong><br />Full Site Editing Review and Test-a-thon</p>



<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



<p><strong>🎉</strong>  Gutenberg Times is a media partner of WordCamp Europe 2021 </p>



<p><strong>June 10th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/278491308">WordPress &#8220;Mega Meetup&#8221;: Plugins That Keep Websites Running</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>June 24, 2021 </strong><br /><strong><a href="https://attend.wpengine.com/summit-us-2021/">WPEngine Summit 2021</a></strong><br /><em>The digital breakthrough conference</em> <a href="https://events.wpengine.com/event/fd217870-fc78-46d2-8c5e-96c85e6e371c/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?environment=P2&tm=nSwmA1-ZyLXwe2wM80Vzve3wDjKBWeqKrHbJFivPV4o&locale=en-US">released their schedule</a>. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the Keynote talk with <strong>Reshma Saujani</strong>, founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms at 12:55 EDT / 16:55 UTC.  I also hope to see talks with Rob Stinson, Carrie Dils and Chris Wiegman. There are also deep dive talks listed into Headless WordPress. Enterprise WordPress is definitely heading down that route. </p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers ends TODAY! </p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The&nbsp;</em>festival of WordPress</p>



<p>A<strong>ugust 6 + 7, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://nicaragua.wordcamp.org/2021/"><strong>WordCamp Nicaragua</strong></a></p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221;</p>



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<p>The panelists, highly involved in this new feature, discussed many topics about FSE and how it is going to be a new revolution in the WordPress ecosystem.</p>



<p>The Panelist were <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/speaker/danielle-zarcaro/">Danielle Zarcaro</a>, <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/speaker/grzegorz-ziolkowsk/">Grzegorz Ziółkowski</a>, <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/speaker/koen-van-den-wijngaert/">Koen Van den Wijngaert</a> and <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/speaker/milana-cap/">Milana Cap</a></p>



<p>Jose Ramon Padron and Lesley Molecke moderated the discussion. </p>



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<p>Torque Magazine did an outstanding job live tweeting. </p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size" id="0-the-transcript-and-table-of-contents"><strong>The transcript and table of contents</strong></p>



<div class="wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost"><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-introduction-of-the-topic-and-the-panelists">Introduction of the topic and the panelists</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#1-what-is-full-site-editing-and-where-did-it-come-from-nbsp">What is full site editing and where did it come from?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-what-problem-does-full-site-editing-solve">What problem does Full-Site Editing solve?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-what-happens-to-websites-that-are-live-in-production-when-word-press-5-8-is-released">What happens to websites that are live (in production) when WordPress 5.8 is released?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#4-what-does-full-site-editing-change-for-the-various-word-press-stakeholders">What does Full Site Editing change for the various WordPress stakeholders </a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#5-why">Why will Full-Site Editing be in Core and not a plugin?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#6-w">What will be the role of existing page builders?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#7-what-is-going-to-happen-with-the-rest-of-the-open-source-solutions-like-joomla-drupal">What is going to happen with the rest of the open-source solutions like Joomla, Drupal?</a></li></ul></div>



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<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Hello, Lesley.</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> Hey, Moncho.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> I&#8217;m laughing, because this is the moment my neighbor started to do this at home. I don&#8217;t know. I hope it doesn&#8217;t sound through the microphone, but I&#8217;m hearing a hammer quite hard on that building. I hope it&#8217;s not-</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> I can&#8217;t hear anything, but listen, I&#8217;m ready for this next session. I can&#8217;t believe that we&#8217;re already here. It&#8217;s already the final session of the day, and it&#8217;s going to be a good one.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="0-introduction-of-the-topic-and-the-panelists">Introduction of the topic and the panelists</h2>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Yes, it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s going to be a good one, because we have a lot of good people talking about a quite good and hot topic inside the WordPress community. One of the things we are going to have, really near in, I don&#8217;t know, in 5.8, in the next version of WordPress, full site editing?</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> Yes. We would like to welcome our panelists. This is a panel presentation, so it should be a good conversation with a number of experts speaking. So they will join us here on stage in just a moment. Hello, hello. Hi, everybody.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> Hello.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Hello, there.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> Will you please introduce yourselves?&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> Which order?</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> As you wish.&nbsp;</p>



<div class="wp-block-image is-style-rounded"><img />Milana Cap</div>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> So let&#8217;s start with Milana, just for talking.</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap: </em>Because I&#8217;m the loudest. Well, you said expert. I&#8217;m here just for the cookies and to bribe contributors to come to documentation. Also, I&#8217;m here as documentation team co-rep. And I&#8217;m the docs focus lead for a new release, 5.8. I should be knowing what&#8217;s happening, hopefully soon. I&#8217;m Milana from Serbia.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> How about you, Danielle?</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Thank you so much.</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> Sure. I&#8217;m having an issue too. I don&#8217;t know whether he&#8217;s blowing leaves or mowing the lawn? I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happening.&nbsp;</p>



<div class="wp-block-image is-style-rounded"><img />Danielle Zarcaro</div>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> We can&#8217;t hear it, it&#8217;s okay.</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> Good. I&#8217;m Danielle. I&#8217;m from the US. I am the head of paperback web development. We build custom WordPress websites and maintain them, and maintain existing websites, and all that that comes with. We just launched overnightwebsite.com. So that&#8217;s mostly what I deal with is the old and the new of WordPress. So it&#8217;s the whole range.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Thanks, Danielle. Let&#8217;s go with Koen.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image is-style-rounded"><img /><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert</em></div>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Hey, hi, there. Is this thing on? Hey, Good evening. I&#8217;m Koen. I&#8217;m a WordCamp and meetup organizer from Belgium. I run my own company called NEOK IT, where I provide software consultancy, partly around WordPress. I&#8217;ve been working with WordPress for a few years now. I like to learn things, as well as challenge myself while doing it.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So for a while now, I&#8217;ve been casually contributing to Gutenberg, as a way of giving back and mostly getting more accustomed to the ins and outs of the project. So that&#8217;s me.&nbsp;</p>



<div class="wp-block-image is-style-rounded"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1047874472403845121/ckX4uiBZ_400x400.jpg?resize=203{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}2C203&ssl=1" alt="Image" width="203" height="203" /><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowsk</em></div>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> It looks like it&#8217;s me now. So my name is Grzegorz Ziółkowski. I live in Oleśnica, Poland, and I work at Automatic, where I spend all time contributing to the WordPress core. My main focus is Gutenberg. I was helping to merge changes from the plugin, Gutenberg plugin to the WordPress core for the upcoming WordPress 5.8 release, which won&#8217;t contain all the necessary pieces of the full site editing. However, there is a lot of new goodies coming that will be ready to use on the site.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> Excellent. So Moncho and I have come up with a bunch of questions for you. They go from really basic, and then they work up and get more and more exciting and interesting. So we&#8217;re going to start with the first one, which is actually, this is my question, because I don&#8217;t know the answer to it yet and hopefully you will educate me. What is full site editing and where did it come from?&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="1-what-is-full-site-editing-and-where-did-it-come-from-nbsp">What is full site editing and where did it come from?</h2>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Maybe if I can start, maybe the best thing to say at first is that full site editing is not just a big monolithic heap of a big function. It&#8217;s better to think of it as a collection of a lot of features that come with Gutenberg, as part of the second phase of the Gutenberg roadmap. Maybe someone else can pitch in now, so I don&#8217;t do a monologue.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> If you don&#8217;t take a bigger picture, so full site editing is part of the Gutenberg project, there are four phases. And we are reaching this year, the end of phase two. The first one was introducing the building blocks for editing content. Now, we will be editing a full canvas of the sites. And the next two phases are collaborative editing. So to let people collaborate when they are changing websites or writing content. And the fourth one is multilingual support.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> What everyone is waiting for, I believe. That&#8217;s going to be a big one.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="2-what-problem-does-full-site-editing-solve">What problem does Full-Site Editing solve?</h2>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Anything else? Anything else? Because one of the things inside of Lesley&#8217;s question is, what problem does it solve? Which is, I think, very interesting. What do you think?</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> I think that the problem it&#8217;s trying to solve is to give the user one unique workflow to edit everything. Because at this moment, you have post, you have page, and you go to block editor. Or if you are not brave enough, you&#8217;re still using classic editor and you edit your content there.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But then you want to change your logo, then you have to go to customizer. But then you have some theme options. And it depends on theme from theme, what will you edit and where? I believe the idea is to release end user from need to know everything about the theme, you just go there and you just edit.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And if you want to edit footer, and you&#8217;re on the post and you&#8217;re editing post, and then you realize the menu is not correct, you edit menu. You don&#8217;t need to know, because nobody cares is it customizer or whatever? People care to know where it is. And it&#8217;s a good thing that you can see how it looks on the front end, which I think was the initial idea for Gutenberg. But who knows? Maybe I&#8217;m wrong.</p>



<p>I think that&#8217;s a huge problem that will be fixed, and solved with full site editing. For us who are building websites, I know that for every website, I have to create a ton of tutorials and everything, to show clients how to use it. And this will solve all that. So we will be out of job.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> I also like to think that it brings a lot of power and more freedom and flexibility to end users of a website. Because in the traditional way of doing things, there&#8217;s a few ways one can have a WordPress website. He can have an agency, have a website built for him. Or he could be using some sort of a theme builder, or he could have installed a theme from the theme directory or maybe it&#8217;s even a custom theme.</p>



<p>But now end users are able to have so much more power about editing templates, and editing all sorts of aspects of their website. I think that&#8217;s really exciting to look forward to.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> I think it solves a couple of problems, to add to that. It takes away some of the ambiguity around how to edit each individual thing. So WordPress&#8217;s whole thing is to democratize publishing. There were areas of the websites that were just not available to edit to anyone who doesn&#8217;t know code.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s the ease of use gap that came about, that you can&#8217;t edit the 404 page, you can&#8217;t edit the header or footer, unless an option is available. Is the theme using the site logo that you upload in WordPress, or you&#8217;re going to upload the image and then theme isn&#8217;t going to show it. It gets rid of those, however the theme developer decided to do it that day, and it streamlines a lot of that process to do some expected behavior to make it easier for anyone to hop into a site and edit it, and it democratizes publishing on a whole new level.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> That&#8217;s a nice way of saying it. Yes. Because right now there&#8217;s this huge fragmented world of all different ways of themes that came up with our own way of editing site features and headers and customizing things. But there&#8217;s no real standard way of doing that. So it just makes it harder to step out of that particular ecosystem, I think. I&#8217;m looking forward to the standardized way of doing theming in WordPress.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron</em>: Grzegorz, I think you had something. Yes.</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> I wanted to add some more to it. Because I think it&#8217;s important to note that it&#8217;s not only about unifying everything, but it&#8217;s also to giving the power to users to change those little bits that annoy them, like the color of the header, or the font size.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Before, you would have, or either learn CSS or learn HTML just to edit that. But now you will have tools that will allow that, and you won&#8217;t have to call your site administrator to do a simple change. So maybe you could tell that, remove the job from those people who maintain those sites, but on the other hand, they will have more time to work on expanding their offering and improving their own products or services, just to use the time.</p>



<p>So this is something that sounds scary, but on the other hand, it opens a lot of possibilities. Because the idea of blocks also gives you the power that you can create your own blocks that you can use in several websites, and give additional functionality out of the box for your customers.</p>



<h2 id="3-what-happens-to-websites-that-are-live-in-production-when-word-press-5-8-is-released">What happens to websites that are live (in production) when WordPress 5.8 is released?</h2>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> So regarding that this is something new, something is going to happen from 5.8, as far as I know, what happens to the WordPress websites that are already live and in production? Must they be rebuilt in order to use full site editing? Or they&#8217;re going to work in the way they are?&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> They have to be rebuilt completely. It will crash. No, it won&#8217;t.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert</em>: It will just crash when you update.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> No, it won&#8217;t.</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em>That&#8217;s big news.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Oh, we were not supposed to say that, sorry.</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> No, they will not be crashed, they will not have to be rebuilt completely. As you all know, WordPress always build in mind with what is already out there, not to crash anything. And in 5.8, not everything will get in. So if I&#8217;m wrong, please correct me, but I think that in 5.8, you will have to install a Gutenberg plugin to actually use full site editing. So not everything will be there, but it will be foundation for the next releases when everything else will come in.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But still, we will have some nice things coming in and nothing will break. You can go part by part and rebuilding it and adapting for a complete editing experience.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Thanks, Milana. Anything to add ?</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Maybe Grzegorz can do it.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> You can go.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Okay, but you can just&#8230; Well, some of the full site editing features will be added to 5.8, I think, but Grzegorz will probably be able to say which one exactly. I&#8217;m hearing feedback.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> An echo. There is an echo.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> So it&#8217;s not some monolithic feature, like we said before, but it&#8217;s more like a collection of features and they won&#8217;t be turned off all at once by default, by just upgrading to WordPress 5.8. You do need to have a full site editing team to enable all features, but some of them will also be available for non-block based themes.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Things like the template editor blocks, the site logo, the tagline, the query blocks, posts, posts related blocks, like post title, post [inaudible 00:14:45], they will all be made available in the post editor. And as well as that, I think it was also possible to also not edit, but with add new templates to a normal theme and edit those in the template editor. It&#8217;s pretty awesome.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> So the first step is to allow people to change, use the block-based paradigm on a single page. So think about that, about previously you would have to create a PHP file to change a single page view. And now you will be able to do that to through UI, and that will create an override that you would be able to delete later. But as a user, so it&#8217;s more like empowering people who have access to the sites, rather that&#8217;s a feature for the team designer.</p>



<p>So that&#8217;s one thing. And everything like that is optional, so there will be a flag to disable that. So site owners or theme authors we will say that, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want that,&#8221; and they can remove that.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The one big change is that not necessarily related to full site editing, but is somehow in the same area is the widget editor, which will be&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s the final decision, but it will be depending on the feedback from the testing, either an opt-in or opt-out.</p>



<p>So the idea would be that you will be able to use the same blogs you use in your content to use also in site, when you would previously use widgets. So that&#8217;s a nice change. If you have your own custom blocks, you would be able to put there as well, which will open those new possibilities, and also somehow unify the interface.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But as you could hear, there is a lot of new blocks coming. But it&#8217;s just addition, it&#8217;s not something that you have to use. It&#8217;s just there if you want to try them out, that will be perfect time to do that after 5.8 is out. And there is a-</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> That will be released tomorrow, by the way. So if you want to test it, please do so. It&#8217;s by a lot of users that can test and provide feedback on the new update that we can improve upon those things, and decide what can be added and what should be skipped. So go install it tomorrow.</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em>Yes, we should acknowledge that, that everyone here is actually working really hard right now to create the new release, while also attending WordCamp Europe and being here on this panel and contributing on track too, and y&#8217;all are everywhere. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your time.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="4-what-does-full-site-editing-change-for-the-various-word-press-stakeholders">What does Full Site Editing change for the various WordPress stakeholders </h2>



<p>My next question has to do with stakeholders. So obviously, a big change like this to WordPress has multiple stakeholder groups. It has the end users, the users of WordPress websites down the road. It has the editors of WordPress websites. It has the companies who build themes and the companies who build plugins, and the people who contribute, all of these different groups.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I&#8217;m interested in talking about the theme creators who currently primarily rely on offering block patterns with their own header and footer and sidebar management. So how does that work with full site editing?</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> Well, it works the same way. You can offer whatever you want. I think it&#8217;s a misconception that by giving the users the ability to do what they want means that they&#8217;ll be able to do anything they want. If you are someone like me who&#8217;s creating custom sites, you can actually more easy put options and make it so that you don&#8217;t have to install a whole extra plugin to add a couple of extra options. You reserve that for the bigger projects that you&#8217;re doing.</p>



<p>And it&#8217;s up to the theme creators, if they&#8217;re creating a theme on a wider scale, instead of just an individual client, that&#8217;s up to them to decide how they want it to work. They just opt into stuff, they add stuff, they add their custom options, but it&#8217;s all working within the same ecosystem, and we&#8217;re all speaking the same language now instead.</p>



<p>So if you don&#8217;t want to make it so that your header and your footer and your sidebars are manageable in the block editor or in full site editing, then I guess you don&#8217;t have to. You can hard code whatever you want, you can do that now, you don&#8217;t have to make any options available.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But then at some point, you&#8217;re going to start to fall behind, in terms of what you&#8217;re able to do. So it&#8217;s going to work the same way, just with more possibilities. That&#8217;s how I go about looking at it.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> You&#8217;ll be able to turn off or on, or even tweak some of the configuration options just by providing a single JSON file for those things. But also, I like to think that with full site editing, a theme developer or theme designer can benefit from a more solid foundation that is standardized and optimized for things like accessibility, usability and performance.&nbsp;</p>



<p>That way more of their time and energy can be spent into building things that actually add value to their customers, all the while benefiting from the existing full site editing features and even tweaking them to their liking. So that&#8217;s a big plus, I think. So they don&#8217;t have to go and reinvent the wheel every time they build a new website.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> There is something related to the last major change we saw in WordPress, when Gutenberg appears, when Gutenberg finally was born in 5.0. And now you can see that there is a plugin that is the old editor. And at this moment, we this kind of legacy, we can call it legacy, but it&#8217;s still available there.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="5-why">Why will Full-Site Editing be in Core and not a plugin?</h2>



<p>My question is about why there are things that can sit in the core, and a different one can be set as a plugin? For example, why put the full site editing in the core when it is something that the majority of users at this moment don&#8217;t know? And we hope all of them are going to use it, but as everything that comes new in WordPress, there is always a time for getting used to it.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So what do you think is the main reason full site editing is in the core and not, for example, in a plugin and people can choose if they want it or not?</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> I think that now that we have Gutenberg in core, and full site editing is obviously expansion of what we were using in core by now, I think it would be silly not to have it in core and have it as a plugin, when you can use&#8230; This is just a foundation to put all the blocks that you already have. So it&#8217;s not like the structure that you still don&#8217;t have, you have. There is Gutenberg and now you will just expand it to the whole website.</p>



<p>And there is benefit in having everything standardized, especially for people who are using themes from our repository. So when you switch theme, you have all those available, things to edit, you know where it is, and you have all the blocks available.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> Makes sense.</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> So that&#8217;s a huge benefit. I love that theme in wordpress.org is insisting on idea that people will change themes, and they cannot lose anything. I love that idea. I think this will really help having that.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So when you have custom themes, and people have different ways of editing right now the header, the footer, or they don&#8217;t have it at all, so you&#8217;re afraid to change the theme. But with full site editing, you will have all that available.</p>



<p>Now, as far as not knowing how to use it goes, we didn&#8217;t know many things, how to use. And the thing that we really need right now is, here comes my pitch, documentation. So we really, really need to document everything good, because when you don&#8217;t have documentation, people don&#8217;t know how to use it and then they don&#8217;t interact with it enough. They don&#8217;t find bugs, they don&#8217;t contribute. They don&#8217;t think ideas how to expand it, and you don&#8217;t have contributors, and there is no cycle for open source. So first, we need to do a good documentation.&nbsp;</p>



<p>We did fail a bit with Gutenberg getting in, and we can still feel it. We can still feel developers who are frustrated and don&#8217;t know how to work with it and how to build on that. I&#8217;m asking everyone to come and help. While doing documentation, you will actually learn how to do it.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I&#8217;m not afraid of new things. I don&#8217;t think anyone should be afraid, especially because this is not a really new thing, like Gutenberg was a new thing. We didn&#8217;t know what it was. Now we know, full site editing is what we already know, it&#8217;s new, but expanded, so it&#8217;s easier to learn. And if we do enough work, and we are doing&#8230; people make WordPress themes are doing great job.</p>



<p>Just mentioning few, Anne is doing the testing, great job, and Carolina even have a website for full site editing where you can read everything. So it&#8217;s doing better, and we can learn and there are resources, so there&#8217;s no need to be afraid of it.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> And if I&#8217;m not mistaken, there&#8217;s even seven milestones added to the full site editing milestones. It&#8217;s called gradual adoption. So that it focuses solely on making sure that full site editing features are being adopted better and more gradual. And that work is being put into actually making sure that the documentation is on par, and that the dev notes are up to date, and all of that kind of thing. So that&#8217;s also important. That&#8217;s also part of the work that&#8217;s now being done after the feature freeze for the 5.8 features.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> I think from my perspective, as someone who&#8217;s working with it and working with people, no one&#8217;s going to use it if you make it optional. People are going to do what they&#8217;re going to do, if you let them.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I think WordPress itself has never, it&#8217;s been very transparent about where it&#8217;s going. We&#8217;ve all been able to use Gutenberg for years now. We&#8217;ve been able to install the plugin, and then we&#8217;ve been able to use the block editor in core for years now. So it&#8217;s like we&#8217;ve had this getting used to period.</p>



<p>So we&#8217;re just going in the direction that we said we&#8217;d go in, and people can still find ways to go backwards. They can still install the classic plugin for sites that need it, they can install the classic plugin for certain things. They cannot enable the block editor for custom post types. There&#8217;s all kinds of stuff that you can do to counteract some of that.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But like I referenced before, and I&#8217;ve talked a lot about this in the past, at some point, you have to embrace the tool that you&#8217;re using. So you&#8217;re either going to embrace the fact that we&#8217;re all working towards the same goal, or you&#8217;re working against it and basically forking your own version and working on your own, which is fine. But then you can&#8217;t offer the latest stuff.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I think it&#8217;s up to you as a developer to, on some level, work with things, and meet WordPress where it is. You have to give up. WordPress is open source. You have to allow yourself to go with the tide a little bit.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And when you have new users who come into WordPress, who are installing things, they&#8217;re not going to know that there was an old WordPress. They&#8217;re not going to know that, oh, I have to install this other plugin to enable all of these awesome features. You have to think forward. So you have to allow these new users to start installing it, and use all the cool latest stuff.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If someone wants to go backwards for a bit, then they can put the work in to do that.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski: </em>It&#8217;s also worth mentioning that the full site editing, it&#8217;s soon to be included in the core, it&#8217;s always something that we wanted to have. It&#8217;s not something that came, because there was the 5.0 release and the block editor. It&#8217;s the other way around.</p>



<p>So we took the smallest step possible to enable people to start using this block paradigm, start learning UI. We got a lot of feedback. And if you look at the iterations that worked, how the editor looked two and a half years ago and how it looks now, it&#8217;s a completely different product.</p>



<p>And also the way, how we people started thinking about building content with blocks is different. It&#8217;s not longer, building small custom blocks, but rather combining a lot of existing blocks into block patterns, into having UIs, having ways to change a big portion of the page with solutions. Like now it&#8217;s coming to the query block that allows you to switch the list of blog posts will be displayed on the page.</p>



<p>So we are constantly trying to make it easier for users to provide the infrastructure, also for plugin authors, for theme authors, so they can build upon that, and have the unified experience. So people, once they learn how to write a post, they will know how to change the template of the page, because it&#8217;s exactly the same paradigm.&nbsp;</p>



<p>It&#8217;s even in the same UI interface. You just go from one page to another, without the page reload. Everything can happen, you can go back, you can revisit how it looks when you compose everything together. It&#8217;s no longer you need to go to the preview of the page and see another tab to see, oh, it looks good, but now something broke outside of the post content. I need to go find customizers and go to this template, or call the theme author on the support and change that for me.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So this is a huge project, and has so many layers on top of that. We want to bring as much as possible, I would say, what makes sense to most of the users, but not all of them. Because there is always room for extenders to build their own solutions on top of that, and give this unique perspective and look and feel for the customers.</p>



<h2 id="6-w">What will be the role of existing page builders?</h2>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> I feel like we&#8217;re tiptoeing closer and closer to this question. I&#8217;m just going to ask it, just get it out there on the table. What do you all feel is the big role for the online page builders, the Divi, the Elementor, these big guys, taking into account that we&#8217;re moving into full site editing, block patterns, all of these things that are being built into WordPress core? What is the role of these page builders that so many of us use?&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> I think that&#8217;s up to them. I think ultimately, they were there to push the envelope. They were there to bring us to where we currently are. I think without them, we might not have had this extra push. Maybe it would have taken a few more years to put all this into core. These builders saw this hole and filled it.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And ultimately, they&#8217;re going to have a different UI anyway. So they&#8217;re going to do have their fan base, they&#8217;re going to have their whatever preference to editing things, maybe certain things are dragging and dropping. Whatever they make available, they&#8217;re going to extend WordPress. So that&#8217;s up to them to decide how they&#8217;re going to go about it.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So they&#8217;re all already currently working with the block editor, all the major ones anyway are. If they&#8217;re concerned at all about future proofing themselves, they&#8217;ve already looked into how to integrate themselves with the block editor. I think it&#8217;s only going to enhance everything to see how they go about integrating themselves into the new ecosystem.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I really love, as a developer, I love the way Oxygen goes about it, where you can build stuff, and then go and edit it in Gutenberg. So that&#8217;s a really cool take on it. And so it&#8217;s just a new way to innovate, and they&#8217;re going to have their place.</p>



<p>I think it&#8217;s cool that we now have these established things. We have these people to look to, to see where are the new holes in WordPress? Where can we go from here? And they&#8217;re going to continue to just push the envelope. I love the diversity that&#8217;s out there.&nbsp;</p>



<p>When you talk about builders, there&#8217;s at least four that come to mind and that&#8217;s awesome. And I hope that it stays that way and grows. And that&#8217;s only going to help us. And so hopefully, it&#8217;ll take away some of that, Divi does this way and Elementor does this way. So some things are going to hopefully become uniform, and then they&#8217;ll branch out in other ways.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Exactly. Because now, there&#8217;s a few big ones indeed, and they all seem to have their own ecosystem surrounding them, which is okay, because as you said, they all implement and provide their own stream of users to the WordPress platform. So it&#8217;s definitely interesting to look at, and observe how they will interact with WordPress and Gutenberg.</p>



<p>I know most of them already have some sort of a way to either include a new template view or something as a block, or even toggle between Gutenberg and their own editor. But the thing I&#8217;m actually quite looking forward to is whether or not they will start using the new default way of doing things. So that they can actually merit from how it is now going to be supposed to be done, and add on top of that their own set of features and new value-adding stuff.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Like the cadence theme, for example, is doing. In my eyes, it&#8217;s quite a nice way of implementing Gutenberg the right way. I&#8217;m very interested to see how they will be going to implement full site editing things in the near future, because now it&#8217;s all in the customizer, of course. So, interesting.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="7-what-is-going-to-happen-with-the-rest-of-the-open-source-solutions-like-joomla-drupal">What is going to happen with the rest of the open-source solutions like Joomla, Drupal?</h2>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> We were talking about how full site editing can affect the own WordPress ecosystem, talking about for example, what happens with the builders, builders like Divi, Elementor, et cetera. But what do you think, taking account you are developers, designers, you are on the technical side, contributors, what do you think is going to happen with the rest of the open source solutions like Joomla, Drupal? How do you think it&#8217;s going to affect? So it&#8217;s going to make WordPress better than the rest, it&#8217;s going to be a real advantage in front of the rest, like Wix, like the other ones, not only in the open source reality, but outside WordPress? What do you think is going to happen with full site editing?</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap: </em>They will all take Gutenberg. Drupal already do it.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> But Drupal also has a [crosstalk 00:37:15]. But there&#8217;s not like this CMS is better than the other one. They all serve different purposes. And it&#8217;s like using the right tool for the right job. And having more competition in the game is pretty good actually.</p>



<p>I think the biggest reason that we, as WordPress, have the biggest market share to date in the CMS market is because of the low threshold to start building websites. And that&#8217;s partly thanks to all of those theme builders. I think it&#8217;s important to reach out and make sure that we all keep using WordPress and not just fork off their own version of WordPress, because it&#8217;s open source, they can do that.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So if we all collaborate, we can build pretty nice things, I think.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> I think we already saw this many times in history, but let&#8217;s just take a look at Internet Explorer 6. It was so bad that we got this good Chrome and Firefox. And it was so difficult to create posts for some people in WordPress, that we got page builders. So this is happening. There is always this kind of competition between WordPress and Joomla and Drupal.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But the truth is, they all have their share. Ours is a little bigger than theirs, but they will continue to exist, and I hope they will push, they will invent something new. And then we will be jealous, and we will do something better, because that&#8217;s how it works. Human mind compares. So that&#8217;s what we do.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m proud that 12 years ago I have selected WordPress and now it&#8217;s 40{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}. I think I&#8217;m smart, because I did that. But I don&#8217;t like just one way of doing things. I like things messing up. I like people inventing new things. That makes us all better and everything makes better.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to see what other CMSs will do, but also what will page builders do. I have never used page builder, as someone who builds website and some of you uses website. I cannot say anything.&nbsp;</p>



<p>But I&#8217;m seeing in our WordPress Serbia Facebook group, I&#8217;m seeing people asking questions about it. I know what they are doing and how, and I really hope to see they invent something insane, so we will have to push Gutenberg again and just pushing forward.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Even better.</p>



<p><em>Danielle Zarcaro:</em> I think it&#8217;s going to blur the line a little bit. Because I just recently had to go into a Wix site and it is no longer Wix or Weebly. It is Wix or Webflow. Webflow popped up as an in between to Weebly and the GoDaddy builder and WordPress.</p>



<p>I think it blurs the line a little bit, where you can now visually edit things and you can now edit those parts, like I said, the 404. All these other things, you can just do now. And so I think it blurs the line and WordPress can now fit into more categories as well.</p>



<p>So maybe it&#8217;s not a Squarespace, which is a template machine that you stick a bunch of stuff in and it&#8217;s easy, but it does open it up to a whole nother market. Instead of just, oh, you got to have somebody on your side, it now opens the door for more people. And then now they&#8217;re ready to grow, and now they come to you and are familiar with WordPress.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s the three or four other markets that&#8217;ll pop up as well. So it blurs a little bit and makes it a little more accessible.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> There&#8217;s also one thing that I&#8217;m looking forward to, is the blog patterns directory, which should enable a quicker creation of websites, instead of going, changing everything yourself. If you don&#8217;t have, like me, skills for designing, you just pick something that someone crafted very carefully. And maybe pay some fee for that and have unique experience for all the use cases you have.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s no longer you need to use one theme, and hope that it has all the solutions you need. Instead, you can combine from different sources and build the best experience you need. So that&#8217;s one thing.</p>



<p>One thing that I&#8217;m looking forward to is how I&#8217;m seeing the growth of headless. It&#8217;s getting a lot of attention at the conferences in the WordPress community. And that interaction with full site editing, I&#8217;m looking forward how that will evolve. Because at the moment, if you want to use headless solutions you need to build from scratch the front end side.</p>



<p>However, if you combine that with what Gutenberg can produce and reach that, that will open a new set of possibilities. And that will bring big companies looking at WordPress, because now they will be able to build completely custom solutions, and also use whatever WordPress provides in its core, rather treating it as a source of the content only.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> I&#8217;m glad to read that question.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> Koen, you have one final thing to add, before we sign off?</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> I was going to say that one obstacle might be that a lot of back end developers have mostly skills in writing PHP and stuff. But most of the new features, you really do benefit more if you have a JavaScript back end. I think we should also focus on helping those developers transition into more and more adopting JavaScript and active development to develop even better new solutions.</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap: </em>And documentation.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Most importantly, of course.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke: </em>Yes. Well, thank you, thank you, thank you all for this really interesting conversation. I now know more about full site editing than I do before, thanks to you. But also, I think our audience does as well, which is fantastic.</p>



<p>And again, thank you for taking the time to join us, even though you&#8217;re also so, so busy working on the new release, and working on this massive change to WordPress. We&#8217;re really grateful to you and your time. Enjoy the rest of the conference. We will see you later and thank you.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Will you be heading over to the Q&amp;A room to talk with the audience? Does that sound like a familiar thing to you? All right.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> We can, if there are questions.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> There will be.</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em> People can also make meetings with you and see you in other rooms and things.</p>



<p><em>José Ramón Padron:</em> There will be more content related full site editing during WordCamp Europe, in each day, I think, or also in the number two track. So this is not the last time we are going to talk about full site editing.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Another thing is to say thank you for accepting our invitation, more or less in the last minute. Thank you. Thank you so much.</p>



<p><em>Lesley Molecke:</em>Thank you all.</p>



<p><em>Milana Cap:</em> Thank you, bye.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Grzegorz Ziółkowski:</em> Thank you.</p>



<p><em>Koen Van den Wijngaert:</em> Thank you. Very nice to being here.&nbsp;</p>



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<p>It&#8217;s the eve of the second virtual <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/"><strong>WordCamp Europe</strong></a>. Tickets are still available for another awesome three days with talks, workshops and contributor events. This year, the organizer decide to sprinkle contributor event into the rest of the schedule and have for all three days, a mix between techtalk, business talks and contributor presentation and discussions. There are quite a few events around the Block editor, Full-site-editing and block-based themes. <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordcamp-europe-2021-starts-monday/">I compiled a list for you.</a> And just because I am so focused on Gutenberg, doesn&#8217;t mean you have to. 😎 <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/">Check out the schedule</a> and <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/registration/">get your tickets now</a>. </p>



<p>Hopefully, it will be the last virtual conference and we will see each other at an in-person WordCamp Europe in 2022. I am still hoping for Porto, Portugal.  At this state of withdrawal from meeting WordPress friends in person, it doesn&#8217;t matter where it will take place, thought. It&#8217;ll be a Hug-Fest. </p>



<p>Last week, I mentioned the next<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216223029678/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA"> <strong>Gutenberg Times Live Q &amp; A</strong></a> in the subscribers-only section of this newsletter. Now we have a full panel. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216223029678/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA">Registration is officially open</a>. I am thrileed to host Daisy Olsen, Jeff Ong and Tammie Lister for our show on <strong>How to get started on Theme building for Full-site Editing and using the Theme.json file</strong> to configure your theme, and its interaction with the block editor. The Theme.json file will be introduced with the release of WordPress 5.8 in July 2021. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216223029678/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA">Get a head start and join us!</a></p>



<p><strong>Grzegorz (Greg) Ziolkowski</strong> will be back from vaction next week and we will record our next <strong>Changelog </strong>episode on Friday 11, 2021. I am so excited and can&#8217;t wait until Grzegorz is back!  If you have questions or suggestions or news, you want us to consider, hit reply or send them to <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. We now have consitently 500 &#8211; 800 downloads per week. It&#8217;s humbling, mind-boggling and inspiring.  And if YOU are a listener, Thank You!  If you have a minute or two, <a href="https://lovethepodcast.com/gutenbergchangelog">consider writing a review of the podcast</a>. We&#8217;d be grateful and might read it out loud on the next show. </p>



<p>Alright, that&#8217;s the news around Gutenberg Times. Below you&#8217;ll find what else happened in the Gutenberg universe. Enjoy! </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br />Birgit</p>



<p><em>PS: Hope to see you at WordCamp Europe. Don&#8217;t forget to join the #WCEU channel on WordPress Slack and meet speaker, sponsors, organizer and attendees like you and me. </em></p>





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<h2>Full-Site-Editing &amp; Themes</h2>



<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> published the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/06/02/fse-program-stick-the-landing-pages-summary/"><strong>Stick the landing (pages) Summary</strong></a>. This post is a summary of the sixth call for testing for the experimental FSE outreach program, which also was translated into Italian to reach more of the non-English audience. Earlier calls were also translated into Japanese. The group of FSE testers is much bigger now, thanks to the persistent efforts by Anne to reach out to the community and stay on top of all the issues around the template editor. </p>



<p>A reminder: You can still join the the seventh call for testing:<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/26/fse-program-testing-call-7-polished-portfolios/"> </a><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/26/fse-program-testing-call-7-polished-portfolios/">Polished Portfolios</a> </strong>&#8211; The deadline for your feedback was extended to June 16th, 2021. </p>



<p>If you read this before Sunday night, you can participate in the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-WordPress-Meetup-Group/events/278507419/"><strong>Full Site Editing Review and Test-a-thon </strong></a>Sunday, June 6th at  7 &#8211; 8:30 pm with the <strong>WordPress Meetup </strong>group in Philadelphia. </p>



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<p>Reading through the summary,  I am stuck on trying to understand the difference between a template built by the site-owner and a theme template. What will happen with their templates when the site-owner decides to change the overall theme of their site? There is still plenty to be figured out. <strong><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31971">How edited block templates are linked to themes</a></strong> is topic of the discussion on GitHub. The Gutenberg team would appreciate some thoughts from folks familiar with these APIs (theme mods, performance, database).</p>



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<p><strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> posted again acomprehensive list of issues and discussions regarding block-based themes and Full-Site Editing: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/06/04/gutenberg-themes-week-of-may-31-2021/"><strong>Gutenberg + Themes: Week of May 31, 2021</strong></a>. Any of the listed items are worth checking out and consider commenting. The more the team knows the better the next iteration of Full-Site editing and block-based themes becomes. </p>



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<h2>WordPress 5.8 release preparations</h2>



<p>From the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/05/devchat-meeting-summary-june-2-2021/">meeting notes of this week&#8217;s Dev Chat</a>: &#8220;Docs needs the most help with end user documentation. For block editor in particular. Some changes from 5.6 and 5.7 are still not published and we had a significant drop in number of contributors due to pandemic situation. Anyone interested in getting involved please&nbsp;ping <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/DjevaLoperka">Milana Cap</a></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(<strong>zzap</strong>&nbsp;on&nbsp;Slack).&nbsp;</p>



<p>The summary of needed <strong><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">DevNotes for new features in WordPress 5.8</a></strong> is available on GitHub and could use contributors. There is also a <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pulls?q=is{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}3Apr+is{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}3Amerged+label{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}3A{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}22Needs+Dev+Note{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9}22">&#8220;needs dev note&#8221; label for pull requests</a>. </p>



<p>The widget screen could use some more testing. As a reminder, please read<strong> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/12/help-test-the-widgets-editor-for-wordpress-5-8/">Help Test the Widgets Editor for WordPress 5.8</a></strong> by <a href="https://twitter.com/andraganescu"><strong>Andre Draganescu</strong></a></p>



<h2>Block Patterns</h2>



<p><strong>Hector Pietro</strong> wrote in his post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/04/whats-next-in-gutenberg-june-2021/"><strong>What’s next in Gutenberg? (June 2021)</strong></a>: </p>



<p>&#8220;Since&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/27/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-7-26-may/" target="_blank">Gutenberg 10.7</a>, block patterns displayed in the inserter are fetched from the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/" target="_blank">WordPress.org Pattern Directory</a>. This opens the door to having a big amount of wonderful patterns available in the inserter, which will require&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31153" target="_blank">iterating on the pattern insertion experience</a>. </p>



<p>For more updates on the Pattern Directory, stay tuned for&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2021/04/28/block-pattern-directory-update/" target="_blank">Block Pattern Directory updates</a>&nbsp;and check the most recent&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/patterns-directory/" target="_blank">design iterations for the Pattern Directory</a>.&#8221;. </p>



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<h2>Plugins for the Block Editor</h2>



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-box/"><strong>Featured Box Plugin</strong></a> with this plugin &#8220;you can highlight a image with your key features&#8221; wrote <strong>Sumaiya Siddika</strong> on WordPress.org. <a href="https://wptavern.com/building-featured-boxes-with-the-wordpress-block-editor?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=building-featured-boxes-with-the-wordpress-block-editor">Justin Tadlock took it for a spin.</a></p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetformbuilder/">JetFormBuilder — Form Builder plugin for Gutenberg</a></strong> from the plugins stable at CrocoBlock. The developers <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjhead/">Andrey Shevchenko</a> and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hugreed/">Oleksandr Ivanenko</a> also added an extensive Post action hook system that allows you to daisy chain actions and integrated with 3rd party systems. I haven&#8217;t tested it yet, but it looks promising. Crocoblock has been building plugins and tools for Elementor and has now started supporing Gutenberg with their products as well. </p>



<p>Another new plugin is the <a href="https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine-gutenberg/"><strong>JetEngine for Gutenberg</strong></a>  a dynamic content plugin that lets you build a complex websites fast and cost-effectively.</p>



<h2 id="fsethemes">Themes for Full-Site Editing</h2>



<p>A few people ask about Themes that are already working with the Full-Site Editing system and Site Editor. So I put a list together of those I know about. Now before you use them, you need to be aware that they are all built while Full-Site Editing is still under active development, hasn&#8217;t been released yet and ergo many features are still experimental. Do not use in production or live site. </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/blockbase/">Block Base</a> by Automattic</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/naledi/">Naledi </a>by Anariel Design </li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/tt1-blocks/">TT1 Blocks</a> by WordPress contributors, the FSE sibling of the Twenty-Twenty-One Theme</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/block-based-bosco/">Block-Based Bosco</a> by Fränk Klein</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/armando/">Armando</a> by Carolyn Newmark</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/q/">Q </a>by Ari Stathopoulos</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/hansen/">Hansen</a> by Uxl Themes</li></ul>



<p>If you find any missing, let me know.</p>



<h2>Gutenberg related Business Updates</h2>



<p>This week&#8217;s big WordPress business news is the aquisition of <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/elliotcondon">Eliots Condon</a></strong>&#8216;s plugin <strong><a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/">Advanced Custom Fields</a></strong> (ACF)  by Delicious Brains. With over more then 1 million active installs ACF is one of the widest used plugins. Thousands for developers depened on it in the <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/10-years-of-acf-a-truly-wonderful-time/">last ten years</a> to build complex WordPress sites. </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Stepping away from ACF has not been an easy decision to make. The reasoning behind it comes from a place of humility. As the number of installs have grown from thousands to millions, the needs of the product have outgrown my ability to develop solutions. The last thing I want to do to this amazing community is unintentionally hold back the project, so something needed to change.</p><cite><a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/10-years-of-acf-a-truly-wonderful-time/">Elliot Condon, ACF </a></cite></blockquote>



<p>Early on into the development of the block editor, Candon was also developing a<strong> <a href="https://wptavern.com/block-building-without-javascript-testing-acf-block-lab-and-lazy-blocks">php way to build blocks</a></strong> and integrated it into Advanced Custom Fields Pro starting with the version 5.8. This effort certainly helped developers even more. Now they could use their existing tools and offer their users Gutenberg compatible sites withouth learning ES6 JavaScript or ReactJS. </p>



<p><strong><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/">Delicious Brains</a></strong> also caters to WordPress Developers with products like  <a href="https://spinupwp.com/">SpinupWP</a> (💕), WP Migrate DB and more. Their team seems to be the right fit to pick up the torch and put ACF on an even stronger path for future growth. </p>



<p>You can learn more about the aquisition via </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/delicious-brains-acquires-advanced-custom-fields-plugin">WPTavern (Sarah Gooding)</a>, </li><li><a href="https://poststatus.com/excerpt/12/">Post Status Excerpt</a> (Cory Miller &amp; David Bisset) , </li><li><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/epic-wordpress-announcement/">A WordPress Announcement of Epic&nbsp;Proportions</a> (Delicious Brain) </li><li><a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/10-years-of-acf-a-truly-wonderful-time/">10 Years of ACF – A truly wonderful time </a></li></ul>



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<h2 id="events">Upcoming WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>June 6, 2021</strong> <strong>7:00 pm EDT / 23:00 UTC</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-WordPress-Meetup-Group/events/278507419/">WordPress Meetup Philadelphia</a></strong><br />Full Site Editing Review and Test-a-thon</p>



<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



<p><strong>🎉</strong>  Gutenberg Times is a media partner of WordCamp Europe 2021 </p>



<p><strong>June 10th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/278491308">WordPress &#8220;Mega Meetup&#8221;: Plugins That Keep Websites Running</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>June 24, 2021 </strong><br /><strong><a href="https://attend.wpengine.com/summit-us-2021/">WPEngine Summit 2021</a></strong><br /><em>The digital breakthrough conference</em> <a href="https://events.wpengine.com/event/fd217870-fc78-46d2-8c5e-96c85e6e371c/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?environment=P2&tm=nSwmA1-ZyLXwe2wM80Vzve3wDjKBWeqKrHbJFivPV4o&locale=en-US">just released their schedule</a>. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the Keynote talk with <strong>Reshma Saujani</strong>, founder of Girls Who Code and Marchall Plan for Moms at 12:55 EDT / 16:55 UTC.  I also hope to see talks with Rob Stinston, Carrie Dils and Chris Wiegman. There are also deep dive talks listed into Headless WordPress. Enterprise WordPress is definitely heading down that route. </p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers ends TODAY! </p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The&nbsp;</em>festival of WordPress</p>



<p>A<strong>ugust 6 + 7, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://nicaragua.wordcamp.org/2021/"><strong>WordCamp Nicaragua</strong></a></p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221;</p>



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<p>On the<a href="https://wpcalendar.io/online/"> <strong>Calendar for WordPress Online Events</strong> </a>you can browse a list of the upcoming WordPress Meetups, around the world, including WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi Builder and Beaver Builder meetups. </p>




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<p>We looked through the schedule and spotted very forward-looking Gutenberg related talks, workshops and discussions. Before you study the list, I would recommend the site <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html">Time Zone Converter</a> to help you convert the listed times from <strong>C</strong>entral <strong>E</strong>urope <strong>S</strong>ummer <strong>T</strong>ime (CEST) to your local time. Once in a while I get confused by time zones, and that&#8217;s my favorite site to set me straight. </p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size"><strong>Fabian Kägy, developer at 10up:  </strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/session/building-great-experiences-in-the-new-editor/">Building great experiences in the new editor</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>Description: </strong>Starting out building blocks or experiences for the WordPress block editor can be a bit daunting. Where do I start? Custom blocks, block patterns or just styling core blocks. In this talk, Kägy will walk through the different options and share the benefits and downsides of each while talking about overall good practices for building great editorial experiences.</p>



<p>As a sidenote: Almost exactly a year ago,  <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/tooling-using-create-block-scaffolding-and-3rd-party-templates/">Fabian Kägy was a presenter at a Gutenberg Times Live Q &amp; A</a> together with Grzegorz Ziolkowski, and demo&#8217;d how you can use and extend the official WordPress create-block scaffolding tool. </p>



<p><strong>Monday, June 7th, 2021, at 10am EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST</strong></p>



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<h2>Full-Site Editing Panel Discussion</h2>



<p>The names of the panelist are still a secret, and I will update the post when we know more. </p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to get a jump start here are few resources: </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/video-full-site-editing-overview-with-anne-mccarthy/">Video: Full-Site Editing Overview with Anne McCarthy</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/full-site-editing/">Full-Site-Editing – the Ultimate Resource List</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing/">So, You want to talk about Full-site Editing?</a></li></ul>



<p><strong>Monday, June 7, 2021 at 12:34 pm EDT / 16:34 UTC / CEST: 18:34</strong></p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size">Workshop: <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/session/a-walkthrough-of-full-site-editing-fse-from-one-of-the-contributors-to-the-experiment/">A walkthrough of Full Site Editing</a> with Herb Miller, Web developer in UK,</p>



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<p><strong>Description:</strong> Herb Miller will give a short tour of Full Site Editing (FSE) in this workshop from his perspective as a contributor to the outreach experiment for this major development in WordPress.</p>



<p>He has created a&nbsp;<a href="https://sneak-peek.me/">learning resource</a>&nbsp;which attendees can use to follow on during the workshop.</p>



<p>Herb will give attendees an overview of:</p>



<ul><li>how to get started</li><li>the components of the Site Editor</li><li>example templates and template parts</li><li>some blocks used to create FSE themes</li><li>example themes</li><li>a very few code samples</li><li>some answers to FAQs</li><li>how to become involved</li><li>and many links to other resources</li></ul>



<p><strong>Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 17:00 CEST</strong></p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size">Lee Shadle, web developer  <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/session/blazing-fast-block-development/">Blazing fast block development</a> </p>



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<p>Lee Shadle wrote in his description: <em>&#8220;I’ve been OBSESSED w/ building blocks since before Gutenberg was released. I’ve built a BUNCH of custom block plugins over the years. In this workshop I’m going to share the framework I’ve been using for quickly building custom block plugins for WordPress.&#8221;</em>. Shadle recently also held a talk at WordSesh and demo&#8217;d his create-block-plugin scaffolding tool and it was inspiring. This is definitely not a talk to miss. </p>



<p><strong>Tuesday June 8, 2021 12:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:oo CEST</strong></p>



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<p>The future of themes will be a topic of this panel discussion. Stay tuned or follow WordCamp Europe on Social Media (<a href="https://twitter.com/WCEurope">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WCEurope/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wceurope/">Instagram</a>).</p>



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<p><strong>Theme.json for Theme Authors or building themes for full-site editing in WordPress.</strong><br /><strong>Host</strong>: Birgit Pauli-Haack<br /><strong>Panel:</strong>&nbsp;Daily Olson, Tammie Lister and Jeff Ong           <span class="has-inline-color"><strong><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8816229019893/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA">Register Now</a></strong></span></p>
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<p>Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. The conversation should be the highlight of the WordCamp Europe</p>



<p><strong>Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 &#8211; 11:42 EDT / 15:42 UTC /  17:42 CEST</strong></p>



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<p>This edition of the WordCamp Europe also offers interesting Sponsor talks. Look for them <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/">on the schedule</a>, too.  </p>



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<p>As we’re nearing 5.8, there’s an increasing demand for people to speak about Full Site Editing and this post should help act as a resource guide to enable more people to do so. As always, I would love contributions from the wider community to build this out into an even more comprehensive resource! While this post covers a lot of content, see it as a go to place to mix and match as you’d like for your own presentation rather than something you need to know every detail of. For example, if you’re presenting to theme authors, you can use this to get a sense at a glance of what might be relevant from what to demo, what resources to share, what GitHub issues to highlight, and more.</p>



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<h2 id="0-resources">Resources</h2>



<ul><li>Feel free to re-use or get inspiration from&nbsp;this&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPzATDkHzg">FSE Overview</a>.</li><li>Pull from this&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RGNG3HlB1HXPNXaFi50I56MIr1XHb9MiV3nc--MuBvs/edit">working transcript for the above talks</a>.</li></ul>



<h2 id="1-key-points-to-cover-around-5-8">Key points to cover around 5.8:</h2>



<ul><li>FSE&nbsp;is a collection of features and not a monolith.</li><li>Because FSE is a collection of features, Core can be flexible in shipping what is both stable and adds the most value.</li><li>5.8 is focused mainly on bringing tools to extenders with limited changes to the user experience. This includes theme.json, new theme blocks, design tools, and template editing mode.</li></ul>



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<p>Depending on who you are and who the audience, the following are your best bets for demo content:</p>



<ul><li><strong>Block Theme building</strong>. <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkaz/">@mkaz</a> has some <a href="https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcusKazmierczak/videos">great videos uploaded to YouTube</a> that you can check out and Carolina Nymark <a href="https://fullsiteediting.com/">has this lovely site</a>.</li><li><strong>Template Editing Mode</strong>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z571V_jlD-o&feature=youtu.be">Here’s an overview video from yours</a> truly but keep in mind <a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31461">this in progress PR</a> that, if merged, would change the experience of editing a post/page inside template editing mode.</li><li>Explore blocks with a focus on the <strong>Navigation &amp; Query Blocks.</strong> Note that the Navigation Block is not planned for 5.8. You can see a list of blocks <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/trunk/packages/block-library/src/index.js#L172-L192">planned for inclusion here</a>.</li><li><strong>Build a custom 404 page</strong>. You can <a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/09/fse-program-testing-call-3-create-a-fun-custom-404-page/">follow these instructions</a> to set up your demo.</li></ul>



<h2 id="3-helpful-git-hub-issues">Helpful GitHub issues</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551">Site Editing Milestones</a>: to get a high level overview of how this work has been approached and where to follow along.</li><li>On plans for restricting access:&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/26573">mapping features/functionality in order to update the UI</a>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27597">proposal for a robust permissions system with FSE</a>.</li><li>On types of pathways for classic themes:&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28744">Enabling FSE blocks in Classic Themes</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/209">Experiment to add Customizer Color Controls to TT1</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/173">Experiment using theme.json and Customizer</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30438">Allow creating custom block templates in Classic themes</a>.</li><li>On the placement of the site editor experience:&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29630#issuecomment-811617222">Design and discussion exploring how best to finalize</a>&nbsp;the placement of FSE related features in wp-admin. This is a long term item to keep in mind as the Site Editor is not shipping in 5.8.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">Upcoming Dev Notes for 5.8</a>&nbsp;to get an early peak at what’s new.</li></ul>



<h2 id="4-helpful-posts">Helpful Posts</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/20/ways-to-keep-up-with-full-site-editing-fse/">Ways to keep up with FSE</a>&nbsp;so people can pick and choose their communication adventure.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/01/full-site-editing-and-themes-where-things-are/">Full Site Editing and Themes: where things are</a>&nbsp;from February 2021.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/">Full Site Editing Outreach Program</a>&nbsp;for those interested in helping to test and give feedback.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-answers/">A recent series of questions and answers</a>&nbsp;about Full Site Editing from 2021.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHxsDSAImn0">A great overview of FSE features</a>&nbsp;for non technical people.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/12/10/status-check-site-editing-and-customization/">Status check on Site Editing and Customization</a>&nbsp;from December 2020 for a more historical perspective.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/15/full-site-editing-go-no-go-april-14-2021/">Go/No Go Recap post</a>: to show how decisions were made around this release.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/20/full-site-editing-go-no-go-next-steps/">Go/No Go Next Steps post</a>: to give greater context around what needs to happen for each feature to be properly considered for inclusion in 5.8.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/">Full Site Editing Outreach Program handbook page:</a>&nbsp;to highlight how people can get involved in giving feedback and improving FSE.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/how-to-test-fse/">How to Test FSE:</a>&nbsp;to give practical guidance around how to explore these features.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/block-theme-overview/">Block Theme Documentation</a>: to help people get started with block theme creation.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/handbook/full-site-editing/">Full Site Editing Documentation</a>: to give a high level overview of FSE and an entry point to learn more.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments">Theme Experiments Repo</a>: to help people explore current approaches to block themes and various in progress experiments.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/gutenberg-themes-roundup/">Gutenberg + Themes Roundups</a>: to help people stay up to date on happenings in&nbsp;Gutenberg&nbsp;that impact themes.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/meeting/">Bi-monthly Block theme meeting</a>: to give people a chance to discuss the latest and greatest with block themes.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-hallway-hangout/">FSE Hallway Hangouts</a>: to hear from those working on and giving feedback on these features.</li></ul>



<h2 id="5-conversation-starters">Conversation Starters</h2>



<ul><li>What would you like to see done as part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551">gradual adoption milestone</a>?&nbsp;</li><li>What would make you more inclined to use Full Site Editing? On the flip side, what would make you less inclined?&nbsp;</li><li>Are there any key people or resources like podcasts, courses, documentation, etc that have helped you explore Full Site Editing?&nbsp;</li><li>How do you think Full Site Editing will change the WordPress ecosystem? What excites you there? What makes you nervous?&nbsp;</li><li>What do you think is most helpful to communicate about Full Site Editing right now to put more people at ease and build excitement?&nbsp;</li><li>What are you still confused about when it comes to Full Site Editing?</li><li></li></ul>



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<p>These are the top questions you can most likely expect to get asked with high level answers to get you started in the right direction. For a more comprehensive list of questions and answers,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-answers/">check out the FSE Outreach Program’s roundups</a>.</p>



<div class="schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block"><div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843349108"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What is Full Site Editing and what value will it bring?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">Full Site Editing is a collection of features that bring the familiar experience and extendability of blocks to all parts of your site rather than just post and pages. In terms of value, it depends on who you are:<br />User: empowerment to customize what you want to your liking without needing to dive into code.<br />Themer/developer: focus less on coding thanks to various design tools and more on creating a compelling experience with your theme.<br />Agency: greater control and consistency over what you offer clients including things like setting custom branding colors or locking down various aspects of the site such as typography settings.<br />When you see or feel this value depends on who you are, how early you adopt features, and when stable features land in Core. Thanks to FSE being a collection of features, some independent and some interdependent, there’s wonderful room to ship what’s stable.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843371957"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What is going to happen to WordPress themes and what kinds of pathways are being created?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">In the long run, it should make theme development much easier and simpler with design tools ready to tap into allowing theme authors to focus less on coding and functions and more on design expression and aesthetics. Because Full Site Editing requires a block based theme, this makes themes extremely important to get right! As a result, lots of pathways are being created including the ability to use theme blocks in a classic theme, exploring how to use the customizer and site editor as part of a “universal theme”, unlocking the ability to create a new block template in a classic theme, allowing classic themes to adopt the block widget editor, and more.<br />Key: Themes are a key part of the FSE experience, lots of work is being done to allow for a breadth of options going forward, and we need feedback from theme authors to make the transition easier. </p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843448534"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What about page builders/site builders?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">FSE is being built in a way that site builders, if they choose to, can build on top of what’s being created. Overall though, FSE is being built partially so people don’t get locked into one site builder over another. While the goals shared between FSE and site builders are similar in terms of empowering users and give better tools to customize a site, the main difference is that we are developing tools that work for users, themers, and hopefully also page builders by expanding how WordPress uses blocks as a whole. Since Core has to strike a nice balance, it’s expected that future plugins will play a role here in exposing more/less depending on user needs.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843480900"><strong class="schema-faq-question">How will restricting access to these Full-site editing features work?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">This will depend on who is asking the question (a user, a theme author, a developer, etc) but some of the GitHub issues referenced above should help. For users, I’d focus on the fact that they would either need to seek out a block theme to use or their current theme would need to ship specific updates. For a themer/developer, I’d share that there will be various options to opt in and out of this work (<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27814#issuecomment-823921386">for example with creating block templates</a>). Upcoming <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">5.8 dev notes</a> should address this for any new features.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843499287"><strong class="schema-faq-question">Will upgrading to 5.8 cause FSE to take over my site like the Core Editor did in 5.0?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">No. 5.8 is focused on giving tools to extenders first and foremost before more user facing changes are launched going forward and integrated into themes. In terms of user facing features, you can expect to see</p> </div> </div>



<p><em><a href="https://nomad.blog/2021/06/02/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing/">Anne McCarthy published this post on her personal blog</a> and gave us permission to republish it here as well.</em></p>



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<p>Memorial Day is a federal holiday, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Although a sad occasion for many people in the US, it is also the first long weekend after a cold winter. Many of you will hopefully take the opportunity to spend it leisurely outside with family and friends, away from the screens. Look up from your phone.  The content keeps until Tuesday when you get back to work.  </p>



<p>After catching up on my publishing schedule, I will spend the weekend with friends at the <a href="https://sarasotacricket.org/">Cricket Club</a>, and at the <a href="https://thedali.org/">Dali Museum in St. Petersburg</a>. Let me know about your weekend! </p>





<p>With the release of Gutenberg 10.7 version, we are in the &#8220;feature freeze&#8221; which means from now to the first beta release on June 8th, 2021, it&#8217;s all about bug fixing. Below you&#8217;ll find several ways how you can help make it a great release. </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-style-default"><p><em>There is something to be said that 5.8 is probably the biggest release for Gutenberg since 5.0 and in terms of merged code might even be bigger.</em></p><cite>Riad Benguella, editor release lead for WordPress 5.8, in #core-editor meeting 5/26/2021</cite></blockquote>



<p>Yours 💕,<br />Birgit</p>



<p>PS: Thank you to all who shared great resources on wp.data last week! If you used the wp.data package in your blocks, I am looking for real life examples. Ping me in Slack @bph or <a href="mailto:pauli@gutenbergtimes.com">email me</a>. </p>



<p>PPS: Huge &#8220;Thank You&#8221; to <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/get_dave">Dave Smith</a> </strong>for <a href="https://app.mypodcastreviews.com/podcasts/k7H9zO/reviews/6950436">his wonderful review of our podcast.</a> <em>Grzegorz (Greg) Ziolkowski</em> is on vacation, and we&#8217;ll record the next Gutenberg Changelog on Friday Jun 11, covering both releases 10.7 and 10.8. Send us your questions to <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. </p>



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<p>A new call for testing is now available from the FSE outreach program! <strong>Deadline: Jun 9th,</strong> 2021. <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> sends you down the rabbit hole to create a <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/26/fse-program-testing-call-7-polished-portfolios/"><strong>Polished Portfolio Pages</strong></a>, using the Template Editor and your personal Query Blocks design. She guides you with nice ideas for your Portfolio page, the accompanying template and shares designs from the web. <a href="https://wptavern.com/fse-outreach-7-building-a-portfolio-in-the-upcoming-template-editing-mode">On WPTavern</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/justintadlock"><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong></a> followed along. He shared his page&#8217;s source code and the joy and frustrations along the way.</p>



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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/HughRoberts05"><strong>Huge W. Roberts</strong></a> introduces you to the <a href="https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2021/05/27/5-wordpress-photo-editing-tools-available-to-use-on-the-block-editor/"><strong>Five Photo Editing Tools Available To Use On The Block Editor</strong></a> and explains in detail how to crop, resize and zoom and other features of the Image block. </p>



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<p>Speaking of which, WordPress 5.8 will bring a new feature to the image and cover block: <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/05/coloring-your-images-with-duotone-filters/"><strong>Coloring Your Images With Duotone Filters</strong></a>, created by <strong>Alex Lende</strong>. Details about this  wonderful new feature are now available on the WordPress News site. Using the Gutenberg plugin, you don&#8217;t have to wait until July 20, 2021 for WordPress 5.8 to come out. You can use today! </p>



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<p><a href="https://themeshaper.com/2021/05/27/blockbase-a-parent-theme-for-block-themes/"><strong>Blockbase</strong></a> &#8220;This block theme attempts to make all the common theme styles configurable in theme.json, and provides the CSS needed to make them work until the blocks themselves support these settings.&#8221; wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/scruffian"><strong>Ben Dwyer</strong></a>  <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/themes/">The Blockbase themes</a> is available via GitHub. Justin Tadlock at WPTavern kick the tires of it. He concluded: &#8220;It is the modern-day <a href="https://underscores.me/">Underscores (_s)</a> for blocks, and the WordPress theme design community will need such a project moving forward. They will need a starting point and educational tool, and Blockbase is just that.&#8221; You&#8217;d be interested in more details.</p>



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<p><strong>Hector Pietro</strong> published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/27/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-7-26-may/"><strong>What’s new in Gutenberg 10.7?</strong></a>  The release notes for this week&#8217;s Gutenberg plugin release. This is the last version of Gutenberg features that will be coming to WordPress core. What didn&#8217;t make it? Navigation screen and block, Post Author Block and the Refactor of the Gallery Block. The latter is a bit disappointing as I was very much looking forward to building galleries with image blocks. Ah, well.</p>



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<p><strong>The new Widget screen</strong> made it and could use some major testing round: Use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, enable the nightly stream on the bleeding edge channel and start testing specially for backwards compatibility with existing themes and plugins and configuration. <a href="https://pantheon.io/register">Pantheon gives Developer 2 free testing sites</a>, and has a powerful <a href="https://pantheon.io/docs/migrate">migration tool </a>for cloning existing sites for testing. It&#8217;s what we will use for our long-time client sites. If you feel you don&#8217;t have enough times, but also don&#8217;t want to see any surprises, you can install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/"><strong>Classic Widgets plugin</strong></a> by core contributors <strong>Tonya Mork</strong> and <strong>Andrew Ozz</strong>. </p>



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<p><strong>Allison Rivers </strong>wrote <a href="https://torquemag.io/2021/05/why-wordpress-agencies-are-embracing-gutenberg/"><strong>Why WordPress Agencies Are Embracing Gutenberg</strong></a> for the Torque Magazine. Rivers interviewed 15 Agency leaders in the WordPress space who shared why they are slowly moving away from 3rd party page builders favoring the block editor and the rich ecosystem around it, with Generate Blocks, Kadence Blocks, Toolset, Stackable, Genesis Blocks and more. </p>



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<p>The above article was a nice palate cleanser after the rather lively debate on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLiDu7WwCRI&t=1s"><strong>This Week in WordPress #164</strong></a> with Nathan Wrigley and Spencer Forman. The reasoning from the agency leaders might also explain why hard-core Elementor fans get so agitated. Big &#8220;Thank You&#8221; to Nathan Wrigley for having me on the show. 🤟 It was quite entertaining, to say the least. </p>



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<p>In case you missed it,  I thoroughly enjoyed <strong>Nathan Wrigley&#8217;s</strong> interview with <strong>Benjamin Intal</strong>, of <a href="https://wpstackable.com/">Stackable </a> on the  WP Tavern Jukebox podcast, and <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/podcast/3-benjamin-intal-on-why-hes-betting-his-business-on-blocks">Why he is betting his business on blocks</a>.</strong></p>



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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/karks88"><strong>Eric Karkovack</strong></a> did a deep dive into the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-visibility/">Block Visibility</a> by Nick Diego and shared his insights in his article <a href="https://speckyboy.com/edit-block-visibility-wordpress-gutenberg-editor/"><strong>An Easy Way to Edit Block Visibility in the WordPress Gutenberg Editor</strong></a> .I mentioned the plugin multiple times before.  If you didn&#8217;t get a chance to test it on one of your projects, Karkovack&#8217;s article gives you definitely more insight in how it works, and what use cases are suitable for it. <br />I also discovered the plugin <strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/conditional-blocks/">Conditional Blocks</a>  by <a href="https://twitter.com/morganhvidt">Morgan Hvidt</a> </strong>with a slightly different approach. Both plugins also provide pro versions via their respective websites. </p>



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<h2 id="events">Upcoming WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



<p><strong>🎉</strong>  Gutenberg Times is a media partner of WordCamp Europe 2021 </p>



<p><strong>June 10th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/278491308">WordPress &#8220;Mega Meetup&#8221;: Plugins That Keep Websites Running</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>June 24, 2021 </strong><br /><strong><a href="https://attend.wpengine.com/summit-us-2021/">WPEngine Summit 2021</a></strong><br /><em>The digital breakthrough conference</em></p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers was extended to June 5th, 2021.</p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The </em>festival of WordPress</p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221; <a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/proposals">Call for Proposal is up</a> and proposal are <strong>due May 26, 2021</strong></p>



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<p>On the<a href="https://wpcalendar.io/online/"> <strong>Calendar for WordPress Online Events</strong> </a>you can browse a list of the upcoming WordPress Meetups, around the world, including WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi Builder and Beaver Builder meetups. </p>




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<p>I am getting really excited about the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-8/">WordPress 5.8 release</a>. It&#8217;s still about eight weeks away, but there is a lot of work in front of us.  We are coming up to Feature Freeze on May 25, 2021. The Gutenberg team has a <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v10.7.0-rc.1">release candidate for 10.7</a>, the last version of the plugin, that will make it into WordPress Core. </p>



<p>How can you help? Test, test test! </p>



<ul><li>Set up a test site. <a href="https://pantheon.io/register">Pantheon offers developer 2 sites for free.</a> </li><li>Use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">Beta Tester plugin</a> &#8211; set it to channel = <em>Bleeding Edge</em> and stream = <em>Nightlies</em>, that means you have the lasted WordPress version on your site. </li><li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">Report any bugs you find</a></li></ul>



<p>On the team working on the block-editor end user documentation, we have a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QdBr37mzz0AiAWDsR9PEFPUvzpULppt9FBbXE6WM0-w/edit#heading=h.yhitji5ms7k6">preliminary list of relevant user-facing changes</a> in Google Doc. We are looking for more contributors to not only get through the latest task list but also update some documentation pages with 5.6 and 5.7 changes. If you have a few hours, and want to take a deep dive into the block-editor features, let me know   by joining the #docs channel or DM me on the Make Slack. </p>



<p>Wishing everyone lots of patience.  We are still in a pandemic, and all good things take time. </p>



<p>Yours 💕,<br />Birgit</p>



<p>PS: Did a deep dive into the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/data">wp.data package</a> to learn more about state management for the block-editor. Do you know of any resources that helped you get the hang of it? The usual metaphors don&#8217;t seem to help much. </p>



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<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> posted about <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/21/hallway-hangout-discussion-on-full-site-editing-issues-prs-designs-20-may/">Hallway Hangout: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs (20 May)</a></strong>. This was the fourth Hallway Hangout, a series of information meetings, that started in April. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPsxZ_WQFaACunULLiT85g">They are all available on YouTube.</a> Sometimes it is much easier to talk through a feature, an interface, or bugs, when you can ask questions and screen share. If you missed them, they are available on YouTube and summary posts are available on the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-hallway-hangout/">Make block of the Test Team</a>. </p>



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<p>Although, I long for in-person WordCamps, they are still not safe in many regions.  For now, connections to my WordPress friends are still virtual: pick-up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPsxZ_WQFaACunULLiT85g">Hallway Hangouts</a>, Meetups meetings and WordCamps and conferences. </p>



<p>Speaking of which: Next week <a href="https://wordsesh.com/register/"><strong>WordSesh is taking place May 24 &#8211; May 27</strong></a>, with Workshops starting on May 28.  Well, depending on where you are in the world, it will start tomorrow night. </p>



<p><strong>On the schedule a five session around Gutenberg: </strong></p>



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<ul><li><strong>Blazing Fast Block Development</strong> w/ Lee Shadle </li><li><strong>Building Custom Block</strong>s w/ Rob Stinson</li><li><strong>Block-Based Themes</strong> – <strong>The Future Of Full Site Editing In WordPress</strong> w/ Imran Sayed</li><li><strong>How the Block Editor Makes It Easier to Build Custom Websites</strong> w/ Danielle Zarcaro </li><li><strong>Build your own Block-Based Theme</strong> w/ Daisy Olsen (Workshop)</li></ul>



<p>Find a <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#events">list of more upcoming WordPress events </a>further below. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBr3TgVRrkE&t=14s">Eight Gutenberg Tips and Tricks in eight minutes</a> </strong>&#8211;  Learn how to start developing WordPress sites with Gutenberg blocks with <strong>Bill Erickson</strong> and <strong>Gabriel A. Mays</strong> from GoDaddy.  Take a look at the YouTube video and the links resources, if you are just starting out working with the block-editor in your WordPress development. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/edward_bock">Edward Bock</a></strong> shared how to <a href="https://medium.com/write-better-wordpress-code/properly-add-modern-javascript-to-gutenberg-14bde8679d83">Properly add modern JavaScript to Gutenberg</a>. In his article, he helps you transition from the conventional programming on PHP to adding JavaScript to your tools set</p>



<h2>Full-Site Editing for Theme Developers</h2>



<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/herb_miller">Herb Miller</a></strong> shared recording from his presentation:  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfYWkKuzv90"><strong>Guide to WordPress Full Site Editing, blocks and themes</strong></a> at the Meetup in Portsmouth. Now the Herb went beyond the template editor bits that are coming to WordPress 5.8. He demonstrated the full Site Editor, which isn&#8217;t slated to come to WordPress until 5.9 or even 6.0. To follow along you would need a block-based theme and the latest Gutenberg version (for now 10.6.2). After a tour around the Site Editor, Herb Miller, shared with the audience how he built a block-based theme. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/carolinapoena">Carolina Nymark</a></strong> published here <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/armando/"><strong>full-site editing theme &#8220;Armando&#8221;</strong></a> in the theme directory on WordPress.org. Carolina also is a contributor to the Gutenberg repository and published a <a href="https://fullsiteediting.com/courses/full-site-editing-for-theme-developers/">Full Site Editing course for developers</a>. Recently, she also published a <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CarolinaNymark.wordpress-block-markup">VS Code extension WordPress Block Markup </a>with autocomplete snippets to add blocks to your templates faster. </p>



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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/fklux"><strong>Fränk Klein</strong> </a>of <a href="https://wpdevelopment.courses/">WPDevelopment Courses</a> is getting ready to open his <strong><a href="https://wpdevelopment.courses/courses/building-block-based-themes/#curriculum">Building Block-Based Themes </a></strong>course. He already shared quite a few insights in his learnings with the articles: <a href="https://wpdevelopment.courses/articles/full-site-editing-theme-learnings/">What I Learned Building a Full-Site Editing Theme</a> and <a href="https://wpdevelopment.courses/articles/global-styles-in-block-based-bosco/">Implementing Global Styles in Block-Based Bosco</a>. The <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/block-based-bosco/">Block-based Bosco Theme</a> is also available in the WordPress.org repo. </p>



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<p>The <strong>theme.json</strong> settings structure is now finalized and is not experimental anymore. The <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json/"><strong>Documentation</strong></a> is available in the Gutenberg Handbook. <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/riadbenguella">Riad Benguella</a></strong> wrote an <a href="https://riad.blog/2021/05/05/introduction-to-wordpresss-global-styles-and-global-settings/"><strong>Introduction to WordPress’s Global Styles and Global Settings</strong></a> to get you started on the new era of Theme development in WordPress. <em>(Yes, I shared this before. I just want to make sure you find it again ) </em></p>



<p>A few days ago, <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/aristath">Ari Stathopoulos</a> </strong>started working on a <a href="https://github.com/WPTT/theme-json-parser"><strong>Theme.JSON parser </strong></a>to make it possible for conventional themes to take advantage of the settings file as well. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/Ana_Segota">Ana Segota</a>,</strong> Ariel Design, an early adopter of Gutenberg blocks in her themes she published in 2018 and 2019, came out with her first theme embracing full-site editing, and global styles with here <a href="https://www.anarieldesign.com/free-full-site-editing-theme-naledi/"><strong>new Theme &#8220;Naledi&#8221;</strong></a>. Justin Tadlock took <a href="https://wptavern.com/anariel-design-launches-naledi-a-block-based-wordpress-theme">the theme for a spin</a>. Once the theme is available at WordPress.org, it will be the <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/full-site-editing/">sixth theme for full-site editing.</a> </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/pollyplummer">Sarah Gooding</a> </strong>has the story of  <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/blocksy-theme-expands-free-starter-site-collection-plans-to-create-new-suite-of-blocks">Blocksy Theme Expands Free Starter Site Collection, Plans to Create New Suite of Blocks</a>.</strong> Blocksy embraced the block-editor wholeheartedly and grew it&#8217;s business rapidly, it seems. They also integrate well with the blocks by Stackable. </p>



<h2>Plugins for the Block Editor</h2>



<p><strong>Benjamin Intal</strong>, of <a href="https://wpstackable.com">Stackable </a>was this week&#8217;s guest of the WP Tavern Jukebox podcast, and he discussed with <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/wpbuilds">Nathan Wrigley</a></strong> the <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/podcast/3-benjamin-intal-on-why-hes-betting-his-business-on-blocks">Why He’s Betting His Business on Blocks</a>.</strong> Intal and his team were an early adopter of the Block-editor and publish their plugin already in 2018 before the block-editor made it into WordPress Core. Since them Stackable has been an often recommended plugin for content creators, and it has grown quite a bit in features and reach. It&#8217;s certainly worth a listening, considering another wave of creativity and opportunities is coming to WordPress. This time for themes. </p>



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<p><strong>Alexandra Yap </strong>of Stackable recently posted the <a href="https://wpstackable.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-content/"><strong>Introducing Dynamic Content.</strong> </a>They wrote: &#8220;We’ve received a huge number of requests to display content from ACF’s custom fields in Stackable blocks, and now you can! <a href="https://wpstackable.com/blog/stackable-integrates-with-acf/">Most ACF field types are supported</a> as well as ACF Options Pages.&#8221;. They also <a href="https://wpstackable.com/blog/create-dynamic-content-in-stackable-with-toolset/">integrate with Toolset</a>.</p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/justintadlock">Justin Tadlock</a></strong> reviewed a newly published pricing block and found <a href="https://wptavern.com/you-might-not-need-that-block"><strong>You Might Not Need That Block</strong></a>. &#8220;With WordPress’s base blocks and a decent theme, many custom solutions are possible via patterns.&#8221;, he wrote, and he went ahead and recreated a three column pricing table with the core blocks and different themes, Twenty-Twenty, Eksell, and a full-site editing theme, too. I strongly agree with Tadlock that block patterns would provide an easier path. I can see that plugins like Easy-digital downloads, Woo Commerce and other ecommerce plugins would offer such patterns together with their Gutenberg blocks extensions to get store owners up and running quickly. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/pootlepress">Jamie Marsland</a> </strong>shared the <a href="https://www.pootlepress.com/2021/05/10-big-updates-to-our-woocommerce-gutenberg-plugins/"><strong>10 Big Updates to PootlePress WooCommerce Gutenberg plugins</strong></a> Storefront Blocks and WooBuilder Blocks. </p>



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<h2 id="events">Upcoming WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



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<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers (May 30th), sponsors, volunteers and organizers are open. </p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The </em>festival of WordPress<br />Call for Speakers is now open and submissions are <strong>due on May 24th, 2021</strong></p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221; <a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/proposals">Call for Proposal is up</a> and proposal are <strong>due May 26, 2021</strong></p>



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<p>On the<a href="https://wpcalendar.io/online/"> <strong>Calendar for WordPress Online Events</strong> </a>you can browse a list of the upcoming WordPress Meetups, around the world, including WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi Builder and Beaver Builder meetups. </p>




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<p>It&#8217;s not entirely Gutenberg related, but I am so happy that deputies at Global Community Team are <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/04/26/discussing-the-path-to-in-person-wordcamps/">discussing conditions under which in-person meetings (WordCamp and Meetup) can start up again.</a> Just the fact, that in-person meetings are  talked about after 14 months &#8220;online only&#8221;, is already progress. It&#8217;ll still take months before the first in-person WordCamp organizers will be able to start planning. Your opinion counts, so don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2021/04/26/discussing-the-path-to-in-person-wordcamps/">chime in the comments.</a> </p>



<p>There was a lot of happening this week in the WordPress world.  You probably saw most of it on other WordPress news sites, so I dive in right into all the Gutenberg related updates.  Happy reading. </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br />Birgit</p>





<h2>Gutenberg and WordPress Pre-release</h2>



<p>It comes down to the wire for developers committing code before the WordPress 5.8 feature freeze coming up on May 25th, 2021. Gutenberg feature freeze is practically on May 19th when the Gutenberg 10.7 RC candidate is released. After those dates,  only bug fixes will make it into the first Beta release, scheduled for June 7, 2021. </p>



<p>To keep all the dates straight I consult the full <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-8/">WordPress 5.8 Development Cycle</a> page. </p>



<h3>Calls for Testing</h3>



<p><strong><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andraganescu/">Andre Draganescu</a></strong> posted <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/12/help-test-the-widgets-editor-for-wordpress-5-8/"><strong>Help Test the Widgets Editor for WordPress 5.8</strong></a> with test instructions for three scenarios any user could test</p>



<ul><li>Migrating from classic widgets</li><li>Adding blocks next to widgets</li><li>Opting out of the new widgets screen with the new plugin</li></ul>



<p>He also urges Theme and Plugin developers <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/trunk/docs/how-to-guides/widgets">to read the available documentation</a> and suggests to</p>



<ul><li>Test upgrading classic widgets to blocks.</li><li>Test enabling and disabling theme support</li><li>Test 3rd party widgets compatibility.</li></ul>



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<p><strong><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/annezazu/">Anne McCarthy</a></strong>  in her post<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/12/fse-program-testing-call-6-stick-the-landing-pages/"><strong> &#8220;Stick the Landing (pages)&#8221;</strong></a> ( 😁 nice pun!)* composed a real-life scenario for the various tests of the template editor and use it for landing pages. This goes to the heart of the new feature slated to be introduced to WordPress users with WordPress 5.8. </p>



<p>The instructions come with a very nice demo of the template editor in a <em>silent movie</em>. Just follow the mouse pointer. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size">(* I had to look it up: Stick the landing &#8211; is an expression that comes from gymnastic or other athletic routine when the athlete <em>lands firmly and confidently on their feet. </em>Or an aviator executes a <em>flawless landing</em>. &#8211; all part of the service&#8230; )</p>



<h2>Gutenberg 10.6</h2>



<p>Gutenberg 10.6 was released and comes with a ton of create features! For the first time, volunteer contributor, <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/vdwijngaert">Koen Van den Wijngaert</a></strong> led this plugin release and published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/14/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-6-12-may/"><strong>What’s new in Gutenberg 10.6?</strong></a>  It was one of the bigger releases with 216 commits.</p>



<ul><li><strong>Duotone filters</strong> made it into this release now. Very cool highlight/shadow colors are already available. Theme developers can provide extend with theme specific colors. </li><li><strong>Padding</strong> is here! You might not need those spacer block anymore or at least not so often. </li><li><strong>Most used tags selector</strong> &#8211; many bloggers missed it for the last few years. It&#8217;s now also available in the block editor.</li><li><strong>Tables</strong> can now have colored borders. </li><li><strong>More blocks</strong> for Themes and modify Post list displays (Query blocks)</li><li><strong>Theme.json</strong>  is out of experimental and the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/trunk/docs/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json.md">documentation was updated</a> just a couple of days ago. </li><li><strong>Template Editor</strong> screen to create custom templates for landing pages. </li><li><strong>Block Editor Settings </strong>are now available via an endpoint of the REST API. This opens quite a few additional opportunities for plugins and themes to adjust features and controls. </li></ul>



<p>I have had a fascination with the Query block ever since it started as a Latest Post block. In this version, the team added Block Patterns to the place holder, so you don&#8217;t have to start from scratch assembling. </p>



<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> tested a few new features and shares his findings in <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-10-6-adds-duotone-filters-query-pattern-carousel-and-most-used-tags-selector#comments">Gutenberg 10.6 Adds Duotone Filters, Query Pattern Carousel, and Most-Used Tags Selector</a>.</strong></p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s main (trunk) branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<p>The <strong>Gutenberg Changelog episode #44</strong> will be published later this weekend. <strong>Grzegorz (&#8220;Greg&#8221;) Ziolkowski</strong> and I had a great time diving into the details of this release, answered some General Gutenberg questions and also talked about what&#8217;s in the works even beyond 5.8. </p>



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<h2>Full Site Editing and Themes</h2>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kjellr"><strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> </a>is back with the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/05/14/gutenberg-themes-week-of-may-10-2021/"><strong>Gutenberg + Themes: Round up post</strong></a> from the Themes team.  Learn quickly what was released and fixed, what is pending as PR or still in discussion that could use your input. The list of overview issues is a great way to catch up on the latest development.</p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/jffng">Jeff Ong</a></strong> invited contributors and other theme developers to a <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/05/10/friday-may-14th-at-14utc/">Upcoming “Universal Themes” Hallway Hangout</a></strong>, a theme that works as a classic theme as well as a block-based theme. The post has links to recording, the sticky boards as well as the Zoom chat transcripts. I have yet to watch the gathering of Theme wizards and their thoughts on how they might want to deal with the upcoming changes. The recording is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZZv3GjGPE">available on YouTube </a></p>



<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZZv3GjGPE"><img /></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZZv3GjGPE">Hallway Hangout &#8211; Universal Theme</a>



<p>The Second Call for Questions on Full Site Editing and their answers has ended, and <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/13/fse-program-answers-from-round-two-of-questions/"><strong>Answers from Round Two of Questions</strong></a>. Almost all answers have also reference to the GitHub discussion around a specific topic. The answer covering the differences and different use cases for the three entities that might cause confusion (#5): Reusable Block, Block Pattern and now Template.  Anne answer it comprehensible, has a real life example and a great set of links to dive deeper into the topic. </p>



<h2 id="wpevents">Upcoming WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>May 19th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Portsmouth-WordPress-Meetup/events/277849223/">Portsmouth WordPress Meetup</a></strong><br /><strong>Full-site Editing </strong>with <strong>Herb Miller</strong> core contributor and his block-based theme </p>



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<p><strong>&nbsp;May 22-23, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://neo.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Northeast Ohio Region</a></strong><br />Two sessions and a Lighting talk about Gutenberg are on the <a href="https://neo.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/">schedule </a></p>



<ul class="has-small-font-size"><li><strong>Anatomy of a Block Theme for Full Site Editing </strong>w/ Daisy Olson </li><li><strong>Web Components in WP, Gutenberg and as HTML plugins</strong> w/ Craig West </li><li><strong>Lightning Talk: The power of reusable blocks w/ Daisy Olson</strong> </li></ul>



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<p><strong>May 24-28, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://wordsesh.com/?uid=6471">WordSesh 2021</a></strong><br />The <a href="https://wordsesh.com/#schedule">session schedule</a> is now available, too. Here is the list of Gutenberg talks: </p>



<ul class="has-small-font-size"><li><strong>Blazing Fast Block Development</strong> w/ Lee Shadle </li><li><strong>Building Custom Block</strong>s w/ Rob Stinson</li><li><strong>Block-Based Themes</strong> – <strong>The Future Of Full Site Editing In WordPress</strong> w/ Imran Sayed</li><li><strong>How the Block Editor Makes It Easier to Build Custom Websites</strong> w/ Danielle Zarcaro </li><li><strong>Build your own Block-Based Theme</strong> w/ Daisy Olsen (Workshop)</li></ul>



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<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



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<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers (May 30th), sponsors, volunteers and organizers are open. </p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The&nbsp;</em>festival of WordPress<br />Call for Speakers is now open and submissions are due on May 24th, 2021</p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221; <a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/proposals">Call for Proposal is up</a> and proposal are due May 26, 2021</p>



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<p>Hope you are all well. This week was a little less hectic, nevertheless again lots of information to digest about the block-editor and the upcoming WordPress 5.8 release. </p>





<p>Today, you&#8217;ll find some great actionable tutorial, articles and tools. Again, I marvel at the extraordinary generosity of the people in the WordPress community from around the World. If you find something that&#8217;s useful to you, please let the authors. Most of them have a Twitter account that&#8217;s linked with the link to their contribution. </p>



<p>Be well, be safe! </p>



<p>Yours, 💕 <br />Birgit </p>



<h2>Updates from the Gutenberg and Core Teams</h2>



<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> posted the summary of finding of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/06/fse-program-query-quest-summary/">Query Quest</a>. This time, a 3 or so dozen user from Japan took part in this call for testing.  Members on the Italian Polyglott team translated the call, too. The circle of people testing has expanded quite a bit. </p>



<p>McCarthy also had two reminders for you: </p>



<ul><li>The second round Call for questions is still open &#8211; <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/28/fse-program-bring-your-questions-round-two/">send in your FSE question and concerns.</a> Deadline is May 12, 2021 </li><li>The next call for testing will be published on May 12, 2021 on the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/">Make blog of the Test team,</a> so clear out an afternoon in your week and reserve it for the next WordPress testing round. You&#8217;d be helping improve software, used by many, many millions of users. </li></ul>



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<p><strong>Hector Pietro</strong>, technical lead on the Gutenberg project Phase 2, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/07/whats-next-in-gutenberg-may-2021/">published the focus post for the team for May 2021.</a> There are no particular surprises listed, as the focus is getting a few projects ready to be merged with Core, but this post also aims beyond the feature Freeze on May 19 for block-editor features, RC 10.7. For Theme builders and developers, he also has a section on what particularly we all need to be aware of. </p>



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<p>In anticipation, that the Widget block editor will land in WordPress Core, contributors <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/hellofromTonya">Tonya Mork</a></strong> and <strong>Andrew Ozz</strong> published the <strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/">Classic Widget Screen plugin</a>,</strong> that allows you to opt-out of the new feature. Plugin and Theme developers can opt-out via this code snippet <code>remove_theme_support('widgets-block-editor')</code>.<a href="https://github.com/WordPress/classic-widgets"> Connect via GitHub</a> for issues and contributions. <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> took the plugin for a spin and wrote a review: <a href="https://wptavern.com/classic-widgets-plugin-disables-wordpress-5-8s-upcoming-block-based-widgets-system">Classic Widgets Plugin Disables WordPress 5.8’s Upcoming Block-Based Widgets System</a>. </p>




<p>🎙️ <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/changelog-43-block-patterns-directory/"><strong>Episode #43 is now available with Show notes and transcript</strong></a> Greg and I discussed Gutenberg 10.5, the Block Patterns Directory and a Call for Testing for WordPress 5.8 Release. </p>



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<p>Speaking of podcasts: Grzegorz (Greg) Ziokowski and I talked with <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/palmiak_fp">Maciek Palmowski</a></strong> of WP Owl, about <strong><a href="https://wpowls.co/podcast/contributing-to-wordpress/">Contributing to WordPress</a></strong>, the inaugural episode for the new podcast WP Owlcast. We talked about the ins and outs of contributing to WordPress &#8211; about the various teams, how to get started, how to pace yourself, Five For the Future and so much more. </p>




<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2021&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">The index 2020 is here</a></p>




<h2>Building block-based Themes</h2>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Adelina_Tuca"><strong>Adelina Tuca</strong></a> of Themeisle interviewed <strong>Tammie Lister</strong>, design co-lead of Phase 1 of the block editor, now design lead at Extendify. <a href="https://themeisle.com/blog/tammie-lister-interview/">&#8220;We Made Themes Become Plugins by Forcing Them to Have Functionality That Shouldn’t Be There</a>&#8220;, Lister is quoted. It&#8217;s a great discussion around the reset on how themes are developed with the block-editor and how it will not only change the creativity and productivity, but also user experience for content creators.</p>



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<p><strong>Riad Benguella </strong>posted an <strong><a href="https://riad.blog/2021/05/05/introduction-to-wordpresss-global-styles-and-global-settings/">Introduction to WordPress’s Global Styles and Global Settings</a>.</strong> You can learn more about the thoughts behind the theme.json implementation for connecting your theme with all the block-editor features. For the first time in WordPress there is now a standard way for plugin block builders to be considerate about the theme developers design decisions and tap into its settings and styles. Be aware, although the theme.json implementation with come to WordPress core with 5.8, the Global Styles will still be experimental, so if you use them, they might change. </p>



<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/carolinapoena">Carolina Nymark</a></strong><a target="_blank" href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CarolinaNymark.wordpress-block-markup" rel="noreferrer noopener"> </a>turned  <a target="_blank" href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CarolinaNymark.wordpress-block-markup" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>her block markup snippets into </strong></a><strong><a target="_blank" href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CarolinaNymark.wordpress-block-markup" rel="noreferrer noopener">VS Code</a> extension</strong> with it, you can add blocks to your full site editing templates faster by typing the name of the block and have VS Code auto-complete it for you. </p>




<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s main (trunk) branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<h2>Block Editor for Content Creators</h2>



<p>If you are just now evaluating if the block editor is mature enough for your future client projects, or the right tool for your content production processes, <strong>Sam Wendland</strong> for WordPress VIP has some more in depth information:  <a href="https://wpvip.com/2021/04/09/how-the-wordpress-gutenberg-block-editor-empowers-enterprise-content-creators/"><strong>&#8220;How the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor Empowers Enterprise Content Creators&#8221;</strong></a>.</p>



<h2>Block building for Developers </h2>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/wpmark"><strong>Mark Wilkinson</strong> </a> of Highrise Digital share the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HZ"><strong>10 lessons he learned from developing WordPress sites with the block editor</strong></a> in this video. He also posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/wpmark/status/1390594183271002112">Thread on Twitter</a> </p>



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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kasparsdambis"><strong>Kaspars Dambis</strong> </a>from <strong>XWP</strong> describes how to manage dependencies when creating your Gutenberg blocks in his post: <a href="https://xwp.co/javascript-dependencies-wordpress-blocks/"><strong>Managing Javascript Dependencies for WordPress Blocks</strong></a></p>



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<p>In his tutorial <a href="https://millan.dev/2021/05/02/tutorial-convert-shortcodes-into-blocks"><strong>Convert Shortcodes into blocks</strong></a> <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/milangd">Milan Petrovic</a></strong> explains how to reuse shortcodes code and develop blocks for the block editor with support for sidebar settings</p>



<h2 id="wpevents">Upcoming WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>10 &#8211; 14 May 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://pagebuildersummit.com?rpid=2&rpr=161"><strong>Page Builder Summit 2021</strong></a><br />Gutenberg is part of it with the following sessions: </p>



<ul class="has-small-font-size"><li><strong>How to turn Gutenberg into a Page Builder with Stackable</strong> w/ Benjamin Intal</li><li><strong>Don’t Compete with Gutenberg &#8211; Embrace It</strong> w/ Danielle Zarcaro</li><li><strong>Google&#8217;s Core Web Vitals &#8211; Get Green With Gutenberg</strong> w/ Jake Pfohl</li><li><strong>Creating newsletters in the Gutenberg block editor</strong> w/ Lesley Sim</li><li><strong>Building Fast, Block-Based Landing Pages</strong> w/ Mike Oliver</li><li><strong>Panel &#8211; Preparing for the future of WordPress </strong>&#8211; Supported by WordPress.com &#8211; Marjorie Asturias, Anne McCarthy and Donna Cavalier</li></ul>



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<p><strong>&nbsp;May 22-23, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://neo.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Northeast Ohio Region</a></strong><br />Two sessions and a Lighting talk about Gutenberg are on the <a href="https://neo.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/">schedule </a></p>



<ul class="has-small-font-size"><li><strong>Anatomy of a Block Theme for Full Site Editing </strong>w/ Daisy Olson </li><li><strong>Web Components in WP, Gutenberg and as HTML plugins</strong> w/ Craig West </li><li><strong>Lightning Talk: The power of reusable blocks w/ Daisy Olson</strong> </li></ul>



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<p><strong>May 24-28, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://wordsesh.com/?uid=6471">WordSesh 2021</a></strong><br />The <a href="https://wordsesh.com/#schedule">session schedule</a> is now available, too. Here is the list of Gutenberg talks: </p>



<ul class="has-small-font-size"><li><strong>Blazing Fast Block Development</strong> w/ Lee Shadle </li><li><strong>Building Custom Block</strong>s w/ Rob Stinson</li><li><strong>Block-Based Themes</strong> – <strong>The Future Of Full Site Editing In WordPress</strong> w/ </li><li><strong>How the Block Editor Makes It Easier to Build Custom Websites</strong> w/ Danielle Zarcaro </li><li><strong>Build your own Block-Based&nbsp;Theme</strong> w/ Daisy Olsen (Workshop)</li></ul>



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<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers (May 30th), sponsors, volunteers and organizers are open. </p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The&nbsp;</em>festival of WordPress<br />Call for Speakers is now open and submissions are due on May 24th, 2021</p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221; <a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/proposals">Call for Proposal is up</a> and proposal are due May 26, 2021</p>



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<p>On the<a href="https://wpcalendar.io/online/"> <strong>Calendar for WordPress Online Events</strong> </a>you can browse a list of the upcoming WordPress Meetups, around the world, including WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi Builder and Beaver Builder meetups. </p>




<p><em>Featured image: <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/116417508@N06/32958126080">&#8220;Tiny City Block Building&#8221;</a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/116417508@N06" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Matt Henry photos</a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CC BY 2.0</a></em></p>





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<p>Happy May 2021! We are a third into 2021. Phew. </p>





<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how relieved I feel that my husband and me as well as many US friends got vaccine shots. It&#8217;s also bitter-sweet and sad. In other places of the world there are again lock-downs.  Hospitals are filling up fast. Hundreds of thousands new infections. People dying. Distribution of vaccines is slow, if there is any available at all. The WordPress community spans all around the globe. We are not out of the woods. We still have friends and business partners in places of crisis. The team of the New York Times curated this list: &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html">How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis</a>&#8220;. Consider donating and ask your employer if they have matching programs. <br /><br />How are you and your communities weathering the epidemic 14 months later? Please share in a reply!</p>



<p>Hang in there, my friends. Stay safe. 😷</p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br />Birgit</p>



<h2>WordPress 5.8: Four weeks to Feature Freeze: </h2>



<p>The Gutenberg and WordPress Core team is gearing up for the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-8/">next major release 5.8</a> in July 2021. We are less than four weeks and two more Gutenberg plugin releases away from feature freeze.  </p>



<h3>Goals of Gutenberg updates for the next major WordPress release</h3>



<p>In the last two or three weeks, I listened to the interviews and Q &amp; As. I learned the team working on the block-editor pieces for this release has two goals: </p>



<p>First, to release enough stable tools for developers and designers to start using aspects of Full-site editing in their themes, via theme.json and hybrid constructs for classic themes.  The hope is that by the time the rest of Full-Site-Editing interface is released to the users in December 2020, there are plenty of block-based themes and block patterns available from the community of extenders.</p>



<p>Second, to introduce the new <em>page template feature</em>. It&#8217;s a new way to use the block editor to create and modify page templates for landing pages. This will be the first time in WordPress that a content creator or site owner would be able to change headers and footer for single pages. This takes a bit of a switch in the publishing / producing mindset. Gutenberg developers are hoping here for plenty of user feedback to make sure that the new blocks and in their new context, the user-facing elements are clear enough to handle in this smaller scope of a single page before the expanded version of Full-site editing is released in December 2021, that allows users to create and modify site-wide templates, template parts and to build new themes. </p>



<h3>Block-Editor Features to come to  WordPress 5.8</h3>



<p>After the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/15/full-site-editing-go-no-go-april-14-2021/">Go/NoGo meeting and decision</a>, technical lead <strong>Hector Prieto </strong>published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/20/full-site-editing-go-no-go-next-steps/"><strong>Full Site Editing Go/No Go: Next steps</strong></a> with more details around the full scope of the block editor pieces for WordPress 5.8 </p>



<ul><li>Gutenberg plugin releases 9.9 &#8211; 10.7</li><li>First version of theme.json for theme builders of block-based themes. </li><li>Theme Blocks (Query, Navigation, Site information)</li><li>Template Editing with the post editor</li><li>Widget Editor and block widgets in Customizer</li><li>Persistent List view in the post editor</li><li>Duotone (Image filter) block supports</li><li>Gallery block refactor</li></ul>



<p>In the post you&#8217;ll find links to issues and pr for even more details. </p>



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<h2>Increased Buzz about Full-Site Editing</h2>



<p>On the WordPress News site, there were a few posts regarding the block-editor and Full-Site Editing. Using the WordPress News space to published more frequently about the ongoing development and ideas is one part of the stronger communication outreach planned for this new feature release. The more intense communication about Full-site editing from the core team is a direct result from the feedback from the WordPress community after the first  Gutenberg release in 2018. </p>



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/04/curious-about-full-site-editing/"><strong>Curious about Full-Site Editing</strong></a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephaHaden"><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy</strong></a>. A short article on what Full-site Editing is and how it will affect different kinds of users. You have been following Full-site Editing for a while now. So it&#8217;s not necessarily for you. It is a great first article to share with WordPress users and co-workers that hear about Full-site editing for the first time. The resources share are good starting place to catch up. </p>



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<p>The second article wasn&#8217;t about Full-site editing, so much but about the Gutenberg. <strong>Anne McCarthy </strong>posted <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/04/become-an-early-adopter-with-the-gutenberg-plugin/"><strong>Become an Early Adopter With the Gutenberg Plugin</strong></a>, and tackled the various terms, we have mostly used as synonyms between Gutenberg, block-editor etc. Also, a good place to start, if someone likes to dive deeper into Gutenberg beyond the WordPress Core implementation. </p>



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<p>The latest article in the WordPress News section, is the tutorial <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/04/getting-started-with-the-figma-wordpress-design-library/"><strong>Getting Started with the Figma WordPress Design Library</strong></a> by <strong>James Koster.</strong> Learn how to quickly create design prototypes for WordPress UI in <a href="https://www.figma.com/">Figma</a>, a collaborative interface design tool. The tutorial is quite comprehensive and not only shows you how you work with it. Being knowledgeable about Figma can also jump start contributing to WordPress as it&#8217;s the tool of choice by the WordPress design team.</p>



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<p>WP Briefing is the new podcast hosted by <strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy</strong>. In her fifth episode, she was  <strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2021/03/talking-full-site-editing-with-matias-ventura/">Talking Full Site Editing with Matías Ventura</a></strong> (<em>ICYMI</em>). Josepha and <a href="https://twitter.com/matias_ventura">Matías</a> answered user questions, from “is full site editing a standalone plugin?” to “will full site editing break my current site?”. The episode comes with a transcript. </p>



<h2>Gutenberg Release and Block editor updates</h2>



<p>In <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/23/core-editor-improvement-refining-the-block-toolbar/"><strong>Core Editor Improvement: Refining the Block Toolbar</strong></a>, Anne McCarthy elaborates on the refinement and standardization implemented for the Block Toolbar with the goal to simplify the hierarchy of the block, to make it more predictable what goes where.&nbsp;Below graphic is part of the newly updated <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/designers/block-design/#group-block-toolbar-controls-with-related-items">Best practices for Block Design</a> page of the developer handbook. </p>



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<p>This week Gutenberg 10.5 was released and in short succession v 10.5.1, v 10.5.2 and v 10.5.3. to fixing regression bugs. <a href="https://twitter.com/ajitbohra"><strong>Ajit Bohra </strong></a>wrote about <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/30/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-5-28-april/"><strong>What’s New In Gutenberg 10.5</strong></a>. 15 new block patterns made it into the release and template editing is now also available for classic themes. For the latter, exercise optimistic caution should you use the Gutenberg plugin in productions. Many, many more changes came to the block-editor. <em>Grzegorz Ziolkowski and I recorded our take on it for the <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast">Gutenberg Changelog</a> podcast yesterday, and it should come to your favorite pod catcher over the weekend. </em></p>



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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/justintadlock"><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> </a>shared his experience in his post <a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-10-5-embeds-pdfs-adds-verse-block-color-options-and-introduces-new-patterns"><strong>Gutenberg 10.5 Embeds PDFs, Adds Verse Block Color Options, and Introduces New Patterns</strong></a></p>




<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2021&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">The index 2020 is here</a></p>




<h2>Block Pattern Directory</h2>



<p>Speaking of Block Patterns, <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/ryelle">Kelly Choyce-Dwan</a></strong> posted the <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2021/04/28/block-pattern-directory-update/">Block Pattern Directory Update</a> </strong>from the Meta team. She invites you to follow along on the site that is a red-hat zone for now, but it already gives you a good idea on how it is going to work. Check it out on<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2021/04/28/block-pattern-directory-update/"> wordpress.org/patterns</a>. The patterns are arranged in squares in five categories: <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/pattern-categories/buttons/">Buttons</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/pattern-categories/columns/">Columns</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/pattern-categories/gallery/">Gallery</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/pattern-categories/header/">Header</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/pattern-categories/text/">Text</a>. You click on the square to see a details page with a larger representation and a button “Copy Pattern” or add them to your &#8216;Favorites&#8217;. Although, Kelly wrote that the copy button doesn’t work yet, I quickly tested it, and you can just paste it into your next post, even if you are not in code edit mode.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The meta team is now working on the process for WP.org users to submit patterns into the directory, and the accompanying automated evaluation and moderation feature. WordPress users will be able to find block patterns right from the block editor inserter and add them directly to their post or pages. </p>



<p>Ultimately, the core block patterns will be removed from Gutenberg and made available through the Pattern directory only.  </p>



<h2>Testing Full-Site editing: The outreach program</h2>



<p>The Full-Site Editing Outreach program is in full swing.. Anne McCarthy and dozens of people contribute to WordPress by testing the new feature. </p>



<p><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/page-template-editor-for-wordpress-5-8-videos-and-plugins-weekend-edition-166/">Since the last Weekend Edition</a>, there were quite a few updates coming out of the program. </p>



<p>🗓️ <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/22/upcoming-fse-outreach-program-schedule/">Upcoming FSE Outreach Program Schedule</a> &#8211; Synch your calendars! </strong>😂</p>



<p>For anyone who wants to learn more about the program, Anne McCarthy was a guest on the WordPress Jukebox podcast last month. <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/wpbuilds">Nathan Wrigley</a>,</strong> host of the revived WPTavern podcast <strong>Jukebox</strong>, discussed with her <a href="https://wptavern.com/podcast/2-anne-mccarthy-on-how-full-site-editing-will-impact-wordpress"><strong>How Full Site Editing Will Impact WordPress</strong></a> and why the program and its participants are an essential part for a successful implementation of the new features. </p>



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<p>In <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/20/fse-program-building-a-restaurant-header-summary/"><strong>Building a Restaurant Header Summary</strong></a> you can read a curated list of outcomes and finding from the 4th Call for Testing. </p>



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<p>In this week&#8217;s <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/29/hallway-hangout-discussion-on-full-site-editing-issues-prs-designs-29-april/"><strong>Hallway Hangout: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs</strong></a>, participants in the FSE program talked through the findings of the last call for testing with <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong>, <strong>Marcus Kazmierczak</strong> and <strong>Sabrina Zeidan</strong>. Using screen sharing and video the groups was able to discuss some of the interface challenges much easier than when just reading through a blog post. This was already the second of this Video chats. The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/08/hallway-hangout-discussion-on-full-site-editing-issues-prs-designs-8-april/">first Hallway Hangout chat took place on April 8th, 2021</a>, when Caroline Nymark, Paal Joachim Ramdahl, and Olga Gleckler joined Anne and Marcus. </p>



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<p>You have until May 5th, 2021 to participate and comment on <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/14/fse-program-testing-call-5-query-quest/">Testing Call #5: Query Quest</a>.</strong></p>



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<p>If you have questions that still need answers, Anne McCarthy<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/28/fse-program-bring-your-questions-round-two/"> </a><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/28/fse-program-bring-your-questions-round-two/">started the second round</a> of collecting questions</strong> to bring back to the team and get you answers. Bookmark this page, so you can open it quickly when you have another question. If you want to read up on the answers for the previously submitted 47 questions, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-answers/">follow this link to previous posts of Q &amp; A </a></p>




<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s main (trunk) branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<h2>Developing for Gutenberg </h2>



<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/jemjabella">Jem Turner</a></strong>, a reluctant adopter of Gutenberg, has <a href="https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2021/6-things-i-do-to-make-gutenberg-development-easier/"><strong>six things she does to make developing websites with Gutenberg easier.</strong></a> It&#8217;s a great mix of developer and content creator processes. </p>



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<p><strong>Will Morris</strong> posted <strong><a href="https://torquemag.io/2021/04/custom-gutenberg-block/">How to Create a Custom Gutenberg Block in WordPress (In 3 Steps)</a> </strong>on the Torque Magazine site and helps you how to extend your WordPress site with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-custom-blocks/">Genesis Custom Blocks</a>,  one of the few <em>&#8216;almost&#8217;</em> #nocode block building tools.  </p>



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<p><strong>Do The Woo podcast</strong>, co-hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/bobWP"><strong>Bob Dunn</strong></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ifyouwillit"><strong>Mendel Kurland</strong></a>, discussed <a href="https://dothewoo.io/wordpress-core-and-blocks-with-grzegorz-ziolkowski/"><strong>WordPress Core and Gutenberg Blocks with Grzegorz (Greg) Ziolkowski. </strong></a> They talked about the opportunities of working with blocks in an eCommerce context and beyond full-site editing.&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/gziolo">Grzegorz</a> explained how micro templates and blocks are the building material for more complex implementation and the advantages of the standardized interface for users and extenders in WordPress Core.&nbsp;</p>



<h2>Plugins for the Block Editor</h2>



<p>Speaking of WooCommerce: <strong>Jamie Marsland</strong> shared his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbn-TRt2pk"><strong>Top 10 Blocks for WooCommerce</strong></a> &#8211; Plugins mentioned: </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-gutenberg-products-block/">WooCommerce Blocks</a></li><li><a href="https://www.pootlepress.com/storefront-blocks/">Storefront Block</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woobuilder/">WooBuilder</a></li></ul>



<h2>New Era for WordPress Themes </h2>



<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/andersnoren">Anders Noren</a></strong>, Swedish theme developer and co-author of the WordPress Twenty-Twenty theme, sees <a href="https://andersnoren.se/a-new-era-for-wordpress-themes/"><strong>A New Era for WordPress Themes</strong></a>. In 2021,  we will &#8220;see the introduction of the most significant change to WordPress themes since the modern theme system was released in&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2005/02/strayhorn/">version 1.5</a>&nbsp;of WordPress, 16 years ago.&#8221;. He has great explanation and insights, and embraces the new era and is happy about the slow release this time around, so theme developers can get familiar with the new tools. &#8220;Developers will have plenty of time to create fully block-based themes by the time the Site Editor and Global Styles are released in WordPress 5.9. And no excuses if they don’t.&#8221; Last month, Anders released a new free theme called <a href="https://andersnoren.se/teman/eksell-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Eskell</strong></a>. Read <a href="https://wptavern.com/eksell-portfolio-theme-now-available-in-wordpress-themes-directory">Sarah Gooding&#8217;s review on  WordPress Tavern.</a> </p>



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<p>The 47th edition of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/04/30/gutenberg-themes-week-of-apr-26-2021/"><strong>Gutenberg + Themes roundup</strong></a> by <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/one_maggie">Maggie Cabrera</a></strong> from the Themes team, lists all FSE related issues and PRs from the Gutenberg repository that need your attention, your opinion and your comments. The post also provides a list of resources if you are just now getting into block-based theme development. One issue caught my eye specifically: <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31124"><em>Presets used in patterns: register them as user presets?</em></a> in it Andre explores a way how block pattern could be used across a theme change and still keep their styling. Reading through the comments from the Gutenberg contributors, it&#8217;s clear that there are a few questions still unanswered, when users can change colors. This applies to a few other elements of the themes and blocks, when classes don&#8217;t survive a theme change, and designs in navigation or group blocks lose their background colors. There are quite a few of these discussions that need your input and ideas. </p>



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<p>In his latest post, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisWiegman"><strong>Chris Wiegman</strong></a> walks us through the process of reducing WordPress themes to the bar minimum and still be able to render blocks. <strong><a href="https://chriswiegman.com/2021/04/creating-a-minimal-wordpress-theme-in-the-era-of-gutenberg/">Creating A Minimal WordPress Theme In The Era Of Gutenberg</a>.</strong> This <a href="https://github.com/chriswiegman/chriswiegman-theme">minimalistic and sustainable theme is available on GitHub</a></p>



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<p>If you are looking to share your future block-based theme in the WordPress.org repository, <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/carolinapoena">Carolina Nymark</a></strong> has a proposal for you: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/04/22/removing-blockers-for-block-themes/"><strong>Removing blockers for block themes</strong></a> on the Themes team. I am quite surprised that it hasn&#8217;t received any feedback from the community yet. </p>



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<p>In his post <a href="https://wptavern.com/themes-set-up-for-a-paradigm-shift-wordpress-5-8-will-unleash-tools-to-make-it-happen"><strong>Themes Set Up for a Paradigm Shift, WordPress 5.8 Will Unleash Tools To Make It Happen</strong></a> Justin Tadlock took a tour around the upcoming WordPress 5.8 features and took them for a spin and a first evaluation.  &#8220;Themes are not going the way of the dinosaur. All of that overly complex PHP code work necessary in the past might just be. The shift is putting themes back into their proper place: design. Previously available tools such as patterns and styles coupled with the new pieces like&nbsp;<code>theme.json</code>&nbsp;and template-related blocks will be the backbone of the new system. It is all starting to come together.&#8221; he concluded. </p>



<p>As a former Theme developer, <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> keeps his ear to the ground of theme development. I very much appreciate the tremendous effort he puts into his Theme reviews. I learn something new every time.</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/churel-is-a-colorful-and-minimalist-block-ready-wordpress-theme">Churel Is a Colorful and Minimalist Block-Ready WordPress Theme</a></li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/with-some-hits-and-misses-the-guten-blog-wordpress-theme-has-potential">With Some Hits and Misses, the Guten Blog WordPress Theme Has Potential</a></li></ul>



<h2>WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>10 &#8211; 14 May 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://pagebuildersummit.com/"><strong>Page Builder Summit 2021</strong></a><br />Gutenberg is part of it with the following sessions: </p>



<ul><li>How to turn Gutenberg into a Page Builder with Stackable w/ <strong>Benjamin Intal</strong></li><li>Don’t Compete with Gutenberg &#8211; Embrace It w/ <strong>Danielle Zarcaro</strong></li><li>Google&#8217;s Core Web Vitals &#8211; Get Green With Gutenberg w/ <strong>Jake Pfohl</strong></li><li>Creating newsletters in the Gutenberg block editor w/ <strong>Lesley Sim</strong></li><li>Building Fast, Block Based Landing Pages with <strong>Mike Oliver</strong></li></ul>



<p><strong>May 24-28, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://wordsesh.com/"><strong>WordSesh 2021</strong></a></p>



<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for Sponsors is open.</a></p>



<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>




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<h2>Gutenberg 10.4 Released (and 10.4.1) </h2>



<p>The <strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/changelog-42-full-site-editing-scope-for-wordpress-5-8/">Gutenberg Changelog episode 42</a></strong> is now available. <strong>Grzegorz (&#8220;Greg&#8221;) Ziolkowski </strong>and I discuss Full-site Editing Scope for WordPress 5.8, Gutenberg’s 10.4,  Gallery Block Refactor and Block-Based Theme updates.</p>



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<p><strong>Sarah Gooding</strong> of the WP Tavern wrote about the Gutenberg 10.4 release: <a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-10-4-introduces-block-widgets-in-the-customizer">Gutenberg 10.4 Introduces Block Widgets in the Customizer</a></p>



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<h2>Full-Site Editing and WordPress 5.8 </h2>



<p>If you now find yourself in the position to learn more about the extent of Full-Site Editing experience, I have a real treat for you: <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/video-full-site-editing-overview-with-anne-mccarthy/">A 30-min video Full-Site Editing Overview by</a>, Anne McCarthy, Developer Relations for the Gutenberg project. </p>



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<p>On April 14, 2021, the Gutenberg and 5.8 release leads held a meeting, with Matias Venture giving a tour of the current state of the Phase 2 of Gutenberg development. The outcome of the meeting was a decision on Go/NoGo for component that make it into core for WordPress 5.8.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy</strong> provide in <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/15/full-site-editing-go-no-go-april-14-2021/">her follow-up post </a>a list of the detailed scope, the video of the meeting and a transcript of the recording. </p>



<h3>The block editor scope </h3>



<ul><li>Improvements from Gutenberg 9.9 to 10.7 plugin version. </li><li>Introduce 25 new blocks (Query, Site Logo, Navigation,Posts, Comments, Archives etc. ), the most valuable among them will be the Query Block. </li><li><code>theme.json</code> Mechanism for Theme builders (<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json/">see developer documentation</a>)</li><li>Template Editor for Pages/Blank Template. (<a href="https://youtu.be/c4IFn73Nzvk?t=2859">see demo by Marcus Kazmierczak</a>)</li><li>Widgets Screen &amp; Block widgets in Customizer.</li><li>Design tools: Duotone, Layout controls, padding, etc.</li></ul>



<p>There is the caution stated in the post: <em>&#8220;Not all the above are currently ready, but there’s some level of confidence that they can be by the time of 5.8.&#8221;</em></p>



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<p>For the <strong>Template Editor for Pages/Blank Template</strong> you can see it <a href="https://youtu.be/c4IFn73Nzvk?t=2859">in action in a demo</a> by <strong>Marcus Kazmierczak</strong>, he gave at the Mega Meetup last week. </p>



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<p><strong>Bud Kraus</strong> of JoyofWP showed us in his video, <a href="https://joyofwp.com/whats-the-future-of-the-wordpress-widget/">how the Widget screen will look like in the future.</a> It does not show the Widget handling in the Customizer yet, but that is to come to WordPress 5.8. You could see a short piece of it in Matias Ventura&#8217;s demo video from the release leads meeting. It is now already available in the latest Gutenberg plugin release. </p>



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<p><strong> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2021&#8221;</a> </strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">The index 2020 is here</a></p>




<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> summarized last week&#8217;s announcements in <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/full-site-editing-is-partly-a-go-for-wordpress-5-8">Full Site Editing Is Partly a ‘Go’ for WordPress 5.8</a></strong></p>



<h2>Testing Full-Site Editing</h2>



<p>As the latest Full-Site Editing Call of Testing, <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> has a <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/14/fse-program-testing-call-5-query-quest/">Query Quest for you.</a></strong> Again with a great set of test instruction, you are guided towards usage and various features of the Query Block and its accompanying new post blocks for title, content, comments, feature image and pagination.</p>



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<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> discussed this task a bit further in his article: <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/fse-outreach-round-5-venturing-out-a-query-quest">FSE Outreach Round #5: Venturing out a Query Quest</a>.</strong> &#8220;Testing never has to be boring. I encourage participants to grab inspiration from their lives as they venture out on their Query Quest.&#8221; he wrote. </p>



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<p>Apropos Testing: <strong>Sarah Gooding</strong> wrote about our Gutenberg Nightly plugin to get the latest development of the block-editor in an easy to handle plugin. <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/set-up-a-gutenberg-test-site-in-2-minutes-with-the-gutenberg-nightly-plugin">Set Up a Gutenberg Test Site in 2 Minutes with the Gutenberg Nightly Plugin</a></strong>.</p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s main (trunk) branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> curated all the feedback from the fourth testing call: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/30/fse-program-custom-404-page-testing-summary/"><strong>FSE Program Custom 404 Page Testing Summary</strong></a></p>



<h2>Block-Based Themes</h2>



<p><strong>Helen Hou-Sandi</strong> streamed on Twitch her <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/981424705">exploration session to create a block-based theme</a> for the Full-Site Editing.</p>



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<p><strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> opened an issue for <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/30508"><strong>Query Block Pattern inspirations.</strong></a> There are great examples posted that could be converted to pattern, that could be bundled with WordPress 5.8  </p>



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<p><strong>Marcus Kazmierczak</strong> also used Twitch to stream his <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/mkaz7000">Lunch &amp; Learn series on Block-based themes.</a></p>



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<p>Keep abreast on specific Theme related development and discussions with the weekly round-up from the Themes Team. <strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> posted this week&#8217;s edition. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/04/16/gutenberg-themes-week-of-apr-12-2021/"><strong>Gutenberg + Themes: Week of Apr 12, 2021</strong></a></p>



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<p>A couple of PRs that should help with <strong>transitioning existing themes to be block-based:</strong></p>



<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30345"><strong>Add do_block_template_part function</strong></a><br />New gutenberg_block_template_part(), gutenberg_block_header_area(), and gutenberg_block_footer_area() functions to help pull block-based template parts into existing PHP templates: </li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30438"><strong>Allow creating custom block templates in classic themes</strong></a> Allowing people to create and use block-based page template for certain pages on their site, even while using a non-block-based theme.</li></ul>



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<p>In their latest episode of WPCafe co-hosts <strong>Mark Wilkinson</strong> and <strong>Keith Devon</strong> talked about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIlY3lTAos">Building Twenty-Twenty-One with Caroline Nymark and Mel Choyce-Dwan</a>. </p>



<h2>Plugins for the Block Editor</h2>



<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutentor/">Gutentor</a></strong> published a collection of 70+ Blocks and layouts for Gutenberg Editor. </p>



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<p>If you are working on your set of Blocks for the editor, <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> has some thoughts to consider: <a href="https://wptavern.com/yet-another-wordpress-block-library-plugin"><strong>Yet Another WordPress Block Library Plugin</strong></a>. He is making a well though through case to suggest more unique blocks to fill the gap to the core blocks. It seems to me that, two years of seeing block collections being acquired by big companies like Atom Blocks, Co Blocks and latest <a href="https://wptavern.com/ithemes-acquires-kadence-wp-plans-to-sunset-legacy-themes-in-2022">Kadence Blocks</a>, might tempt a small developer team to come up with  another set of blocks matching a specific theme and hope for an acquisition by another big company in the space. There might be space for a few more, indeed. </p>



<p>Tadlock&#8217;s longs for something new, a unique extension of core or a missing tool:</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/display-digital-sheet-music-with-the-wordpress-block-editor">Display Digital Sheet Music With the WordPress Block Editor</a></li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/block-a-saurus-embeds-a-side-scrolling-t-rex-game-via-the-block-editor">Block-a-saurus Embeds a Side-Scrolling T-Rex Game via the Block Editor</a></li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/emoji-conbini-and-the-case-for-a-block-enhancements-directory">Emoji Conbini and the Case for a Block Enhancements Directory</a></li><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/insert-font-awesome-icons-into-the-block-editor-via-the-jvm-gutenberg-rich-text-icons-plugin">Insert Font Awesome Icons Into the Block Editor via the JVM Gutenberg Rich Text Icons Plugin</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/writers-rejoice-iceberg-delivers-distraction-free-writing-for-wordpress/">Writers Rejoice! Iceberg Delivers Distraction-free Writing for WordPress</a></li></ul>



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<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/conditional-blocks/">Conditional Blocks</a></strong> by Morgan Hvidt allows you to create block that are displayed when certain conditions apply. We saw other plugins that offer that, like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-visibility/">Block Visibility by Nick Diego</a>. This one is a bit different. It allows you to change content depending on HTTP referrer, so if someone comes from Twitter, they could see a different message than someone coming from a Google Search or a link in a newsletter or an affiliate link. The plugin is also available as a pro version with premium features at <a href="https://conditionalblocks.com">conditionalblocks.com</a>. </p>




<p> <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/changelog-42-full-site-editing-scope-for-wordpress-5-8/"><strong>Episode #4</strong>2 is now available</a>, with new co-host <strong>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</strong></p>



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<h2>People and Community</h2>



<p>It&#8217;s been already a year that <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> joined the Gutenberg team as a developer relations wrangler. It has been a great pleasure meeting Anne and collaborating with her has been quite inspiring, and I learned a lot from her wisdom and her wealth of ideas. She has also become a good friend. She is som much better and being a remote friend that I ever will be. On her personal block Anne published <a href="https://nomad.blog/2021/04/17/one-year-in-devrel/"><strong>One year in DevRel</strong></a></p>



<p>Anne&#8217;s pioneer work with WordPress open-source project has been so successful that <a href="https://boards.greenhouse.io/automatticcareers/jobs/2937422">Automattic wants to sponsor another person for developer relations.</a></p>



<h2>Developing with ReactJS and Gutenberg Blocks. </h2>



<p><strong>Rob Stinson</strong> wrote a tutorial on how <a href="https://studiopress.blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-custom-collections-in-genesis-blocks/">to building custom Collections in Genesis Blocks.</a> Now Collections in this context are Layout templates, that extend existing Genesis blocks. </p>



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<p><strong> Mark Howells-Mead </strong>uses <a href="https://permanenttourist.ch/2021/04/using-react-and-wordpress-to-build-an-interactive-performant-single-page-application">ReactJS to build interactive single page applications with WordPress</a> and wrote a tutorial. It&#8217;s not at all about Blocks and Gutenberg, but it&#8217;s related to the skill set of learning ReactJS and hopefully inspired developer to gradually make the transition. </p>





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<p>It&#8217;s a fantastic and fast-paced presentation and covers a lot of ground. It&#8217;s ideal for WordPress users that just now want to catch up on all the buzz around Full&#8211;Site Editing and learn what will come to WordPress in the 5.8 release in July 2021. </p>



<p>Big Thank You to Anne for allowing us to publish the video here with the transcript. </p>



<p><em>For those interested how the template editor works,  <a href="https://youtu.be/c4IFn73Nzvk?t=2909">jump right in to Marcus Kasmierczak&#8217;s live demo</a> portion of the WordPress Mega Meetup recording</em></p>



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<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/">Roadmap showing phase 2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551">Full Site Editing Milestones</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/30662">Special shoutout to the Gradual Adoption Milestone</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/14/fse-program-testing-call-5-query-quest/">Query Quest &#8211; Call for testing the Query Block</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/15/full-site-editing-go-no-go-april-14-2021/">Go/No go</a> &nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29398">Preview</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/">FSE Outreach Program</a>:&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/16/high-level-feedback-from-the-fse-program-march">High-level feedback from the Full Site Editing Program thus far</a></li><li><a href="https://critterverse.blog/2021/03/23/full-site-editor-404-test/">404 design</a></li><li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/mkaz7000">Marcus Kazmierczak Streams on Twitch</a>  </li></ul>



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<div class="wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost"><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-sha">Shared Resources</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-strong-milestones-of-full-site-editing-experience-strong">Milestones of Full-Site Editing Experience</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#1-strong-infrastructure-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-strong">Infrastructure&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-strong-browsing-templates-and-template-parts-strong">Browsing Templates and Template Parts</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-strong-styling-global-styles-theme-json-strong">Styling &#8211; Global Styles + theme.json</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#4-strong-20-theme-blocks-strong">20+ Theme Blocks</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#5-strong-query-block-the-loop-or-post-list-strong">Query Block &#8211; The Loop or Post List</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#6-strong-navigation-block-strong">Navigation Block</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#7-strong-gradual-adoption-widgets-customizer-hybrid-themes-nbsp-strong">Gradual Adoption &#8211; Widgets, Customizer, Hybrid Themes&nbsp;</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#8-strong-whats-coming-to-word-press-5-8-strong">What&#8217;s coming to WordPress 5.8</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#9-strong-short-demo-template-editing-navigation-block-and-multi-entity-saving-strong">Short Demo: Template Editing, Navigation Block and Multi-Entity Saving</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#10-strong-timeline-of-5-8-release-strong">Timeline of 5.8 Release</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#11-strong-what-is-the-fse-outreach-experiment-program-strong">What is the FSE Outreach Experiment Program?</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#12-strong-whats-the-goal-strong">What&#8217;s the goal</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#13-strong-why-was-it-started-strong">Why was it started?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#14-strong-how-to-join-fse-outreach-experiment-strong">How to Join FSE Outreach Experiment</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#15-strong-high-level-feedback-from-calls-for-testing-strong">High-Level Feedback from Calls for Testing</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#16-strong-preview-content-strong">Preview Content</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#17-strong-saving-process-strong">Saving Process</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#18-distinction-between-editing-area">Distinction between editing area.</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#19-rethinking-width-and-alignment">Rethinking Width and Alignment.</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#20-strong-general-usability-improvements-strong">General usability improvements.</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#21-strong-improving-placeholders-strong">Improving Placeholders.</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#22-strong-will-full-site-editing-take-over-my-site-strong">Will full site editing take over my site?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#23-strong-what-about-the-block-based-navigation-and-widget-screens-strong">What about the block-based navigation and widget screens?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#24-strong-site-builders-strong">Site builders</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#25-strong-how-is-this-going-to-impact-themes-strong">How is this going to impact themes?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#26-strong-what-pathways-are-going-to-be-created-strong">What pathways are going to be created?</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#27-strong-whats-the-best-way-to-prepare-nbsp-strong">What&#8217;s the best way to prepare?&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#28-strong-stay-connected-with-anne-mc-carthy-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-strong">Stay connected with Anne McCarthy</a></li></ul></div>
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<p class="has-small-font-size"><em>Featured image: 404 template by Channing Ritter on critterverse.blog</em></p>



<p>Howdy. To start, thanks so much for having me. This is a presentation about full site editing. I&#8217;m very excited to talk with you. This is a feature I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about over the last year and I&#8217;m excited to share with you all. I&#8217;m also really keen to learn from each of you what you&#8217;re worried about, what you&#8217;re excited about, how you think full-site editing can improve your workflows, and more. So this is prerecorded because I wanted to make sure with so much information going around, wanted to make sure I had all the details lined up and so I could pause and rework certain sections. But please know that I welcome questions. So while you can&#8217;t interrupt me during the presentation, there will be a whole section at the end. Pull out your pen and paper, write them down, and know that they&#8217;re very, very welcomed. But for now, let&#8217;s dig in.</p>



<p>So briefly about me, I&#8217;m actually originally from Winter Park, Florida. So I haven&#8217;t been home in about a year and a half, and thank you for letting me virtually return home by participating in this meetup. In 2011, I first found WordPress as a student at UNC Chapel Hill. I worked on their multi-site, had a great time. 2013, I went to my first ever WordCamp. 2014, joined Automatic as a happiness engineer focused on VaultPress and had a great time focusing on security of websites. It gave me a really interesting look into concerns people have about websites that most people don&#8217;t think about. Then 2020, I switched into the developer relations position at Automatic and have been there ever since.</p>



<p>So let&#8217;s get meta and talk about the talk. (laughing). So to start, I&#8217;m going to zoom out really big and then slowly put pieces together until we kind of get a nice map of what full-site editing is with all the details. So this will look kind of like first answering some big, high-level questions, digging into then how the work is actually being done, so going from high level, &#8220;What is this? Why does it help me?&#8221; to &#8220;How is this work actually being approached? What are the pieces of the work that I need to know, the role of the outreach program?&#8221; Then I want to address some key topics and questions that I often get asked when I&#8217;ve presented at other places and talked on other podcasts about full-site editing or just one-on-one with people. I love to talk about full-site editing. So hopefully some of the key topics and questions can help get people thinking about other things they want to ask about.</p>



<p>So let&#8217;s dig into the first big picture question. Why is this being done at all? Simply put, it&#8217;s to empower users. Rather than having a specific part of the site locked away in a theme or requiring a plugin, full-site editing will basically open it up to customize any part of your site the way you want to, or, on the flip side, you can let it be, or if you&#8217;re an agency, you could lock certain sites down or certain parts of a site down, depending upon how you want users to have access. So it&#8217;s a pretty powerful, big mission to actually deliver on full site editing.</p>



<p>So I answered why is this being done. Now let&#8217;s dig into how does this fit into the WordPress roadmap? So full-site editing is a major part of phase two of the current roadmap. It&#8217;s not the only part, though. There&#8217;s actually other interrelated projects, including things like block patterns, the block directory, block-based themes. So it&#8217;s just one piece of this larger roadmap, but it&#8217;s one of the major grounding points of phase two of the roadmap.</p>



<p>So what is full-site editing at a high level? Essentially, it&#8217;s a collection of features, and it&#8217;s important that you get the collection part. But it&#8217;s a collection of features that bring the familiar experience of blocks to all parts of your site, rather than just posts and pages. But Anne, what does a collection of features mean? Basically, I&#8217;ve noticed people tend to refer to full-site editing as one big thing. It&#8217;s like an on-off switch. It&#8217;s this monolith, and it&#8217;s actually not. It&#8217;s not this binary thing. It&#8217;s way better to talk about how there&#8217;s different pieces that fit together and interrelate, because it actually gives flexibility for release squads to release what&#8217;s ready, rather than all of it at once. So while it might be easier to talk about how it&#8217;s this one big thing, I encourage you all to kind of think about the different pieces, if you can, and I&#8217;ll touch on this more in a bit.</p>



<p>Okay. So what does full-site editing actually allow me to do, right? So cool, Anne, a collection of features, but show me the money. (laughing). So this is an example of a 404 page. So a 404 page, typically you&#8217;re not actually able to edit, but with full-site editing, you could actually create this 404 page. This was actually done by one of the automatic designers, Channing. Shout-out to Channing. She did this as part of one of the tests for full-site editing, the outreach program. So it&#8217;s a pretty beautiful thing. While we all might not have the design chops that Channing does, it is pretty neat to see kind of a very tangible, hands-on example of what full-site editing unlocks you to be able to do.</p>



<p>To get more specific, basically, if you&#8217;re a user, imagine editing the template that a specific post has for a specific category. For theme authors, you&#8217;ll be able to tap into design tools that allow you to focus more on actually creating a really compelling experience and less on getting the code in place and hacking things up. You can also out in and out of whatever you&#8217;re ready for, which is really exciting. But ideally, for theme authors, it&#8217;s going to be a huge change. It&#8217;ll allow creating themes to be much, much easier. If you&#8217;re an agency, you&#8217;ll have greater control over what you can offer clients, including setting custom brand colors with presets to locking down various aspects for consistency, such as typography or wanting only certain default colors to be used.</p>



<h2 id="0-strong-milestones-of-full-site-editing-experience-strong">Milestones of Full-Site Editing Experience</h2>



<p>So how is this work being done? So rather than trying to go through everything in one go, this project has actually been broken down into seven different milestones. Some of these milestones are completely separate, their own thing. Some are very interrelated. Some mix and match in different ways. But we&#8217;re going to go through each of them so you can get a sense of how this is being done. I&#8217;m going to try to stay at a high level before going into a very brief demo midway through the presentation. But hopefully this&#8217;ll give you a sense of what this looks like.</p>



<h3 id="1-strong-infrastructure-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-strong">Infrastructure&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</h3>



<p>So milestone one, this was actually such a big milestone that it was broken into two parts. Essentially, this is all about laying the foundation, everything from multi-entity saving, which is actually being displayed here in the GIF that you see, where you can actually update multiple things at once, including a template part. You update your header, you update a post, and you update your footer. It&#8217;ll show all the changes happening and allow you to check and uncheck different boxes to save. Basically, just think about this as building the foundation of the experience, the technical foundation, unlocking things like being able to edit a template directly to working on specific blocks for full-site editing, like the site title. So we have a site title block, and it updates everywhere you have it listed.</p>



<h3 id="2-strong-browsing-templates-and-template-parts-strong">Browsing Templates and Template Parts</h3>



<p>Milestone two, browsing. Again, there&#8217;s another little visual so you can see what this actually looks like. This is basically giving you a map and a GPS to know your location, how to get where you need to go for your site. So because there are these new parts of editing your site that are unlocked with full-site editing, like template editing and template parts, like a header or footer, there needs to be a way to navigate between them. So this milestone is dedicated to that. How can we make it as easy as possible for you to you get where you need to go?</p>



<h3 id="3-strong-styling-global-styles-theme-json-strong">Styling &#8211; Global Styles + theme.json</h3>



<p>Milestone three, styling. So this actually covers a couple different layers. I&#8217;m going to break it down in this slide and then the next one to help give you a sense visually of what this looks like. But this includes everything from the technical requirements to make various levels work and the UI for users. So you can actually see a depiction of the future design for the UI that users will interact with in the imagery here. So there&#8217;s generally three layers, including selling for local blocks, theme defaults, and then global modifications or what we often call global styles. You can think of global styles as basically having the option to edit all aspects of your site. So if you want to set a typography that goes across your entire site, if you want to have certain colors for all H1 headers, you can set that up with global styles.</p>



<p>Currently, much of the work has been focused on the technical underpinnings, especially around aspects like theme.json, which is a very key component for block themes and a really big tool for block theme authors. But for 5.8, the focus is generally going to be on merging the non-user interface parts of global styles. So don&#8217;t expect to interact with this system unless you&#8217;re a theme author. If you are a theme authro, get really excited. Here&#8217;s a little visual, just you can get a sense of it. So these are the different layers that have to interact in the styling system and hierarchy that needs to be thought of when working on this milestone.</p>



<h3 id="4-strong-20-theme-blocks-strong">20+ Theme Blocks</h3>



<p>Milestone four, theme blocks. So because full-site editing opens up so many more aspects of the site to edit, new blocks had to be created, basically. So if you&#8217;re creating a new template for a specific category and you&#8217;re putting in post content and you want to add the post author block, which you can see here, you can quickly add it in, customize it to your liking, add in post comment, add in post data, remove the post date. You can edit each parts of these things, which pretty excited about this, is there&#8217;s actually 20-plus blocks that fall into this category. If all goes as planned, some of those will be released for 5.8 and available potentially for all sites. So even if you&#8217;re not using a block theme, you could have access to these theme blocks, which is pretty powerful and pretty cool.</p>



<h3 id="5-strong-query-block-the-loop-or-post-list-strong">Query Block &#8211; The Loop or Post List</h3>



<p>Query block. So the query block has its own milestone, because it&#8217;s a pretty powerful block. It&#8217;s also meant to be a theme author tool, so in the long run, if you&#8217;re a user, imagine that you interact with what we call block variations, which basically are just different variations of a block, as the name implies. But imagine you want to add in your latest post. You&#8217;ll add the latest post block, but underneath it, what will be powering that experience of adding your latest post will be the query block. Essentially, as the name implies, it allows you to query posts and pages and display them in different arrangements on the page. I&#8217;m very excited, actually. In Gutenberg 10.5, which will be released in just about two weeks, there&#8217;s going to be some new patterns. You can see right here, large, medium, small are the current selection of patterns that you have for the query block. But pretty soon, there&#8217;s going to be a grid pattern and a couple other cool ones, which is pretty exciting. Generally speaking, though, if you&#8217;re an end user, don&#8217;t expect to interact with this. If you&#8217;re a theme author, get excited.</p>



<h3 id="6-strong-navigation-block-strong">Navigation Block</h3>



<p>Navigation block. Again, this is just a single block, but don&#8217;t be fooled. It&#8217;s definitely a mighty one. So this last one is dedicated to all things navigation block, both in terms of structure and design. You can see in this little GIF I have going on, I&#8217;m just kind of making little design changes and moving things around so you can get a sense of what it&#8217;s like to interact with this block. This milestone actually includes everything from how do you build a really simple menu with a few items to thinking about how to create a really large mega menu and add in new blocks, like the search block that you can see here. We&#8217;re even adding sub-menus, different designs, different layouts, and more.</p>



<h3 id="7-strong-gradual-adoption-widgets-customizer-hybrid-themes-nbsp-strong">Gradual Adoption &#8211; Widgets, Customizer, Hybrid Themes&nbsp;</h3>



<p>So the last piece of the milestones is the gradual adoption. I hope this GIF makes you laugh, but also seriously, this is the intent, is we slowly want people to be able to adapt in the way that they can. Once more of these pieces are completed, there&#8217;s basically a ton of room to start exploring how adoption might look like for those who can&#8217;t or don&#8217;t want to restructure a full theme. So this might be an intermix of block-based things and regular PHP templates, or it might be covered by projects like the block-based widget editor and the navigation screen. Both of those projects I&#8217;ll cover later, but for now, just keep in mind that this is intentionally a milestone. We want to allow for gradual adoption and want people to have lots of pathways in to taking advantage of full site editing.</p>



<h2 id="8-strong-whats-coming-to-word-press-5-8-strong">What&#8217;s coming to WordPress 5.8</h2>



<p>So what&#8217;s coming to WordPress 5.8? So just last week, a post went out from Josepha, who is the executive director of the WordPress project. I want to read a quote from it just to kind of set the tone and give you a sense. So full-site editing is a collection of projects, and together, they represent a big change, arguably too much for a single release. The most important context to share is that it isn&#8217;t shipping as the full default experience for users. One of the clearest pieces of feedback from the phase one merge process was that there wasn&#8217;t enough time for extenders, agencies, theme authors, plugin developers, site builders, et cetera to prepare for the upcoming changes. With that in mind, this merge process won&#8217;t be an on-off switch, and you can see I&#8217;ve bolded various specific parts that I hope you take home with you.</p>



<p>All right. So let&#8217;s talk WordPress 5.8 plans. This is up-to-date information as of today. A post was released from Josepha on [inaudible 00:12:21], if you&#8217;d like to check it out. From the call that the project leadership had, this is what they came up with for the 5.8 plans. This includes improvements from Gutenberg 9.9 and beyond. So we always package different versions of Gutenberg into major releases. This release is no different. There&#8217;ll be an introduction of new blocks, including query, site logo, navigation, et cetera. These are each very powerful blocks, very exciting to see. theme.json mechanism, this is part of what allows block themes to use different global styling, which will be very cool for block authors to get their hands on.</p>



<p>The template editor for pages and a blank template, I&#8217;ll actually be showing a demo of this in a moment. So hang tight there, but it&#8217;ll all make sense in a bit. The widget screen and block widgets in the customizer, this is basically work being done to bring blocks to the widgets experience. I will talk more about that later, about how it&#8217;s a stepping stone towards full-site editing. Then finally, design tools, so even more design tools that people can hook into, including duotone, which adds a really cool color filter, layout controls, padding, and more.</p>



<h3 id="9-strong-short-demo-template-editing-navigation-block-and-multi-entity-saving-strong">Short Demo: Template Editing, Navigation Block and Multi-Entity Saving</h3>



<p>So at this point, let&#8217;s pause for a minute and actually show off one of the features that is aimed to be included in 5.8.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I&#8217;m going to show you template editing, the navigation block, and just some of the cool flows with multi-entity saving is one of the things that we talked about that will make it into this release. So I&#8217;m in the post editor. I have a new post. I love to blog and write and present. I hit Update. Super happy, whatever. Open up the post settings, and there&#8217;s this new section that allows you to both create a brand new template. This will ideally be used both in themes that are block-based themes, so they&#8217;re ready for full-site editing, and potentially for classic themes. There&#8217;s actually work underway so that this will be available in anything being used in WordPress right now.</p>



<p>So right now, if I hit Edit, this will take me into the template that this post is using. So let&#8217;s do that now. So as you can see, this drops me into what looks like the entire site. So you can see I have my header up here, I have the footer down here, and I can make changes directly to them. So, for example, if I jump in here, this is the navigation block, and I haven&#8217;t yet set it up. So I can say add all pages, and I can start empty. In this case, I&#8217;ll say, &#8220;You know what? Let&#8217;s start empty.&#8221; Let&#8217;s say I want to add a custom link. One of the cool things you can actually do, you can quickly select from here, or let&#8217;s say I want to add a new post. Let me first select post link.</p>



<p>So adventures around the world. Let&#8217;s pretend I&#8217;m just inspired where I&#8217;m writing this. I can actually create a draft post, which is pretty cool, and it&#8217;ll show up here. It will not show up on the front end, since it&#8217;s a draft, but it actually creates a page draft for this with this title automatically. So let&#8217;s say I&#8217;m scrolling through here. I&#8217;m going, &#8220;Oh, this looks pretty good. Actually, I kind of want to see what it looks like if I add an image to the post here.&#8221; Pull up an image block. Oh, my media library. Hammocks. Can&#8217;t get enough hammocks. Going to throw that in there. Great. So at this point, I&#8217;ve made changes to the actual header. I&#8217;ve made changes to the post. I&#8217;m just going to apply and see what happens.</p>



<p>So this is the multi-entity saving that I mentioned earlier. Now, as you can see, it has a section for posts, so it&#8217;s saying, &#8220;Hey, you edited this post,&#8221; and it has a section saying, &#8220;Hey, you edited the header.&#8221; So at this point, I&#8217;m going to hit Save, because I want both those changes to propagate. Now I&#8217;m back into my post, into the writing flow, and I can easily switch back and forth. I can also select a new one. But yeah, hopefully this gives you a good sense of one of the key parts that&#8217;s being worked on for inclusion in 5.8. There will be a demo later, but this is just a taste.</p>



<h2 id="10-strong-timeline-of-5-8-release-strong">Timeline of 5.8 Release</h2>



<p>To help set the stage for what you can prepare for, here are some upcoming dates to keep in mind. If you&#8217;re like me, time is moving really strangely, so I like to have dates to kind of anchor me. Feel free to take a screenshot of this or write it down if you&#8217;d like. So April 13th and April 27th, these are the go and no-go decision dates. So right now, project leadership actually has gathered. So you might notice if you are good with dates and good with time right now, April 13th has come and gone. So this date has passed, and project leadership has met actually to go through different FSE-related features and projects to figure out what might be ready for 5.8. I would expect to see more high-level posts throughout the month, especially after the second date, the April 27th date. That&#8217;s when final decisions will be made around 5.8.</p>



<p>Then if all goes well, the beta period for WordPress 5.8 will start on June 8th. So people can actually start getting their hands on the tools that are going to be in place in the actual release and testing it and finding bugs and improving things from there. July 20th is the actual date of WordPress 5.8 and when it&#8217;s released. This is being considered as an open beta, where theme authors, plugin authors, agencies, and more can dig into the tools that are being offered and that I went over previously. Then in December 2021, that&#8217;s around the time when WordPress 5.9 will be released, and this is when I expect to move from tools for extenders into tools actually for users and more user-facing interactions with full-site editing and having things unlocked in the interface that previously in 5.8, most users won&#8217;t notice and won&#8217;t interact with. In 5.9, I expect that to be more visible.</p>



<p>So some key takeaways. I know this is a lot of information. So only what&#8217;s ready from the various milestones will be shipped. This is not an on-off switch, and it won&#8217;t take over your site. The focus right now is on giving tools to extenders first, before user-facing changes. That&#8217;s a big lesson that was learned from the 5.0 merge, where Gutenberg and the core editor was brought into the WordPress experience. This is something that, thankfully, we&#8217;re in a position where because of these interrelated projects, we&#8217;re able to move in a more flexible and adaptable way to release what&#8217;s ready and not anything else.</p>



<h2 id="11-strong-what-is-the-fse-outreach-experiment-program-strong">What is the FSE Outreach Experiment Program?</h2>



<p>All right. At this point, let&#8217;s jump into the full-site editing outreach program. As a reminder, this is the program that I actually run, so consider this free rein to ask me whatever question you&#8217;d like, because I think probably too much about this program. But it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m really excited to talk to you about, and I think it&#8217;s a really neat vehicle for both feedback and education about full site editing.</p>



<p>So let&#8217;s go over some big picture questions, kind of like we did earlier on, and just get the details of the way. So let&#8217;s start. What is it? So essentially, it&#8217;s just a program focused on full-site editing. It&#8217;s in the form of a Slack channel right now. I&#8217;ll go over how to join it in a bit. But it has curated calls for testing, summary posts of the feedback that we get, and various educational opportunities that you can hop in on, mainly in the form of live streams. I&#8217;m running some hallway hangouts, which are basically just Zoom calls. People can come in, and we can talk about full site editing.</p>



<h3 id="12-strong-whats-the-goal-strong">What&#8217;s the goal</h3>



<p>What&#8217;s the goal? So the goal is pretty simple, help improve full-site editing experience by gathering feedback from WordPress site builders. While the group originally started solely to be about feedback, there&#8217;s actually this really neat educational component that has come up as the feature has developed and as more people have gotten curious about it. So people can join just to build their own awareness about what&#8217;s happening with full-site editing and kind of just look at a glance or just help amplify the posts that are coming through.</p>



<h3 id="13-strong-why-was-it-started-strong">Why was it started?</h3>



<p>Why was it started? So I&#8217;m going to quote Josepha from the kickoff post. During the WordPress 5.0 retrospective, which is when Gutenberg was merged and the core editor was merged, one of the things that came up routinely was the need for better engagement with users. It was generally agreed from all levels and area of contribution that users would be most impacted by Gutenberg, but the users were also the group we had the least channels of communication to. To help get user feedback to WordPress developers a little bit more seamlessly, I&#8217;m going to try and experiment outreach program. So basically, this is a lesson that was learned from the 5.0 release. In order to prevent another situation where people are caught by surprise, this program is in place to help people get excited and on ramped and on boarded onto full-site editing, as well as getting feedback so that we know if a major workflow change is coming into play, we can actually get user feedback to make it a little bit easier.</p>



<h3 id="14-strong-how-to-join-fse-outreach-experiment-strong">How to Join FSE Outreach Experiment</h3>



<p>All right. At this point, I bet you&#8217;re just so stoked. You&#8217;re ready to dive in. Awesome. (laughing). All you&#8217;ve got to do is join FSE Outreach Experiment in Make WordPress Slack, and then you&#8217;re all set. You&#8217;ll just get a bunch of annoying pings for me with prompts for how to test, interesting posts related to full site editing, and more. I promise it&#8217;s also not as scary as this dive, which looks absolutely terrifying, but also beautiful.</p>



<h2 id="15-strong-high-level-feedback-from-calls-for-testing-strong">High-Level Feedback from Calls for Testing</h2>



<p>So because at this point, we&#8217;re on our fifth call for testing, I want to go over some high-level pieces of feedback that we&#8217;ve actually gotten about the experience so far. Basically, across all the calls for testing, these are repeated themes that have come up. But keep in mind that because there are certain aspects that we actually haven&#8217;t tested, so global styles, for example, the UI isn&#8217;t available really for users, and it&#8217;s not refined for users, so it&#8217;s not something that we&#8217;ve had as a focus part of testing, even though there is a UI that is available. So certain things are left out purely because they aren&#8217;t necessarily ready for testing, but these are the top pieces of feedback. So bear with me.</p>



<h3 id="16-strong-preview-content-strong">Preview Content</h3>



<p>Previewing content. Publish a post. You want to go preview it, or you&#8217;re editing a post. You want to go preview the content. The same thing is true with full site editing. This is a big thing that kept coming up. My question is, is this a necessary workflow, or is it a symptom of other problems? Because in general, the site editor should be as WYSIWYG, as what you see is what you get, as possible.</p>



<p>So if you&#8217;re making a change, it should look exactly the same as the front end of your site, and because it doesn&#8217;t right now, it&#8217;s causing this tension. There actually is a preview site option under discussion, as well as a browse mode option, which basically, if you&#8217;re actually editing your site, it would turn off everything that wouldn&#8217;t actually show up on the front end. So if you only have one page of posts, but you have pagination set up so if you had multiple pages, that would actually go away. So as you can imagine, this is currently up for discussion, but there actually are a couple different pathways to try and address this problem. But it&#8217;s a very important one to address.</p>



<h3 id="17-strong-saving-process-strong">Saving Process</h3>



<p>Saving process. I like to say it&#8217;s technically reliable, but not yet delightful. So basically, it&#8217;s left a lot to be desired right now, and it&#8217;s resulted in a fair bit of confusion. There&#8217;s a lot of feature requests and enhancements and bugs that have come up related to saving. This is likely because the multi-entity saving aspect that I demoed earlier is very new for WordPress users. It&#8217;s not something we&#8217;re used to having as part of our workflow. So it&#8217;s something that inherently needs some work on. So whether it was people requesting more granular saving options to show specifically what was being changed to issues with saving for screen readers to confusion around even just what the general parts mean, like what you&#8217;re actually selecting or unselecting, This was definitely a big, big area of feedback.</p>



<h3 id="18-distinction-between-editing-area">Distinction between editing area.</h3>



<p>Distinction between editing area. So basically, because you can edit all parts of your site, it&#8217;s hard to know, &#8220;Am I editing the header for all of my site, or am I editing just a specific piece of content on a post?&#8221; This kind of distinction, jumping between different levels of, &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re changing this. This will change everything&#8221; to &#8220;You&#8217;re just changing this one thing in this one spot&#8221; is pretty tricky. Right now, there&#8217;s not a lot of friction, and there&#8217;s not a lot clarity in the actual experience to show when you&#8217;re actually jumping between those different levels. So this was a big piece that&#8217;s come up, and it&#8217;s something that is an active area of iteration and exploration to kind of get the right amount of friction in place.</p>



<h3 id="19-rethinking-width-and-alignment">Rethinking Width and Alignment.</h3>



<p>So rethinking width and alignment. Previously, alignment in full-site editing worked to optimize how traditional things worked, where basically, traditional things provided their own alignment styles. This worked okay for the project up until this point. But recently, work has been shipped to reimagine how this dynamic should work to allow for actually more control over alignments when using the site editor. This should actually help make sure that whether you want something that&#8217;s full width or you want to change the actual width of your content that&#8217;s showing up that it&#8217;ll actually be what you see is what you get. Right now, this is another piece of feedback at a high level that&#8217;s impacted what you see is what you get experience.</p>



<h3 id="20-strong-general-usability-improvements-strong">General usability improvements.</h3>



<p>Generally usability improvements. I admit this is totally a catchall, and it covers a ton of stuff, but it&#8217;s actually a very important one to think of, because it&#8217;ll actually move the site editing experience from being just functional to actually delightful, which is really exciting. There&#8217;s a ton of issues that are included in this, including some enhancement requests, bug reports, all that good stuff. One of my favorites to talk about is creating a background image on a template part. So imagine you have a header. You&#8217;re working on it. You&#8217;re super excited, and you&#8217;re almost done. Then you&#8217;re like, &#8220;Oh, do you what would be really cool is if I had mountains in the background. Maybe I&#8217;ll add a cover block in the background and add an image and set the opacity pretty low, but have mountains going in the background of the site.&#8221; That&#8217;s really hard to do.(laughing). You basically would have to delete everything and add the block in and then add everything back. So those are the kinds of experiences that we&#8217;re trying to improve right now.</p>



<h3 id="21-strong-improving-placeholders-strong">Improving Placeholders.</h3>



<p>Improving placeholders. So placeholders, especially for some of the newer blocks, are a powerful way to both guide people and a current point of confusion. So you probably saw this with the navigation block earlier, where it had those little grayed boxes. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;How do we explain to people, &#8216;Hey, this is something you have to set up and engage with, but here&#8217;s generally what it will look like and what it will do&#8217;?&#8221;&nbsp;</p>



<p>The feedback for this mainly came into play with the query block, social icon block, featured image block, and the navigation block. Each currently actually also get users started in different ways. So not only are there different placeholders for different experiences, the actual experience of interacting with the placeholders are all pretty inconsistent right now. So I think in the long run, it seems that users will benefit a bunch from a standardized, consistent way to interact with placeholder content so that it becomes a really familiar interaction when you&#8217;re working with a more powerful block. This especially is true for the query block and navigation block.</p>



<p>Okay, now that we&#8217;ve covered the milestones, the outreach program, high-level pieces of feedback, I&#8217;m going to quickly run through some key topics that I imagine you&#8217;re going to have questions about. Just because I cover them here does not mean I don&#8217;t want to answer questions, so please don&#8217;t see this as a sign that you can&#8217;t also still ask questions about these topics. This is just what I&#8217;ve been hearing from folks.</p>



<h2 id="22-strong-will-full-site-editing-take-over-my-site-strong">Will full site editing take over my site?</h2>



<p>Hopefully by this point, you all can say no in a resounding way. But no, this is not something that&#8217;s going to all of a sudden, on-off switch, you upgrade to 5.8, it takes everything over. Not at all. You very much have to opt into it through using a theme blocking that supports, actually, these features. In time, more pathways are going to be built as well so that when you&#8217;re actually using full-site editing, you&#8217;ll likely be using pieces in all of it. So you could just be using the query block, or you could just be using global styles without it taking over your entire site.</p>



<h2 id="23-strong-what-about-the-block-based-navigation-and-widget-screens-strong">What about the block-based navigation and widget screens?</h2>



<p>What&#8217;s the deal there? So in case you missed it, there&#8217;s actually two additional projects that are dedicated to bringing blocks to more areas of the site outside of full site, I think. This include the navigation screens. You can build out menus and the widget screens. You can build out your widget sections, and this is pretty powerful and high-impact work. They are both separate projects that are tangential to full-site editing, but you can think of them as stepping stones, basically. So you could have a theme that is a classic theme, but it uses a block-based widget screen so that people can have the power blocks with their widgets. Essentially, the whole point, like I said, it&#8217;s a stepping stone to get people used to using blocks more places.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<h2 id="24-strong-site-builders-strong">Site builders</h2>



<p>I could write a thesis about this, because there&#8217;s so much to talk about here. I imagine I&#8217;m going to get questions about this, but essentially, full-site editing is being built partially so people don&#8217;t get stuck or locked into one site builder or another. It&#8217;s also being built in a way that site builders can actually hook into what&#8217;s being created if they choose to. I&#8217;ve heard from a lot of folks, though, that they expect full-site editing to actually fully replicate their favorite site builder&#8217;s functionality, and I&#8217;m here to say that while the goals between full-site editing and site builders are pretty similar in terms of empowering users and giving better tools to customize a site, the difference is that we&#8217;re building for 40{bbackup_94402fb9ba80f392e0976ece85f92b2b876bfcaed8d83250cc06083f7139c7d9} of the Internet, and we&#8217;re building even for site builders, where site builders have a much more targeted approach.</p>



<p>In the future, I do think there will always be room for specific takes of how to have an ideal site editing experience, whether that&#8217;s geared to a specific group, like a marketing style approach, or if you want to have things locked down or if you want to have things opened up. But generally speaking, full-site editing is meant to actually expand the way WordPress as a whole uses blocks, so don&#8217;t expect it to fully replicate any sort of site builder, your favorite site builder, essentially.</p>



<h2 id="25-strong-how-is-this-going-to-impact-themes-strong">How is this going to impact themes?</h2>



<p>How is this going to impact themes? So in the long run, this should actually make theme development much easier. I think Marcus&#8217;s demonstration later will show that, and much simpler, especially with the design tools that will be essentially ready at your fingertips to tap into. Ideally, because of what&#8217;s being released, it should allow theme authors to focus less on coding and functions and more on design aesthetics, integrating block patterns, and all that good stuff. But because one of the key things I wanted to really drive home in this section, though, is that because full-site editing requires a block-based theme or a theme with certain functionality enabled, this makes theming extremely important to get right. So I&#8217;ve heard people say like, &#8220;Oh, themes are a thing of the past.&#8221; It&#8217;s very much not true. I&#8217;d actually argue the opposite, that theme is almost key to this experience, to having it be delightful and having it makes sense.</p>



<h2 id="26-strong-what-pathways-are-going-to-be-created-strong">What pathways are going to be created?</h2>



<p>I know I&#8217;ve talked a lot about pathways this entire time, but it is the entire focus of the final month milestone for full-site editing. So expect a lot of pathways. For now, this includes everything from having a classic theme that can take advantage of global styles to template editing or a block-based widget screen. This also includes things like allowing certain full-site editing, really, blocks to be available for users, regardless of if they&#8217;re using a classic theme or a block theme or enabling the ability to edit block templates directly, kind of like I showed in the demo earlier. So there&#8217;s going to be a ton of options here, and I&#8217;m actually really excited to see what happens once 5.8 kind of sparks the creativity of the community, because I imagine both that people will create their own pathways and start experimenting, and we&#8217;ll also get a very clear sense of, &#8220;Hey, I actually really need X, Y, and Z pathway.&#8221; We&#8217;ll get a sense of demand from the community of core, which is super exciting to have.</p>



<h2 id="27-strong-whats-the-best-way-to-prepare-nbsp-strong">What&#8217;s the best way to prepare?&nbsp;</h2>



<p>So this depends on who you are. (laughing). So depending on whoever you are, at a high level, this is what I recommend. Join the FSE Outreach Program. I know this is the thing that I run. I&#8217;m very biased. But seriously, join it. I think it&#8217;s really, really helpful to get a sense both of feedback, what&#8217;s being currently iterated on, and just general education opportunities. If you&#8217;re a theme author, I really recommend checking out the theme experiments repo and joining the block-based theme meetings to learn about the latest and greatest, because lots of good information is shared there. In general, too, it&#8217;s often also helpful to join the weekly core editor meetings, because there&#8217;s regular updates about the projects and PRs people working on. Finally, pay attention to upcoming content on Learn WordPress, because I think there&#8217;s going to be a ton of stuff coming up about full-site editing, depending upon what&#8217;s scoped for 5.8 and 5.9, including building a block-based theme, for example. That will really help, I think, everyone level up.</p>



<h2 id="28-strong-stay-connected-with-anne-mc-carthy-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-strong">Stay connected with Anne McCarthy</h2>



<p>All right. So we&#8217;re at the very end. At this point, if you want to stay connected with me or you have follow-up questions after this talk, I very much welcome them. You can find me on WordPress or on Slack @annezazu, or you can reach me at my site, nomad.blog. I will also try and drop my automatic email address separately. I just won&#8217;t on a live presentation, in case you want to follow up directly via email. I&#8217;m not on Twitter. I&#8217;m not on Facebook. I&#8217;m on and off of Instagram. So please don&#8217;t try to contact me those ways.</p>



<p>Finally, I just want to say thanks so much for your time. Let&#8217;s hear your questions at this point. I&#8217;m really excited to hear what you all are thinking and curious about. I do want to say I don&#8217;t know everything, but I can find anything, and I&#8217;ve talked with David about how he can follow up after this presentation to get you all information and answers that you all want to questions that I might not be able to answer. So at this point, I&#8217;m going to pass it off to live and current Anne and give a high-five from past Anne.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:15:09 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:18:"Birgit Pauli-Haack";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:47;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>In the last two weeks there was so much was happening around Gutenberg.  To keep you somewhat in the loop, I interrupt my unpacking of way-too-many boxes and share a few links with you.</p>



<p>Next week again in full force. Stay tuned. </p>



<p>Have a great weekend! </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br />Birgit</p>





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<p><strong>Grzegorz </strong>(Greg)<strong> Ziółkowsk</strong>i and I published our first episode together, <strong><a href="http://erg-10-3-full-site-editing-mvp/">Episode #41</a></strong>. It is a great episode, and we had a lot of fun. I am delighted having Grzegorz on the show. It&#8217;s now available with show notes and transcript. </p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy </strong>posted <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/08/full-site-editing-scope-for-wp5-8/">Full Site Editing Scope for WP5.8</a>&nbsp;(u)</p>



<ul><li>Lesson from Phase 1 roll-out, extenders like plugins developers, site builders and theme authors didn’t have enough time to test their products with the new editor in core.&nbsp;</li><li>Full-Site Editing user experience with Global Styles, Template editing and saving, will not be changing default user experience. It’s opt-in only. There is some confusion on saving template and switch from overall template to content and back. Polishing those will be out of scope for 5.8.&nbsp;</li><li>Also, on the scope list for WordPress 5.8 are: Widget Editor, Navigation Screen and block, refactored Gallery Block and the List View. These&nbsp; components are some of the most complex, and the user experience of them will be key. “They are all high priority to complete (hopefully for WP5.8), but will be punted if they aren’t ready in time for Beta.”&nbsp;</li></ul>



<p><em>Matias Ventura</em> will demo the current state of these features to the release lead team trio of&nbsp; Matt Mullenweg, Josepha Haden Chomphosy and Helen Hou-Sandi. </p>



<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> has the skinny: <a href="https://wptavern.com/will-full-site-editing-land-in-wordpress-5-8-a-decision-is-forthcoming">Will Full Site Editing Land in WordPress 5.8? A Decision Is Forthcoming</a></p>



<p><strong>Hector Prieto</strong> published the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/08/whats-next-in-gutenberg-april-2021/">April Focus areas for the Gutenberg team.&nbsp;</a></p>



<p>As expected, it covers Widget, Navigation Screen, and Full-Site Editing with more details. Please see the <strong>“Area to be aware of”</strong> section of the post, for Block and plugin Developers, Designers and Theme builders. We talked about most of them in one or the other episode, but you find them all in one place in Hector’s post.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> published the notes from the <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/04/08/block-themes-meeting-notes-april-7-2021/">Block Theme Meeting </a></strong> They team discussed among other things: </p>



<ul><li>TT1 Blocks update&nbsp;</li><li>Block-based theme updates in&nbsp;Gutenberg&nbsp;10.3 with alignment styles automatically for front and back end and the capability to use theme.json styles for every block. </li><li>New tools for transitioning to Block-based Themes.</li></ul>



<p>The deadline for the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/25/fse-program-testing-call-4-building-a-restaurant-themed-header/"><strong>Full Site Editing Testing Call #4</strong></a> has been extended until <strong>April 12th, 2021. </strong></p>




<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s master branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<p>⏰ <strong>Don&#8217;t Miss this! </strong> <br /><strong>Mega-Meetup April 15th, 2021 </strong> 6:30 -8:30 pm EDT / 23:30 UTC with Anne McCarthy, David Bisset and the organizers of six Florida Meetup groups.  All <strong>About Full Site Editing </strong>(Coming in WordPress). <a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/277019024/">Register via Meetup.com</a> <a href="https://t.co/36RYiMfivU?amp=1" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a></p>



<p>For a more in-depth look on current Gutenberg development,  <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/">the Index page with all the teams&#8217; updates</a> in the Core handbook has the latest. </p>




<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">The index 2020 is here</a></p>





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<p>Despite the new spread of the coronavirus in Europe and the problems around vaccinations, I am  quite hopeful to be able to travel again in the second half of the year and visit the homeland after two years. Patience is a virtue. </p>



<p>Today, we have a full roster of content for developers, content creators, theme authors, implementers and contributors.  Again I am awed by the astonishing creativity in the WordPress space! </p>



<p>Remember, you don&#8217;t need to read it all in one sitting. It&#8217;ll keep the whole week!  </p>



<p><strong>Yours 💕<br />Birgit </strong></p>





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<p>WPTavern has a podcast again! The WordPress Juke Box. For the inaugural episode host Nathan Wrigley interviewed. Among other things, <strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy</strong> talked about her benchmark for the Go/NoGo decision to merge Full-Site Editing into core for the 5.8 release in July. Find additional thoughts in my post: <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/full-site-editing-mvp-can-i-build-a-landing-page/"><strong>Full-site Editing MVP: Can I Build a Landing Page?</strong></a></p>



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<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> posted the fourth call for testing: <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/25/fse-program-testing-call-4-building-a-restaurant-themed-header/">Building a restaurant themed header</a></strong>, with instructions to use columns, navigation block and other features for the header template part. </p>



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<p>There is a lot of movement on the Gutenberg Repo and the Themes Team keeps a list of relevant issues and discussions for theme developers. <a href="https://twitter.com/one_maggie"><strong>Maggie Cabrera</strong></a> published the round-up post <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/03/26/gutenberg-themes-week-of-march-25-2021/">Gutenberg + Themes: Week of March 25, 2021</a></strong>. It&#8217;s an excellent reading list if you need to dive deeper in the upcoming changes for your theme or your customer. One of the issues caught my eye: the discussion and work around block alignment settings for themes. The current way predates the revamp of the Inner Blocks. There is some work to be done, streamlining the styling for themes. <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29506">Join the discussion on GitHub</a>. </p>




<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">The index 2020 is here</a></p>




<h3 id="1-refactor-of-the-gallery-block-using-image-blocks">Refactor of the Gallery Block, using image blocks. </h3>



<p>If you love to take a sneak peek at the new version of the Gallery block, heed the call for testing by <a href="https://twitter.com/glendaviesnz"><strong>Glen</strong></a><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/glendaviesnz"> </a></strong><a href="https://twitter.com/glendaviesnz"><strong>Davies</strong>:</a> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/23/gallery-block-update-call-for-testing/"><strong>Gallery Block Update – Call for Testing</strong></a>. The refactored version is now using single image blocks inside the Gallery block. You can us all the great features: individual links per image, block styles, choices for size and editing capabilities. If you also use a plugin with your site, like CoBlocks, you can still apply the great filters and animations to your gallery block. In his post, Davies walks you through the few features and asked to test all the many facets of the new Gallery block. </p>



<p>On the WPTavern, <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> explains how this new change can make a lot of difference on how gallery layouts will be built. Among other ideas, he pictures that among images, a Pull Quote block could be added. <a href="https://wptavern.com/refactoring-gutenbergs-gallery-block-to-support-nested-images">Refactoring Gutenberg’s Gallery Block To Support Nested Images</a>.</p>



<p>I posted <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/23/gallery-block-update-call-for-testing/#comment-40962">my first impression as a comment</a> and created <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/30250">a bug report on GitHub</a> when my images lost all their styling when I added the gallery block to a group. I suggested making it possible to apply block styles to more than one image at a time, and that the gallery block / image block copies the respective Alt texts from the media library. Both suggestions made it into the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/projects/56#card-57737540">project board.</a></p>



<h2 id="2-block-editor-for-content-creators">Block editor for content creators</h2>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/liamdempsey"><strong>Liam Dempsey</strong></a> asked his Twitter followers for recommendation of Block plugins. He collected all the suggestions in this blog post: <strong><a href="https://liamdempsey.com/community-recommendations-for-gutenberg-blocks-in-wordpress/">Community Recommendations for Gutenberg Blocks in WordPress</a>.</strong> </p>



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<p><strong>Amie Suzan</strong> at at <a href="https://twitter.com/virfice"><strong>Virfice</strong></a> reviewed the <strong>Blocksy Theme and gives 18 <a href="https://www.virfice.com/blocksy-wordpress-theme-review/">Unavoidable Reasons to Build Sites With It</a></strong>. The theme received some attention after Chris Lema revamped his site using the block editor it <a href="https://chrislema.com/this-site-now-runs-on-the-blocksy-theme/">now runs on the Blocksy theme</a>. Justin Tadlock at the WPTavern also found the <a href="https://wptavern.com/blocksy-wordpress-theme-provides-a-solid-block-editor-experience">Blocksy theme to provide a solid block editor experience</a></p>



<p>🌐  <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/blocksy/">WPRepo</a> | <a href="https://creativethemes.com/blocksy/">Website</a></p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/andersnoren">Anders&nbsp;Norén</a></strong> published a new free theme in the WordPress Repository, named <strong>Eskell</strong>, inspired by the Swedish graphic designer&nbsp;Olle Eksell. In his <strong>introduction to the theme</strong>, Andres wrote: &#8220;(&#8230;) <em>the star of the show in Eksell is the archive page, which features a masonry grid of posts and a category filter that updates the grid with posts from the selected category without a hard reload.&#8221;</em> In includes full color settings and dark mode for devices that support it. He continues: <em>&#8220;The Blank Canvas Template hides everything on the page except the blocks you add to the Block Editor content. That gives users the freedom to create entirely custom pages, with whatever blocks they want. It feels like a little preview of what we’ll be able to do once Full Site Editing is merged into WordPress Core.&#8221;</em></p>



<p> <strong>Justin Tadlock </strong>published a review <a href="https://wptavern.com/compatibility-is-not-enough-the-eksell-wordpress-theme-creates-art-with-blocks">Eksell theme creates art with blocks</a> and <a href="https://wptavern.com/eksell-portfolio-theme-now-available-in-wordpress-themes-directory">a follow-up article</a> on the WPTavern. </p>



<p>🌐 <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/eksell/">WPRepo</a> | <a href="https://www.andersnoren.se/teman/eksell-wordpress-theme/">Website</a> | <a href="https://andersnoren.se/themes/eksell/">Demo</a></p>



<h2 id="3-should-you-switch-to-the-block-editor">Should you switch to the block editor? </h2>



<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/bfintal">Benjamin Intal</a></strong> from Stackable posted <strong><a href="https://wpstackable.com/blog/why-you-should-switch-to-the-gutenberg-wordpress-editor/">Why You Should Switch to the Gutenberg WordPress Editor</a></strong>. He wrote: <em>&#8220;In this article, we enumerate some reasons why the Gutenberg WordPress editor might be your new primary choice for page building. Read on, and we might just convince you to give Gutenberg another shot.&#8221;</em></p>



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<p>WordPressVIP post takes us <strong><a href="https://wpvip.com/case-studies/behind-the-scenes-of-news-uks-rampant-speed-to-value/">Behind the scenes of News UK’s rampant speed to value</a></strong>. News UK is the powerhouse behind some of the UK’s most famous news, media, and lifestyle brands. Its reach ranges from the highly respected the London Times to the hugely popular Sun. In the more detailed case study, you&#8217;ll learn from the editor&#8217;s perspective how the usage of the block editor has streamlined content production, increased productivity and fosters a culture of innovation between teams. </p>



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<p>On the WPBuild podcast <strong>A-Z of WordPress</strong> this week, <strong>Nathan Wrigley </strong>and <strong>David Walmsley</strong> tackled the letter  <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2021/03/25/222-g-is-for-gutenberg/"><strong>G &#8211; Gutenberg</strong></a>. If the early controversy in 2018 had you shy away from trying it out,  but now you heard so much positive about it, this episode will give you an update on how people are using the block-editor now and what&#8217;s in store for 2021. </p>



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<p>Let <a href="https://twitter.com/allie_nimmons"><strong>Allie Nimmons</strong></a> of WPBuffs tell you <strong><a href="https://wpbuffs.com/why-and-how-to-use-the-wordpress-block-editor/">Why and How to use the WordPress block editor.</a> </strong> It&#8217;s an excellent introduction and tutorial with dozens of links to learn more. </p>



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<p>For those of us who are worried about migrating a ton of content from classic editor and short codes to block editor, <a href="https://twitter.com/_dsawardekar"><strong>Darshan Sawardekar</strong></a>, lead web engineer at the web agency 10up, has good news. This week, he announced <a href="https://10up.com/blog/2021/convert-to-blocks/"><strong>the release of the Convert to Blocks plugin.</strong></a> Convert to Blocks converts your content to blocks on the fly and those changes will be saved when you update the post. It&#8217;s not a Bulk Converter, it only converts content once it is opened in the block editor. </p>



<p>🌐 <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/convert-to-blocks/">WPRepo</a> | <a href="https://github.com/10up/convert-to-blocks">GitHub</a></p>



<p>A couple of months ago, the WPTavern published the article <strong><a href="https://wptavern.com/ask-the-bartender-how-to-bulk-convert-classic-wordpress-posts-to-blocks">How To Bulk Convert Classic WordPress Posts To Blocks?</a></strong>. Justin Tadlock listed two more plugins for the purpose: <a href="https://bulkconverttoblocks.com/">Bulk Convert to Blocks</a> (still in development) and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-block-converter/">Bulk Block Converter</a>, last updated a year ago. We used it at a recent project and it worked very well. </p>



<h2 id="4-business-news-around-gutenberg">Business News around Gutenberg</h2>



<h3 id="5-extendify">Extendify</h3>



<p><a href="https://wptavern.com/extendify-acquires-editor-plus-introduces-commercial-templates-in-its-plan-to-improve-block-editing">WPTavern has the scoop:  <em>Extendify</em> recently aquired plugin EditorPlus</a> and joined forces with Munir Kamal and his team around Gutenberg Hub. Back in November 2020, they also acquired Redux Framework, and hired its creator, <a href="https://twitter.com/dovyp">Dōvy Paukstys</a>, part-time. </p>



<h4 id="6-plugins-now-owned-by-extendify">Plugins now owned by Extendify: </h4>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/editorplus/">Editor Plus,</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-blocks/">ACF Blocks</a>,</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/forms-gutenberg/">Gutenberg Forms</a>,</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/redux-framework/">Redux Framework</a>,</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/">MetaSlider</a>,&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-slider/">Block Slider</a>. </li></ul>



<h4 id="7-people-behind-extendify">People behind Extendify</h4>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/chrislubkert"><strong>Chris Lukbert</strong></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/arturgrabo"><strong>Artur Grabowski</strong></a>, co-founders of <a href="https://extendify.com/">Extendify</a>, are former Automattic employees. So is <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/karmatosed">Tammie Lister,</a></strong> Extendify&#8217;s Head of Design. Lister has been a major WordPress contributor on the Gutenberg block-editor as co-lead since  the beginning in 2017. She participated in one of our first Live Q &amp; As in  <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/episode-6-creating-gutenberg-live-q-a-w-leads-tammie-lister-joen-asmussen-and-matias-ventura/">November 2018 </a>with her Gutenberg co-leads  Joen Asmussen and Matias Ventura. You can also read more about Lister on <a href="https://heropress.com/essays/discovering-your-place/">HeroPress: Discovering Your Place</a>. </p>



<h3 id="8-go-daddy">GoDaddy</h3>



<p>GoDaddy is sponsoring <a href="https://twitter.com/Mamaduka"><strong>George Mamadashvili</strong></a> to contribute on the WordPress Gutenberg project full-time. Mamadashvili was one of the developers behind the cool blocks published under the brand of SortaBrilliant in 2018 and 2019. Recently, he released <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/toggles/">Toggles</a>, an accordion block for FAQs, and other use cases. You can also use it to hide spoilers in Movie or Book reviews. </p>



<h2 id="9-developing-for-the-block-editor">Developing for the block editor</h2>



<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/mattwatsoncodes">Matt Watson</a></strong> published his 5th tutorial <a href="https://wholesomecode.ltd/guides/create-customizer-panel-wordpress-gutenberg-components/">Create a Customizer Panel using Gutenberg Components</a> for developers. You should read his previous posts before tackling this one. </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wholesomecode.ltd/guides/creating-plugin-wordpress-gutenberg/">Creating a Plugin for the Block Editor</a></li><li><a href="https://wholesomecode.ltd/guides/options-settings-data-wordpress-gutenberg/">Using Options to Store Data in the Block Editor</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://wholesomecode.ltd/guides/entry-points-wordpress-create-block-script/">Add Entry Points to the Create-Block Script</a></li><li><a href="https://wholesomecode.ltd/guides/create-settings-page-wordpress-gutenberg-components/">Create a Settings Page using Gutenberg Components</a></li></ul>



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<p>On <strong>WordPressTV</strong> you&#8217;ll find <strong>Chris van Patten</strong>&#8216;s <a href="https://wordpress.tv/2020/04/02/chris-van-patten-the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-the-gutenberg-data-api/">The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to the Gutenberg Data&nbsp;API</a>. The Data API is how you get data in and out of Gutenberg, track changes across blocks, and execute events around the editor.</p>



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<p>The <strong>WordCamp India</strong> presentation by <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/gziolo">Grzegorz &#8220;Greg&#8221; Ziółkowski</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQwHsk27HMQ">Block</a></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQwHsk27HMQ"><strong> Development with scaffolding</strong></a> helps you get started building a single block plugin with the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/create-block">create-block-script</a>. </p>



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<h2 id="10-meta-charset-utf-8-word-press-events">WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>April 6, 2021 9 am EDT / 14:00 UTC</strong><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIlY3lTAos"><strong>WPCafe: Building the Twenty Twenty-One</strong> </a>with Caroline Nymark and Mel Dwan-Choyce, live on YouTube</p>



<p><strong>April 6, 2021 9 am EDT / 14:00 UTC</strong><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIlY3lTAos"><strong>WPCafe: Building the Twenty Twenty-One</strong> </a>with Caroline Nymark and Mel Dwan-Choyce, live on YouTube</p>



<p><strong>April 15, 2021 6:30 pm EDT / 23:30 UTC</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/277019024/">South Florida Mega Meetup</a></strong> &#8220;New Site Builder Edition&#8221;</p>



<p><strong>April 15 &#8211; 17, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://centroamerica.wordcamp.org/2021/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WordCamp Centroamérica 2021</a></p>



<p><strong>April 27 and 28th</strong><br /><a href="https://www.godaddy.com/pro/expand"><strong>Expand 2021</strong></a> &#8211;&nbsp;a virtual event hosted by GoDaddy that brings the web design and developer community together to share ideas and experiences, make connections and support each other.</p>



<p><strong>May 24 &#8211; 27. 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://wordsesh.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WordSesh 2021</a> </strong><br /><a href="https://wordsesh.com/speak/">Speaker submissions are </a>due on Monday! (March 29th)! </p>



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<p>Around minute 23 of the audio they talked a bit more about Full-Site Editing and its merge into the core. Chomphosy said she knows &#8216;this summer&#8217; is an ambitions goal, and she also assured the listeners that the team won&#8217;t release something that&#8217;s not functional and usable. </p>



<h2>Go/NoGo Mid to End of April</h2>



<p>The Core release and Gutenberg teams will make the Go/NoGo decision to merge Full-Site Editing for the next WordPress release in July (5.8)  on April 17 or on April 23.  In other words, the state of Full Site editing in Gutenberg plugin version 10.4 and 10.5.  If it doesn&#8217;t get merged into 5.8, Full-Site Editing will be merged in WordPress 5.9 to be released in December 2021</p>



<p>Chomphosy also shared her &#8211; unofficial &#8211; benchmark of what should be possible with the prototype of the Site Editor by April: Can you &#8211; without writing code &#8211; create a landing page with Full-site editing tools. She calls it &#8220;the smallest viable sentence. The I-AM of websites.&#8221;</p>



<h2>A Landing page is the smallest viable unit</h2>



<p>This single web page consists of a header, a footer, a hero image with a button, some text, a form or a call to action.  This narrows the focus of the MVP, the prototype, considerably. It also increases the probability that the first low-key, opt-in version of Full-Site editing might actually make it into the next WordPress version. A narrow scope will also help content creators, teachers and developers get started working on their discovery of the new WordPress feature. As soon as it is merged into WordPress core, plugin developer and theme builders can test their ideas against it and get familiar with the underlying concepts. </p>



<p>It&#8217;s a good way to ease-in content creators, too. When you are not dealing with the header and footer of a big site, but just for a single page, it’s not so critical if you get lost on the way from content editing to template part (header, footer) editing and back again. It&#8217;s all on the same page, literally. </p>



<p>This transition was one of the major causes of confusion during the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/16/high-level-feedback-from-the-fse-program-march/">first few testing calls for the FSE outreach program</a> and the developers are working on making it less confusing. With this unofficial benchmark of a single landing page creation, the team will have additional time and input on how to better handle that switch between editing a template that is used for many pages and the content of a single post or page content.</p>



<p>A very tangible goal, &#8220;Can I build a landing page with the tools available?&#8221; makes it straightforward for WordPress contributors who work on the parts that make that are not code, like documentation, marketing, training and testing.</p>



<h2>Call For Testing: Create a Header</h2>



<p>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/25/fse-program-testing-call-4-building-a-restaurant-themed-header/">4th call for testing</a> via the WordPress FSE-Outreach program asks you to<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/25/fse-program-testing-call-4-building-a-restaurant-themed-header/"> create a header for a Restaurant</a>. <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> has detailed instructions for you as well as video if you are in a testing mood. Your input is definitely wanted!</p>



<p>Chomphosy also added that Matias Ventura, the technical lead for Gutenberg,  might have different benchmarks for the MVP. I am curious, and <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephaHaden/status/1371956586516606977">answer Josepha&#8217;s call for questions</a> on Full-Site Editing for her next episode of the WPBriefing podcast when Matias will be her guest. </p>



<p>Full-Side Editing project encompasses a lot more than the Site Editor with template parts. There are Global Styles, Widgets in Customizer, a new Navigation and Widget screen, block-based themes with a theme.json file and query block. Some of it will work its way into the MVP. We will see how far the team progresses on their journey, that will only begin once Full-Site editing comes to Millions of WordPress users. No Fear, though. It will all be opt-in. Nothing will break. </p>



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