Category: Full Site Editing (FSE)
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Links: Future of WordPress, Roundup #2
Occasionally, I google articles about certain subjects and keep them for my future reference. I also save article links from Twitter streams of people that I admire and follow. During this period of the year, I especially enjoy reading their year-end articles. Their writing, tutorials and other materials has helped me to carry out my…
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Finally, WordPress 5.9 is Here
The much waited WordPress 5.9 named as “Josephine” with Full Site Editing (FSE) features is landed yesterday after some technical delay. Because I have been playing with it since its beta-1 release, I was familiar with its interface for a while. I updated this site to WordPress 5.9 immediately this morning and nothing broke. Because…
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Gutenberg v11.9 Release and Coming WordPress 5.9
The latest release of Gutenberg plugin v11.9.0 to be included with WordPress 5.9 release in December comes with much scaled down full site editing (FSE) features that were available for theme developers until the previous v11.8.2 release. Indeed this is much different experience for the theme development with FSE features. Reviewing Gutenberg 11.9, Justin Tadlock of WP Tavern writes…
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Twenty Twenty-two WordPress Default Theme Announced
A new WordPress default theme Twenty Twenty-two development that is expected released with WordPress 5.9 was announced yesterday. It’s development is lead by Automattic theme team members — Kjell Reigstad, design director and Jeff Ong, creative technologist. The announcement has received positive feedback on Twitter and as well as in the comments of the announcement.
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Gutenberg Adds Basic Child Theme Support
The recent Gutenberg v11.6 adds basic support for block-based child themes. When this feature land in WordPress core is not known yet. At the time of writing this post, there are 18 experimental block themes with full site editing features. However, testing some these themes and adding preferred customization is currently hindered by lack of…
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The WordPress Patterns Directory
As part of the recent WordPress 5.8 release, a new official Block Patterns Directory, similar to the the themes and plugins, have also been lunched. The initial release includes 70 curated patterns submitted by 20 community members. I am a big fan of Gutenberg block patterns. Before this release, a few official patterns were available…
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Full Site Editing (FSE) Resources
As WordPress 5.8 release is nearing, WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE) outreach lead Anne McCarthy has prepared an excellent Full Site Editing Resources with full of helpful guides. This resourceful resource post is intended to both the speakers and theme authors as well including some answers to FAQ. FSE is collection of block features that…
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Block-based WordPress Themes
Block-based themes are beginning to land in the WordPress theme directory. At the time of this writing, full site editing (FSE) tag filter lists only six themes that are block themes. Among theme, TT1 Blocks is the most up to date default and a showcase theme developed and maintained by WordPress Theme development team. However,…
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Phoenix – A Block-based Experimental Theme
Alerted by this WordPress Tavern post, to-day I had a quick overview of Imran Sayed‘s (Codeytek Academy) Phoenix a block-based experimental WordPress, which appears to be interesting. The Phoenix theme also got encouraging review from Justin Tadlock, who writes that he is keenly watching fully block-based themes. The theme is also more ambitious than some…
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Full Site Editing (FSE) and Block-based Themes
This make.wordpress.org page describes “Full Site Editing is a major part of Phase 2 of Gutenberg” and is one of the main focuses for WordPress core development in 2021. If the 2020 State of the Word address was any indication, WordPress is moving full steam ahead to land full site editing in 2021. WP Tavern…