This week: the buyout of Pagely, ACF update, Full Site Editing, Newsletter Glue, and much more.
Guest editor
Tammie is a designer passionate about open source and human-centred experiences. She is a long-time contributor to WordPress, and her contribution work continues by being sponsored through XWP, where she works full time. She is now looking to the future of the editor and themes through exploring what could be.
Blocks are excellent; the experience of creating your site using the new editing experience opens up so much potential. However, you don’t think piece by piece, molecule by section, when creating. There are psychological theories behind patterns; humans are strong pattern recognizers. That’s just one reason why block patterns are genuinely empowering and essential. They allow you to rapidly create the experience of your dreams that, combined with the design tools, can be customized even more if you want.
It’s not just about the person building the content; as someone creating the theme or experience, you can learn so much by diving into patterns. It enables agencies to save time with a collection of preset patterns to reuse perhaps. There are so many possibilities out there when you start thinking block by block and in block patterns.
Want to learn more about block patterns? Look no further than this list of incredible links from Gutenberg Times.
The new default theme Twenty Twenty Two, puts patterns at the heart of the experience. Check out the demo here, or explore the code. Now is a great time to take it for a test and report anything you find.
I strongly believe in pushing what could be to see what you might want to do in project work; that’s why I spent a month creating patterns to see what was possible. We have so many design tools in the editor and so many to come; by creating with them, we start to see the gaps and begin to see how they can even be combined – try, for example, a duotone and gradient; it’s super fun.
Kjell Reigstad shared a glitchy theme experiment a while ago, and I wanted to share it as it reminds me constantly to make time to go into the lab and play. He also gave an inspiring talk at WCUS that continued to light that spark.
GoDaddy’s acquisition of Pagely has been the surprise of the week. Creating a fully scalable platform for WooCommerce will be their primary objective.
Another worthwhile update for Advanced Custom Fields has shown its head. New features include native support for REST API and keeping the key as a constant in wp-config.
SpinupWP blog offers a guide on performing advanced deployments using the Buddy CI/CD.
LearnDash is taking cutting-edge e-learning methodology and infusing it into WordPress. Trusted to power the learning programs for major universities, small to mid-size companies, startups, entrepreneurs, and bloggers worldwide.
Jason Bahl appeared on the De{Code} podcast to discuss mainly Gutenberg, its current state, and the features it lacks.
A change in management at Yoast took place. Thijs de Valk replaced Marieke.
Josh Pollock shares the progress of the Plugin Machine development.
Courtney Robertson explains Full Site Editing in WordPress.
Lemon Squeezy, a service facilitating online sales, has finally got a WordPress plugin.
Ivailo Hristov demonstrates how to optimize WordPress-based pages and how the NitroPack plugin does it.
Focus on one thing at a time – an important lesson learned by Leslie Sim.
WordFest calls for speakers. If you want to pass on your knowledge to others, please send your application.
Aaron Jorbin describes three tools that improve the life of developers.
BracketSpace showed off their new addition to the Notification plugin, which allows you to handle push notifications.
Lesley Sim, the guest of WP Mayor Podcast, spoke about the Glue Newsletter.
Matt Medeiros hosted Alexandra Spalato from GatsbyWPThemes.
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Maciek Palmowski from Buddy and Andy Fragen invite you to a webinar on using Git Updater and Buddy in the plugin update process.
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Toronto Web Performance announced the call for papers for the event that will take place on 15th December.
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