This week: WP Briefing podcast, web accessibility, Full Site Editing, guest editor Birgit Pauli-Haack and much more …
Guest editor:
Birgit Pauli-Haack curates block editor news on the Gutenberg Times, hosts regular Gutenberg Live Q & A shows on YouTube and co-hosts the Gutenberg Changelog podcast with Mark Uraine. She started working on websites in 1996 and founded Pauli Systems in 2002. Since then, Birgit and her team has worked with hundreds of businesses and nonprofit organizations.
This week, the upcoming Full-Site-Editing experience for WordPress was the talk of the town, so to speak. Last week, you read about the Big Goals for 2021 for the WordPress project which mentioned – among other things – the release of an MVP of the Full-Site-Editing to come in April and if it’s ready to be merged into WordPress Core for the 5.8 version in June. MVP is short for “Minimum Viable Product”, a fancy title for a barely working product with rough edges.
What does an MVP for FSE look like?
Pressed on details of what an MVP would entail, Josepha Haden published a follow-up post defining it as “The MVP should make it possible to build a version of the Twenty Twenty-One theme, using only blocks, without any coding knowledge.” She also pointed to a milestones issue on the GitHub repository by Matias Ventura. In his article, Justin Tadlock dug a bit deeper for each of the seven milestones of infrastructure, site editor, Global Styles, Themes blocks, Query Block, Navigation Block and gradual adoption.
Start Testing Full-Site-Editing
Anne McCarthy, program manager of the FSE Outreach Experiment published comprehensive instructions to how to set up your test site and provides a list of features to test. The latter she divided between “Anyone”, Theme and Plugin authors. Equal opportunity for testing and creating issues on GitHub.
Why WP Rocket Chose Gutenberg and How Performance Improved
In their details post on revamping their website the team Valentina Orlandi, walks the reader through the various steps, how they used Reusable Blocks and Block Patterns, created their Landing page and call to action. They even shared some code snippets. Even if you don’t use WP Rocket on your site, this article can be inspirational for your site revamp.
Gutenberg plugin version 9.9
This release with 157 changelog items marks the 99th plugin release of the Gutenberg plugin. It’s not a particular milestone, or anything. It marks the last release of block-editor features for the WordPress 5.7 version. All block-editor changes of plugin version 9.3 – 9.9 will make it into the next major WordPress release.
WordPress.org got its podcast, hosted by Josepha Haden. It spreads WordPress news among all its listeners, and I enjoyed the first episode very much
Fränk Klein wonders if Full Site Editing should be part of WordPress 5.8. There’s no denying he’s right – “Core is not the place for testing.”
Should Full-Site Editing be in WordPress 5.8?Yoast published a guide on Structured data and Schema, which comprises all information on the topic.
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.
WebDevStudios recapped why website accessibility is so important and what are its benefits.
The title and the keynote of this article caught my attention. Accessibility is easy if you think of it from the start. It might, on the other hand, become a nightmare if you treat it as a task to be tackled at the end.
Oana from Pixelgrade raised an intriguing topic – what does it mean to “launch a website”? Though the meaning seems obvious, it changes depending on who you ask.
In the repository of themes, there is a one called Nightingale. It’s designated for institutions connected with the British health service. Chris Witham reviewed the use of this theme and the general state of NHS websites.
Jeffrey de Witt from WebDevStudio describes his day at work as a lead developer.
It had been an inspiring year for MailPoet. They impressed me most by rebuilding the form editor, which now utilizes Gutenberg.
Ryan McCue from Human Made summed up Altis’ first year.
Leonardo Losoviz chronicled his fight adjusting the code of GraphQL API for WordPress for plugins repository compatibility purposes. I strongly recommend it, for you can learn many interesting things on PHP-Scoper implemention from it.
Newspack is a shared initiative from Google News and WordPress.com designed to facilitate the digitization of newspapers.
There is every indication it’s working. Here’s a list of all the newspapers that use this set of tools.
Frontity has shared a step-by-step tutorial to creating a website based on this framework.
Michelle Gienow explains the advantages of the headless approach compared to the traditional one.
GitHub has recently rebuilt their website. Additionally, they detailed how they did it on their blog. I was genuinely impressed with their WebP workaround.
Upcoming Events
18.02 – WordPress „Mega Meetup”: The „Performance/Elementor” Episode.
Michelle Keefe, Maciek Palmowski, and Bud Kraus will be the speakers.
23.02 – a webinar ‘17 Ways to Undo Mistakes with Git’ organized by Git Tower & Buddy takes place.
27.02 – WordCamp Praga takes place – online, of course.
04.03 – DE{CODE} 2021 conference. Jason Cohen, Marieke van de Rakt, and Mike Little are among the speakers.
16.04 – 18.04 – WordCamp Greece 2021 Online.
A call for speakers has been issued.