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Beyond templates: reimagining WordPress theme design
If you had asked me about WordPress years ago, I would have admitted its power but also expressed my reluctance to embrace it as a creative tool.
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Chris Runnells
Taking Gutenberg for a spin
Full disclosure: I’ve been using Gutenberg a bit with my work on the WordPress.com Theme Team, but I haven’t used it in this particular way. Yesterday I would have told you that I knew my way around Gutenberg, but this exercise forced me to re-think a few things and use some blocks I hadn’t considered…
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David Levin
Test Driving the Gutenberg WordPress Editor
Hey there! have you heard? A new editing experience is on it’s way to WordPress. It’s called Gutenberg. In an attempt to build empathy for humans on the other side of the screen, many of the designers and developers at Automattic (The parent company of WordPress) are test driving Gutenberg and documenting their experiences along…
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Megs Fulton
Kicking the Tires of Gutenberg
For this edition of our empathy blogging, designers at Automattic were challenged to recreate a Longreads article using the Gutenberg plugin. According to Netflix I have a thing for British drama and strong female leads so true to type I selected Queens of Infamy. About halfway through I realized that the article, while entertaining, is…
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sarah semark
Testing on the train
I went a bit off-script for my empathy challenge. I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to build small businesses sites using WordPress, so I tried to replicate a pattern I see a lot—one that’s often rather hard to achieve using vanilla WordPress as it currently exists. Something along these lines: I…
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Using Gutenberg for the Very First Time
As a part of our empathy challenge, designers at Automattic were tasked with recreating an existing article using Gutenberg, WordPress’ upcoming editor. Most of us took the challenge, and so did I.
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Tiago Noronha
My Gutenberg Empathy Challenge
This quarter we were asked to recreate a Longreads article using Gutenberg. For the past couple of months I’ve been co-developing the WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block, so by now I feel like I’m pretty familiar with how Gutenberg works inside and out. Since I’m familiar with the interface, and I know how most blocks work,…
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Mike Shelton
Testing a new editing experience with Gutenberg
With the upcoming official release of Gutenberg, a call was put out to all Automattic designers to test and review the experience. Gutenberg is a plugin that changes the page and post editing experience of WordPress to a block-based format with the promise of enhanced capability and flexibility. The challenge was to choose any post from…
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Filippo Di Trapani
Unboxing Gutenberg for WordPress
There has been a lot of excitement building in the WordPress community about a plugin called Gutenberg. The plugin offers a new publishing experience that promises to transform the way people create content and build websites. With the first official release around the corner, a challenge was issued for all the designers at Automattic to…
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Jeff Golenski
Fresh look into Gutenberg for WordPress. A usability walkthrough
Although I’ve seen Gutenberg in action on the big screen, up until now, I haven’t really tried to use it to create content or layout. This 53 minute long walkthrough is my first real in-depth attempt at utilizing Gutenberg to create a blog post.
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