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Kjell Reigstad
Reproducing a Discover feature in Gutenberg
Gutenberg is rapidly getting better and better. I’ve been digging into its relationship to themes, and have been experimenting with its role in content as well. In that vein, I took on a Gutenberg challenge this month: Use the latest version of Gutenberg — currently 2.4.0. Pick a post from Discover or Longreads. I chose Selling…
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Erin Casali
The little copy machine test: reproducing a structured article with Gutenberg 2.3
Gutenberg, the new WordPress editing experience is coming soon. While a lot of work is happening from every perspective — design, development, testing, plugins, etc — it’s always worth to do a test run ourselves to measure the current state. The test To run this test I followed these criteria: Use the latest version of…
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Mel Choyce
Recreating “Here at the End of All Things” in Gutenberg
It’s that time again — another Empathy Challenge at Automattic! This edition’s challenge is to replicate a post to the best of our abilities in Gutenberg, the new editor coming to WordPress later this year. Because I’m a giant nerd and also because there was a variety of different content within the post, I selected…
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Ian Stewart
Why I’m so excited about the Gutenberg Editor for WordPress
The other day a friend of mine at Automattic shared the following. So I bought this theme for my personal website and I wanted to make it look nice before I activate it, of course, so I go into the Customizer and nothing looks like in the demo. Then I read the docs that tell…
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Maria Scarpello
Lessons Learned Teaching Usability Testing with Gutenberg
As you might have read in previous flow posts, last week ended Automattic’s 8th annual Grand Meetup, where 600+ of us made our way up to Whistler, Canada for a week packed full of conversations, meetings, food, drinks, and an endless amount of opportunities to never stop learning. Automatticians have the option to chose to…
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Tammie
Receiving the Baton
Not every project you join at the start. I recently was passed the baton to become the new design lead of the WordPress editor focus. The current lead, Joen Asmussen is taking some time off to welcome a new baby boy into his family. He wrote an amazing post about passing the baton, this is…
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Joen A.
Passing the Baton
On or around the 21st of August, my family and I will welcome a baby boy, officially making me the luckiest man in the world. That also means I’ll be taking off from work for a bit, as I tend to my new highest priority. Until that time, and for the past several weeks, I’ve…
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Mel Choyce
Back to Childhood: Blocks are the Future
Check out my previous post about the future of site building & customization in WordPress. Last month, my colleague Joen wrote a great post about blocks and the Editor Focus for WordPress in 2017. Joen designed a fantastic blueprint for blocks in WordPress that the Customization Focus will continue to flesh out and build on…
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Joen A.
Blueprint of a Block
For the past 6 months or so, I’ve dreamt of blocks. Jan 1st I started work on designing the WordPress core editor focus for 2017. That is, with the ultimate goal of creating a new editing experience that makes it easy for anyone to create rich post layouts. This was the kickoff goal:
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Mel Choyce
Building a Site That’s Right for You
Hello everyone! I’m Mel Choyce, a product designer on the Apollo team here at Automattic. Apollo is comprised of the Automatticians who contribute full-time to the open source side of WordPress over at WordPress.org. I’m the design co-lead of WordPress’ customization focus for 2017. Prior to joining Apollo to work on this focus, I was…
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