Join the Gutenberg Customization Conversations 🎨

As we head towards the end of the year, two last projects surface as the culmination of the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Customization phase. If you are interested in contributing, or want to join the ongoing discussions, this post outlines what the main focuses are and the threads to follow.

⓵ Full Site Editing.

Over the past eight months activity has focused on refining the editor experience, converting widgets to blocks, defining block areas, creating a new navigation block, introducing global blocks like site title, and several new tools to improve the customization capabilities of blocks. The idea is for all these elements to come together in an editor mode that comprehends the full structure of a site, including its global elements and dynamic pages.

• Templates and Theme integration. (Overview.)
• Custom Entity Sources. (Overview.)
• Editing Beyond the Post Content. (Overview.)
• Introducing Dynamic Templates Mode. (Work in progress.)
• Template Loader. (Work in progress.)
• Selection & Editing Tools. (Design Exploration.)
• Saving Separate Entities (Design and Technical proposal.)

Label “[Feature] Full Site Editing” in the repository for more details.

⓶ BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Patterns.

While blocks are powerful visual tools to achieve many different designs, it can take time and knowledge to combine them properly to achieve the most pleasing results. Since Gutenberg already supports block templates, it should be possible to offer users designs and patterns that are already assembled for them — made of various existing blocks — which users can then customize to their will with familiar tools. Part of this work includes exposing relevant APIs so these can be more easily developed and discovered.

• Patterns APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. (Overview.)
• Designing the Patterns Library. (Design Exploration.)

You can also join the weekly meetings held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., every Wednesday at 13:00 UTC.

Thanks for the help!

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