Block Editor Handbook: restructuring project update (15 January)

This post is the first in a series that will be published regularly on the Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blogblog (versus network, site). The purpose of this series is to keep everyone up to date on the progress of the 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. Editor Handbook restructuring project.

Currently, we are working on improving the handbook’s homepage. The goal is to make this page a real “Getting Started” page.

Someone coming to this page should be able to have a good overview of what the block editor is all about. They should also be able to find references to how to extend the block editor, how to contribute to it, or to the documentation of its main concepts.

The issue related to the handbook homepage improvement is here and here is the corresponding pull request.

Thanks to all the contributors who helped on the project this week 👏🏻.

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