🎯 Core Editor Meeting Notes 2017-03-01

There has been a lot of activity around 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/ project. Both in Slack and at GitHub. Here’s the meeting summary for this week’s editor team meeting (agenda here) in #core-editor 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/. channel.

  • UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. Milestone: The current UI milestone is now being considered the v1, which also means that now we will put more effort into the fleshing out the technical prototypes following the UI baseline.
  • Designers: There’s a section + sketch file to welcome designer ideas and contributions.
  • Type switcher: Type switcher might need some careful thought. @shaunandrews has an interesting interaction design GIF for it.
  • GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/: Day to day work happens in GitHub’s repo, and this is also where new issues are added. Keep watch on it.
  • UI & Interaction: I was concerned about the hover state of the blocks, that left side border thingie, but after discussion with @joen and others, we all agree with what @mark said: “UI should go away when you’re typing, in almost all circumstances.”
  • Testing: The community user tests were great and welcomePrototype test by @sthapar and the ever-awesome video by @marcusfrontender, where they tested Gutenberg at a WordPress meetup in Stockholm was greatly appreciated.

If you are new to all this, I wrote a post to invite the WordPress community to contribute and improve the WordPress editor.

That’s about it, happy hacking!