The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
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Our vision is to be the go-to resource for design for other teams across the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.
Howdy and happy Friday, everyone! How is GutenbergGutenbergThe 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 āblocksā to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ coming along you ask? Version 7.8 was just released on Wednesday and focused mostly on the new UIUIUI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think āhow are they doing thatā and less about what they are doing. refinements. This release included:
Adds a current menu class to the Navigation blockBlockBlock 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..
Adds a block outline when interacting with the block toolbar.
Polish around some icons.
Polish around the Date Picker.
and moreā¦
Full site editing
Full site editing has seen some more design work recently. The extra effort reexamining the UXUXUX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think āwhat they are doingā and less about how they do it. and having multiple people review design work is paying off! Iām super impressed with the recent work being done in light of other site building software Iāve been testing.
Placeholder blocks Currently, templates need some way to show where certain blocks would exist, without necessarily showing actual content in them. Thus, weāve been exploring placeholder blocks for many of the Post blocks like: Post Title, Post Author, Post Date, Post Comments, etc. These are being refined in this PR. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/19256#issuecomment-604765696
A few UX flows are ready for development. How exciting!
Patterns took a bit of a pivot recently. Figuring out imagery to include in the software is difficult. Do we want pictures of mountains? Or maybe natural patterns? Cars? Weāre not settled on this. So rather than holding up our patterns, weāre working to build a few really nicely designed text-based patterns for now. These patterns should be customizable by themes, and not include custom CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. that makes for a difficult integration into websites.
New icons
There was a recent PR submitted that include several new icons that conform to the new G2 UI and the new icons being implemented throughout the interface. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21209
Get involved
Nowās a great time to get involved. While the work on this project is intense, itās always important to glean new perspectives from other WordPress users and community members. Just drop into any of the links provided above to read up on the details and contribute.
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