The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
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Welcome! This all-volunteer team needs designers of various kinds. See our handbook and drop into #design once signed up for volunteer opportunities.
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.
There is an easier way to try out a 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 ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ PR that does not require one to setup a local Development Environment. One can download a special version of a Gutenberg pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that includes the PR one wants to test.
Here is a video I made showing how it is done. This is a great way to be able to give feedback to features as they are being worked on.
An alternative is to visit gutenberg.run and insert the PR number and sit and wait until the site has loaded up the Pull Request.
Quick start instructions.
Find a Github Gutenberg PR you want to test out. Along the tabs just below the PR title. To the right of the active Conversation tab is the Checks tab. Click the Checks tab. Along the left side is a sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. containing various links. Scroll until you find Build Gutenberg Plugin Zip. Click the Build Gutenberg Plugin Zip. Scroll to the bottom and click the gutenberg-plugin link. The Gutenberg plugin is then downloaded. (On a Mac) Double click to unzip. There is one zip within another zip. Both are uncompressed. Right click and choose to compress the uncompressed folder back to a zip. Upload the Gutenberg plugin zip to a test site and test out the PR.
Add a comment to the PR asking for the special Build Gutenberg Plugin Zip if you have not located it in the Checks tab.