During WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US there was a fire, forage and treasure exercise for WordPress. During this, we decided things to:

• 🔥Fire: That we wanted to get rid of.
• 🍄Forage: Wanted to borrow from somewhere else.
• 👑Treasure: What we wanted to keep.

🔥 Fire

• Images: replacing, organising
• Media library
• WP Admin menu page
• Non-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/ baked building blocks
• Notification (alert 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. spam)
• Badly formed notifications
• Page edit button going to the wrong page
• Changing color on the backend and it not showing up on the front
• !working
• Importer UI and experience
• Hidden settings
• Gutenberg gradient panel
• Menu inflexibility and mobile issues
• Mobile fonts whacky
• Structure
• Bloated (unorganised) admin menu
• Finding stuff in admin issues
• Access to dashboard issues
• Plugins that don’t play well
• Messy dashboard
• WP way
• CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. > WP Admin > Gutenberg journey
• Themes being everything
• Inconsistency with CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. classes

🍄 Forage

• Spotify buttons
• Shopify dashboard consistency
• Super cool proudly made with WordPress badges
• Elementor type theme building in Gutenberg
• Design system – Bootstrap, Polaris
• Design creative ambassador program
• Role manager
• Mailchimp media image styles
• Shopify ease of payment
• Forms and lists of entries
• Newsletter signup
• Mobile layout visual editor
• Image sorts
• Easily organized files
• Easier file management
• Bear markdown
• Development version control built in

👑 Treasure

• Flexibility
• Open to customization
• PluginPlugin A 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 updating experience
• WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/
• 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.
• Blocks
• Cover 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.
• Block templates
• Writing drafts in Gutenberg
• Social aspect of post
• MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes
• Page buttons
• One-click install
• Gutenberg
• Child themes

What would you fire, forage or treasure?

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