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annezazu 11:02 pm on May 18, 2023
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FSE Program Testing Call #23: Rapid Revamp

This post is the twenty-third call for testing as part of the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. For more information about this experimental program, please review this FAQ for helpful details. To properly join the fun, please head to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack for future testing announcements, helpful posts, and more will be shared there. 

Overview

With the roadmap to 6.3 published and another version of 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/ out in the wild, it’s time to test some of the upcoming features that are in the works to upgrade and polish the experience of using the Site Editor:

  • Styles in Site View displaying style variations and improving discoverability of the more granular Style interface. 
  • Pages in Site View, rendering the last 10 pages with a link to the wp admin page list at the bottom.
  • Revision history for Styles, allowing you to roll back as you’d like.
  • Command center, offering a quick way to switch between parts of your site. 
  • Add previewing for block themes unlocking the ability to check out a 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. theme before activating in the same Site Editor experience. 
  • Navigation block using the Interactivity API as a way to test the new, in-progress 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.. This is just a technical change and the aim here is to ensure the experience is the same. 
  • Details block, adding a new way to hide and reveal information. 
  • List View: Allow dragging to all levels of the block hierarchy.

Much of the above is in an iterative state with more to come, like improved Detail pages with additional functionality, so this is a great chance to provide early feedback on important features. As always, the steps here are mean to guide you through the high level view of the features but you’re welcome to take the experience further by customizing more. 

Framing

Like the last call for testing, you run a site that captures “Daily Delights” about the power of everyday moments to create joy. When you first put the site together, you didn’t have a full vision of what you wanted and, after a recent post went viral, you want to make some quick changes to better reflect what you’re accomplishing. As part of this, you preview a block theme to get a sense of whether you want to switch, create a new “Work with me” page, and update your “About” page while making high level changes to your templates and Styles. Streamlining and supporting this experience are the new command center tool and revision history for styles.   

Testing Instructions 

To use a prebuilt test site: 

  1. Open this link only once: https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=fse-call-for-testing-23&d=v1 
  2. Please do not repeatedly open this link as it creates a new site each time and there’s a limit of 50 sites that can be created. 
  3. This will launch a site for you to use for up to 24 hours. Select “Magic Login” to log in to the wp-admin dashboard. 
  4. Save the link to your site so you can access it again during the test. 

To set up your own test site: 

  1. Have a test site using the latest version of WordPress. It’s important this is not a production/live site. 
  2. Install and activate the Twenty Twenty Three One by going to Appearances > Themes.
  3. Install and activate Gutenberg 15.8+. From there, head to Gutenberg > Experiments and turn on the Command Center, Details block, Block Theme Previews, and Navigation block experiments.
  4. Head to Tools > Import and import this file to have access to the same content as above. From there, create a simple menu. 

If you have any issues with manual setup, just comment on the post or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me (@annezazu) in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 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/..

Preview block themes

Note: If you want to explore other block themes, you’re free to do so! You will have to install them first for the preview to work due to this bug. Please just ensure that you end up using “Twenty Twenty-Three”. 

  1. Head to Appearance > Themes where you’ll see a few block themes installed. Select the option to Live Preview the “Twenty Twenty-Three” theme. 
  2. This will take you to a new preview option using the Site Editor where you can explore the theme. 
  3. Select the Style section and choose a style variation you like. Click “Activate and Save”. This will keep you in the Site Editor with the new theme in place. 

Rely on revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.

  1. Click the pencil icon next to Styles to open up more granular style options. Make whatever changes you’d like: add a custom color to your palette (Colors > Palette > Custom) or change the details of individual heading levels (Typography > Headings). Save your changes. 
  2. After making and saving a few changes, click the three dot menu in the Styles panel and select the last option for revisions. Here’s a visual. 
  3. View different revisions by clicking on them and roll back to a prior version of your choosing by selecting “Apply”. 
  4. Make more changes to Styles either to the overall site or to individual blocks. Once more, view the revisions and decide whether to roll back. 

Content and template editing 

  1. Click the W icon to return to the Site View and use the back arrows to return to the main Design section before selecting the Pages section. From there, choose “About” and click on the canvas to edit it or click the pencil icon next to About in the sidebarSidebar A 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..
  2. Add a details block and shorten the About page by writing a one line summary where it says “Write summary”. Take the remaining About page content, cut it, and add it to the section where it says “Type / to add a hidden block”. Feel free to customize this as much as you’d like. 
  3. Add a featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. to the page by clicking the upload icon when hovering over the block and, using List View, move it closer to the top of the template. Make any additional changes to the block order that you’d like using List View. 
  4. Save your changes.

Using the command tool 

  1. Click the W icon to return to the Site View and use the back arrows to return to the main Design section before selecting the Template section. From there, choose the “Home” template and click on the canvas to edit it or click the pencil icon next to the template name in the sidebar.
  2. Select the Navigation block and add a new item to the menu by clicking the + button in the editor itself (not in the settings sidebar).
  3. Instead of adding a current page, search for “Work with me” and notice the option to create a draft page with that title. Select that option.
  4. Press cmd + k (or ctrl + k on Windows and Linux) shortcut to open the command center and type in “About” to quickly switch to the About page.  
  5. Add in a brief note about being open to working with others in the About page content before using the same cmd + k (or ctrl + k on Windows and Linux) shortcut to switch back to the homepage template by typing “home”. 
  6. Select the overall Navigation block and make a few style or settings changes, like changing the color options or the overlay display.
  7. Click the W icon to return to the Site View and notice you have a few changes to save. Click Save and complete the save process.

Publish and view

  1. Use the back arrows to return to the main Design section before selecting the Pages section once more. 
  2. Select “Manage all pages” where you will be brought to the Pages section of the WordPress admin. 
  3. Publish the “Work with me” page before viewing your site and exploring it to ensure all of the changes you want look as you want. Be sure to click on navigation items!

What to notice:

  • Did the experience crash at any point?
  • Did the saving experience work properly? 
  • What did you find particularly confusing or frustrating about the experience?
  • What did you especially enjoy or appreciate about the experience? 
  • What would have made this experience easier?
  • Did you find that what you created matched what you saw on your site?
  • Did it work using Keyboard only?
  • Did it work using a screen reader?
  • Did it work while using just a mobile device? Shout out to @nomadskateboarding for this addition!

Leave Feedback by June 8th, 2023

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annezazu 9:54 pm on April 17, 2023
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FSE Program Testing Call #22: Front Page Fun

This post is the twenty-second effort as part of the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. For more information about this experimental program, please review this FAQ for helpful details. To properly join the fun, please head to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack for future testing announcements, helpful posts, and more will be shared there. 

Overview

While the release of 6.2 brought loads of new features to the site editing experience, feature development has continued in the 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/ 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, leaving us with the next lineup of cutting edge features to test and refine. This includes looping back on the new navigation section that was removed for WordPress 6.2. The aim of this call for testing is to both get feedback on what’s landed in 6.2 in the pursuit of continuous iteration and to dig into what’s being worked on for the remainder of phase 2 items including:

As always, these calls for testing will also explore current features that have been staples since the beginning of the introduction of the site editor, like the Navigation 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. or Template Part blocks. 

Framing

You run a site that captures “Daily Delights” about the power of everyday moments to create joy. You want to create a new front page of your site that’s more colorful to reflect the nature of your content. When you chose your theme, you knew it came with a few front page options thanks to patterns so you decided to check out what’s possible. Once you have a new front page option in place, you decide to make some additional changes to your template and navigation to better personalize this new experience of your site.

Testing Instructions 

To use a prebuilt test site: 

  1. Open this link only once: https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=fse-call-for-testing-21&d=v1 
  2. Please do not repeatedly open this link as it creates a new site each time and there’s a limit of 50 sites that can be created. 
  3. This will launch a site for you to use for up to 24 hours. Select “Magic Login” to log in to the wp-admin dashboard. 
  4. Save the link to your site so you can access it again during the test. 

To set up your own test site: 

  1. Have a test site using the latest version of WordPress. It’s important this is not a production/live site. 
  2. Install and activate the Twenty Twenty Three One by going to Appearances > Themes.
  3. Install and activate Gutenberg 15.5.1. From there, head to Gutenberg > Experiments and turn on the Grid variation for Group block experiment.
  4. Head to Tools > Import and import this file to have access to the same content as above. From there, create a simple menu and add a few widgets. 

If you have any issues with manual setup, just comment on the post or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me (@annezazu) in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 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/..

Create a new Front Page

  1. Head to Appearance > Editor and select Templates. Click through a few of the templates to get a feel for your site and notice how a preview is shown of each template when you do so. To go back to view all templates, select the > arrow. 
  2. Click the + next to Templates in the dark gray sidebarSidebar A 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. and select “Front Page”. 
  3. This will open up a modal where you can choose between different patterns to begin building your template. Select the second pattern with various green colors depicted. This will bring you to the Front Page template with that pattern inserted automatically.

Use the Grid layout

  1. Using List View, select the second Group block that contains the Query LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. block. 
  2. Open the block settings and choose to transform it to a Grid layout. Here’s a visual.
  3. After doing so, under Layout in block settings, change around the values of MINIMUM COLUMN WIDTH until you like how it looks. 
  4. Underneath this Group block, add an additional Grid group block variation by either directly searching for “Grid” or adding a Group block and selecting the Grid variation.
  5. Explore using this block. This is intentionally an open ended item to encourage you to explore what this experimental block can do. For example, you could add a section of images or different sections of Headings and paragraph blocks grouped within a Grid block or a section of hashtags you want folks to use. Here’s an example of this last item.
  6. Save changes. 

Create a new page (or pages) for navigation 

  1. Select the Navigation Block in your headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. and select the option to “Edit” converting your menu to individual blocks. 
  2. Add a new item to the menu by clicking the + button in the editor itself (not in the settings sidebar).
  3. Instead of adding a current page, search for “Inspiration” and notice the option to create a draft page with that title. Select that option.
  4. Create as many draft pages as you’d like using the same process.
  5. Add a search block to your menu and customize it.
  6. Save changes.

Manage your navigation and explore your pages

  1. Select the WordPress icon to open up the dark gray sidebar and use the > arrows to go back to the overall Design section.
  2. Notice there is now a Navigation section. Select it and rearrange your menu items from there. 
  3. Select a page in your menu and notice that you can edit it directly either by clicking on the canvas or selecting the pencil icon in the sidebar. Make changes to this page and don’t save in the editor. 
  4. Instead select the WordPress icon to open up the dark gray sidebar and notice a Save option in the sidebar itself. 
  5. Select the save option there and select Save again from the modal. 
  6. Repeat this process with another page in your menu, saving where you’d like. 
  7. When done, go back to wp-admin > Pages and publish your pages to ensure they appear correctly in the navigation of your site.

What to notice:

  • Did the experience crash at any point?
  • Did the saving experience work properly? 
  • What did you find particularly confusing or frustrating about the experience?
  • What did you especially enjoy or appreciate about the experience? 
  • What would have made this experience easier?
  • Did you find that what you created matched what you saw on your site?
  • Did it work using Keyboard only?
  • Did it work using a screen reader?
  • Did it work while using just a mobile device? Shout out to @nomadskateboarding for this addition!

Leave Feedback by May 8th, 2023

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annezazu 5:55 pm on January 11, 2023
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FSE Program Testing Call #20: Find Your Style

This post is the twentieth call for testing as part of the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. For more information about this experimental program, please review this FAQ for helpful details. To properly join the fun, please head to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack for future testing announcements, helpful posts, and more will be shared there. 

Overview

Building off of the last call for testing, this effort includes both some new and some repeat items that have continued to be iterated upon. In particular, browse mode’s design continues to evolve with a clearer edit button and design of the currently active template. Tied to this, the new UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. for the navigation 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. has received numerous improvements as work is underway to move the option out of experimental. Taken together, this test helps underscore just how much a single theme allows you to do and how the Site Editor tools are evolving to make quick customization increasingly intuitive. 

New items to test:

Repeated from previous times: 

As with last time, this post will be updated to the latest version of 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/ so the latest changes can be tested ahead of the 6.2 release cycle for a faster and more accurate feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.. 

Framing

To ground this experience a tiny bit more, let’s pretend you’re switching over from a Classic theme to a Block theme. After switching, you will need to import the widgets settings before re-imagining the homepage of the site, including the navigation. You’ll end by exploring various ways to style the site across different templates, both by using the Style Book and by editing blocks individually before pushing those changes globally. Your aim is to make the site look as different as possible a few times over until you find a version you’re happy with. Imagine this is your way of exploring the reaches of what’s possible with the Site Editor, all while using a single theme!

Testing Instructions 

To use a prebuilt test site: 

  1. Open this link only once: https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=fse-call-for-testing-20 
  2. Please do not repeatedly open this link as it creates a new site each time and there’s a limit of 50 sites that can be created. 
  3. This will launch a site for you to use for up to 24 hours. Select “Magic Login” to log in to the wp-admin dashboard. 
  4. Save the link to your site so you can access it again during the test. 

To set up your own test site: 

  1. Have a test site using the latest version of WordPress. It’s important this is not a production/live site. 
  2. Install and activate the Twenty Twenty Three One by going to Appearances > Themes.
  3. Install and activate Gutenberg 15.0. From there, head to Gutenberg > Experiments and turn every experiment except for “Zoomed out view”. 
  4. Head to Tools > Import and import this file to have access to the same content as above. From there, create a simple menu and add a few widgets. 

If you have any issues with manual setup, just comment on the post or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me (@annezazu) in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 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/..

Switch your site

  1. Explore your site and feel free to add in more personalized items, whether by adding or customizing menus under Appearance > Menus or more widgets under Appearance > Widgets. 
  2. When you’re ready, head to Appearance > Themes and select “Activate” next to the Twenty Twenty-Three theme. 
  3. Head to Appearance > Editor (betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.) to be brought into the browse mode experiment in the Site Editor.
  4. Click through the different templates and template parts to view the various parts of your site. Eventually, select your Home template and choose the option to “Edit”. Notice that your previously created menu was automatically imported.

Import your widgets and customize your navigation 

  1. Using List View, select your Footer Template Part and delete it. 
  2. Add a new Template Part block, give it a name related to footer, and choose the option to “Start Blank”.
  3. Open the block settings and expand the Advanced section. Under “IMPORT WIDGETWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. AREA”, select the widgets section you’d like to import and click “Import”.
  4. After importing, customize this new footer further as you’d like. Explore using design tools, using group/row/stack variations, and more. 
  5. Once done, select the Navigation block and change a few things as you see fit. For example, you can: move some of the sub menu items to top level items, change the names of a few of the menu items, adjust the spacing between items, and customize the mobile display as you see fit.
  6. Save changes.

Find your style

  1. Open Styles and select “Browse Styles”. 
  2. Open the Style Book by selecting the icon that looks like an eye from the main Styles interface and switch between various style variations while viewing how it impacts your site. Here’s a screenshot in case it’s helpful. This will open up an interface called the “stylebook” where you can see the styles for every block displayed. You can click that icon to toggle this option on/off as you’d like.
  3. After selecting a style variation you like, head back to the main Styles interface and select “Colors”. From there, choose the “Randomize colors” option to change the colors further. 
  4. After exploring the “Randomizer colors” option, head back to the main Styles interface and select “Blocks”. From there, choose a block with a style variation, like Button (not Buttons!) or Social Icons or Site Logo. You can then edit that variation to your liking globally. 

Switch it up (again and again)

  1. Now that you have explored browsing Templates and Template Parts, the Style Book, customizing the Navigation block, and using the color randomizer, use this experience to switch up your site further. To do so, open a template, like the Single or Search template, and edit an individual block, like the Post Title or Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts.. 
  2. After editing the block to your liking, open the Settings tab, expand the “Advanced” section, and choose the option to “Apply globally”. 
  3. Save changes and repeat this process a few times as you have time across templates and different blocks, relying on the Stylebook or Browse mode as needed to get a larger sense of your site. Try to make your site look as different as possible each time.

Bonus: Use patterns as much as you’d like as you customize your site! You can do this by adding patterns directly or by using the “replace” option in blocks like the Query Loop or Template Part.

Leave Feedback by February 1st, 2023

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annezazu 10:57 pm on December 14, 2022
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FSE Program Testing Call #19: Running Through Refinements

This post is the nineteenth call for testing as part of the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. For more information about this experimental program, please review this FAQ for helpful details. To properly join the fun, please head to #fse-outreach-experiment in Make Slack for future testing announcements, helpful posts, and more will be shared there. 

Important notes: There’s a current call for volunteers to use Replay.io, a tool with a comprehensive way of capturing bugs. Respond by December 28th, 2022 to get involved. Separately, the FSE Outreach Program is always looking for volunteers to help run these calls for testing for the community.

Overview

With work deeply underway to refine and wrap up numerous aspects of phase 2, this call for testing centers numerous changes in progress to put them to the test (get it) and find the edges of what’s being worked on. At a high level, this test covers the following:


Taken together, these changes make it easier to navigate between the content you want to edit, see changes at scale when working with Styles in a few ways, create an easier navigation editing/creation experience, and have a more intuitive experience when editing individual blocks. 

Framing: Refining a client’s site

To ground this experience a tiny bit more, let’s pretend you’re doing some refinements to a client’s site to finetune their branding and, as a result, homepage and navigation. The aim is to go from a more complex navigation structure to a simplified one, with two different options to choose from for the client (edit current menu and create a new option). Tied to this, the homepage will shift the focus of content in the Query LoopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. block with more of an emphasis on images (and whatever else you’d like). Finally, you will update the overall styling as you see fit, with bonus ideas for those who have extra capacity and interest!

Testing Instructions 

To use a prebuilt test site: 

  1. Open this link only once: https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=fse-call-for-testing-19 
  2. Please do not repeatedly open this link as it creates a new site each time and there’s a limit of 50 sites that can be created. 
  3. This will launch a site for you to use for up to 24 hours. Select “WP Admin Login” and use the information provided to log in.
  4. Save the link to your site so you can access it again during the test. 

To set up your own test site (skip if using the above): 

  1. Have a test site using the latest version of WordPress. It’s important this is not a production/live site. 
  2. Install and activate the Twenty Twenty Three theme by going to Appearances > Themes.
  3. Install and activate 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/ 14.8.4 RC1 by downloading the release > going to Plugins > Add New > Installing. From there, head to Gutenberg > Experiments and turn on “Off canvas navigation editor” and “Block inspector tabs” experiments. 
  4. Head to Tools > Import and import this file (click “Download” in the upper right hand corner first) to have access to the same content as above.

If you have any issues with manual setup, just comment on the post or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me (@annezazu) in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ 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/..

Explore browse mode

  1. Head to Appearance > Editor (betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.). This will bring you to a reorganized view of the site editor.
  2. Click Templates and notice the list of templates now shown in the sidebar. Click through various templates to quickly view them.
  3. Select “Home” from the templates and then select “Edit” in the open sidebar to directly alter the template.

Editing navigation

  1. Select the HeaderHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. of your site before selecting the navigation block. Within the navigation block, select the page list block and choose “edit” from the block toolbar. This will open a prompt explaining that a step must be taken before you can customize your menu. Select “Customize”. You can also select the option to “Customize” from the block settings sidebar.
  2. Open your block settings and notice that each menu item is now listed in the sidebar. 
  3. Spend some time condensing the menu down as you see fit to just three top level menu items. You can do this by dragging and dropping the menu items in the sidebar, deleting items, and renaming them. For example, you can list “Press” under “About” and “Resources” under “Getting Started”. 
  4. Explore the additional tabs in the block settings (Styles, Settings) to customize further to your liking. For example, you can change the typography, block spacing, or how it appears on mobile. When done, click “Save”. 
  5. Afterwards, select the navigation block once more and, in the list view tab of the block settings, select the menu name and choose the option to “Create new menu” in the dropdown.
  6. Select the + button in the same tab to add in simply the “Contact”, “About”, and “Getting Started” page. 
  7. Head to the Settings tab and open the “Advanced” section to rename the menu to something like “Simplified main menu”. When done, click “Save”. 
  8. Heading back to the List View tab in the block settings section, click on the menu name to open a drop down and select which menu you’d like to display from there.

Redesigning the homepage

  1. Select the Query Loop block and, from the block toolbar, select the “Replace” option. 
  2. This will open up a modal where you can pick a different pattern to display the posts. Choose a different pattern.
  3. Customize the pattern you chose further. For example, change the featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. size, add a duotone filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output., remove or add blocks, change the size of the titles of posts, etc. When done, click “Save”.

Changing Styles

  1. Open Styles and either choose “Browse Styles” to pick a different style variation or make adjustments as you see fit using the Styles system. For example, you can customize the appearance of individual blocks with the “Blocks” section using the new preview option or change overall options with Typography, Color, and Layout. 
  2. When done, select the icon that looks like an eye from the main Styles interface. Here’s a screenshot in case it’s helpful. This will open up an interface called the “stylebook” where you can see the styles for every block displayed. You can click that icon to toggle this option on/off. 
  3. Tweak anything you’d like further while using the stylebook before, when done, clicking “Save”. 

Bonus: Customize further as you see fit

What follows are various ways you can take this test further. Feel free to try all or none, depending on how much time you have:

  • Add custom CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. using the Styles > Custom fieldCustom Field Custom Field, also referred to as post meta, is a feature in WordPress. It allows users to add additional information when writing a post, eg contributors’ names, auth. WordPress stores this information as metadata. Users can display this meta data by using template tags in their WordPress themes. as part of the input for custom CSS work in Global Styles.
  • Explore browse mode more by switching between and editing different templates or template parts.
  • Add or edit more blocks and explore the split settings options within.
  • Make more changes to the Styling of individual blocks, taking advantage of the new preview options for individual block styles and the overall stylebook.

What to notice:

  • Did the experience crash at any point?
  • Did the saving experience work properly? 
  • What did you find particularly confusing or frustrating about the experience?
  • What did you especially enjoy or appreciate about the experience? 
  • What would have made this experience easier?
  • Did you find that what you created matched what you saw on your site?
  • Did it work using Keyboard only?
  • Did it work using a screen reader?

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