Agenda for 2017 December 19

This meeting will focus on the recent discussions regarding custom blocks in themes.

This topic has been discussed in the #core-editor and #themereview channels on 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/.. Those interested in attending the meeting may want to read up on the chat history so far [ link ], [ link ].

• Content creation in blocks, -a quick recap of how blocks work and what happens when you switch themes.

• What type of blocks are suitable in themes?
• What type of blocks should be 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 only?

Preparing for changes:

• Possible changes to guidelines and tags.
  • Addition of a custom-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. tag?
• Example code on TRT 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/