Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week’s video talks about the features in the new beta of Gutenberg (Gutenberg 2.0) plus lots of discussion about WordCamp Miami 2018. Update your WordPress! Always. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. First off, WordPress version 4.9.2 has recently been released and it’s a security update featuring a fix for an XSS vulnerability and 21 other bug fixes. Now […]
What the Future of WordPress Development Looks Like With Gutenberg
At this year’s WordCamp US, I was super excited by the possibilities that Gutenberg presented for WordPress. I came home and started making blocks. Having built a few custom block plugins, I’m even more excited. This isn’t a tutorial, instead, this is a reflection on what it’s like to develop for the WordPress of the future, as of Gutenberg version 1.9.1. Yes, I was skeptical when Gutenberg was first released as a “beta”. I think calling it a beta was a mistake as what we had to work with six months ago was not feature complete. Version 1.9 isn’t feature […]
What’s Next for WordPress: Why the Future is Great with Gutenberg
This article is a part of series of articles about Gutenberg development for WordPress developers. Back in the day when Custom Post types had just been merged in core, in WordPress 3.0, I used to think about how innovative the WordPress 5.0 release would be. Not long ago, I started calling it the Next WordPress. Well, fast-forward to 2018 and we have an expected date of release for WordPress 5.0. In the State of The Word, 2017, Matt Mullenweg announced the focus of next year’s WordPress development, the Gutenberg project. Gutenberg is the new and exciting project set to join WordPress Core […]
Gutenberg and WordPress in 2018: An Interview With Adam Warner
Gutenberg was the biggest WordPress news in 2017. Matt Mullenweg announced and strongly backs the project that is looking like it could change the landscape of the CMS. Because we still don’t have an official release date, there is still a lot of speculation surrounding the project. Could it make WordPress even more competitive than it already is? We spoke to Adam Warner, Open Source Community Manager at Sitelock, about where he thinks Gutenberg and WordPress will be in the new year. WordPress Will Continue to Dominate WordPress can scale large enough to power an enterprise site and still support […]
Torque Toons: How to Talk to Your Kids About Gutenberg
The Gutenberg Editor is coming to WordPress next year. Here’s how to explain the new content-based block editor in terms everyone can understand.

No Comments