Doc Pop’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. In this week’s News Drop video we talk with Rachel Cherry, the director of WPCampus, about the results of the Gutenberg Accessibility audit. Registration is open for WPCampus 2019 on July 25-27 in Portland.
Learning to create a Gutenberg block is a good future investment. No matter where you fall on the Gutenberg debate, the block editor is here to stay. Even if you have reverted back to the classic editor, chances are good that at some point in the next few years you will also start creating web pages in the form of blocks. More and more themes, like Twenty Nineteen, will take advantage of what the new WordPress editor has to offer. Plus, soon you will also use blocks in other parts of WordPress like the navigation menu or widgets. Therefore, you […]
The advent of WordPress has pretty much ended all the hassles of creating beautiful websites, and page builders made the entire process easy for those without the gift of code. WordPress page builders are plugins that allow users to make edits in the page via a simple drag and drop method. Those, who don’t want to learn extensive single lines of code for creating websites, can use page builders that generate that code all by themselves. While page builders are a silver bullet to mitigating coding complexities, they can also be responsible for slowing down a website’s loading time and […]
One of the biggest things to happen to WordPress last year was the launch of 5.0 and Gutenberg. Since then, the community has created plugins, themes, and libraries all optimized for the new editor. London-based agency, 93digital is adding to the fray with GutenBrain. A plugin that allows you to control Gutenberg with your mind. The plugin comes with a headset that uses a brain control interface and AI to let you actually create blocks just by thinking about it. According to the press release, “WordPress users can wear the wireless headset, and after going through a calibration exercise using […]
With the release of Gutenberg in v5.0, millions of people have to decide whether to opt for Gutenberg or stay with the Classic Editor plugin, formerly known as Tiny MCE. Though Classic Editor may seem like the safe choice, you can do much more with Gutenberg. To be sure, while Gutenberg has been in development for two years, it’s very much in its infancy. Its release was delayed to squash as many bugs as possible before WordPress users start using it. One purpose of Gutenberg is to make it easier to create rich page content. To that end, Gutenberg – […]
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