Birgit Pauli-Haack and Dave Smith discuss Gutenberg 14.2, 14.3, WordPress 6.1, Style Variations in Theme Directory and a Developer Course on Gutenberg Data Layer Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Special Guest: Dave Smith WordPress 6.1 Community Contributions Gutenberg Plugin 14.2 Gutenberg Plugin 14.3 Release lead: Aaron Robertshaw What’s in the Works? Transcript Birgit Pauli-Haack: […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and her special guest, Channing Ritter from the WordPress design team, discussed features in Gutenberg 14.1 release, default theme Twenty-Twenty-Three and the update to the design tools coming to the next WordPress release. Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Gutenberg 14.1 Transcript Birgit Pauli-Haack: Hello and welcome to our 73rd episode of the […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Nick Diego discuss highlights from Gutenberg 13.9, 14.0, WordPress 6.02, Themes and Design Tools. Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Nick Diego developer advocate at WP Engine, plugin developer and themes builder. He is also a core contributor. Running Triage sessions in the core editor channel and is on the WordPress 6.1 […]

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Grzegorz Ziolkowski subbed for Mary Job as co-host with Birgit Pauli-Haack. They discuss Gutenberg 13.8, Fluid Typography, updates to Block APIs and WordPress 6.1 Planning. Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Announcements WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup v2 Proposal: A new kind of default theme Proposal: Moving Core block styling to JSON PR in 13.5 Prototype: […]

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In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haacj and Mary Job introduce Ryan Welcher and discuss Gutenberg release 13.7, more template creation enhancements, first full-site editing themes in the Woo Commerce marketplace and more. Show Notes / Transcript Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes WordCamp Jinja, Uganda / Call for speakers Ryan Welcher on […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Mary Job talk with this week’s special guest Jorge Costa about Gutenberg Releases, WordPress 6.0.1, the Create Block Theme plugin and much more. Show Notes / Transcript Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes Why You Should Try Out Block Themes Don’t miss it! A Block-First Approach at Pew Research […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Mary Job talk with this week’s special guest Dave Smith about WordCamp Europe, WordPress 6.1 and Gutenberg 13.4. You also learn what in the works via the GitHub repo. Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Special Guest: Dave Smith, JavaScript Engineer and full-time Core Contributor on the Gutenberg project, sponsored by Automattic […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and special guest, Grzegorz Ziolkowski talk about WordPress 6.0 release, Gutenberg 13.2 and 13.3 and interesting discussions happening on the Gutenberg Repo Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes WordPress 6.0 Community Contributions What’s Released Gutenberg 13.2 Gutenberg 13.3 What’s being worked on or discussed Transcript Birgit Pauli-Haack:  Hello, and welcome to our 67th […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Mary Job discuss with their guest, Glen Davies, Gutenberg 13.1, New Zealand, InnerBlocks and more so much more. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Glen Davies on Twitter GlenDavisNZ.blog FSE Program Rallying Recipe Reviewers Play the Piano and Other Instruments via the WordPress Block […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Mary Job discuss with their guest, Dennis Snell, Gutenberg 13.0, WordPress 6.0, an Inline Token Proposal and so much more. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Special guest: Dennis Snell, WordPress core contributor and JavaScript wrangler at Automattic. Dennis Snell’s post on WordPress and […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Mary Job talked about Gutenberg 12.9 new features and enhancements, updates to the Gutenberg Example Repo and share a post on how to implement inline tokens for Rich Text. And so much more. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes / Transcript Show Notes Announcements WPAfrica Community Call for […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Mary Job discuss Block Pattern Directory, WebFonts API and Gutenberg 12.8. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes Announcements FSE Program: Bring your questions – Round Three Coming soon: Block Pattern Directory Submissions Community […]

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In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Mary Job discuss Gutenberg 12.7, a new call for testing and the web fonts API arrival. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes FSE Program Testing Call #12: Hyping Headers Gutenberg […]

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When building block themes there is often more than one way to achieve the same thing. It’s often not clear which of these options is preferable. Below I outline some tips and guidelines that I find helpful. The guiding principle here is to remove as much complexity as possible from the theme; instead block themes should be using the affordances provided by Gutenberg.

1. Avoid using CSS

As much as possible, block themes should avoid providing CSS. Gutenberg increasingly offers design tools which allow theme builder to control the design of the theme without using CSS. If it is not possible to achieve a particular design without CSS please create an issue for it on Gutenberg so we can consider adding a design tool to achieve the design.

2. Reuse patterns rather than implementing custom templates

As the number of block themes we build grows we will have an ever increasing number of templates and template parts in each theme. In practice there are a small number of patterns which can be reused on many themes. We should be aiming to reuse existing patterns rather than implementing new templates. This means we need clever patterns which are able to reuse settings from theme.json.

3. Prefer theme.json to block settings

Connected to the point above, when we want to change the appearance of a block in a template or a pattern it is usually better to do so in the theme.json file than in the block template. This means that the design will be used for all instances of the block, not just the edited instance. It also keeps templates design agnostic, so that they be reused (see above).

What other tips do you have for building block themes?

Grzegorz Ziolkowski and Birgit Pauli-Haack introduce Mary Job as the new co-host and discuss Gutenberg 12.6, Planning for WordPress 6.0 and Universal Blocks. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Birgit Pauli-Haack Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes New co-host: Mary Job Mary Job’s Profile […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Grzegorz Ziolkowski discuss with their guest Matias Ventura restricting customization in a full-site editing world, Gutenberg 12.5 and Gutenberg changes coming with WordPress 6.0. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Pauli Systems Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes Twitch Stream session […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Grzegorz Ziolkowski discuss with their guest, Fabian Kägy Gutenberg 12.4, Developer Hours, and how to best implement extensibility of the block editor Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Pauli Systems Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes Developer Hours – Register for […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Grzegorz Ziolkowski talk about WordPress 5.9 release and DevNotes for Full-site Editing and block themes, and Gutenberg 12.2 and 12.3. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Pauli Systems Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes Listener Questions Jessica Lyschik (Question tweeted) [Paragraph […]

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Birgit Pauli-Haack and Grzegorz Ziolkowski discuss Gutenberg 12.1, Block Theme.json Builder, WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 and Twitter Spaces Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Pauli Systems Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes David Gwyer has been working on a Block Theme Generator Ryan Welcher […]

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Co-hosts, Birgit Pauli-Haack and Grzegorz Ziolkowski discuss with Ryan Welcher the Gutenberg 12.0 release, the updated WordPress 5.9 Release Schedule and a lot more. Music: Homer Gaines Editor: Sandy Reed Logo: Mark Uraine Production: Pauli Systems Show Notes / Transcript Subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast via your favorite podcast apps!🎙️ Spotify | Google | iTunes | PocketCasts | Stitcher |🎙️ Pod Bean | CastBox | Podchaser | RSS Feed  Show Notes Ryan Welcher, Developer advocate, sponsored by […]

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