Kevin Killingsworth
Coder, engineer, technologist, tinkerer
Gutenberg
What you need to know
Kevin Killingsworth
@coderkevin
github.com/coderkevin
https://slides.com/coderkevin/gutenberg
What does WordPress Customization mean to YOU?
- Themes
- Plugins
- HTML
- CSS
- PHP
- JavaScript
Gutenberg:
The Feature Plugin
- Replaces editor
- Available now!
- You can help
Gutenberg:
The Core Feature
- 5.0
- "classic editor" plugin to restore previous editor
Gutenberg:
The new editor
It's all about the blocks...
Try it out: https://frontenberg.tomjn.com/
What's first on the list?
- Shortcodes (with transition phase)
- Meta-boxes
- Theme content
- Other magic PHP
- Page Templates
Where is this going?
- Custom Plugin Behavior
- Theme Integration
- Template Editing
- Trading post-meta for API calls
Gutenberg:
The future of wp-admin
Speculation
Blocks
UI Elements
WP REST API
Admin UI
Theme Content
UI Extensibility
- Use any blocks installed
- Control layout and content
- Tweak display options
Users can:
- Provide blocks to be customized
- Provide default templates to layout blocks provided
- Offer unprecedented flexibility
Theme authors can:
- Provide blocks to be used
- Use blocks from other plugins
- Block + API covers all use cases
- (and extensibility)
Plugin authors can:
@coderkevin
github.com/coderkevin
https://slides.com/coderkevin/gutenberg
Questions
&
Discussion
Gutenberg: What you need to know
By Kevin Killingsworth
Gutenberg: What you need to know
A walk through the current position of Gutenberg, what it means to users and developers, and where it could be going.
