Gutenberg review: blocks
In a previous post I briefly discussed how to configure blocks and themes using JSON files. The emphasis of that post was on theme configuration and briefly mentioned block.json in passing as a way to...
Gutenberg: My Issues (2022 version)
This is a place to document issues I'm finding as I build my theme. A lot of these issues may be caused by my lack of experience with Gutenberg and the way the full site editor works. I will file...
Gutenberg Pagination and Post Navigation
Gutenberg gives you the tools to do pagination visually but, unfortunately, I haven't found a way to customize the pagination tool so that it works the way I want to. There are two different types of...
Revisiting Gutenberg as a design system
Gutenberg presents an interesting way to create and use design systems and present them to the user. I use the following definition of a design system: A design system is a complete set of standards...
@wordpress/create-block
@wordpress/create-block (create-block for short) is a Node package that provides the officially supported way to create blocks. The basic structure the script provides is as follows: . ├── build │ ...
Nesting Gutenberg blocks
Often we want to create a block with multiple child blocks. For example, block quotes may have lists and other elements nested inside them. Container blocks like the columns blocks also support...
Styling Gutenberg blocks
Block Styles allow alternative styles to be applied to existing blocks whether they are defined in core or via third-party plugins. They add a className attribute matching the style name to the...
Creating Gutenberg parts and templates manually
When working with Gutenberg template parts and templates we have two options: Create them in the full site editor Create them manually using the appropriate markup This post will cover the latter...
New Gutenberg Features: block and global configuration
Gutenberg provides additional ways to configure blocks and themes using JSON files one for block levels and one for global theme settings. We'll look at each of these in more detail block.json as a...
New Gutenberg Features: Conditionally loading block assets
One issue that I always found problematic with Gutenberg blocks is that it loads all assets all the time regardless of whether we use them in our projects or not. As of WordPress 5.8, we can work...