A presentation at WordCamp Rochester by Francesca Marano
Don’t fear the auto-updates :)
A community-led initiative to get Gutenberg tested
We need to ask ourself as a project if accessibility is important for us as it is for the W3C
Phase 1: The editor itself
Phase 2: full site editing
Concerns
Timeline. When will it be ready?
The future of WordPress theme shops Tl;dr: I think it’s good if they leverage it :)
What it means for old themes? Fear not! They will continue to work.
Phase 3: collaboration
Phase 4: multilingual
What colleagues and friends hope and dream for WordPress ♥
“I would love WordPress to become easier in the future. It is still rather hard for nontechnical people to get started. Also, I think the platform has grown despite its marketing and not because of it. So, in the future of WordPress I would love to have a consistent story, and a consistent strategy” Marieke van de Rakt, Yoast CEO (aka my boss lady)
If…
We need everyone’s help!
“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s itch” And not only a developer one. Please join!
For the next two years, there are at least seven WordPress releases scheduled. While some features are yet to be determined, there is already a rich and interesting list of enhancements that are planned.
What does the future have in store for the WordPress industry? If you are part of it, you should be aware of what’s in the pipeline for 2020 and beyond and how it could affect you and your business.
Join Francesca, former release co-lead, to hear the latest news and plans from the WordPress project.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
The blog of the WordPress Core Team
The blog of the WordPress Accessibility Team
The blog of the WordPress Design Team
The Blog of the WordPress Themes Team
WordPress Tentative schedule for seven releases between 2020 and 2021
Bird’s eye view on priorities, schedule and phases
Most recent live demo of Full Site Editing
The full-page-editing won’t make all the previous features obsolete, but bring it all into a single user interface so the site owner, blogger, the end user, don’t need to learn all about the various pieces, and just update their content where they want to.
How is WordPress doing so far? What does it mean for Themes developers, what do they need to learn?
All-things about the WordPress Block Editor
Full site editing will change how everyone uses themes, and how we build them. Free, sponsorship encouraged course, to learn how to build block-based themes
As work on Full Site Editing continues, it’s important that communication around the project is made explicit so everyone can follow along appropriately. Each person will have their own unique needs in keeping up with a project of this scale so what follows is more of a catalogue of ways to keep up rather than a recommendation for how to do so.
In late 2018, WPCampus released a request for proposals to conduct an accessibility audit of the WordPress Gutenberg editor.
As of May 2019, all documents are now available.
This audit is intended to help higher education institutions, and the whole WordPress community, make informed decisions about when and how to upgrade to the new editor.
Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward. Matt’s post from August 2017 about the next big thing in WordPress
for free. You
can too.