Mel Choyce-Dwan 1:23 am on May 27, 2020
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Estela Rueda 4:46 pm on May 26, 2020  

WCEU Contributor Day – Design Team

Office hours, 28-29 May

Design team will hold office hours async during Thursday 28 May and Friday 29 May. Facilitators @chaion07, @ibdz, @karmatosed and @estelaris will be around all day to answer questions on how to contribute in the design team or help with on-boarding.

Office hours will be held in the #design WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel (WordPress.org Slack account is needed). If you are unsure on how to get an account, please leave a message on this post and someone will reply to help you.

We will also have triage demos on Monday 1 June at 16.30 UTC for CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. triage and Tuesday 2 June at 16.00 UTC for GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ triage, both in #design WordPress Slack channel.

How to prepare for Contributor Day?

To contribute to any team at WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, a user needs:

Meetings for design team take place in the #design WordPress Slack channel. In our meetings we don’t make decision but provide advice on design for both the WordPress software and its components (like Gutenberg) and the WordPress.org website.

We also focus on different projects that take a longer time to be completed.

Our projects require several tools, depending on what you choose. Having access to these accounts will help:

Contributors Day on 4 June

Registered contributors will received an email with the link to the Zoom call for the day. We will introduce the team and explain how we will be working. If you are interested in contributing to something specific, please let us know by commenting on this post or during the call.

For new contributors, the easiest way to begin is to do specific tasks in triage. We will focus on both Core and Gutenberg tickets that need screenshots. We have other tasks available for experience contributors.

If you need any help or have questions, team members will be available in Slack throughout the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/..

If this is your first time in a contributors day, don’t be shy. The most important things about contributing are to enjoy yourself, be inspired and willing to learn as much as sharing your knowledge.

See you on 4 June at 13.00 UTC.

#contributor-day, #wceu

Estela Rueda 12:43 pm on May 26, 2020  

Show and tell meeting for Wednesday 27th May

It is time for show and tell! At this time, there is no agenda so is your chance to add a comment and share something. Do you have something you are working on to share, it can be GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. or even a demo of something cool.

Maybe it’s something you want feedback on that you are contributing, or perhaps it’s something you are working on and would love to bring into the project. Now is your time to share! To share something, just add a comment here and you’re on the agenda!

The video link will be shared in #design on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. just before. Make sure you download zoom before. There will also be a recording, posted so you can watch async if unable to make the time.

#agenda#show-and-tell

Mark Uraine 9:50 pm on May 22, 2020
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Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #54

Happy Friday! This post should catch you up with the latest design updates in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ right now. Let’s jump in.

Cover blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.

Improvements to the Cover block are underway. These include padding controls, color controls, and background controls. If you haven’t noticed, a really cool position control was introduced recently.

Cover block

Rich image editing

The Image block is getting some additional image editing features.

Rich image editing

Site navigation

Navigating through the full-site editing experience is coming along. This can be tested in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party right now.

Site navigation

Multi-entity saving

Also recently merged is a first pass at multi-entity saving. It allows the user to see a list of larger changes (especially global changes) that they did to their site before publishing them.

Ways to keep up with FSE

If you didn’t catch it, Anne posted recently about the various ways you can keep up with the work happening on full-site editing.

Get involved

Now is a great time to get involved. While the work on this project is intense, it is always important to glean new perspectives from other WordPress users and community members. Just drop into any of the links provided above to read up on the details, contribute, and leave feedback.

Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!

#design, #gutenberg-weekly, #phase-2

Timi Wahalahti 6:43 pm on May 21, 2020
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Ahmed Chaion 7:18 pm on May 20, 2020
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Design Team Meeting Notes May 20, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

First, Housekeeping. We can still use more volunteers for note-taking and triage leading. Leave a comment below if you’re interested.

Next, @michael-arestad brings GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ updates.

  • Pattern searching
  • UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. parity work between edit-post and edit-site
  • Improvements to the cover blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. are underway including adding padding controls, improving color controls, and improving background controls
  • Work is being done on rich image editing
  • Continuing work on the template part flows, how they could fit with a site-wide column grid, and hopefully flows for setting up a new template
  • The Welcome Guide has been improved
  • A few more block patterns have been added
  • The Widgets screen is coming along nicely.

Features shipping with the Release of 5.5: (planned for sometime in August 2020)

Certain about delivery of the following items

  • Block UI Redesign
  • Block Patterns
  • Hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes

Uncertain about delivery of the following items

  • Navigation screen and block
  • Block based widgets screen
  • Global styles

Announcement

Discussion

  • Adding a Figma access request rule to our handbook
    • Background: Since we want to give access to everyone that needs access but some people only need View permissions while others need Edit. The Editors count towards our limit, while viewers don’t. Suggestion for the default permission should be ‘View’ and permit ‘Edit’ only when requested.
    • View Access will allow copy/paste permission only.
    • This will also be added as a rule in the Design Handbook.

Finally WC EU Contributor Day:

#meeting-notes

Estela Rueda 6:33 am on May 20, 2020  

Design Meeting Agenda 20 May 2020

This is the agenda for the weekly design chat meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 18:00 UTC

This meeting is held in the #design channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

Leave a comment if you would like something reviewed, discussed, help or something added to the agenda.

#meeting-agenda

Mark Uraine 5:52 pm on May 15, 2020
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Gutenberg Phase 2 Friday Design Update #53

Howdy! Gutenberg 8.1 was released this past Wednesday. Some of the recent features include:

  • New patterns.
  • Ability to search patterns.
  • Ability to copy individual blocks.

Query blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.

The Query block is coming along in this PR. This is HUGE for pages that want to display posts with specific categories, tags, etc.

The Query Block allows users to create a search on the site and choose blocks to display content from the matching posts. This allows users to highlight specific content or areas of their sites.

Block Navigator

The Block Navigator is getting some features that allow moving blocks and other common actions.

Welcome Guide

The new Welcome Guide redesign is about to be merged.

What’s New modal

A “What’s new” UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. has been proposed for GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ recently. This will help convey any user-facing changes to users who don’t frequent the make blogs. I particularly love this idea!

Template parts

Continued efforts are explored through design work about how to add template parts, how to select existing template parts, etc.

Prototype

Get involved

Now is a great time to get involved. While the work on this project is intense, it is always important to glean new perspectives from other WordPress users and community members. Just drop into any of the links provided above to read up on the details, contribute, and leave feedback.

Thanks for reading, staying informed, and contributing anywhere you can!

#design, #gutenberg-weekly, #phase-2

Tim Hengeveld 7:20 pm on May 13, 2020
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Design meeting notes May 13th

These are the weekly notes for the design meeting that happens on Wednesdays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here. You can join the SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel by following the instructions in our handbook.

First, housekeeping. We can still use more volunteers for note-taking and triage leading. Leave a comment if you’re interested.

Next, @michael-arestad brings GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ updates.

  • Gutenberg 8.1 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. was released last Monday.
  • Here’s an overview of what we’re working on in May.
  • There is some interesting work being done on the Query block.
  • The blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. navigator is getting some new useful tools.
  • The welcome guide is getting a pretty great design update.
  • The navigation block is seeing some forward progress (over a series of issues) with @karmatosed leading the design of several.
  • Work is being done on an idea for template areas to function a bit more like adding a section (prototype) based on a discussion from last Friday.

Some exciting news: we are participating in Google’s Season of Docs! https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs This will help with the exploration of the new categories for documentation that will be included in the redesign of documentation.

Then, @ibdz updates us on the work being done on the Design Team Handbook to improve the flow and usefulness. Current content is being re-ordered, and soon the pages that need it will be (re-)written. Hopefully this will also help the onboarding process for Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/..

Speaking of contributor day, Office Hours for onboarding new contributors should be planned. Volunteers to keep an eye on the design team slack channel and help anyone with questions would be greatly appreciated. Leave a comment below if you’re interested.

For Contributor Day itself, there are some suggestions for tasks:

  • Updating Gutenberg components
  • Picking up CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. needs-design(-feedback) issues on TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/.
  • Picking up Gutenberg needs-design(-feedback) issues on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/
  • Reclassifying articles with the Docs team
  • Seeing where the Notification Center proposal is at, but that may be quite big

We agreed to start reviewing tickets with needs-screenshots for new contributors and having Monday 1 June/Tuesday 2 June triage as part of the on-boarding process.

#meeting-notes

Tim Hengeveld 4:43 pm on May 12, 2020
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Design meeting agenda for May 13

This is the agenda for the weekly design chat meeting on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 18:00 UTC

This meeting is held in the #design channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

Leave a comment if you would like something reviewed, discussed, help or something added to the agenda.

#meeting-agenda