Block-based Themes Meeting Agenda for March 18

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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. Based Themes meeting twice monthly at Wednesday @ 16:00 UTC

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Agenda

Welcome

Status updates for 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.-based Theme efforts 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/:

New Gutenberg 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. Updates
Block Patterns are live
Lighter Block DOM
Full-site Editing UI Updates

Discussion topic: what design tools would you like to see in the editor to achieve more expressive designs?

General Q&A

If you have any questions you’d like to see raised at this week’s meeting, or any topics or demos you’d like to see in future meetings, please share below.

@itsjusteileen has volunteered to take notes 🙂

Phil Johnston 4:47 pm on March 17, 2020

A possible discussion point:
I am playing with 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. templates in static htmlHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. files using a Block Based Theme, and I am wondering what the intended approach is to pull in image files, or any “hardcoded” url that needs to use the current site’s TLD as the base. Previously you would use something like get_bloginfo( ‘url’ ) . What is the equivalent in static html?

The theme experiements repo is pulling from an outside source for background images:
https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/blob/master/parisienne/block-template-parts/cover.html#L2

But pulling from an outside server does not seem like an approach we should be using for deliverable theme content.

I opened an issue for that here on 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/:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20966

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