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Here we go.\n\n\n\n[00:00:28]\n\n\n\nThe latest version of WordPress has shipped. WordPress 6.2, which was named after Eric Dolphy, was released on March 29th. And as is the way with software, there&#8217;s already a minor release underway to catch a few errant issues that folks like you have reported to us.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s a big release that refines a lot of our design tools, but some of the most important changes are actually to the inserter. If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to get in there and play with it yet, here are the three things that I think you should know. \n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:08] \n\n\n\nFirst, the pattern browser. We&#8217;re all aware of the block inserter by now, and a lot of us probably use the quick options, the keyboard shortcuts, or that kind of inline inserter, that little black box that&#8217;s in the middle of your post.\n\n\n\nIf you use the main inserter, that&#8217;s a blue square in the top left of the screen. 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The second thing that I think you should know is about the media browser in that same area where you browse your patterns; you can also now browse for media.\n\n\n\nIt lets you look through the images you&#8217;ve already added to your site, but it also lets you search for openly licensed images from Openverse. And if you choose one of those images from Openverse, it inserts the proper attribution for you. You still have to add your own alt text, but that&#8217;s the fun part anyway, right?\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:02:35]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nAnd number three, a Style Book. So this thing is available in the template editing area, specifically, as is appropriate, given what it actually does. So if you&#8217;re in the template area, toward the top right of the screen is like a half moon day mode, night mode looking icon. If you click on that, you can make changes to things inside your blocks.\n\n\n\nBut if you click on the little eyeball icon that&#8217;s just underneath it, it pulls up a style book where you can also see and edit the styles globally. If that didn&#8217;t make sense to you, don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ve got you. I&#8217;m about to tell you a bunch of things you can do in here. You can edit the way headings and lists and tables, quotes, and code looks all across the site. You can edit the way images, galleries, files, and videos look using custom CSS.\n\n\n\nYes. Also, all across the site. And you can edit buttons, separators, and individual blocks. Say it with me &#8212; all across the site. That is not a comprehensive list. There is a ton of stuff. You can see the styles that you have applied across the whole site. You can see them in context, and you can make any changes that you need globally, which means all across the site.\n\n\n\nYeah. Style Books. What will we think of next? \n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:54]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSo those are my three things I think you should know about WordPress right now. As a former WordPress builder who was never really super great with the code, this stuff makes me feel powerful. I just love these changes, and I hope you do too.\n\n\n\n [00:04:07]\n\n\n\nWhich brings us now to our small list of big things. First, we just launched the Developer Blog. It&#8217;s over at developer.wordpress.org/news. It has a bunch of content on it that not only is geared specifically toward developers that are using WordPress but especially the folks who are extending WordPress. It gives you kind of an in-depth look at various changes and projects, and implementations and what goes into each one of them.\n\n\n\nSo it gives you a bit of like this aspirational overview of stuff that you could do with WordPress and then also gives you an inside look at how you would accomplish it yourself. It&#8217;s very cool. I like it a lot. Head on over there, but we&#8217;ll have a link to the show notes below.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:05:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThe second thing is that we have an MVP of our new mentorship program that is underway.\n\n\n\nIt should be debuting for essentially testing any day now, a link to the posts detailing that work, just in case you want to join that important initiative. But it is an important thing for me. I think that mentorship is a key element of many of our successful contributors&#8217; onboarding journeys, a part of their story of coming to us.\n\n\n\nAnd so, creating a mentorship program that is a bit sustainable and looks toward the health of the overall project, I think, is an excellent plan.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:05:38]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThe third thing on our small list of big things is that Matt put out a nice little post about kind of the history of why jazz has this strong background in the WordPress project. It&#8217;s a brief read. I&#8217;ll put a link to that in the show notes as well. But suffice it to say that he&#8217;s saying that jazz has a little bit of learned processes and rules but that the primary expectation is that you&#8217;re able to make of the jazz what you want. Like you get to make your own thing out of it. You get to be extemporaneous. You get to be very measured, whatever it is, that expresses what you are trying to do and what you are trying to say with it.\n\n\n\nThat&#8217;s why he feels like jazz is such an important part of the DNA of the WordPress project. Like I said, it&#8217;s a short read. I&#8217;ll put a link to it in the show notes.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:06:30]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nAnd finally, there are a few working groups that folks can contribute to right now. We don&#8217;t always have working groups. We generally just kind of do stuff inside individual teams. 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You’ll note overall faster load times for block themes of 14 to 18%, and for classic themes, speed increases of 2 to 5%. Server-side performance is also significantly boosted, with an increase of 17 to 23% for block themes and 3 to 5% for classic themes, 3 to 5%. The performance team is dedicated to these kinds of improvements. You can learn more about their work by following the Making WordPress blog using the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/performance/\">#performance hashtag</a>.\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn more about WordPress 6.2</h2>\n\n\n\nExplore <a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/workshops/\">Learn WordPress</a> for quick how-to videos, courses, and other resources for the latest features in WordPress. 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You can submit them to <a href=\"mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org\">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Notes</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://riad.blog/2020/06/11/write-as-blocks-in-an-encrypted-collaborative-environment/\">Write as Blocks in an Encrypted Collaborative Environment by Riad Benguella</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/youknowriad/asblocks\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://github.com/youknowriad/asblocks\">Riad Benguella’s collaborative editing GitHub repository</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/\">Riad Benguella&#8217;s WordPress.org Profile</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23129\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23129\">Block Collab: New package, a framework for collaborative editing GitHub PR</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/\">Phase 3: Collaboration</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/48457\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/48457\">Matías Ventura Quick Search GH Issue</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/matveb/\">Matías Ventura WordPress.org Profile</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/23/wordpress-6-2-release-day-process/\">WordPress 6.2 Release Day Process</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/introducing-the-wordpress-developer-blog/\">Introducing the WordPress Developer Blog</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/contributor-day/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/contributor-day/\">WordCamp Europe Contributor Day Registration</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wp20.wordpress.net/wapuu-coloring-giveaway-style-your-own-party-wapuu/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://wp20.wordpress.net/wapuu-coloring-giveaway-style-your-own-party-wapuu/\">WP20 Wapuu Coloring Giveaway</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript</h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nHello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:40] I have with me today Hécto Prieto. You all may know him from the WordPress Slack. He recently was, I believe, a release coordinator, maybe for the last release. Was that for 6.1?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:00:51] Yes. It was for 6.1 and also 6.0, in fact.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:54] All right. Well, welcome to the WordPress Briefing today. How are you doing?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:00:59]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nWell, I&#8217;m excited to be here. I&#8217;m a longtime listener of the podcast since the first episode. So I&#8217;m super excited to be here with you today.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:06] Yes. Longtime listener. First-time caller. All right, well, we&#8217;re gonna have a topic that just dumps you right in the soup, as they say in the United States. So we are actually here to talk about phase three of Gutenberg. It&#8217;s been a long time coming, and there are a lot of questions that folks have about what&#8217;s going into it and what&#8217;s not going into it.\n\n\n\nAnd as someone who works really closely with our Gutenberg technical architect, Matías Ventura, I figured you would be exactly the right person to come and talk about your favorite things. From your perspective, what is going to be the biggest enhancement that we start to approach in phase three?\n\n\n\nLike which thing, which API is gonna take the most work, do you think?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:01:53] Well, the most work, that&#8217;s a very hard question to answer because we are still we are going to start an exploration phase to determine how far we want to go with each of these APIs. So, in general, all these APIs and these products are standalone projects. And some of them are shorter, and some of them are longer.\n\n\n\nI would say, in general, the real-time collaboration sounds the most technically challenging because of what it represents and all the changes needed to how we interact with WordPress from async to sync, basically. That would be the hardest part. I think there are also already a few prototypes working, but we need to see how that scales, for example.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:02:32]\n\n\n\nYeah. So speaking of a few prototypes, I know that there are two or three different prototypes specifically for collaborative editing, but do we have people or groups, working groups in the community that have built any other prototypes? Or is it just kind of first passes at collaborative editing that we&#8217;ve seen?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:02:52] Well, apart from Riad Benguella’s exploration, there&#8217;s a public repository with that exploration, there are a few plugins trying the same, trying real-time collaboration.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:03] Yeah, I can think of co-blocks and as blocks, and then I feel like there was a third one.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:09]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nYeah.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:09] We&#8217;ll find the links to all these\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:12]\n\n\n\nYeah. Let&#8217;s add them to the show notes.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:14] Excellent. So that&#8217;s going to be the biggest one. Is there, of the list of APIs, and this is based on the post that Matías sent out last week. If you all haven&#8217;t seen that, we&#8217;ll put that in the show notes as well. But from the APIs that Matías sort of helped us to identify last week, is there any one that you are particularly excited about for fixing things in WordPress or just generally like an interesting topic of development for you?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:42] Well, I would say all of them and how they all play together. But, if I need to pick one of them…\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:48] Everything&#8217;s the best!&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:50] I&#8217;ll cheat anyway, and I will going to pick two out of them because they solve issues at different levels. I&#8217;m very excited about visual revisions. I think it helps a lot of users, and it affects even non-technical users.\n\n\n\nSo it&#8217;s one of the projects that lower how hard or complex WordPress can be to use sometimes. It&#8217;s going to be a huge improvement. It&#8217;s going to, I mean, bringing blocks to the revision system. I mean, it&#8217;s just a dream come true for me. I&#8217;m also going to highlight the search everywhere or quick search feature Matías already opened an issue in the GitHub repository right now.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:04:28] Mm-hmm.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:04:28] So the idea for this product is to have a power user shortcut that opens searching, an Alfred-like or Spotlight-like interface for those familiar with MacOS operating systems.\n\n\n\nWhen you can type anything, any place you want to go, or you want to search for any specific text in a document. And it&#8217;s supposed to be your power user command tool. So that you can do most things there.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:04:53] Oh, and I mean not only power user command tool, but also there are some applications there for folks who have mobility issues, people who are using primarily keyboard as opposed to keyboard and mouse, all that kind of stuff, right?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:05:07] Exactly. And just thinking long term with the rise of AI, it could be possible even to add some natural language processing to this interface so that users could just write in, in plain text, in natural language, what they want to do, and WordPress would provide the action for them.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:05:23] Very nice. My two favorites, since you gave two favorites and I can&#8217;t just give one at that point, my two favorite projects, which are also probably really, really hard projects, are those explorations around fixing notifications. That is a really big project. And one that I think that, in general, the WordPress project is going to be really excited to have some input on.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nAnd so that&#8217;s one that I really will have an eye on. And the other one that I&#8217;m going to definitely have my eye on is the media gallery redesign. I realize that this shows, between you and I, that shows our two specific focuses. Because, of course, you work directly with guiding all of our developers. And I am very much like our user advocate. And WordPress “everyman.”\n\n\n\nI don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a term that makes sense outside the US. But I do a lot of advocacy for folks who are using WordPress from the user side as opposed to from the developer side because, of course, we have a lot of excellent developers. So y&#8217;all don&#8217;t need my help with your advocacy.\n\n\n\nBut yeah, that really shows that you and I have different focuses, which I think is good too.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:06:32] Yes. Also, it’s worth noting that at the end of the day, any improvement we make for developers is so that developers can build better things for users. So, at the end of the day, everything is in the best interest of the users.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:06:45]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThat&#8217;s right. That&#8217;s definitely a good point. Yeah. So, a final question about this particular thing because we&#8217;re trying to keep it a little brief and also because we&#8217;ll have a few other podcasts that are specifically about phase three as our explorations get going. Final question here: If you felt like there was one API or one project in particular that could benefit from a lot of community involvement which would you guess that was?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:07:20] I don&#8217;t think I can single out any of them. I think getting user feedback is going to be a vital part of this phase, as always. So I would encourage our listeners to just participate in discussions and provide feedback as we start releasing the first prototypes in the Gutenberg plugin. I don&#8217;t think I can pick one of them for you, completely honest.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:07:43]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nYeah. My guess for that is going to be the rework of the dashboard, the admin, WP admin. I think that a lot of people are gonna have a lot to say about what they use it for, what they would like to be able to use it for, how to make it look more modern, how to make it feel more modern. I think that that probably is going to benefit from a lot of early testing and possibly some specific user testing around the concepts of design in there.\n\n\n\nAnd so that&#8217;s one that that I think probably is going to take a lot of feedback from the community. And community, in this case, I think, is not only our developers and designers and copy folks who are working to build the CMS, but probably also all of our folks who are extending WordPress, everybody who is working in agencies, things like that.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:08:35] Hmm, well, if I need to pick one, I would say the publishing flows could use also lots of feedback and testing because we are going to implement editorial requirements and customized user flows. And, of course, there are many, many different workflows out there that we might not be able to think of ourselves.\n\n\n\nSo just imagine the sheer amount of different use cases. There&#8217;s going to be, or there currently is with customizations of third-party plugins. So, yeah. I would like to listen to how people would like the publishing flows to be. What are the specific use cases?&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:09:09] So really, just everything, we need a lot of user feedback on everything.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:09:13] Yes. That&#8217;s the summary.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:09:15]\n\n\n\nI don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a bad summary. I know that we talk a bit about how WordPress is made better by the activity of our co-creators, the people who are using the software and testing the software, and telling us how it could be better. 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My guess is, you know, some WordCamp somewhere, and an attendee was like, did you, did anybody ever think about these problems? And then they kind of worked their way around the Make Core site or otherwise made their way around to Matias&#8217;s ears.\n\n\n\nBut yeah, I think that was a really smart choice. And you&#8217;re exactly right, collaborative editing; that can refer to the synchronous kind or the asynchronous kind, and both of those types of collaboration are equally valuable and probably equally used.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:12:40] Yes. And one important point to note here is that this editorial flows, and this collaboration is crucial to implement multilingualism going into phase four. We need to think that as soon as we have posts and pages in different languages, there are going to be requirements in terms of how to translate these pieces of content.\n\n\n\nSo this will need collaboration, all forms of collaboration.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:13:02] Yeah, absolutely. This maybe was before your time with the project, but I was team multilingual-first for a long time. Or at least thinking that we could do the multilingual part of this work alongside the collaborative editing part of the work. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what we think is going in phase three versus what probably we need to be able to do as far as having native multilingual support in the project.\n\n\n\nAnd I have softened my very hard position on that. You know, we&#8217;re big fans of strong positions loosely held, strong opinions loosely held. And this was one of those moments where I had that really strong opinion that we could just do them concurrently. We can do them at the same time.\n\n\n\nAnd I think it was a conversation that you and I were having when you were pointing out the complexities of translating WordPress at all, let alone being able to translate all your content as well. And it makes a lot of sense, and you&#8217;re right. I think that there are a lot of interactions, a lot of workflows that we&#8217;re gonna have to kind of refresh or redesign or rebuild before it really makes sense for us to help make that a nice streamlined option for multilingual offerings.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:14:17] Yes, absolutely. As a Spanish-speaking person, I&#8217;m super excited about having multilingual in Core, but I also understand that we need some tooling ready before implementing multilingual in Core.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:14:29]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThere are no, there really are no easy problems left in WordPress, right? Like, we all agree on this now?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:14:36] That&#8217;s correct. And we&#8217;re creating something incrementally. If we look at the phases, they are ordered sequentially. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that when we start phase three, we are, finishing phase two completely in the same way. We have not finished phase one.\n\n\n\nThat will be like saying, when is WordPress finished, when is the development finished? So it&#8217;s an incremental project, and it&#8217;s always going to be to need refining. So it&#8217;s of course, multilingual needs to come after collaboration because we need those tools.\n\n\n\nBut that doesn&#8217;t mean we need to finish the collaboration phase or have it very advanced phase three before we can start phase four. 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Here we go.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:29]\n\n\n\nAll right, my WordPress wonders; it&#8217;s time to join me for one of my gentle rants on basic leadership principles. Today we&#8217;re talking about the importance of routine and predictability in everyday life. But don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m gonna tie it all together with WordPress, too. So by now you&#8217;re probably aware that I don&#8217;t really consider myself one of those “born leaders.”&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nOver the years, I&#8217;ve put a lot of effort into researching characteristics of good leaders and general leadership methods overall. But one of the things I encountered early on in my leadership learning journey was the concept of routine.\n\n\n\nAs with most leadership practices I hold, routine has more than one purpose. From a very pragmatic standpoint, routines provide predictability and the more predictable something is, the lower the cognitive load becomes, which in turn lets you use your thinking power for something better. For instance, if you know that in every check-in with your team lead, she&#8217;s gonna ask you what you were proud to have shipped last week, what you want to ship next week, and what things stand in the way of your plans, then you know that that is what you have to prepare for.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThe knowledge work, the thinking part. The thinking part stops being, what is my team lead going to ask me and starts being what is the problem that she can help me solve?&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:02:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nBut from a more human standpoint, that kind of predictability helps us to understand when something that happened is out of the ordinary. Whether it&#8217;s a notification of a comment left on your blog or syntactical highlighting that lets you know that you&#8217;ve written something that&#8217;s out of voice or against grammar standards, it just lets you know that something is unusual there and deserves your attention.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nNow for me, this has a lot of applications across the WordPress project. There are the obvious things like the cadence of our major release cycles or our notification system, which honestly could use a bit of TLC, a little bit of elbow grease.\n\n\n\nBut there are also less obvious things that this idea still applies to simply because of the way our brains work, the information architecture on our sites, for instance. It should make sense visually and semantically because that makes it easy for us to skim and predict where the highest value content is for us. Or the user interface across the back end of our software.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nHaving familiar tasks or actions across any type of content or area of content makes it easier for a site maintainer to flow from one area of a site to the next, fixing things as they find them without necessarily having to stop and put down their hammer and pick up a screwdriver or whatever metaphor works for you. Or if you&#8217;re doing more nuanced work, like put down your timpani mallets and pick up your xylophone mallets.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSo, yeah, consistency. Consistency is the topic of today&#8217;s gentle rant. I get really worked up about it because I feel like consistency ends up being this euphemism for being boring. 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They gave a quick tour of the Site Editor’s refreshed interface, which lets you browse and preview templates before editing. They also covered all the new and highly anticipated ways to manage styles, as well as improvements to the Navigation block, new collections of header and footer patterns, the new distraction-free mode for focusing on writing, and plenty more.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nIt was a jam-packed hour that sparked plenty of excitement—and a lively question and answer session that wrapped up the event on a high note. The presenters weren&#8217;t able to answer all the questions that were posed so they were <a href=\"https://a8c.slack.com/archives/C04S7RYK0F3/p1678330454722129?thread_ts=1678330090.320659&amp;cid=C04S7RYK0F3\">collected and answered in a follow-up post</a> on <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/\">Make.Wordpress.org/Core</a>.\n\n\n\nWatch the recording of the live demo in case you missed it, or want to relive the moment (and the funky fresh demo site designed by Rich). You can find a full transcript of the live demo below.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Referenced Resources</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/02/2https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/02/21/6-2-live-product-demo/%201/6-2-live-product-demo/\">Live demo announcement</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/02/06/roadmap-to-6-2/\">6.2 release roadmap</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/02/04/phase-2-finale/\">Wrapping Phase 2 of the Gutenberg project</a>&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/02/wordpress-6-2-beta-1/\">6.2 release enters Beta 1</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/01/wordpress-6-2-beta-4/\">Beta 4 and the latest call for testing</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/47043\">Fixed/sticky positioning GitHub issue</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/\">Learn WordPress</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>FSE theme developers on Twitch: <a href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/daisyonwp\">daisyonwp</a> and <a href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/ryanwelchercodes\">ryanwelchercodes</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/02/intrinsic-design-theming-and-rethinking-how-to-design-with-wordpress/\">Intrinsic design, theming, and rethinking how to design with WordPress</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/annezazu\">Anne McCarthy on GitHub</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learn WP workshop: <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/291813021/?isFirstPublish=true\">How to create a website on mobile</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nProps to <a href=\'https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/\' class=\'mention\'>@cbringmann</a> and <a href=\'https://profiles.wordpress.org/laurlittle/\' class=\'mention\'>@laurlittle</a> for co-authoring and editing this post, <a href=\'https://profiles.wordpress.org/evarlese/\' class=\'mention\'>@evarlese</a>, <a href=\'https://profiles.wordpress.org/courtneypk/\' class=\'mention\'>@courtneypk</a>, and <a href=\'https://profiles.wordpress.org/mysweetcate/\' class=\'mention\'>@mysweetcate</a> for captioning, and <a href=\'https://profiles.wordpress.org/robinwpdeveloper/\' class=\'mention\'>@robinwpdeveloper</a> for uploading the recording files to wordpress.tv.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript</h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Nathan Wrigley 0:22 \nHow are we doing? Should we go for it?\n\nAnne McCarthy 0:24 \nI think we can start.\n\nNathan Wrigley 0:26 \nWhy not? The recording has started. So let\'s get, let\'s get cracking.\n\nHello, welcome everybody to the WP 6.2 Live Demo outline. I\'m Nathan Wrigley. I do a few things around the WordPress community, mainly to do with video and podcasting and things like that. But it\'s not about me.\n\nToday, we\'ve got two fabulous guests. We\'ve got Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor, and they\'re going to do a full on Product Demo. It\'s a little bit unlike things that you may have seen, because in the more recent past, lots of new features have been added. And so Rich, and Anne are going to spend the time on the screen in a moment, and they\'re going to show you all of the bits and pieces that you may find dropping into a WordPress install near you. Let\'s hope. There\'s been a lot that\'s been happening, so there really will be probably 20 or 30 minutes of live demos, so look forward to that. I\'ve got to get them to introduce themselves in a couple of moments.\n\nJust before that, though, a little bit of housekeeping. This is going to be recorded, so if you have to drop out halfway through and go elsewhere, completely fine. It\'s going to be posted at the Make/Core website, but it will also come fully complete with a transcript as well. So, if that\'s something that you\'re looking for, that will all be there. Also to say that if you want to post any questions, we\'d love that. In fact, there\'s a whole portion at the end when Rich and Anne have finished speaking, where we\'re going to field questions toward them. Now there\'s really two places to do that. If you\'re live with us on Zoom, then if you hit the Q&amp;A button at the bottom of the screen and post your questions in there, I guess specifity... specific... Whatever that word is, be specific. Help us out. Tell us exactly what you want to know and we\'ll get the questions to them. The other way to do that is to go into Slack. And there is a channel in there, #walkthrough. And if you want to post any questions in there as well, that would be great. So yeah, just to recap, Q&amp;A button if you\'re in Zoom, and use the Slack #walkthrough channel, if you are in the Making WordPress Slack. Okay, right. I think we\'ll take you guys one at a time if that\'s alright. First off a little bit of an introduction from both of you. Let\'s begin with with Anne McCarthy, shall we? Hello, Anne!\n\nAnne McCarthy 2:42\nHello, hello. It\'s so good to be back on literally any sort of live stream with you.\n\nI appreciate that you\'re a part of this\n\nNathan Wrigley 2:48 \nYeah, that\'s really nice.\n\nAnne McCarthy 2:49\nWell, I\'m Anne McCarthy. I\'m a product wrangler at Automattic. I live in Seattle. I also run the FSE Outreach Program, which is basically dedicated to testing all the latest and greatest of WordPress, which is part of why I\'m so excited to be part of this demo, is because so much neat stuff has come through this that I\'ve had the privilege of going through a little bit early on with the ever growing calls for testing. So that\'s a little bit about me, I\'ll pop it over to Rich.\n\nNathan Wrigley 3:17\nYeah. So Rich, if you want to take the baton there.\n\nRich Tabor 3:21\nYeah. Hey, everyone. I\'m Rich Tabor. I\'m a product manager at Automattic. And I work on WordPress and Gutenberg, in particular. From a little bit south of Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, and been building and tinkering with WordPress for I think, close to 11 years now. So it\'s, it\'s been a good run, and I\'m super stoked about where things are heading.\n\nNathan Wrigley 3:43\nYeah, and things definitely have been moving in a very much a forward direction, WordPress, 6.1. And WordPress 6.2. There\'s so much clear blue sky between the two of them. I think probably the best thing at this point is if we can have it, I don\'t know what whose screen is coming on. I think it might be Rich\'s, or maybe it\'s Anne\'s, I don\'t know.\n\nRich Tabor 4:00\nYeah.\n\nNathan Wrigley 4:01\nIf we can get that screen shared, then I will slide my way out of this call and say, Rich and Anne, it\'s... it\'s over to you. I\'ll be back soon as you\'re finished for any Q&amp;As.\n\nAnne McCarthy 4:14\nAwesome. Thank you.\n\nRich Tabor 4:17\nAlright, everybody can see my screen right now?\n\nAnne McCarthy 4:19 \nYes. Rich did an excellent job designing this. I do want to call this out that I love, absolutely love this.\n\nRich Tabor 4:26\nThanks, Anne. Yeah, this is actually running Twenty Twenty-Three. So it\'s kind of showcasing some of the things you can do just with the core theme. And some of the design tooling that we are, that has been built into 6.2. So this view here is the site editor. So I\'m going to orient you here. There\'s one big change here in particular, I want to call out visually, is this idea of the frame here on the right, and this will pull up the local template. So I\'m looking at my homepage of the site right now. If I navigate into other templates, I can pull those up here on the right as well. And then you can also navigate template parts. So this part\'s not very new to 6.2. But the idea of zooming in on different template parts and templates and having them appear here in the frame is. And that\'s important because of this concept of browse mode. And this is where you could dive into an actual page from the site editor. So here, I just pulled up the about page of the site, and I can click into it and actually start making changes. Now, the changes here within the post content block are going to be relative to this about page. But I can also modify the template which then changes the about, or changes the page on any instance of this particular template. So it\'s a new concept and how we can browse the site. But it\'s a very powerful, and really the first iteration of that way of managing a site.\n\nAnne McCarthy 5:50\nAnd also lightly introduced content editing in the site editor, as you mentioned. So it\'s a kind of a neat merging of the two worlds, which I know folks have long been wanting to see that unified. And same with the frame, it kind of adds a nice layer where instead of just being dropped in, like before, you kind of are given a more zoomed out view, which I think helps address a lot of the feedback that we saw around the orientation when you\'re entering the site editor.\n\nRich Tabor 6:12 \nYeah, exactly. And really, if we think a little bit further out than 6.2, this could also house setting to use. So we do have, you know, one view here that that is relative to 6.1, where you can see all of your different templates. But imagine if we had any other different types of settings and controls and different pages loaded within here, doesn\'t have to be just the front end templates and renders of your site.\n\nAlright, so we\'re gonna dive into this here. So you can go into it just by clicking on the frame. I\'ll do that one more time just to show, you just click on it. And now you entered right into it. You can edit it right off, so we can make changes, just as if we zoomed into it in the other way in 6.1. And then we have a bunch of styling tools that have been added to 6.2, so I want to kind of hone in on these. Like, this panel itself is not new. We have style variations, you can zoom in here, we\'ve got this new zoomed out view, where you can apply different ones at a time. And then we also have this icon here, which triggers the style book. Now the style book is a very interesting tool here that really lets you customize the theme\'s style guide, essentially. So I can go through each of these tabs, which are relative to the block categories, and see all of the blocks loaded on this particular site. So right here, I\'ve got like Button blocks and Columns block and whatnot. So if I click on one of these, it\'ll pull up the Style panel of that particular block. And then when I make changes over here, these are applied globally throughout my entire site. So if I want to change the way this button looks, let\'s say we do some smaller tags, maybe we\'ll add a little bit of letter spacing, and maybe make it capitalized. See, it\'s getting applied everywhere that the button is used. Also do some changes here to padding, perhaps. We\'ll do something custom here. I think that looks nice. And now...\n\nAnne McCarthy 8:13\nReal quick while you\'re doing this, I wanted to note that like this is something that folks have really struggled with previously with the site editor, where if you\'re editing a block that isn\'t in the template already, you\'re not able to see this. So as Rich is showing, you can actually look at any block that\'s being used in your theme and see how the change that you\'re making in styles will impact that. Where before, if the block wasn\'t present in that template that you were editing, it was hard to know exactly what was happening. And so now you have both the style book and this inline preview that you see in the Style section to rely upon, which is pretty neat.\n\nRich Tabor 8:43\nYeah, exactly. And really, you could theoretically go in and design your entire theme with the style book. Now, I know there\'s some advantage to design in context of pages and whatnot. And I\'ll go into that in a bit. But the idea is that you really can quickly browse through all of the different blocks and tighten up what you want to within these controls. And it\'s not limited to the standard variation as well. There\'s also these style variations of each block that you can now manipulate as well. So we\'re gonna go in, say, we\'ll change the radius of this one. So we want it to be sharp like our other button. But we have these new controls. Like, this is a shadow control we\'ve added in 6.2, where you can apply, say, like this shadow here might be nice. This one here, and so some fallback shadows, within core that a theme can provide as well, its own values. But this now will apply for every single variation of the outline on my site here.\n\nAnne McCarthy 9:39 \nAnd you\'ll notice that it\'s not in the style book right now. And that\'s just part of the future feature development is showing the variations of blocks as well.\n\nRich Tabor 9:47\nExactly, yes, I would imagine that this would this would show up the variations of the button block, yeah. Which is a nice way to really customize these, like it used to be only CSS would be used to manipulate these variations here. And now it kind of abstracts that away and you can do it within the editing experience. That\'s really nice. It really is. There\'s also this idea of block CSS, so you can add custom CSS that is scoped to a particular block. So if I add CSS here, it\'ll be applied for the button block wherever it\'s used. Now, I wouldn\'t recommend using additional CSS in most cases. I would, I would suggest using all the different controls that we\'ve built, that are built into 6.2. But the idea of using CSS to add a little pizzazz to this particular button block is fine. But just with that caveat that you wouldn\'t want to use it exclusively. Like I wouldn\'t apply a background color via CSS, I would rather use the background elements color here. There\'s also additional CSS, which emulates what was previously in the customizer. So we do have site wide CSS that can be applied within the site editor and also on the front end of your site. Again, I wouldn\'t emphasize using this exclusively, as there are a lot of new design tools that I would explore first, from the top level styles here where you can apply colors to the background, text and buttons. But if there was anything extra you wanted to add, you could do so within the stylesheet here.\n\nAnne McCarthy 11:21\nAnd I\'ll note we\'d love to hear feedback if there are certain things that you\'re repeatedly adding custom CSS for. So either commenting on a currently open issue, or if you don\'t find one, opening an issue would be super helpful, because it\'s neat to see what folks are using for CSS so we can fill those gaps.\n\nRich Tabor 11:36\nYeah, exactly. So that\'s the global Style panel here. But there are some quite a few other improvements along with styling. So the first is the idea of pushing styles globally. So if I\'m in here, and I\'m designing, let\'s say I want to add a radius, I want to do some different typography as to appearance like this, like bold, italic look. And then we\'ll also...\n\nAnne McCarthy 12:07\nThat\'s cool.\n\nRich Tabor 12:07\nThanks. Also, let me make the letter spacing, maybe we\'ll make it a little bit bigger, actually, and then, I think that\'ll work. Do these changes here and see I\'ve just styled this one particular block this button up here. And this button down here is still using the global styles that we designed earlier. But now I can go through my settings panel here and hit Apply globally. And I\'m going to here so we can see that happen. The styles are now pushed globally to all the other blocks. So this is really helpful for when you\'re designing in flow. And you don\'t necessarily want to abstract out into the style book and you want to push your changes that you just did here, because you like the way the button looks and want those applied everywhere, all at once. I think this is really powerful way to to quickly design within the editor. Another tool that is quite useful, I\'m going to take this heading here and manipulate this. It\'s the idea of copying and pasting styling. So we\'re going to use that same bold italic look, maybe we\'ll make that a little smaller, we can even manipulate this size to be a little bigger. Now we go here to copy styles. And then I can come all the way down here to this other heading that\'s very similar, and paste it in. And there we have that style applied just to these two headers. And you would do this when you don\'t necessarily want every single heading to have this effect. But perhaps there are like elements on this page that you want to push those changes to, specifically. So copying and pasting allows you to be very granular, whereas applying styling globally, lets you be more of a holistic design experience for pushing styles. Another neat...\n\nAnne McCarthy 13:57 \nOh, real quick, I just wanted to know like I think one of the things that\'s interesting is, as we\'ve added more design options to blocks like this is part of the experience of scaling things and making it easier to use. So when we think about like intuitive and delightful. Some of these tools coming into 6.2 really take you know, the tons of design tools that we\'ve added over the last couple releases and makes it easy so you can actually tweak things and then reuse. So I think that\'s one of the things I want to call out is it\'s kind of this crescendo. Where now the tools that are coming to 6.2 to really ease the experience and allow you to do a lot of neat stuff where rather than having to re-tweak everything through every single heading block. A lot of stuff is used. So...\n\nRich Tabor 14:34\nYeah, exactly. WordPress is moving towards a design tool and less of like, what you see is what you can only have. It\'s more of an expression of creativity and it really does open up the doors for for designing beautiful pages on the web. I think it\'s really powerful.\n\nAnother cool bit that we\'ve added is the idea of sticky positioning. So headers would be nice sometimes if they stick to the top, so for top level group blocks, this is a group block here, there\'s this new position attribute where you can assign it to sticky. And as you can see, right in the editor, it\'s already showing me that this is sticky on the front end. And also here as well. It\'s only available for top level blocks for now, there\'s still some some odd stuff to figure out on how we communicate when something is not going to stick due to the the parent height of the elements around it. But for top level, it\'s still fine. So we have it here. But there are some iterations that are already happening for the next release that will kind of bring this into more, bring some more capabilities to this particular feature.\n\nAnne McCarthy 15:44 \nYeah, and I\'m very excited because one of the things I wanted to briefly call out was the how the header, the template part has that purple. So another neat thing coming to this release, that was a big part of feedback for the outreach program was having to look parts and reusable blocks having a different coloring, because there are different kinds of blocks are synced across the site, when you make little changes and impacts everything everywhere. So that\'s another neat thing that\'s coming with this release, is that you can kind of see those a bit differently in the List view as well as when you\'re in the editor. I see Nathan has his hand raised. Is that intentional? Oh, it\'s removed. Okay.\n\nNathan Wrigley 16:23 \nIt was not intentional. That\'s my mistake. I\'m sorry.\n\nRich Tabor 16:28 \nYeah, it helps you see quickly too like, what is the template part, particularly for headers and footers, it makes it easier to browse quickly.\n\nSo speaking of template parts, and patterns in particular, so headers and footers, are new patterns added within WordPress 6.2. And now that they\'re loaded, actually from the pattern directory, which is kind of neat. And I\'m going to show you how to replace a footer with one of those other patterns. So if you have your footer template parts selected, you can go to replace footer. Now this flow is not new to 6.2, but it\'s going to call out these other improvements. And then you just click one there, and you have it loaded here, that\'s the site logo that I\'m using up here as well. And you can modify this text without having to do any any funky PHP filters or moving actual templates. And if you want to change it again, you go back to replace say, let\'s pick this other one, let\'s try this one. It\'s kind of nice. And there\'s this focus view, or you can zoom in to just the footer itself. You can even check the responsiveness of it and see how it, how it reacts on mobile, and make any of your changes here and have those persist over to the actual template whenever you close it out. It\'s a nice way to really kind of clean up the editing experience. So you\'re not seeing this entire group of groups and instead kind of focusing on what you\'re actually wanting to complete. You can do the same for the header as well.\n\nAnne McCarthy 18:01\nYeah, and as Rich mentioned, there are some new patterns that are being bundled from the directory, which I think are really extensive. Regardless of what theme you\'re using, there\'s going to be some pattern for group patterns that help democratize design where you can use them in anything.\n\nRich Tabor 18:15\nYes, that\'s right. All right. So navigation. Navigation has gone under a... quite a bit of work in the last a couple of months. And really, this is all about trying to make it easier to manage your site\'s navigation and also add pages and links and then even styling. So there\'s this new dedicated list view for the navigation block. So it\'s essentially emulating a little bit of what\'s available over here except for you had to kind of get down to it. Now it brings it top of mine and the surface area here. You can drag them around, move them up and down, even add submenu links and remove them as well. And then you can style it like normal. And now apply different styles via the styles tab to the block itself, or even individual page links and whatnot, you can dive into them and manage them all from here, instead of having to only manage them from up here. This really kind of abstracts the complexity from from this particular canvas interface into a more familiar interface here on the sidebar. It\'s really a great effort. And it\'s it\'s taken some time to refine but it\'s getting there and it\'s feels a lot nicer.\n\nAnne McCarthy 19:30 \nYeah, there\'s been a lot of good feedback about this as well just because it kind of is meant to marry the classic experience with bringing blocks into it. So it is in addition to being edit, editing on canvas, so if you really want to continue to edit as a block you still, you can continue to do that. But it does add a nice interface and the block settings where you\'re able to do it. And I\'ll briefly call out here the split settings, which we\'ll probably talk about later. But you\'ll see here for more complex blocks, there\'s some nice split settings making it a little bit easier, more intuitive to go through.\n\nRich Tabor 20:02\nYeah, that\'s right. And if you take a look at navigation here, this is very similar to this component added here. And, and that\'s, that\'s purposeful, we want it to look and feel familiar. Either way you\'re managing navigation. So you can also add some menu items here, remove them and drag them around and reset them here, as well as browse into the individual pages. So that\'s what I have for the site editor portion of the demo. And did you have anything else you wanted to add to this, Anne?\n\nAnne McCarthy 20:37\nOh, could you resize the Browse mode for me? I just love the resizing. I think it\'s kind of cool. This is just like a fun, you know, thing to call out. But maybe you won\'t noticem but you can resize it. So as you\'re quickly going through your site, if you want to see how it looks in different ways, you can also do that. So that\'s the final thing I\'ll shout out.\n\nRich Tabor 20:56\nYeah. So then, yeah, exactly. It\'s... there\'s a lot of fine, fine touches like that. Well, we can\'t obviously can\'t call them all out today. But it is really getting tightened up overall as an admin experience for the site.\n\nAnne McCarthy 21:12\nIt\'s such a great foundation in the future, for sure.\n\nRich Tabor 21:15\nExactly, exactly. Alright, so if we press this back button here, it goes right back to the dashboard, I\'m gonna go and leave...\n\nAnne McCarthy 21:25\nThat back button was a big piece of feedback people had they would get into the site or not know how to get back out. So I appreciate you calling that out.\n\nRich Tabor 21:32\nYeah, exactly. It\'s been through a number of iterations. And I think we\'ve settled on something that feels feels nice; it does feel nice.\n\nAnne McCarthy 21:41\nI agree.\n\nRich Tabor 21:43\nSo...\n\nAnne McCarthy 21:44\nAh yes, the removal of the beta label.\n\nRich Tabor 21:46\nYou want to talk to this, Anne?\n\nAnne McCarthy 21:48\nYeah, I would love to jump in on this actually. So you\'ll notice that the beta label is removed for this release. And part of why we wanted to show it now is to see how all the features, how the experience has changed, how much more you can do. And all of that has led to the removal of the beta label. And that doesn\'t mean that feature development is done that it\'s like, you know, gonna stay this way forever, it just means it\'s in a place where we invite you all to try to the site editor, it is out of beta. And a lot of development work has gone into testing this. So we\'ve had almost, I think, 20 calls for testing with the outreach program. It\'s been through multiple major WordPress release cycles, there is still more work to be done. But I\'m very excited to see the beta label removed, I think the features that are coming to 6.2. And the foundation that is set with 6.2 really marks a level of maturity. That is pretty exciting. So consider this an invitation to try out modern WordPress, and to check it out.\n\nRich Tabor 22:43\nA hundred percent, I couldn\'t have said it better.\n\nAlright, so another neat part that\'s added recently for 6.2 is this idea of distraction free mode. So it\'s not turned on by default, but I have it on so we can see the results here. So you can go in and type right here. And then actually, I\'m gonna throw in some Lorem here. So you can see it in action. So this feels more like a text editor and less like a Block Editor. Whenever distraction free mode is on even the the multi block selection, it feels really nice. It doesn\'t there\'s not this idea of blocks, even it\'s kind of abstracted from here, there\'s less noise, there\'s less distraction. And just think that the idea is that it\'s just you and your words, it\'s just writing and publishing. And if you want to publish, you can hover over here, you\'ll see the toolbar come down, you can hit Publish or draft. And then this is how you would turn it off and back on here. And then you still have control of all the existing tool. And it\'s just a much simpler, streamlined interface. And you do have access to blocks, you can still add them if you\'d like to, but the idea is just being able to write without the distractions is really powerful. And a really nice publishing experience overall.\n\nAnne McCarthy 24:08 \nAnd this is for everyone. So this is like a lot of stuff we\'re coming to say it or using a block theme. This is available for anyone who\'s using the Block Editor. And to be honest, I use this for basically all my writing now. Especially for any post or page, I typically will go into this mode. So I\'m very excited about this. And I hope folks feel the same way.\n\nRich Tabor 24:28\nYeah, exactly. I\'ve been using that too for quite a bit. But the thing is, is also not only for post editing, so I have a page here that I\'ve created. And I have distraction free mode turned on, which kind of removes all the extraneous tooling and it really lets me focus in on the actual blocks here so I can manipulate them to an extent. I can even drop in different imagery for these images here and modify the buttons and whatnot and even add more blocks but the idea is it\'s almost like a simplified editing experience for pages as well, not only for posts. And here, I\'ll come up here and turn off distraction free mode to see it all in real time.\n\nAnne McCarthy 25:13 \nAnd this isn\'t yet available for the site editor, but I have a feeling a number of folks are going to be keen to see that put in there as well.\n\nRich Tabor 25:20 \nExactly, yeah, I don\'t see why it wouldn\'t work in the site editor as well. I think it\'d be very nice. Yeah. So we have some other improvements here that are fun. So this inserter here has gotten a couple of changes here. So blocks looks familiar, it\'s still the same, but patterns is where we started seeing some changes. Instead of having some featured patterns loaded in a block category selector, we\'ve split them out individually as their categories here, you\'re gonna load up some of the different header patterns that are loaded in WordPress 6.2. So you can load them here and see them in this tray, and then click to add them to your site. Which is really nice, it\'s a nice way to kind of go through them quickly and see a bunch of different ones. We also have the media tab up here, which is new, which splits out the images from your Media Library, videos, and audio as well, including the Openverse library. So this is a catalogue of, I believe, over 600 million free, openly licensed stock imagery. And you could search from right here in the inserter. So let\'s type in birds. And click on one, and it will add an image block with the image already added to it, we have got the caption down here. If you don\'t want the caption, you just turn it off right here, this little control that was added. And now you can manipulate it right off. So let\'s say this, drop it into here. Maybe we\'ll make these about the same size and move it over to something interesting.\n\nAnne McCarthy 26:53\nAnd I\'ll note that there was a GDPR concern around the images being properly uploaded rather than hotlinked. And I wanted to just note that that\'s been addressed. So the images are uploaded to your Media Library. That\'s why. So in case anyone has that question. Sorry, continue.\n\nRich Tabor 27:08\nYeah, no, that\'s a good point. It\'s very important. A key benefit to have this flow here is that instead of instead of having to add an image block, and then open your Media Library, and then pick an image, and then you have it here, it\'s really this one flow of searching visually, and searching here, as well. And then having it added as an image block already. So it kind of skipping all the extra steps that you always have to do anyhow, it\'s really nice. And we have a couple of interface changes. So there\'s the settings icon up here that used to be a cog, and now it represents the sidebar itself. So when you open it, the sidebar is triggered, if that\'s closed. And that\'s changed for a couple of reasons. But one of the bigger reasons is, as I mentioned earlier, this idea of split tabs, so we have the cog for settings. And that\'s when a block has additional settings that are not per the norm of the styles that are available within WordPress, then you\'ll have a new settings tab pulled out here. And that\'s to keep the density nice whenever you\'re editing and it feels good instead of having everything kind of in your face all at once. Now for other blocks, like the paragraph block, there\'s not additional settings, so automatically not included. The tabs up top and just be everything top level. But when a third party plugin adds like a different settings panel, or even if you extend one of these core blocks that does not have one, and a detects one should be auto added as well. So it\'s kind of just like a nice, fluid way to continue improving the experience of editing within WordPress.\n\nAnne McCarthy 28:49\nYeah, so plugin authors can also kind of make sure where they want settings and styles to show that it shows up correctly. And there\'s a dev note about that as well.\n\nRich Tabor 28:58\nYes, that\'s right, you can you can decide as when you\'re extending or adding your own inspector controls. That\'s what these are called here, whether or not they\'re included within styles or settings as well. Yeah.\n\nThen another smaller change that\'s kind of nice is this idea of pulling the outline from its own toolbar item up here into the list view. It\'s because they\'re very relative, you know, a list of all the blocks on your page, also an outline of what\'s going on. So they\'re combined now into this one view. We also have time to read word count and character count here, which is nice. And then this is a little guide here that just helps you understand the structure of the importance of the structure of the document and making sure that it is properly structured. All right, was there anything else that we wanted to add you think, Anne?\n\nAnne McCarthy 29:51\nI\'ll add one last call out just because I\'m trying to think about like little dev tidbits if you want to disable it prefers there is a way to disable Openverse as well I know that\'s always a concern. We add something it\'s like, okay, how do we get rid of because I don\'t want a client getting into it, there is a way to disable that is documented as well. The other thing is the pattern. So there\'s new categories, the patterns. And so query is now posts, a couple of things were merged, there\'s no call to action. And there\'s also some lovely, which I\'m gonna brag on Rich, again, some new text based, query patterns. We have a lot of visual patterns for the query loop, and now there\'s wonderful, more text focused ones, which I think is really exciting. And just another great way where patterns have evolved and patterns is obviously a huge part of the future building with WordPress. So I\'m very excited about those and keen to see just more variation with query loop, I think it\'s really powerful block to make easier to use. So I\'m excited to see it. Otherwise, I think that\'s, I think that covers a lot of what we were trying to go through.\n\nRich Tabor 30:57\nYeah, and there\'s certainly more. There\'s a lot of interesting, minute details that are, you know, quality of life improvements around editing and designing. And we can\'t cover them all today. But it\'s just, there\'s a lot of exploratory ideas and cool, interesting pieces that have been the result of lots of feedback and lots of testing, like I mentioned earlier. And, you know, it\'s really a testament to open source and contributing and really working together as a team to make this thing we call WordPress ours and making it a brilliant publishing experience. So just thank you to everyone who\'s put in time ideas, effort, code, design, marketing, copy, all of that, and more to making this what it is. It wouldn\'t be possible without you.\n\nAnne McCarthy 31:46\nTotally agree. And thank you, Rich, for doing such an excellent job building this site and demoing all this.\n\nNathan Wrigley 31:51 \nYeah, indeed. Thank you, Rich. Thank you, Anne. Just to let you know that, in theory, there\'s possibly up to about 25 minutes left. If anybody wishes to pose a question, we\'re going to do our best to get the answer directly from Rich and Anne. Whether that means putting the screen back on, I don\'t really know. But we\'ve got a few that have come in. The place to put those, it would appear that some people have figured out how to do that in Zoom. But if you go to the walkthrough channel, in the making WordPress Slack, you can post some questions in there and all things being equal, we\'ll get them raised as quickly as we can. So we\'ve got a few. In all honesty, because they\'ve been copied and pasted from various different places, I can\'t necessarily say who the name of the person is that sent them. But first question I\'ve got over here for either of you. It says when you save globally, under the Advanced tab, does this change the stylesheet? Interesting.\n\nRich Tabor 32:54 \nSo this will change the attributes of the blocks. So if I throw in that example, there, I pushed the attributes of that one block globally. So they\'re applied to every block. So it does affect some styles, but not writing any style sheet or writing to the core style sheets.\n\nNathan Wrigley 33:11\nCan I ask the question? It\'s not something that\'s been submitted by anybody else, but it just occurred to me that as you were clicking the global button, I just wondered if there was a \"get out\" from there. In other words, if you inadvertently click the global button, is there an undo option in there? In other words, can you back away from all of the buttons suddenly changing or all of the H1s? \n\nAnne McCarthy 33:32 \nYou do have to hit save after. You can\'t just hit Apply globally. You have to hit save, and that\'s where the multi-entity saving pops up. The multi-entity saving is kind of strange in that it\'s not good at discarding changes. So you basically would just have to like leave. Like it would be like, Whoops, I hit that. You probably also have to hit the undo. Like there\'s - those are the two kind of options. So, yeah.\n\nRich Tabor 33:54 \nYeah. The undo is like a global thing. It works there as well. Yes.\n\nAnne McCarthy 33:58 \nAnd there\'s a reason that feature is hidden, like under Advanced and collapsed. That\'s not necessarily for everyone. But for folks who do like to tinker, it is available.\n\nRich Tabor 34:08 \nRight. And it\'s also only available in the site editor as well. So it\'s the more the global view of editing your site is where you can access that. \n\nNathan Wrigley 34:17 \nPerfect.\n\nOkay, so I have a question from Zoom. Is copying and pasting styles as demonstrated just for core blocks? They go on to say more, which I\'ll read out. Some blocks collect, some block collections have their own C&amp;P, and I\'m curious what might carry over, if anything? And then there\'s a follow up. Also, if CSS classes are assigned to a block, will applying global styles to a block be to all of the same block, i.e. H2? Or, hopefully, will a custom class allow for a more granular global CSS? There\'s a lot in that question, but if we start with the: is copying and pasting styles demonstrated just for core blocks?\n\nRich Tabor 34:56 \nSo it works for blocks that have leveraged the block support system within core. So if you have opted your block into using background color, and text color, link color, any of the layout settings, anything that was in the styles tab, then all of those would get pushed to or get copied or pasted or even pushed to the global application of styles as well. Now, if there\'s, if a block has done its own sort of background color attributes, I don\'t know that those would persist as well. But if you use what\'s available in core, it\'s really one or two lines of JSON will get you the background color support that you need. \n\nNathan Wrigley 35:35\nAnything to add to that, Anne?\n\nAnne McCarthy 35:37 \nNo, just another reason to rely on what core is building. So it\'s a another great example of how these features will work together and how adoption helps whenever these new things come out.\n\nNathan Wrigley 35:49 \nOkay, so we\'ll go on to the next question then. So this is from Zoom, and apologies, I don\'t know your name. Can we have this as a feature request? Can we have sticky sidebar block for some groups next release, please? \n\nAnne McCarthy 36:05 \nProbably would do a separate block, I\'m guessing. Yeah, do you have anything to add to that?\n\nRich Tabor 36:11\nYeah, I would say we wouldn\'t need a sticky sidebar block. Right now that group lock in top level-only does support position sticky. And the only reason it was turned off like we did have it on for one of the Gutenberg releases for everything - for every group block - but it was turned off just because there was too much confusion around if you had a sticky element that wasn\'t didn\'t have enough space to stick for and enough height to stick. So it wouldn\'t actually be sticking. You wouldn\'t see a result of you applying a sticky position to it. So I think we can figure that out with some some UX to really clean that experience up so that you do expect and understand what\'s going on. When you apply that to a block. That\'s not the root level of the document. So it\'ll be there. It just takes a little bit more iteration.\n\nNathan Wrigley 37:00\nOkay, another question. This time from Slack. When there are changes made in the site editor, are the templates still marked with the blue dots to indicate that the changes are in the database?\n\nRich Tabor 37:14\nYes, from that Manage Templates view that I shared in the canvas, it will show up just like it did previously, when there are changes to one of the templates provided by the theme.\n\nAnne McCarthy 37:25\nYou can revert the changes, as well, as you\'re used to doing.\n\nNathan Wrigley 37:30\nOkay, thank you. Anne\'s shared a link related to the question that we just posted. I don\'t know how Zoom works well enough to whether or not we can share the screen. \n\nAnne McCarthy 37:40\nI can briefly share my screen. \n\nNathan Wrigley 37:42\nYeah, that\'d be great. Show us the GitHub.\n\nAnne McCarthy 37:43\nLet me try that. I just wanted to mention this in case people want to follow along in the follow up tasks related to this. I love to look at links. I\'m a nerd like that. So in case anyone else is, this is a lot of the follow up tasks and a great issue to chime in on or just follow if you\'re interested in this because there are some improvements to be made. But this is a neat report for now. So it\'s - oh, I just copied and pasted. So it\'s issue number 47043 in the GitHub repo.\n\nNathan Wrigley 38:11\nSo 47043 related to the question that we just had. Okay, so another one from Zoom. This is Robin, who asked the question, can you show? It\'s just moved on my screen. There we go. Can you show us how to trigger the focus mode to view, say, for example, the footer on its own? So I guess we\'re back on the screen again.\n\nRich Tabor 38:34\nSure. Everyone can see? Yep. So when you have a template part selected, you just hit the Edit button here and then it\'s focused into that as well. And then you have, again, the responsive controls here. All the existing controls, it\'s just localized to this template part.\n\nNathan Wrigley 38:54\nHopefully that answers your question. Thank you, Robin. Just for anybody who\'s kind of lurking who has a question but hasn\'t yet posted it, please do. What are the chances that you\'re going to get Rich and Anne on the on the phone in the next few weeks? Pretty minimal, I\'d say, so make use of them while they\'re here. Ellen has done just that. She\'s in Slack. Ellen says, is there a plan to allow no title templates in the block editor as they are still included even in header and footer-only templates?\n\nRich Tabor 39:28\nNo title templates. Like templates without a title? I\'m not quite.\n\nAnne McCarthy 39:35\nYou can just remove that block. \n\nRich Tabor 39:36\nYeah, you can you can remove the post title block from a template. I\'m not quite sure if that\'s if that\'s what the question is asking.\n\nNathan Wrigley 39:46\nEllen, if you\'re still in Slack and watching this, if you heard Rich and Anne queerying that, then if you can give some more clarity, we\'ll endeavor to get that answered.\n\nAnne McCarthy 39:57\nKnowing Ellen she knows exactly how to remove things. So I\'m like, I\'m curious. I\'m definitely - we\'re misinterpreting something because she\'s very - Not showing the title in the editor...?\n\nNathan Wrigley 40:07\nYeah. Not showing the title in the editor. She says she\'s here. \n\nAnne McCarthy 40:12 \nI\'m like, \"Say more.\" \n\nNathan Wrigley 40:14 \nYeah. Give us more. Give us more Ellen, and we\'ll get right back to you.\n\nAnne McCarthy 40:17\nLet\'s follow back up on that, because Ellen always has some good questions and good feedback.\n\nNathan Wrigley 40:21\nAll right. We\'ll do just that. Again, another question from Zoom. This is posed by some anonymous person. Will the list views icon get the same treatment as settings?\n\nRich Tabor 40:33\nI don\'t think it\'s in the plans. I don\'t think there are plans to change that. But list view icon, it\'s always the list view. So when you toggle it on and off, it\'s relative to what it is. Whereas on the other side, the settings can be block settings, page settings, template settings. Global styles is in that same area. So it\'s a little bit more context for the list view to stay a list view item.\n\nAnne McCarthy 40:58\nAnd I know that the question came up because the settings icon looks like there\'s that sidebar. And so there are who people have been asking like, will the same thing happened over here? Just for context. That was part of a discussion in a different GitHub issue.\n\nNathan Wrigley 41:12\nOkay, thank you very much. I appreciate very much those people who are posing questions. That\'s really great. Again, just to prod you once more, feel free to add your own questions in no matter how big or small they are. We\'re here to help. So now we have a question on Zoom from Abdullah. And he coincides beautifully with a question I\'ve written down. Any good resources to learn FSE theme-based development? Can either of you point to a particularly good resource that you know of?\n\nAnne McCarthy 41:41\nYeah, Learn WordPress. There\'s tons of stuff on Learn WordPress that I would recommend. I also, Daisy Olson, who\'s Developer Relations at Automattic, has a Twitch stream going and some YouTube videos around block theme development. But I would recommend going to Learn WordPress. There\'s also some contributor-led initiatives. Carolina, who\'s one of the theme folks has, I think, it\'s fullsiteediting.com. And that was kind of like the original, go-to resource. And she\'s done an incredible job working on that and keeping it up to date. So yeah, there\'s tons of tons of resources. I will spare you from from sharing more, I don\'t know, Rich, you have more hands-on experience there. What\'s the most helpful for you?\n\nRich Tabor 42:22\nYeah, there\'s some really great tutorials and guides on Learn that are relatively new, that are really helpful. And I see that the team there has been really cranking it out on the last year or two, like really putting a lot of effort into this. So I would, I would start there.\n\nNathan Wrigley 42:38\nSo if you\'re not familiar with that, I guess it would be apropos to say go to your browser of choice and type in learn.wordpress.org and go and explore. Basically, there\'s a ton of materials that are getting updated on what feels like a daily basis at the moment. So, once more, learn.wordpress.org. Go and check that out. But also, Anne in the chat that we\'ve got going on here has linked to Daisy Olsen\'s Twitch channel, which - I\'m just going to read it out but hopefully I\'ll make it into the transcript. twitch.tv/DaisyonWP. And it\'s all one word. D-A-I-S-Y-O-N-W-P. Daisy on WP. So there\'s two great places to go. But the learn.wordpress.org is perfect.\n\nAnne McCarthy 43:24 \nI have to add one more thing, which is if you\'re not fully ready for block themes, one of the big things that I feel like needs to be emphasized more is you can gradually adopt. So all these features are being done. But maybe you want to only give access to a client to edit the header. You can do that. Maybe you want to leverage theme.json in your classic theme, you can do that. If you want to expose the template editor.\n\nBut use the rest of your themes across them, you can do that. So I want to also encourage folks to look into resources around gradual adoption, because it makes sense that this stuff isn\'t - From day one, there has been a focus on that. Adopt what you what you want, when you want and it\'s going to make sense to different people at different times. Matías once said that to me, and I think it rings really true. And so now that we\'re at this level of maturity, I think we\'re looking again and revisiting again, like okay, what can I use? What do I want to use? I think it\'s really important to mention. So if you\'re not ready to go all in, I encourage you not to just wipe it all away, but to think about how you can gradually adopt and also what would help you gradually adopt. So there is actually a label on GitHub started a couple months ago around - It\'s called blocks adoption. So if there\'s something that you see that you\'re trying to adopt the site editor, and it\'s preventing you from doing so, like we want to know about that. And you\'re welcome - I\'m going to just put this out here - @annezazu is my GitHub username, feel free to just like @ annezazu, \". This is blocking me from using the site editor.\" We want to know these things. Open issues. Please share, because that is also part of the phase of this work is making sure people can adopt as they can and that the tools are robust. There\'s a ton of resources as well. There\'s a page in the Theme Handbook around gradually adopting to block themes. So I just wanted to call that out.\n\nNathan Wrigley 45:06 \nAnd just one more time, what was that? Give us, the give us the username.\n\nAnne McCarthy 45:11\nA-N-N-E-Z-A-Z-U. So like Zazu from The Lion King. It\'s an inside joke from middle school.\n\nNathan Wrigley 45:19\nOkay, possibly the shortest question. This is from Sandy, I should say, Can Lotties be added to 6.2?\n\nRich Tabor 45:28\nI would say that I did a quick search a few minutes ago and there are various blocks built by the community, which do allow you to add or embed LottieFiles to your site. I haven\'t tested any myself but feel free to dig into those. And if they\'re open source, they can contribute ideas or feedback on on those GitHub repos.\n\nNathan Wrigley 45:49\nThank you very much. And Eagle has posted a question. When there are changes made in the site editor, are the templates still marked up - Did we have that one? We have, right? We\'ve done that. \n\nAnne McCarthy 46:01\nWe answered that one. Yeah.\n\nNathan Wrigley 46:02\nI think we did. Okay, moving on directly then to Ian, what is - oh! Okay, what is the philosophy for mobile in the editor? Are there any plans to have a mobile view?\n\nAnne McCarthy 46:16\nThat\'s part of the dragging and resizing. And there\'s a lot of work being done around intrinsic design. And you can see on the developer.wordpress.org? What is the blog? I think it\'s /news. Do you hear audio?\n\nNathan Wrigley 46:35\nI hear only your audio. I don\'t hear anything I don\'t wish.\n\nAnne McCarthy 46:36\nOkay, sorry. Something just started playing in the background out of nowhere and that just scared me. It\'s like all of a sudden, I was like, woah! Where was I?\n\nNathan Wrigley 46:50\nSo we were talking about mobile views?\n\nAnne McCarthy 46:53\nYes, intrinsic design. There is a developer blog that if you\'re not following that, you definitely should, that addresses this around, basically showing that the mobile view points have exploded over time. It\'s now really not sustainable to try and have CSS and all this sort of stuff, mobile queries allowing for each view. So instead, how can we think about intrinsic design? And so that\'s like the best answer I can give. And for now, there is this nice resizing that you can do to kind of see how things scale. 6.1 introduced fluid typography, which was really exciting and part of this larger, intrinsic design set up. And I think we\'ll expect to see more of that over time. Sorry, for the brief mental break.\n\nNathan Wrigley 47:36\nJust a quick reminder, we probably got 5, 6, 7 minutes or something like that before we start to wrap things up. So if you\'ve got any questions, please, please do post them in here. We have one from Paul who asks, is there any more work planned for pattern management in the future? And then WP Engine has released a plugin allowing easier management of patterns recently, I believe that was yesterday, it would be good to know if we should wait for core or assume that nothing else is coming soon.\n\nRich Tabor 48:07\nYeah, I would say that pattern management is an important part of this new WordPress experience and having a way to create and manage local patterns, but also maybe push them to the pattern directory. And then on top of that, having a functionality built in where - it\'s kind of like a component based system where you have patterns where the design is the same across patterns, but content can change. All of that kind of falls into the same category of work. And that is something I believe WordPress will eventually do as well.\n\nNathan Wrigley 48:41\nOkay, we\'ve got no more questions on the screen. So I\'m going to ask a question, if that\'s all right. You were demonstrating the distraction-free mode there where you could move things up, move things down, and resize pictures and images and so on. I was just wondering what the constraints on that are. So in the case of images, I could see that you could resize things. And with the text, I could see that you could, you know, highlight things and start typing wherever you wish. But I just wondered how the decisions had been made to set those parameters and those only. So yeah, around that, what\'s available in distraction-free mode? What limitations are there?\n\nRich Tabor 49:17\nI would say, generally, it\'s what\'s available is what happens when you click on a block. The tooling is there available on the canvas before so resizing was available on the image but not the toolbar. So the resizing is still available when you\'re in distraction-free, but maybe not adding the caption piece or you know, those other toolings. It\'s almost like the content locking or content only locking API. It\'s very similar to that in a sense, but a little bit more tightened up. Where just text and dropping in images - you can\'t necessarily open the Media Library from there unless you dive out of it. But you can drop another image onto that existing image to replace it. Some things like that.\n\nNathan Wrigley 49:59\nIt looks like a really excellent interface for people who just, well, want to concentrate on their writing. It sounds like Anne\'s all in on it.\n\nAnne McCarthy 50:05\nI use it every single day. It\'s amazing.\n\nNathan Wrigley 50:09 \nIt almost felt like a Google doc minus all the bits and pieces at the top. Yeah, really, really nice. Okay, so we have some more questions. Weston is asking, what about optimizing the experience of editing using a mobile device on the web? So I guess that\'s a little bit maybe the question that we had earlier. How can... we how can we do things on a actual mobile device? \n\nAnne McCarthy 50:30\nThat\'s a great question. There are mobile apps. So there is the mobile team and using the mobile apps. I personally don\'t use mobile apps and sometimes will edit things from Safari on my iPhone SE 2.\n\nI actually was talking to someone - their username is Nomad Skateboarding. And from what I understand, he only builds client sites from his phone. And so one of the things I said to him, I was like, \"Give us your feedback. That\'s really cool. It\'s really unique. That\'s fantastic. Like, what pain points you\'re running into, what can we improve?\" Because there is obviously like, we are in a mobile first world. My phone is sitting right next to me. I would love to hear particular pain points folks have when trying to edit in that way. You can obviously use the apps. There are some quirks with the site editor, and that I know is partially being looked into and resolved. But yeah, I think there are probably - what we\'re building now should always translate back and there are teams trying to sync back and forth. And there was a recent post from the mobile team talking about what\'s the future of mobile editing. And so I would recommend - it\'s somewhere on Make/Core. I recommend digging that up and getting involved and honestly sharing your feedback. Because I don\'t think that is an experience that we talked about enough personally.\n\nIt\'s a great question. \n\nNathan Wrigley 51:40\nRich, anything or should we move on?\n\nRich Tabor 51:42 \nI think that was great.\n\nNathan Wrigley 51:44 \nOkay, perfect. Um, um, um. Okay, we have an anonymous question. It says as page speed is a big challenge, how are we optimizing the blocks for better LCP score?\n\nAnne McCarthy 52:00 \nThere are, some interesting - sorry, Rich, I don\'t know if you wanted to jump in. I was going to start link dropping. \n\nRich Tabor 52:05 \nYeah, you go ahead. Yeah. \n\nAnne McCarthy 52:07 \nYeah, there\'s some interesting work from André. Part of it involves actually adding tracking and making sure there\'s really good front end metrics. So there\'s kind of a twofer going on. In one fell swoop, we\'re focusing on better tracking and improving the tracking that we have for performance, particularly the front end. And then at the same time, also work is being done to optimize like style sheets. There\'s been some really neat stuff in previous releases that I bet I can pull up if you\'ll give me one moment.\n\nNathan Wrigley 52:36\nYeah, whilst you try to find that, Anne, I think it\'s probably important to say that, if there are any questions which you wish to have answered which don\'t somehow get answered in the next few moments, then there will be posts created around this piece. So anything that goes missing, any question that is unanswered, there will be endeavours to get them answered. Right? Okay, show us what you got, Anne.\n\nAnne McCarthy 53:00 \nYeah. So this was a post I did for 5.9, in conjunction with a whole ton of folks who contributed and actually did this work, I just was kind of gathering it up. But you\'ll see sections here around block style sheets and CSS loading. And honestly, a lot of the work with the styles engine, which is part of the global styles project, can help give a lot of opportunity to actually improve this, I recommend checking out this post to see some of what\'s already been done. And then in the future, one of the discussions that we had recently with some folks across the community from Google, from Automattic, 10up, all over the place, including our lovely performance lead, Felix. We talked about some of this stuff and about how to talk about particularly themes and also just blocks in general. And thinking about some performance improvements and developer education and automated testing and all sorts of stuff. So I won\'t go too far into this. But I think a lot of work can be done. And some of it is being done around measuring more front end metrics and very recently, LCP was added and started to be tracked here, which I think is pretty exciting. \n\nNathan Wrigley 54:05 \nI think following the performance team and Felix Arntz, in particular, would possibly get you quite a long way towards your answers there. Okay, a couple more. Firstly, there\'s a few people helping out in the Slack channel. So, appreciate that. We\'ve got Matías answering questions, and so on. So that\'s really amazing. Thank you. Another anonymous question, any plans to support CSS Grid?\n\nRich Tabor 54:33 \nI think it\'s something worth exploring. Probably not the major priority coming up. But definitely some interesting aspects that we\'ve seen other... other building applications do that we can learn from for sure.\n\nNathan Wrigley 54:47 \nOkay, we\'re very short on time now. 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Here we go.\n\n\n\n[00:00:28]\n\n\n\nThe latest version of WordPress has shipped. WordPress 6.2, which was named after Eric Dolphy, was released on March 29th. And as is the way with software, there&#8217;s already a minor release underway to catch a few errant issues that folks like you have reported to us.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s a big release that refines a lot of our design tools, but some of the most important changes are actually to the inserter. If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to get in there and play with it yet, here are the three things that I think you should know. \n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:08] \n\n\n\nFirst, the pattern browser. We&#8217;re all aware of the block inserter by now, and a lot of us probably use the quick options, the keyboard shortcuts, or that kind of inline inserter, that little black box that&#8217;s in the middle of your post.\n\n\n\nIf you use the main inserter, that&#8217;s a blue square in the top left of the screen. If you use that to add a block, you can still add individual blocks as usual. But there&#8217;s a new way to browse patterns, and in my opinion, it is so much better. It now brings out this drawer that has like thumbnails of patterns that will work with your theme.\n\n\n\nAnd if you, like me, know what you want your site to look like, but could not in a million years figure out how to build it from scratch out of individual blocks, then this is the area for you. It was like shopping, but you don&#8217;t have to go through a checkout process at the end, and you still have what you want. It&#8217;s great.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:02:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThat&#8217;s also available when you&#8217;re working on templates or template parts, so you can make changes everywhere instead of going page by page. 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If you click on that, you can make changes to things inside your blocks.\n\n\n\nBut if you click on the little eyeball icon that&#8217;s just underneath it, it pulls up a style book where you can also see and edit the styles globally. If that didn&#8217;t make sense to you, don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ve got you. I&#8217;m about to tell you a bunch of things you can do in here. You can edit the way headings and lists and tables, quotes, and code looks all across the site. You can edit the way images, galleries, files, and videos look using custom CSS.\n\n\n\nYes. Also, all across the site. And you can edit buttons, separators, and individual blocks. Say it with me &#8212; all across the site. That is not a comprehensive list. There is a ton of stuff. You can see the styles that you have applied across the whole site. You can see them in context, and you can make any changes that you need globally, which means all across the site.\n\n\n\nYeah. Style Books. What will we think of next? \n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:54]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSo those are my three things I think you should know about WordPress right now. As a former WordPress builder who was never really super great with the code, this stuff makes me feel powerful. I just love these changes, and I hope you do too.\n\n\n\n [00:04:07]\n\n\n\nWhich brings us now to our small list of big things. First, we just launched the Developer Blog. It&#8217;s over at developer.wordpress.org/news. It has a bunch of content on it that not only is geared specifically toward developers that are using WordPress but especially the folks who are extending WordPress. It gives you kind of an in-depth look at various changes and projects, and implementations and what goes into each one of them.\n\n\n\nSo it gives you a bit of like this aspirational overview of stuff that you could do with WordPress and then also gives you an inside look at how you would accomplish it yourself. 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15.5</h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-4-22-march/\">What’s new in Gutenberg 15.4 (22 March)</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-5-05-april/\">What’s new in Gutenberg 15.5? (05 April)</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-15-5-introduces-experimental-grid-layout-support\">Gutenberg 15.5 Introduces Experimental Grid Layout Support</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s in active development or discussed</h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phase 3: Collaboration </h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Post by Matias Ventura <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/\">Phase 3: Collaboration</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/design/2022/06/13/thinking-through-the-wordpress-admin-experience/\">Thinking Through the WordPress Admin Experience</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/episode-52-phase-three-with-hector-prieto/\">WP Briefing: Episode 52: Workflows and Phase Three Visioning with Special Guest Héctor Prieto</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improve the Site Editor</h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/44461\">Re-Introduce Content Editing in the Site Editor</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/49404\">Optimize the content-centric edit experience</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interactivity API</h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/30/proposal-the-interactivity-api-a-better-developer-experience-in-building-interactive-blocks/\">Proposal: The Interactivity API – A better developer experience in building interactive blocks</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wpmovies.dev/\">Demo Site</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li>GitHub: <a href=\"https://github.com/wordpress/wp-movies-demo\">Interactivity API Demo &#8211; WP Movies</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>4/17/23 &#8211; 8am UTC <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/292575913/\">Developer Hours: Introduction to the Interactivity API</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li>4/17/23 &#8211; 17:00 UTC <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/292575942/\">Developer Hours: Introduction to the Interactivity AP</a>I </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-propose-new-interactivity-api-for-frontend-blocks\">WordPress Contributors Propose New Interactivity API for Frontend Blocks</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WordPress Design Team </h2>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/03/27/design-share-mar-13-mar-24/\">Design Share: Mar 13–Mar 24</a>\n\n\n\nStay in Touch\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<ul>\n<li>Did you like this episode? <a href=\"https://lovethepodcast.com/gutenbergchangelog\">Please write us a review </a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ping us on Twitter or send DMs with questions. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/gutenbergtimes\">@gutenbergtimes </a>and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/bph\">@bph</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you have questions or suggestions, or news you want us to include, send them to <a href=\"mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com\">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please write us a review on iTunes! <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/itunes/\">(Click here to learn how)</a></li>\n</ul>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\nTranscript\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Hello, and welcome to our 81st episode of the Gutenberg Changelog Podcast. In today&#8217;s episode, we will talk about WordPress 6.2, Gutenberg releases 15.4 and 15.5, Phase 3 of the Gutenberg project, a new proposal on the interactivity API, and so much more. I&#8217;m your host, Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and full-time core contributor to the WordPress Open Source Project, and I&#8217;m so thrilled to introduce to you Leonardus Nugraha as my special guest today. Leonardus is a contributor to the WordPress docs team and content specialist at Hostinger, and we personally met at WordCamp Asia and had some great meals together. So welcome to the show, Leonardus. Thank you so much for agreeing to come to the show and talk about Gutenberg with me. How are you?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. Ah, thank you. Very good. Thank you for having me in the show. I&#8217;m good. And yeah, it&#8217;s nice to be here with your Gutenberg Changelog podcast. And it&#8217;s good to meet you again here after our in-person meetings. Yeah. It&#8217;s been two months we met in WordCamp Asia, right?\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; So it&#8217;s nice to have a chat with you again, talk about Gutenberg, talk about WordPress. Yeah. And yeah, thanks for introducing me as well. Yeah, you can call me Leo for short.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, hi, Leo.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; And yeah, content. Yeah, Leo. And as a content specialist, I curate and organize WordPress content in hosting our tutorials and blogs. And with the documentation team, I also work on mainly end user documentation articles. So yeah, my work is all about WordPress articles. Yeah, I&#8217;m loving it. I&#8217;m loving to do things and work about WordPress.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Well, wonderful, wonderful. Yeah. Tell us a little bit about you. Where you live and what you do for fun. Do you have family?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, I live in Indonesia in a city named Bogor, and it&#8217;s known as Rain City.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, no.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, it rains a lot here, but it&#8217;s nice, it&#8217;s cool, it&#8217;s chill. I think personally, I love the weather. I&#8217;m not sure everyone else. Yeah, when I&#8217;m not working with content or WordPress in general, just for fun, I usually play music. I play guitar, electric guitar mainly, and listening to music on my free time, or just have fun with my dogs. I have two big dogs and I consider them as my family, to be honest.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Yeah. That&#8217;s awesome. So many of our listeners are also dog people, and I&#8217;m sure they would like to know what kind of dogs you have, and do you share photos of them somewhere online?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, one of them is a mixed breed. It&#8217;s a quite big dog. It&#8217;s about 20 kilograms. And the other one is a big golden retriever. So I have big dogs with me. I think with a combined weight, they&#8217;re bigger than me, to be honest. I love taking photos. Actually, as you may know, I&#8217;m a photography team in WordCamp, and I do have a online portfolio called <a href=\"https://leoandlens.com/\">LeoandLens.com</a>, and I have some of photos of my docs there as well. And also WordCamp Asia photos, obviously. So, and I do have Instagram as well, and I upload or post docs, photos or just random photos there if you want to see it.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And we&#8217;ll share the links in the show notes to catch up with you online or stalk you online.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Sure.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So speaking of music, as part of the 20-year celebration coming up for WordPress, Julia Golomb published a playlist on Spotify of 20 Years of WordPress Jazz. From Miles Davis to Mikhail &#8220;Misha&#8221; Alperin. And it includes one song for each of the 45 jazz artists selected to represent the releases in the last 20 years. So this is really cool. And sometimes I just listen to it when I&#8217;m curating content, reading, copy-pasting and doing that. So yeah, what kind of music do you play?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; To be honest, it&#8217;s not jazz, so I hope I don&#8217;t disappoint the WordPress community for that.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: No.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Mainly I listen to &#8217;80s, &#8217;90s rock and heavy metal, probably some blues and rock and roll. But as a part of WordPress committee and celebrating 20 years of WordPress, probably I should start listening to jazz.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Well, we have all our preferences. And some of the jazz like Django Reinhardt or something like that, it&#8217;s really great guitars showing off. So yeah, I&#8217;m not always a fan of jazz. It depends on my mood when I listen to jazz. Yeah. So yeah. So you want, let&#8217;s get further into the show.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Contributions</h3>\n\n\n\nWe have a great show coming to you, dear listeners. And for the &#8220;Community Contributions&#8221; section we have in his post, Block Visibility 3.0. A new chapter begins. Nick Diego announced that he&#8217;s making all Pro features available for free on his plugin, Block Visibility. And there are a couple of exceptions for which he needs just more time to integrate them into the free versions, but he&#8217;s aiming to pack it all in one version, make it available at no cost. And with a plugin, if you don&#8217;t know it, Block Visibility plugin, you can control, show or hide blocks depending on, for instance, a date or a user role or a location or a referral source, and it extends the core block editor with additional settings on the right. So this is a really good plugin, and it has a few fans.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, it&#8217;s definitely great plugins, especially if you are collaborating with big team on your WordPress site. Of course, we have user rules and user permissions, but with this plugin, you can extend the functionality and the controls with this plugin towards the blocks. And yeah, this is definitely good news to have this plugin for free for the community at no cost. And I read the blog post, and I really appreciate how Nick mentioned the importance of giving back to the community. It is all WordPress is about, right, to give to the community. And I believe with this decision, there will be more and more aspiring WordPress website owners to benefit from next creation. So yeah, everybody&#8217;s win.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, right. Everybody&#8217;s win. Yes, indeed. And since the plugin came out two years ago, I always had the hope that the core developers would consider bringing it to the core functionality of the Block Editor. Maybe that&#8217;s still in the stars, but the future is bright, so we never know what comes. But by the way, Nick Diego as a news item, joined Automattic as a full-time sponsored contributor, and I&#8217;m thrilled that he became a teammate. He has been a special guest on the show before, and I certainly see him joining again in the future. So watch out.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What’s Released &#8211; WordPress 6.2</h3>\n\n\n\nNow we come to the last two weeks where a lot of releases happened, or actually four weeks since the last episode, and we&#8217;ll start with the big one, that&#8217;s WordPress 6.2. You heard us talking here on the show before. So WordPress 6.2 had over 600 contributors, and it&#8217;s the first major release in 2023.\n\n\n\nThe contributors come from at least 50 countries with 900 enhancements, 10 full Gutenberg releases or features from those releases, and then a slew of performance improvements. You might not be surprised to learn that Dolphy reached the impressive milestone of 2 million downloads in under two hours. So after the release and in the first week, it reached over 18 million downloads. So that&#8217;s pretty impressive. And also shows maybe there are some hosting companies that actually automatically update to new versions or at least other, there is a mechanism there that you can automatically update to the new version. And it seems to be working. So are you doing that at Hostinger, that there are automatic updates to the new version for WordPress sites?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, we do have a feature for the users to enable auto updates, both for the minor versions and major versions. Usually we enable it for the minor versions, like 6.2.1 because usually there&#8217;s not many new features or bug fixes. Users can enable for the major updates like 6.2, but usually it&#8217;s better to have that tested on staging site as well, which Hostinger also have, to make sure the site&#8217;s working properly, there&#8217;s no compatibility issues with their plugins or with their content. So yeah, we do have that feature, but it&#8217;s safer for the users to test it first for major updates like this, especially with more than 900 enhancements and new features to the workplace.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: No, totally get it. Yeah, when I was working with the agency and our client sites, we would wait at least two weeks, if not four, to see what&#8217;s happening with a new release and if there&#8217;s a patch release coming out. So yeah, test it please, dear listeners. So if you haven&#8217;t yet, the release candidate actually came out March 8th or 7th, so the last four weeks, it could have been that you could already test some of that quite extensively. So.\n\n\n\nNow Rich Tabor and I discussed the site editor updates in WordPress 6.2 in the last episode, and summarize their significant updates to revamp the site editing interface to get new styling features for various blocks that were typography, styling, dimensions, and also color stylings. And then there&#8217;s a Distraction Free Writing mode and a new integration with Openverse, formerly Creative Commons Search, that enables a quick access to listen to that; 700 million free and openly licensed images and audio. So Leo, you published a blog post taking a detailed view on WordPress 6.2, and you are certainly now an expert on all the features. Have you decided what are your most exciting features for you?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to pick one most exciting features, because I think this release is probably, in my opinion, brings more and more enhancement compared to 6.1, 6.2, from the perspective of end users. But obviously, for me, it&#8217;s the revamped Site Editor that is really exciting to have. Finally, we have a new, fresh, clean view of the interface. And users can just switch between templates, have a preview before actually start editing. And it&#8217;s also easy to pick a template. You just click on the canvas and start editing. You don&#8217;t have to actually click the button as well. So that&#8217;s a nice little touch there. And also the Global Styles panel with the zoom in, zoom out effect. Now users can just see the whole template and how the style federations affect the site. And the style works. It&#8217;s interesting to have it, to have all the blocks previewed with the tabs. And it also works with Commerce as well.\n\n\n\nIf you have WooCommerce installed, you can have the new tabs for the WooCommerce blocks and the Global Style Book as well. And Openverse integration, very exciting to hear, especially when the Openverse became the part of WordPress project. It&#8217;s already exciting, but still, back then, you still have to download the content to your local computer and then re-upload to WordPress, which is a lengthy process, to be honest. And with the new integration, everything&#8217;s now works seamlessly.\n\n\n\nAnd I really do appreciate how to developers improve it during, was it on that? I think during the beta phase when they decided to upload the image to Media Library automatically instead of just linking to the content. So that&#8217;s nice. Lastly, for me, the biggest one, everything is big, but this one, Distraction Free mode is personally my favorite. Because I don&#8217;t remember how many times I got distracted or obscured by the block toolbar. When you start a new paragraph below the headings or maybe you have some few blocks near on top of each other, sometimes the block tool can obscure the content. And it&#8217;s annoying when you have a paragraph below a heading and you want to move back to edit the heading, you have to get rid of the toolbar first. So you have to click elsewhere, and it&#8217;s complicated.\n\n\n\nBut now with the Distraction Free, no toolbar, I can just focus on my content, writing. And yeah, that&#8217;s the main highlight for me personally. There&#8217;s other things like copy-paste styles, which speeds up the customization process. When you pick a block that you like and you decide, &#8220;Ah, I want to use this style,&#8221; you can just copy to another one. Or you can just post it globally to apply it to all blocks on your side.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. The changing of things, you can get very granular and you can escalate some of the styles to the global styles. And I think it&#8217;s quite intuitive to do that. But the Distraction Free mode is definitely one of the, I&#8217;m so glad that came to core. There was a plugin available called Iceberg by Rich Tabor and Jeffrey Caradang for a long time, and they actually created a Distraction Free mode. And I really loved it when I was doing some journaling, where you don&#8217;t need any pictures or something like that, you&#8217;re just channel your inner self or inner mom or inner dad and just write. And that makes it much better writing experience. And I think quite a few bloggers were put off by the block toolbar that gets in the way every time. And there was this, or there is still this feature that you can patch or stick the toolbar to the top, but you still get all the distractions from other things.\n\n\n\nYou move the mouse and something happens, and then it goes. And it&#8217;s just sometimes a little noisy. So the Distraction Free mode is definitely beneficial. I also like to surface some great material around the Site Editor for educators. So with WordCamps and conferences on the horizon, meetups are getting re-energized to meet in place, face-to-face meetings and localities, presentations need to be prepared. And Anne McCarthy has a post on her personal blog that&#8217;s called, &#8220;So you want to talk about Site Editor, Part Four.&#8221; And gives you all the resources that would need to speed up your preparations for any presentations. And of course, we&#8217;ll share that in the show notes.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gutenberg 15.4</h3>\n\n\n\nSo that brings us to the next Gutenberg plugin release. Gutenberg 15.4 was released. Justin Tadlock and Ryan Welcher handled it and it contained 186 PRs with 57 contributors. Six of them were first-timers, so congrats all around.\n\n\n\nAnd it was a smaller release, because it also had a few bug fixes for the 6.2 that were doing the beta and release backported, as the techies say, to the release version of 6.2.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enhancements</h3>\n\n\n\nSo there are a few enhancements I wanted to talk about. So one is go direct to edit from a &#8220;Manage all template&#8221; list. That&#8217;s something you just mentioned, Leo, that you see the template in the preview and the Template Editor or in the Site Editor, you see the template. And then you click on it, and you&#8217;re right there in the edit mode for the template. And that came with 15.4, you mentioned it. Now you also see in the panel on the left-hand side, the PR says, &#8220;The Site Editor&#8217;s dark side.&#8221; Which, it&#8217;s not philosophical, it&#8217;s the black sidebar on the left-hand side. And now there are descriptions for each of the templates. So you know a little bit more when a theme comes in or you enable a new theme, what the templates are supposed to do. And theme editors are able to add templates as well.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, I think the description, I didn&#8217;t really notice at first when the full Site Editor came to WordPress, but I think having description for its templates like 404 or &#8220;Single post&#8221; or &#8220;Archive,&#8221; it helps many, many first-time users, WordPressers who are still learning. Having this description will be great for them, definitely.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And when you switch theme or have Template Parts or create new ones, you also get a signal from who created them, and from which theme do they come over. That is a signal for the future, where there is thinking about how to make Template Parts and templates less reliant on particular theme. So when you switch the theme and you created a new template as a site owner, you want the template to come over to the new theme as well and not just go away with the old theme. So there&#8217;s some big thinking to be done, because that can get complex so fast.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. But that will really relevant with the next phase, which is collaboration, to have Template Parts and templates stick to the WordPress instead of the themes. And you can know which user create the template, or whether it&#8217;s made from the themes. So yeah, hopefully it&#8217;s a great path to the future.\n\n\n\nSo yeah, we can move on to the next one. It&#8217;s a navigation sidebar. So we have the new logic, which navigation to be shown on the dark side, as you mentioned. I think the first iteration, it shows the first navigation that is created on the team or templates. And now it shows the latest one that is published, which in my opinion, it&#8217;s really logical. It&#8217;s a good step because most likely users will use the latest one and the latest navigation block that they made.\n\n\n\nBut yeah, this is definitely still something, in my opinion, can be improved further, especially with the James Koster&#8217;s idea about having a label or hint to identify which menu actually been shown on the dark side. As for now, if you change the menu on the block tools, the navigation block tools, which on the right side, sometimes it doesn&#8217;t really change the one on the dark side. So you can switch to the older menu on the block tools, but then the dark side stick. And yeah, sometimes it can be confusing for new users. So hopefully, we are moving to the right direction here, in my opinion. But definitely, James Koster&#8217;s idea is definitely something worth to think about and to have labeling or hint, especially for new users again, who are still learning.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And I think there was a reason why the navigation part was actually pulled from 6.2. It&#8217;s now coming back with a Gutenberg plugin, but it was pulled from the 6.2 because it was still not performing to the quality that I want. And it wasn&#8217;t really all that intuitive, because the sidebar, when you actually edit a navigation block on the sidebar, it behaves differently than what was on the left side. So that was good. I think it was a good decision, even late in the cycle. That&#8217;s what the next part is, the height navigation screen, that was in 15.4 and was backported to 6.2.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, I remember testing it on the beta and the RC. The experience is still not perfect yet, I remember, because why is it different between the block tools and the sidebar? And then I heard the news from AN and that it&#8217;s backported again put from 6.2. So yeah, for me, it&#8217;s perfectly make sense. And hopefully they can deliver it, on the next layer is 6.3. They can get everything perfect with a perfect experience for users. And yeah.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Good. Yeah, the Cover Block now also has constrained flow layout, which means that it can be used in different context, and then applied the block inner wrapper by default. And it means that the layered support will work in the Cover Block the same way as it does for the group block, but without the facts variations. So you cannot change how the Cover Block children behave in the full end wide alignment of the Cover Block context. I don&#8217;t know if that makes sense.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, I think it makes sense for the Cover Block. Yeah.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, the FontSizePicker, that&#8217;s just a small note here that the FontSizePicker now allows custom units for theme developers that you can offer to your users. It before was only using pixels, and what was the other one?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; RVM?\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh yeah, RVM. Yeah, or EMs. And now you can use all of them that are possible. Like VW and all that. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. And on the next one we have new block support. So have a text column, or column support on the typographic settings. So I think on this PR, the example, the great example is the paragraph block. So usually if you have a paragraph block, it&#8217;s just like a block of text. But now with this text column support, you can add columns, the number of columns. So you can split the paragraph into separate columns without actually using a column blocks, which is a great option if you want to customize your content, maybe make it like a newspaper style. You don&#8217;t have to use the column block separately. You can just split your paragraph into columns.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And it adjusts if you add more text to it and adjust the columns to it. And it&#8217;s great that there&#8217;s now typography support available, so you can actually change fonts or make them larger, smaller, or change the line height. What might be needed when you are in smaller columns, you can reduce the line height on your texts. So those controls are now available in the user interface. But one caveat on this, the text columns is only available when the theme actually enables it. It&#8217;s not coming out of the box yet, so you need to adjust the theme a little bit to actually be able to use that.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, I think it used to, you have to add a little bit of code to make it enabled in the theme that JSON file, right?\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Correct. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; For now.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, for now. And I need to figure out maybe next release, there will be a way to enable it as a site builder with not access to code to also make use of it. And the Cover Block now got Text Scholar Block support. I was thinking, &#8220;Okay, that didn&#8217;t happen before.&#8221; But obviously it didn&#8217;t, because it&#8217;s now in the plugin. Yes, those design tools are rolled out to the core blocks one at a time to enable them and then test them, to make sure that they&#8217;re work in every context nicely.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; And the next one, adding compound class to layout wrapper or global style spacing. Maybe you can cover this.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So the problem was that the Cover Block didn&#8217;t work out of the box. The covers mark up the structure and they needed to change the classes to make them also available to the float. And so the Cover Block was a little bit revamped to specify target wrapper for the class, and for the layout of the object. So it was hard to target things that are inside the inner blocks. So that was a revamp that was necessary. So those who style themes can actually access those easily and style them. There was a specificity problem, I think. So for theme developers, they will make sense of it. So the spacing wasn&#8217;t clear for the block children. It was random inside the Cover Block. So they changed that and fixed it. It was a long way around it, explaining it, but sorry. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, so developer focus one. Yeah.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, seem develop the styles. Yeah, CSS. And sometimes I have a hard time with it.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bug Fixes</h3>\n\n\n\nSo now we come to the bug fixes, those were all the enhances of the 15.4 Gutenberg plugin release. We have, I think only two bug fixes that we want to point out, because sometimes you want to know when a bug is fixed. And the first one is that to ensure that the aspect ratio selected is also applied to the post feature image block, and in the Post Template block. So it shows up when you have a summary page, and you have the featured image with the blocks in a grid, that the aspect ratio is actually applied to the post featured block. That&#8217;s really important. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; I remember I was having problem with featured image ratio quite a long time ago, but I didn&#8217;t realize that it&#8217;s actually a bug. So yeah, I&#8217;m glad that it&#8217;s fixed now with the 15.4. And I think the aspect ratio option is only available when you actually enable the link option for the featured image, right?\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the problem. And then for the navigation block, there is a major bug fix that when the input, the classic menu using in the menu name, that it&#8217;s also going to be the title for the block menu. So there is a seamless integration there. And people are not getting confused. They did not take my menu that I wanted to, or didn&#8217;t do it when you imported a classic menu. So this is fixed now with the Gutenberg 5.4. What else is in there?&nbsp;\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; I think this pull request in the demonstration, it&#8217;s actually hide the Meta Box at the bottom by default. Previously it shows the Meta Box when you&#8217;re in a certain width, but now it just hidden. So the interface is much more cleaner than ever now.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, Distraction Free. Don&#8217;t get distracted.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yes.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: The Meta Boxes, yes. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; It&#8217;s small, but sometimes people can get distracted by that, even though it&#8217;s this small thing at the bottom.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yes. Yeah. But if you have multiple custom fields or something like that, that can be quite long. So it&#8217;s good to hide it. Yes.\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Documentation</h3>\n\n\n\nAnd then there are quite a few documentation changes, and I want to mention them. So your listeners, you can go and look them up. They added examples on how programmatically remove the panels in the document sidebar. So if you don&#8217;t want featured image or don&#8217;t want the tags or the categories, now developers can look up how to actually remove those for their plugins, or for their theme, or the bespoke agency theme development.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; And then the next one is for the sticky position documentation. So I think this relates to the new sticky position features site. So this also been added to documentation.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And that also fills in with a second one that we…\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Oh, yeah.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Which is, so the theme, JSON Schema now has two places where the sticky option is mentioned, and it didn&#8217;t before, but it&#8217;s now in the controls for the appearance tools. When you set them for true, there&#8217;s also a sticky option there. And then you can also in these further down in the Schema, you can add the sticky positions, and minimum height for the styles section as well. So that is now all documented, and you can look up how it works and how it helps you.\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gutenberg 15.5</h3>\n\n\n\nAnd I think that&#8217;s the Changelog for Gutenberg 15.4, and we are now right into the Changelog for the latest Gutenberg 15.5 release that was released Wednesday, April 4th. And was again, the team Ryan Welcher and Justin Tadlock. April 5th, sorry. And it has 143 PRs with 52 contributors and some updates there. So the first enhancement is that the post date now block has now a variation to use the modified date rather than the published date. And it&#8217;s really important when you have a new site, and you want to get the updated post higher into the latest news, then you want to use the modified date. So it bubbles up again. &#8220;Okay, look here. There were changes in that and it&#8217;s still important.&#8221;\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. And this is also great for end user as well, in my opinion, because this is basically the same block with this variation, with the modified date enabled by default. But for new users, it&#8217;s just much easier to find having a separate post date and post modified date. So if they want to show both in the single Post Template, they can just find these blocks without having to fiddle with the settings. So yeah, it&#8217;s a much more seamless and easier work process, workflow. And then similar to the post that we have &#8220;Time to Read&#8221; block, which I believe was released on 15.3. It was right?\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yes.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; And now we have a plethora of settings like typographic support to the &#8220;Time to Read&#8221; block, and also spacing tool. So after this was introduced in 15.3, with 15.5, now you can customize the typography and the spacing tools.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; No, I&#8217;m finished.\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enhancements</h3>\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, no, I used it. So the &#8220;Time to Read&#8221; was actually already available in the outline of the post when you were in the block editor. You could see &#8220;Time to Read.&#8221; Two minutes, 15 minutes, yeah, 25 minutes. Never going to read that. But then immediately as it was available, people were asking, &#8220;Well, can I use that information also on my front end so I can notify or I can show it with my post grid or something like that? How long the Time to Read for that?&#8221; So because readers like that, they found. And it took a while to get it right, to get a new block in and figure out what&#8217;s the best approach. So it now only shows a number and the minutes, and that was the easiest way to make it available through all the languages, because each locale works differently with minutes, three minutes kind of thing in different languages.\n\n\n\nSo now you can put them in a row with your wording. So Time to Read, 15 minutes. The &#8220;Time to Read&#8221; is a paragraph, and then you stack it with a row. Group block, in a group block with the &#8220;Time to Read&#8221; block, and then you can have that in your Post Template block. So what did happen was that when I was testing it, I saw immediately that my default font size was different for the paragraph as it was for the Time to Read, but I didn&#8217;t have any controls to change that for the Time to Read. So I filed an issue and said, &#8220;Okay, I need typography control there, please.&#8221; And then I also thought, &#8220;Okay, I need some spacing as well,&#8221; because it was a little lower than the Time to Read. It was really weird. I figured it out for my personal blog, but then also found that it would probably be best to have both controls available to that.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. And in case everyone wondering, it is actually possible to have Time to Read information previously, but you have to code it to your theme or install a plugin specific for that function. So yeah, it&#8217;s nice to have it in Gutenberg. And hopefully, in the future it&#8217;ll push to the core as well.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; So the next one, oh yeah, the sticky position. I think this feature didn&#8217;t have chance to see the light of day, because when the feature is added, it&#8217;s now reverted back. But essentially, there was a pull request to enable Template Part blocks to be sticky, which is perfectly logical. Because if you have a header, you want to have a sticky header, that means you have to make the Template Part for the header sticky. So there&#8217;s this pull request that adds that feature, but the way it worked was adding the Template Parts into a group block, which is already have the sticky position support, but that doesn&#8217;t really consistent with how the Template Part works. So we are now referred back to how it was, you cannot make it sticky anymore. But yeah, the idea is there. So hopefully, this will be a good starter to see, to look for a better solution for this one. Because yeah, I think many users will want to have Template Part header to be sticky instead of they have to use a group block on route level.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And it&#8217;s quite unintuitive to figure out, &#8220;Okay, if I want to make it sticky, I need to put it in a group block, but it&#8217;s already a Template Part. Can&#8217;t we have that support just for the Template Part?&#8221; But yeah, that adds definitely to the complexity, because the Template Part sometimes doesn&#8217;t have, the sticky doesn&#8217;t know where to stick it, so to speak. When the Template Part is further down the page, then it&#8217;s hard where to stick it to. And yeah, where is it located? Is the Template Part on the sidebar? Then you have a sticky sidebar, but the sticky sidebar behaves totally differently from a sticky header or a sticky footer. So when you read through the PRs, your head might spin because it really shows the discussion between the designers.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; It&#8217;s just the complexity.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It&#8217;s totally complex. Yeah, just take it from us. It&#8217;s a complex thing.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; I just skip to Rich Tabor feedback about how it doesn&#8217;t really sit with the consistency of the sticky position as well. Because on this PR, you make it sticky, I think to the Ellipsis menu instead of from the block tools. So it will create a different experience.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And the same complexity we will enter when you make the experiment available on, so there is a new feature in 15.5 that&#8217;s first take on the grid layout group variation. So we have flex layouts, we have flow layouts, and now the designers and developers try to get it working with the grid layout. And if you want to try it, you need to enable it through the experiments menu item on the Gutenberg plugin menu item, and check that part to test it out. But please do test it. Because if you want it to get out of experiments and then into the Gutenberg plugin by default and then further into WordPress, it needs to be really working well. And all the use cases, people cannot think up about all the use cases that you would use it. So yeah, please test it and give feedback on the PRs. Or create new issues on the Gutenberg repo so the developers have a better feel from what is still missing and how it&#8217;s not working. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. I just test the feature for a few minutes after the launch, because this is also on the launch post. So it&#8217;s quite interesting. And I love it because it was only after this update, I just realized that if you want to create a block, a grid layout with, let&#8217;s say, three columns and three rows, you have to mix it with row blocks or stack blocks, and you just create the whole complex structure. But now with the grid layout, it can just go straight out from the box with the way you want. You can have four columns, you can have six rows, maybe. And yeah, it&#8217;s nice to have this variation. I already tested, even though just few minutes, but I already see possibilities to use this layout for my website, my portfolio website.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Well, it&#8217;s great when those new features actually trigger some creativity on &#8220;Well, how can I use it? Yeah. Can I push it to the limits?&#8221; And that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all for. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; And the great thing is it&#8217;s not something that I have in mind. So previously, okay, row blocks, type blocks, columns blocks, that works, but now you have a grid. &#8220;Oh my God, I can have that all in one now.&#8221;\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: And that was quite a few themes developers or theme builders were actually missing that, because grids came in to the CSS part, I think it was in &#8217;16 or 2017, and it&#8217;s been a while that other web developers were able to use it in different settings. But WordPress didn&#8217;t have. There was a plugin or there is a plugin where Automattic created some grid layouts. But now that this is in core, I think we can push it really further into the internet, so to speak. There&#8217;s another item that now you can actually style the caption element, also via the UI controls for color and topography. That&#8217;s the caption for the image…\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Image block.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Image block, yeah, and Video block and Table block and all that. So now we have that, but it seems to have also the UI for you were able to do this via the theme JSON, but now you can do it without using the code for it.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. You can access it through the global style panels for typography, there will be a new caption options, and the color as well.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; So yeah, the next one, we have the patterns to the template start modal. So when you add new templates now instead of having a fallback default templates, you can have this options to pick a pattern to start with. So yeah, this is also interesting, because in my opinion, this is a perfect middle ground. I remember when the Site Editor came in 5.9, when you add a new template, you start with blank canvas, which is quite daunting, to be honest. And then it was fixed in the feature of this 6.2, 6.0, I can&#8217;t remember that one. But basically, now you can choose it with the black templates and a default fallback template, which is great. But the problem is if you have different ideas with the default templates, you basically have to modify the existing template. You can remove some blocks, and you have to add more blocks. But now with the increasing number of patterns and increasing number of the pattern adoption by the theme developers, it&#8217;s nice to have just simply options to add patterns for the template and choose whatever suits your needs.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, the blank page is not good for anybody, not for writers and not for style, for theme builders. So what&#8217;s next?\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bug Fixes</h3>\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; It&#8217;s quite a lot showing the featured images placeholders. Again, this is something I didn&#8217;t realize at first. Is it Blockfish? Oh, no, it&#8217;s block library. Yeah. It&#8217;s something that I didn&#8217;t realize previously that sometimes the featured image doesn&#8217;t show on the Query Loop block when there&#8217;s no featured set for the certain post. But I think now when you&#8217;re in the Site Editor and some posts may have a featured image and some don&#8217;t, the post with featured image will show the featured image on the Query Loop. And the post that doesn&#8217;t have any featured image will have this gray placeholder so you know that the featured image will be there.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. Or say, &#8220;Oh,&#8221; and if I want that design, it alerts you to not every post can help you with that design because there is no featured image. So it gets a little bit skewed there, where the headline comes up on the top of the image to the next post. Yeah, so it really helps with what you see is what you get kind of approach. Yeah. Yeah, there was quite a daunting bug there. And then the one other bug fix was that the Selecta&#8217;s API, the hook for the global style variation and Duotone has been fixed, and it&#8217;s now behaving consistently throughout the site. There&#8217;s a whole list of PRs that are with that. Not all of them are actually placed in, but this is definitely a very major fix to revamp the code consistency and code quality for it.\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What’s in Active Development or Discussed</h3>\n\n\n\nAll right. And this was Gutenberg 5.5. I&#8217;m glad that they were a little smaller as plug-in releases, because first, we got two and then, but we also have a lot to talk about what&#8217;s in active development and what&#8217;s discussed. And I prefixed that next section for the section is, we will include three and a half topics to talk about. First we talk about a little bit about Matias Ventura&#8217;s post on the next phase of the Gutenberg project, Phase 3. And there&#8217;s also work being done on making content and template editing less confusing, and then a proposal on the interactivity API by core contributors. And the half-topic is the design shares by Joen Asmussion from the WordPress design team showed what they are working on. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Let&#8217;s start with Phase 3. Personally for me, this is the most excitingness of the year, probably, ever since Matt mentioned it on the State of the Word, that this year we are moving to Phase 3 with real-time collaboration. Personally, I believe if the Phase 3 is what I have in mind, and officially just like what Matias posted on his blog post. This is my personal take, but I really think, I believe that it will be a game changer in the content industry. Because right now, we rely on other tools like Google Docs to collaborate and create the draft for the content and then push it on the WordPress, which, it&#8217;s now better with the Block Editor, but still, you have to move the draft, you still have to clean the code, you still have to move the image with the alt tags. So if the Phase 3 finally mature, this can significantly improve the workflow and the pace of the content industry. So yeah, I really hope the Phase 3 gets underway as soon as possible. And let&#8217;s see how the development then. Definitely can&#8217;t wait for that.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, I&#8217;m totally with you. The other, I think the whole web development and web content creators of the last 25 years is actually waiting for this, that two people at the same time or four people at the same time can access a post and edit it. And not the last person who&#8217;s clicks saves wins. So yes, I think that, and bringing that to a web editor is certainly cutting down on the workflow of a lot of people that had to collaborate on Google Docs to get input from other people, to get approval from other people. So that definitely is that real-time collaboration part that Matias Ventura was talking about in his post. What he also sees is that there are asynchronous collaboration. That if Leo in Indonesia is writing a post, and I&#8217;m in America and that&#8217;s 12 hours apart, I want to comment on it, and it&#8217;s really hard right now to do this because there is no revision comments.\n\n\n\nThere is no comments at all unless you have a plugin. There were always a few things already, a plugin there. So PublishPress is one, and then Edit Flow that took care of some of that, but you weren&#8217;t able to customize it to your own liking. And then he also talks about the published flows where you have publishing checklists. So is the image rate in the aspect ratio? Do we have an excerpt? Do we have all the categories and tags, and do we have a different image for the header section and for the footer section? Or when different contacts can have different publish flows. So that is definitely going to be a little bit more complicated to make it extensible. And then also the post revisions interface, it&#8217;s really hard right now to see what really changed when you have a long post from one revisions to the next.\n\n\n\nAnd this Phase 3 is aiming to make it understand blocks, and then also help you with theme switching as well as applying some other styles. And also have revisions that are scheduled. We have on the documentation team, yeah, Leo, you probably know this better than I do, but if you want to prepare for a release, you need to wait till the release is out, so you can publish it, publish the new version of your documents. But not everybody has time to wait for the release and be there in the middle of a night, and hit the publish button or the save button. You definitely want to schedule that. And yeah, we use a plugin for that, but having that in core would be definitely, we are not the only ones who have that trouble. Yeah, yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, definitely.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; But with the post revision interface, I think that&#8217;s the main, when talking about collaboration, people might think about real time and asynchronous collaboration. But post revisions are as important as the other ones. Because when you collaborate, especially with bigger themes, you really want to see not only what part has been changed, but who made the change to keep the accountability and content to be as good as possible. And to make sure there&#8217;s no mistake in the process. So yeah, and I think, I&#8217;m not sure, did Matias actually talk about this, but with the collaboration is now on WordPress, there must be some thinking to grant more access to collaborators, maybe from links and maybe how to control the user&#8217;s permissions. So I believe that&#8217;s something to tackle as well on the first three.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, it&#8217;s definitely will, especially the post revision interface. And although it will need different user roles for different things to do, and I know that bigger publishing houses, they have that really huge requirement that they need to have people access the images but not the text kind of thing or vice versa. And yeah, there&#8217;s definitely a part of the development will be about user roles and user capabilities that come with the publishing flow, for sure. There&#8217;s also the admin design. There was a separate post by Matias back in January, I think, that was thinking about through the WordPress admin experience. And that will now be part of the collaboration phase, where certain pieces of the admin definitely would need a revamp, like how we organize posts. What&#8217;s in the post you need for the collaboration you need, yeah, when was it revisioned?\n\n\n\nDoes that need to be in the list view of things? And all that kind of thing. And then also have a library. Expansion, that means spaces where you can manage your patterns, where you can manage your blocks, your styles and your fonts on the site, or at least for the site admin to be able to do that. Right now, there&#8217;s the two, all four of them that I&#8217;ve just mentioned. And the Matias mentioned in his post where are actually missing, and it&#8217;s felt quite a bit throughout the five years that the Block Editor is there, especially the blocks where you can switch on and switch off blocks in the interface. But then if you have third-party blocks, you don&#8217;t know which of the blocks have you used or which post uses which block. So you can switch it over to a different one when you say, &#8220;Okay, I want to remove the plugin.&#8221; But all of a sudden, some of your content disappears as well.\n\n\n\nSo there definitely needs to be a little bit more manageable space there. And then the last item is develop a global search and command component where you can say, &#8220;Okay, edit post in a search box,&#8221; and then it opens up the &#8220;Edit post&#8221; admin screen. So you don&#8217;t have to click through all the different levels of things. That&#8217;s the idea behind it. So I&#8217;m not sure if we do it really justice, going through those different sections of the collaboration post by Matias. Give it a read. It&#8217;s definitely is a little bit more expanded at what we are doing here. And see, and especially what Matias Ventura is asking and the whole core contributors are asking. So if there&#8217;s something that you are doing on your website and you want it in one part of the collaboration, because it fits in that scope, but it wasn&#8217;t yet mentioned, comment on the post, describe your flow, and see if that&#8217;s something that could be in core.\n\n\n\nNothing is, of course, prominent at this stage because I haven&#8217;t started working on it yet. So in the WP Briefing podcast, Episode 52, Josepha Haden Chomphosy and Hector Prieto also talking about the Phase 3, the workflows, the visioning about it. So it&#8217;s another version of it, and you probably can hear more about it. All right. So I mentioned it before, is also work being done, and we&#8217;ll share the links to the PR and discussions in the show notes.\n\n\n\nUsers repeatedly mentioned that they sometimes get confused of what they are actually editing in the Site Editor. And then they see a page and make updates to the content, and then they&#8217;re surprised that page template, actually, that they&#8217;re actually changed the page template. And that the content that they changed or that they added is replicated on all the pages because it was a template. So that&#8217;s quite a surprising thing, and it&#8217;s nowhere really alerted that that might happen. So the developers and designers are really working hard to make it a seamless switch from editing your content to editing a template. And there are two, there&#8217;s one PR that actually caters to that, but then there is a bigger effort to optimize also the content-centric editing experience in the site editor. So I&#8217;ll share those in the side notes. Show notes, side notes, show notes. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; It&#8217;s definitely a nice addition to the Site Editor. I remember when the browse mode first mentioned in past updates, I believe, this is actually what I had in mind. Users can browse their websites, can open pages and blog post to the Site Editors. And when they want to edit the content, they can just switch from editing the templates and just editing the page or post they&#8217;re browsing in. And I think with the new navigation UI in the site bar or the dark side of the Site Editor, it&#8217;s like that already. We can see the menu items in there and just click on it, and you can see the page. And if you click it, you can edit the page on the Site Editor. So yeah, it&#8217;s already in the good direction now. So it&#8217;s only the matter of expanding it to be more integrated between the Site Editors and put editor, and the post and page editor.\n\n\n\nTo be honest, when the first Site Editor came out in 5.9, this is also my first issue, figuring out what is the new Site Editor? And I just click it. &#8220;Okay, this is the template, so how do I edit the post or page? Oh, I still have to go to the old post and page editor.&#8221; Because in my mind, it was a page builder or website builder, but it&#8217;s not right. So it took me a while to understand what it is. And now we are working to integrate the Site Editor and the content editor better. So in the future, we might have a better experience with Block Editor and seamless content editing.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And for a newer WordPress user, the difference between the page and the template for the page, that&#8217;s a certain cognitive hurdle there. An abstraction level that not everybody who wants to get their work done wants to deal with. So it&#8217;s definitely something that needs to be handled, but it&#8217;s also sometimes really hard to make that intuitive. And if the context is not known with a switch, so it&#8217;s going to be a training. Sometimes we always think that web editing should be something like using a car, without forgetting that we went to traffic school before we actually learned driving. And we don&#8217;t want have traffic school for the web there. So we need to make a compromise there.\n\n\n\nI also wanted to point the more the developers amongst our listeners to the proposal for an interactivity API that a team of contributors has worked almost a year around it to figure out how can this be standardized. There is, of course, available any of the block builders or block developers or third-party blocks or core blocks. There is some interactivity already available, but it&#8217;s not standardized. And standardization also means that developers don&#8217;t have to relearn everything. Users don&#8217;t have to relearn everything every time they have a new plugin. And also, you can share data. So if one plugin knows about the block of another plugin, then new things and better things can happen. So Mario Santos published a proposal for the Interactivity API.\n\n\n\nAnd for those of us who need a practical application to think through the abstractions there, it&#8217;s all very theoretically, Mario also put in a video demo of a movie database, where in you can browse the site publicly and developers can look at the code of things. But the video shows two use cases for add an interactivity to that movie directory. And navigating the directory is already by search, and that is one of the interactivity API, because it doesn&#8217;t go back to the server and reloads things. That&#8217;s pretty much what it abstracts is that only parts of the data will be replaced on the site, but it will not go back to reload the whole page that you&#8217;re looking at. And then the other one is click on hearts to favorite some of the movies. And it also has a favorite counter on that. So these kind of interactivity, that&#8217;s a simple example that we can all rely on or relate to.\n\n\n\nAnd then there is the whole proposal itself. As a developer, you learn about directives, you see some code examples, and the FAQ also answers some of the more in-depth questions you might have. The post has already 40 comments. So grab a cup of coffee, put on some nice, slow music and read through it. It&#8217;s almost a book, but it&#8217;s very, very interesting in terms of what can actually happen when we standardize things. And then there is next week, no. Okay, so I don&#8217;t want to count it because I don&#8217;t know when you are listening to it. So two developers from the team who came up with a proposal will be speakers of the Developer Hours on April 17. I don&#8217;t know if you know about Developer Hours, but they had been revitalized from an experiment last year where you can connect with developers on the core team and have questions answered.\n\n\n\nAnd this time has a little bit of a different format, when there is an introduction to the interactivity API. And they will hold two events to accommodate as many time zones as possible. One is at 8:00 AM UTC. And the other one, that&#8217;s with Mario Santos. And the other one is at 17:00 UTC. That&#8217;s going to be with Michal Czamplinski. And yeah, so that is actually the next generation of block development getting more interactivity into, it&#8217;s called a hydration process, where things come from the server. Yeah, it&#8217;s a connecting PHP with JavaScript and just update the necessary data on the front end upon user interactions. That&#8217;s pretty much the explanation for it. Yeah, so I don&#8217;t know if you have any comments on that, Leo?\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Nope.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Because I&#8217;m more of an end user in this regard.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And what you see in the demo is actually quite impressive, because you see the seamless, that there is no time lost between changing different screens. So that&#8217;s really cool.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSo there are two articles in the show notes, one from the Tavern and one the proposal. And then if you as a developer or want to be a developer kind of person, share or join those two developer hours with Michal and Mario. And the last thing, the half about topic for, what&#8217;s in the works is Joen Asmussen&#8217;s Design Share from March 27th on the &#8220;Make WordPress Design,&#8221; make blog. And he shares what&#8217;s happening, with one is that the mercantile store, the swag store gets some social images that are designed. Then the design team also thinks through making the padding and margin controls a little bit more intuitive and see how to provide easily clickable preset sizes and unlink variations, and take a look at it.\n\n\n\nAnd he connects with the PRs on issues that are on the GitHub repo. They also have a visual idea on how to scale the Block Options menu. That gets really long now to cluster some of them, and then you can access and an arrow with a secondary menu item there. That&#8217;s quite nice. And then he had, the last one is the ideation of the Template Management view where he has a small video to mock up the view toggle patterns to moving between the browsing and the managing context. So that&#8217;s pretty much the topic that we talked before about content-centric Site Editor kind of thing. So they&#8217;re, of course, design, it&#8217;s all visuals. And we are here on a podcast, so it&#8217;s really hard. But we have the link in the show notes for you, so you can browse them at your own leisure. Yeah. All right.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; The block option in particular caught my eye because as you say, the block options get longer and longer over time. So it is quite short. But then we have block locking tools, we have &#8220;Create Template Part&#8221; options. We now have a copy style and paste styles. I mean, if we have a minimized Windows Manager, try to open the options, so you might have to scroll it down just to find the bottom ones. So yeah, it&#8217;s nice to have the new designs to just split it and with the sub-menus. Yeah.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. You still need the space on the right-hand side when they pop out. So if there are too many options, it&#8217;s not enough room. But yeah, gradual adoption is pretty much the keyword word for that. Yeah. All right. This is the end of the Gutenberg Changelog Episode 81. Thank you so much for listening, people. Leo, thank you so much for being here and talking this through. You did an excellent job. It was wonderful to have the chat with you, and I really enjoyed it, being on the show with you. So you mentioned…\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: You mentioned a few links to your social web. If you can repeat the website where you have your portfolio for the photography, that would be great.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, the website is <a href=\"https://leoandlens.com/\">Leo and Lens</a>. I will type it down for you later, and maybe you can put it on the show notes.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: There&#8217;s no maybe about it.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Thank you. Yeah. And yeah, lastly, thank you all, listeners, for listening to this episode. Thank you, Birgit, for having me. It&#8217;s such an honor to be in the Gutenberg Changelog podcast with you.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: It was definitely, the pleasure was all mine. And well, I might ask you to maybe come back in the future. Yeah.\n\n\n\nLeonardus Nugraha:&nbsp; Yeah, yeah, just contact me. I&#8217;ll definitely be happy to be in here again and talk about Gutenberg, about WordPress and how it evolves. Yeah, it is a great pleasure for me.\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Thank you. Yeah, and as always, hey listeners, the show notes will be published on GutenbergTimes.com/podcast. This is Episode 81. And if you have questions or suggestions or news you want us to include, send them to <a href=\"mailto:Changelog@Gutenbergtimes.com\">Changelog@Gutenbergtimes.com</a>. That&#8217;s email <a href=\"mailto:Changelog@Gutenbergtimes.com\">Changelog@Gutenbergtimes.com</a>. And thanks again, and I wish you all a good weekend, a good day, a good year, and a good month, so bye. That&#8217;s it for me. 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It&#8217;s good to be back in my hometown. Let the honeymoon phase of rekindling begin! \n\n\n\nIn the WordPress world, the last two weeks were quite busy. The major release of WordPress 6.2, a preview of Gutenberg&#8217;s Phase Three, a new Gutenberg plugin version, and so much more. \n\n\n\nEnjoy. Wishing you and yours a great weekend and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. \n\n\n\nYours, 💕 Birgit\n\n\n\nPS: Did you know that as part of the 20-year celebrations coming up next month, Julia Golomb, published a play list on Spotify of <a href=\"https://wp20.wordpress.net/20-years-of-wordpress-jazz/\">20 Years of WordPress Jazz</a>? From Miles Davis to Mikhail “Misha” Alperin, this playlist includes one song for each of the 45 jazz artists selected to <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/about/history/\">represent the releases</a>. Have a look at the site <a href=\"https://wp20.wordpress.net\">wp20.WordPress.net</a> of what is in store for the 20-year anniversary coming up next month. \n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://wp20.wordpress.net/\"><img /></a>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\nTable of Contents\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost\"><ul><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled\">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press\">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </a></li></ul></div>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>\n\n\n\nIt is finally here! <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/dolphy/\">WordPress 6.2 &#8220;Dolphy&#8221; </a>was released on March 29, 2023. Over 600 contributors made the first major release in 2023 possible. They come from at least 50 countries. With 900+ enhancements, ten full Gutenberg release features, and a slew of performance improvements, you might not be surprised to learn that “Dolphy” reached the impressive milestone of 2 million downloads in under 2 hours after release. After the first week, it reached over 18 million downloads.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The release post has the details: <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/dolphy/\">WordPress 6.2 &#8220;Dolphy&#8221;</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>The field guide for developers is available since RC 1: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/09/wordpress-6-2-field-guide/\">WordPress 6.2 Field Guide</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watch the recorded Product Demo video from the preview event. <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/10/6-2-live-product-demo-qa/\">6.2 Live Product Demo Q&amp;A</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/dolphy/\"><img /></a>\n\n\n\nHere is a highly subjective list of detailed articles on various sites about the release and the features in WordPress 6.2:\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Carlo Daniele for Kinsta: <a href=\"https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-2/\">What’s New In WordPress 6.2: Browse Mode, Style Book, Improved Navigation Menus, New APIs, and Much More</a>.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leonardus Nugraha for Hostinger: <a href=\"https://www.hostinger.com/blog/wordpress-6-2\">WordPress 6.2 Is Finally Here: A Detailed Overview</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dan Knauss, for iThemes&nbsp;<a href=\"https://ithemes.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-wordpress-6-2\">What to Expect in WordPress 6.2</a> (BTW iThemes just announced a <a href=\"https://solidwp.com/\">total rebranding to SolidWP</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li>And last but not least: Sarah Gooding for WPTavern: <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-2-dolphy-introduces-a-revamped-site-editor-distraction-free-writing-mode-and-updated-block-inserter\">WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” Introduces a Revamped Site Editor, Distraction-Free Writing Mode, and Updated Block Inserter&nbsp;</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n🎙️ New episode: <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-81-wordpress-6-2-interactivity-api/\">Gutenberg Changelog #81 – WordPress 6.2, Gutenberg 15.4 and 15.5, Phase 3 – Collaboration and a new Interactivity API</a> with Birgit Pauli-Haack and special guest Leonardus Nugraha\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/Leonugr\">Leonardus Nugraha</a> joined me on Friday for Gutenberg Changelog episode 81, and we also talked about WordPress 6.2. We also covered Gutenberg plugin releases 15.4 and 15.5, Phase 3 and the Interactivity API proposal. If you are a subscriber, the episode will drop into your favorite Podcast app over the weekend. \n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nIn the <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/phase-3-collaboration-layout-and-spacing-controls-block-visibility-3-0-weekend-edition-248/\">Weekend edition #248</a>, we shared Matias Ventura&#8217;s announcement on the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/\">Phase 3: Collaboration</a> \n\n\n\nJosepha Haden Chomphosy and Hector Prieto discussed a few questions the community had about Phase 3 in the latest episode of the WP Briefing: <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/episode-52-phase-three-with-hector-prieto/\">Episode 52: Workflows and Phase Three Visioning with Special Guest Héctor Prieto</a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nIn his <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/03/27/design-share-mar-13-mar-24/\">Design Share: Mar 13–Mar 24</a>, Joen Asmussen showcased the latest work by the WordPress Design team. One display is particular interesting as it imagines how the block options menu can scale and house even more options. In another section, Asmussen shows how the team is thinking about the template management. \n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\nThis week, Ryan Welcher and Justin Tadlock wrangled the Gutenberg plugins release and published the release post: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-5-05-april/\">What’s new in Gutenberg 15.5? (05 April)</a>. In it, they highlight \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-5-05-april/#patterns-as-template-starters\">Patterns as template starters</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-5-05-april/#style-captions-via-the-styles-interface\">Style captions via the Styles interface</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-5-05-april/#experimental-grid-layout-support\">Experimental grid layout support</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nI am particularly, curious about how the grid layout works. It seems quite complex as the editor needs to deal with several levels and Inner Blocks and how they follow the overall grid layout. It&#8217;s important that theme builders test this and provide feedback, so it can be solidified. \n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>\n\n\n\nAnne McCarthy, manager of the FSE-Outreach Project hosted a Hallway Hangout with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/bbertucc\">Blake Bertuccelli-Booth</a> on <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/04/04/hallway-hangout-lets-chat-about-moving-to-the-site-editor/\">Moving to the Site Editor</a>. Bertucelli-Booth &#8220;sees a huge advantage in using the Site Editor directly as a design tool rather than using Figma before replicating in WordPress.&#8221; and &#8220;Generally speaking, they try not to build that many custom blocks and instead rely on patterns with an emphasis on employing as much as possible from&nbsp;<a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/curating-the-editor-experience/\">the curating the editor experience doc</a>.&#8221; McCarthy wrote. It&#8217;s a great conversation to have and one I will revisit, when starting to migrate the Gutenberg Times to a block theme. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nMunir Kamal launched <a href=\"https://gutenberghub.com/launching-gutenberghub-shop/\">GutenbergHub Shop</a> where he offers an extensive range of Gutenberg Blocks, Templates, and Extensions, designed to facilitate and enhance the website building process. Kamal has big plans for the future. I am excited to see <a href=\"https://shop.gutenberghub.com/\">what&#8217;s in store </a>next\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nAnders Noren, an early adopter of block themes, published a new theme in the WordPress repository called <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/themes/abisko/\">Abisko</a>. &#8220;Abisko is a stylish blog theme with a heavy emphasis on bold typography and generous amounts of whitespace. It comes with 5 different theme styles to choose from, and over 30 different block patterns that you can use to build unique page layouts quickly.&#8221; Sarah Gooding has the skinny for you: <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/anders-noren-releases-abisko-a-new-free-wordpress-theme-with-30-block-patterns\">Anders Norén Releases Abisko, a New Free WordPress Theme with 30+ Block Patterns</a>\n\n\n\n<img />Features pattern. Theme Abiski by Andres Noren. \n\n\n\nWordPress 6.2 comes with an Openverse integration for media and block inserter. Wes Theron has a tutorial for you on how to <a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/add-media-and-openverse-images-to-your-content-directly-from-the-inserter/\">Add media and Openverse images to your content directly from the Inserter</a>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled\">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</h2>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/jkoussertari\">James Koussertari</a> at GutenbergMarket, published <a href=\"https://gutenbergmarket.com/news/a-comprehensive-guide-to-building-wordpress-block-themes\">A Comprehensive Guide to Building WordPress Block Themes</a> with links to official and other sources. Apart from the official sources, Carolina Nymark&#8217;s fullsiteediting.com has the most details resources. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nPreviously, Felix Arntz shared his experience of&nbsp;<a href=\"https://felix-arntz.me/blog/rebuilding-my-website-using-a-block-theme/\">rebuilding my WordPress website using a block theme</a>. In his latest blog post he shared how he was <a href=\"https://felix-arntz.me/blog/measuring-website-performance-using-webpagetest-with-wordpress-6-2/\">measuring website performance using WebPageTest</a>, using the latest WordPress version. Arntz shares his plan, how to select relevant test scenarios and what exactly he wanted to measure. It&#8217;s a great case study, that will help you to also benchmark some of the sites you are dealing with. Felix is super detailed in his post, and you might get lost in the weeds. Make sure you check out the tools he mentions to help with the endeavor. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nThe WPEngine team has released the Pattern Manager plugin in the WordPress plugins directory . The description reads: &#8220;When you design beautiful block patterns for your theme, Pattern Manager by WP Engine will automatically push them into PHP files for you, every time you save.&#8221; \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2022&#8221;</a>&nbsp; A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. Updated by yours truly. <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/\">The index 2020 is here</a>\n\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/benjaminritner\">Ben Ritner</a> elaborated on the <a href=\"https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/wordpress-6-2-and-the-state-of-fse/\">state of FSE themes,</a> “…there is a lot about the site editor and FSE themes that are not quite ready…”. Ritner and his team at Kadence theme were early adopters of the Block editor and built a very popular Block Collection plugin. Together with the Kadence Theme, the plugin elevated the user experience to page building capabilities with features the block editor was missing for a long time. There are still things Ritner finds missing. Read the article and see if his gaps are also relevant to your theme building journey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/nschaeferhoff\">Nick Schäferhoff</a> found <a href=\"https://torquemag.io/2023/03/wordpress-site-editor-features/\">10 WordPress Site Editor (FSE) Features You Didn’t Know About</a>, even if you know about some of them, you might not know all of them. \n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press\">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </h2>\n\n\n\nIn his post, <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/03/quick-and-easy-local-wordpress-development-with-wp-env/\">Quick and easy local WordPress development with wp-env</a>, Michael Burridge introduced you to the WordPress development tool that comes with the Gutenberg plugin and allows you to quickly spin up a WordPress site on your computer to start working on proof of concepts, or follow an interesting idea. (Docker required \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nJonathan Bossenger&#8216;s new course is online on Learn.WordPress site. <a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/course/converting-a-shortcode-to-a-block/\">Converting a Shortcode to a Block</a>. This is a newer style of course, where we&#8217;re using existing tutorial content, updating it with images, code examples and quizzes, and bundling it as a short course. A short version of the course is available as a tutorial on the WordPress Developer Blog: <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/03/converting-your-shortcodes-to-blocks/\">Converting your shortcodes to blocks</a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nMichael Burridge and Jonathan Bossenger held live Developer Hours for the Asia/Pacific timezones and uploaded the recording to WordPressTV: <a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/04/03/developer-hours-migrate-a-plugin-to-blocks-emea-asia-pacific/\">Developer Hours: Migrate a plugin to blocks (EMEA / Asia-Pacific)</a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nRyan Welcher invited developers to bring block development issues to the live stream on Twitch. 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The vision: &#8220;Imagine plugins providing interactions like “heart this post” or “add to cart” without page reloads. Picture instant search, commenting, and native full-page transitions as best-in-class built-ins without complex scaffolding or external tools. Envision achieving this in any block theme by default without sacrificing&nbsp;PHP&nbsp;server rendering and the&nbsp;plugin&nbsp;ecosystem for a&nbsp;JS&nbsp;runtime. Visualize block developers easily declaring and extending such behaviors in a way that is immediately familiar and compatible with the block ecosystem.&#8221; \n\n\n\nSantos also shared a short demo of Favorites in a Movies app. You can <a href=\"https://wpmovies.dev/\">browse it yourself on the live site</a>, and if you are interested in the implementation, the <a href=\"https://github.com/wordpress/wp-movies-demo\">demo code is also available on GitHub</a>. 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Okay. Because I think, I think the power balance is about to shift the power balance. Yeah. Previously we were waiting for me, I think we\'re, oh, I think I\'m, I think I\'m caught up. And so I think we\'re stepping more into w you know, you being able to do stuff for, um, you know, we can start working on marketing assets and the website and stuff like that because the plugin\'s actually worth talking about . Cory Miller: Okay. Gotcha. Well, do you want to catch me up on where we\'re at with the product? Then we can shift gears to what\'s Corey Maass: next. Yeah, so the good news is, [00:01:00] um, we had started with Featured image and I had jumped over and featured Image was, uh, had a nice walkthrough or a nice flow. Choose your image, choose your shape, do your cropping. There it is. Um, I had added a bypass button, um, and then had started stubbing out settings, um, so that you could build your own, um, presets or calling them your own shapes, basically. Um, size, width, whatever. Um, and then I had jumped over to Media Library cuz that was the other one that I really wanted, or the next one that I really wanted, again, as a non guttenberg user. Um, And so had brought that up to speed. So it, [00:02:00] now, if you go into media library, there\'s now a second button at the top is the choice we\'ve made thus far. Um, so if you go to library Yep. There\'s a critical error. Uh oh. is that, um, uh, we need to start using Insta. Insta, wp, Cory Miller: um, oh, Corey Maass: this is just my, yeah, go to, um, go to Insta WP and do it. Spin up a site they really want. Um, I mean they\'re, this product\'s amazing Anyway, so you just launch one click. Oh, you reach your limit. Do it in incognito. Okay.[00:03:00] Hackers. Um, but they, they\'ve actually offered us a, um, a test account for, um, for using to use c WP for this product, for these kinds of demos. So, or you can do that. Passwords. I\'ve memorized it. I\'ve memorized it. I\'m gonna hack your account. No kidding. . Cory Miller: Oh my God. Come on, . Corey Maass: Seriously, just do, uh, incognito. You don\'t have to do any of this. There you go. Oh, but now you have to share that window. Nothing [00:04:00] is easy. Um, but anyway. Yeah, so Well, you\'re good. Well you\'re setting that up. Um, so media library, uh, doing two things. One is cheeky boogers. Do you want me to just share? I can walk us through it. Yeah. Okay. Um, how are they tracking cookies? Uh, into incognito. That\'s, uh, they\'re being very sneaky. I think. Enter my name. I don\'t want to one click log in. All right. So I\'m gonna share my screen. Cory Miller: Um, okay. I\'m into, oh, okay. Well then go, Corey Maass: Okay, I got the Cory Miller: free account. There you go. You\'re a hackers. Okay, yeah, Corey Maass: go for it. I\'m here. So, [00:05:00] uh, magic login. There you go. And then plugins add new crop, express, crop of the express. And this is something we need to start working on. There you go. Cuz we, we wanna be first, so we\'ll have to start doing some testing on that. Um, so did you notice we had 10 plus click on view details? Uh, we are up to over 10 active installs, 10 plus. Cory Miller: Oh, is that why you were showing me that? I was like, oh man, are you having a bad day? Cuz you showed me that like Active was like, yeah, but they have these gaps and stuff. But what you were trying to say was the plus Corey Maass: we\'re over 10. We finally made it over 10.\n\n\n\nThat\'s awesome. So yeah. So if you go to, yeah, so there\'s now, uh, [00:06:00] settings, uh, crop Express. Um, I put in just a little placeholder welcome. And what we\'ve got here is identical settings, but for all three instances of crop express, right? So you can crop, uh, your featured image in posts, you can crop. There\'s a block in Gutenberg and then media library. So, um, all of them are, are identical. So click on media library, cuz then we\'ll jump over to that. Um, so you\'ve got your presets. Um, so all of the default ones you can turn on and off and then you can add your own. And then down below, uh, are the sizes and we just populate with some sensible defaults, basically. But you can say, uh, you know, make my image, um, oh, defaults shouldn\'t say [00:07:00] max, so I need to fix that. Um, but it\'s the, if you upload a square, it\'ll, it\'ll automatically generate an image that\'s 2000 by 2000. Um, but if you up upload a rectangle one way or the other, The wider side will be the maximum and the, and the smaller side will be the minimum. Mm-hmm. , um, it took me a while to figure out what the heck they were talking about with Men\'s Max and default, but it\'s that, so we need some, some happy text there to explain that. Um, and then, yeah, so if you go back up to the top portion, portion in this page and turn off a couple of these, the four threes or something, whatever, um, and then hit save. And then if you go to media library or media in your menu, um, and if you click add new, it automatically throws you back [00:08:00] to the media library, but with the crop Express open so that you\'re always using it. Um, which could be an option that we give. Um, and then, um, but, and if you go to Media Library and say, Add new, there\'s again, there\'s a new button at the top. Cory Miller: Okay. Can we go back for just one second cuz I wanna make sure I understand this so that I could give feedback and help people. So yeah, of course. Okay. I think this is what\n\n\n\ntripped me up and it\'s probably, cuz I\'ve got old, old school, Adobe Photoshop in mind. Mm- hmm. . But we\'re saying for all the image settings, like here is the preset ratios in a sense, but\n\n\n\nit\'s not just ratios, it\'s like circles. It\'s the preset what. Corey Maass: Sure . Um, I\'ve [00:09:00] gone back and forth between, uh, shapes and sizes. So originally we were calling them sizes, but they\'re not really sizes cuz that\'s Yeah. Pixels. So shapes, um, or preset aspect ratios is what they really are. Mm-hmm. , I just, I worry that people don\'t, that\'s progress, right? Like that\'s, that\'s the most correct way to put it. Um, but people don\'t think that way. Mm-hmm. or like, again, using, using one of my clients, uh, using my clients as an example, um, one of them this week, we kept going back and forth unrelated to the plugin. Obviously we kept going back and forth where, uh, she\'s like, there\'s a bug about uploading an image. And I, I had it. Um, set so that they could upload, they should upload 16.9 featured [00:10:00] images and, and she\'s like, yeah, but what if it\'s really tall? And I\'m like, 16 nine is 16.9. And in her head, 16.9 and nine 16 are the same thing. And Hmm. And that to me is like one, we, we can do some education, but two, you know, people aren\'t, uh, people don\'t, aren\'t nerds like me and thinking about 16 nine and nine 16 and yada yada. So, um, yeah, I definitely think some video or a video that explains what any of this stuff is. Mm-hmm. like I, maybe, maybe we\'ve been taking that for granted, or now you and I on session eight are, you know, in it, so we totally get it, but users may not, that kind of thing. Okay. Cory Miller: Um, Okay. Can we spend just a little time thinking about that? Um, yeah, of course. [00:11:00] How, how nor, because I saw this and I was like, man, I know you\'ve got these incredibly smart thoughts about all this, but I was like, okay, I\'m trying to get my head around it, but if I think of, maybe I just share what I think and then Yep. You compare that. Help me, because I don\'t know if my knowledge is ancient. Um, okay. So I go, I need a photo for, or I, I know I\'m gonna want a photo featured image, whatever that is. Okay. And then I go, okay, how wide is my now featured image blows this out. But I just, I go, how wide do I need the photo to be? Like, for most of these, I think I\'m just processing my way. And then absolutely. Tell me. Absolutely. Keep going. . So I go, okay. My constant pain in the butt with WordPress for years. Anything like this. Yeah. Is you\'re constrained [00:12:00] by column width mostly. Okay. Featured image. Image. Just like our post stuff. I hate it because it\'s like, I don\'t want post billboards on top of our, our posts. I want them to get to the post anyway, so thank you for letting me digress. . Okay. So I go, I\'m writing a post, I want an image for it. I either think featured type in like a big image that kind of\n\n\n\nsets the tone, but to me, I\'ve, I\'ve always still gone, like it\'s the post width. Mm-hmm. . Um, and I don\'t like the featured image issue there because in themes, for instance, like I\'ll do an image because. I would do want to set a tone, but then it ends up in the featured and then a lot of themes will pull that and it just looks wonky to me. Yeah. Like I haven\'t thought about it, maybe thought about it correctly, but I go, I want an image [00:13:00] and I default to width, like mm-hmm. , how wide is, you know, the newsletter or the blog post or the theme that I have. And then I kind of wanted to crop down to that specification appropriately for me. And sometimes I just go, I just want width. And I\'ll kind of adjust the height if I have a tool that lets me do that. Um, like, I\'m trying to think. When I was cropping in Photoshop, I would set, maybe we could pull up photo. I don\'t have Photoshop, but I would go to their little cropping tool and go, I want it to be, what I would do, Corey, is I would. Previously go it\'s, I don\'t know, four or 500 pixels is typically what I\'ve locked in my memory somehow is like most column widths for posts are four to 500 pixels wide. Mm-hmm. So I\'d go and Photoshop, I\'d go [00:14:00] to the crop tool, I\'d have my image up, I\'d go to the crop tool and I\'d say 400. And I would leave the height, um, uh, open. Mm-hmm. . And because, you know, not every image does that. And then go, okay. Crop and save. Mm-hmm. , um, and then upload to the, to WordPress. But again, I\'m gonna acknowledge, I don\'t even know if that\'s all probably the right workflow, but that\'s how I\'ve done it. Yeah. You know, Corey Maass: I, I think so. I, I think you\'re right. Like one of my takeaways from that is, I think we\'re, we\'re at a high level anyway. We\'re making the same point that people don\'t think about aspect ratios necessarily as aspect ratios. But, you know, and talking about previously we\'ve talked about, uh, [00:15:00] consistency and that kind of thing, um, and, and making images appear correct for your theme. And so using featured image, you know, something\'s popped into my head, which I think is a neat idea. Um, featured image. So using featured image specifically, it\'s like, how wide do you need it? How wide does your theme want your image to be? And then what aspect ratio do you want it to be? Mm-hmm. . So it\'s like you\'re, you go, you go look at, and we could do a little video that\'s like create a post. Laura Ipsum post, add an image, even even publish it privately. And then go look at the image and how it looks and you right click on it. Like we can give some instructions, but it\'s like right click on it, you know, how big is it rendering, [00:16:00] you know, and, and make your screen the biggest. It it could, it can go. So it\'s like you, your theme is a maximum of 1300 pixels wide. And currently your design says your image, your images go full width. So, so 1300 is the number you want. So width 1300. And then we could e and we could do something, do a little UI in here that\'s like, okay, here\'s a placeholder image, 1300 pixels wide. You know, how much height do you want? That\'s your aspect ratio. So click on 16 nine, right? And it\'s like, keep in mind, I mean, this is all education. Like I don\'t, I\'m not really sure how we get there, but, um mm-hmm. , uh, but to say like, keep in mind, you know, on small screens, like if you\'re going 1300 wide, you don\'t want to be, you know, 1300 tall and you really don\'t wanna be nine [00:17:00] 16 cuz then you are, you know, tw 2000 tall or whatever it is. And it\'s like, that takes, here\'s why the re the reason is you don\'t, you don\'t want your reader to have to scroll and scroll and scroll before actually getting to your words unless you do. Um, but yeah, that\'s, I think that\'s something that, that we\'re gonna have to education too is, is a very grand word, but it\'s like people don\'t think about it. This much. Maybe, you know, if they\'re a writer, then they\'ve never thought about it. They just grabbed a photo, made it look cool. Mm-hmm. and uploaded. Mm-hmm. . And never thought other than like, do I want a circle or not A circle. Or there\'s, I want a picture of a guy on a beach building a sandcastle and I don\'t want the, the shark in the background, so I\'m gonna crop it. Cory Miller: So I wonder, are there websites, [00:18:00] and I just happened to think of beginner cause I know they do things really well. Like the final product, what mm-hmm. , see how they do like this technically.\n\n\n\nIs there feature featured image? Mm-hmm. . Um, is there any other sites, I don\'t want to just hone in on this, but any other sites you think do a really good job of using photos in their blog posts that we could look at real quick? Be The reason why I say that is because mm-hmm. . Final product is really kind of what we\'re selling. You know what I mean? Like what they\'re trying to get to is we, we had that extended talk where we said, you know, it\'s somehow flavors up the content and kind of Right. You know. Um, do you have anybody else you\'d think I\'d like that we could just kinda look and get some ideas real quick? Corey Maass: Uh, no, cuz I never go to blogs. Cory Miller: Okay. [00:19:00] Well let\'s use them real quick. So see, like, I don\'t know if they\'ve tagged this as a featured image, you know, in WordPress mm-hmm. , but you go, okay, from an SEO side, headline, gray headline music and WordPress. Two good things they\'re gonna get, then they\'ve got enough text here. I mean, this is a great formula, WP Beginner, you know? Yeah. Because yeah, they own all the WordPress search terms. Um, what about to, so yeah, so intro, and then they give this little nice little thing. So what are they doing here? They\'re restating, restating the, the headline and then providing something that looks kind of nice. Like, I think this adds value to the Post personally. Corey Maass: So go, go to, uh, Freemius . They always have good blog posts.[00:20:00] Go to any of them. Um, and so these, I think this to me is the more standard blog post format. Click on any. Um, I like Zach, right? So big image in this case, they have the headline over the image and then a blog post. And so I bet the, the background of Zach is the featured image. Okay. Entry header. Entry thumbnail,[00:21:00] yeah. With a title overlay. And their image is 1600 by 500. So an aspect ratio of 16 five. 16 five. Cory Miller: So there\'s a lot here that I really like. Um, like this is a nice looking featured images. Mm-hmm. , they\'re taking, you know, they\'re really, I think this is gonna be important for us if you\'ll indulge me for a second. Mm-hmm. . Um, okay. So they\'ve taken profile photos easy. I don\'t know if they\'re creating this, like where are they getting, how are they doing all these, but looks standard, right? Like there\'s the same character, Corey Maass: their little robot is theirs, so they must have an illustrator who\'s creating them. [00:22:00] But I bet some of this is probably just clip art, but somebody\'s taking the time to create these images. Yeah. Canva. P. Yeah. You know, some other editor. Cory Miller: Okay, same here. Like, probably find the source to do that. Cutting. These are like screenshots, which I think kind of might flow into your other project you were talking about, right? Corey Maass: Ooh, here\'s another good example. Um, go to, I\'m gonna send it to in Slack. What\'s your name again? Just kidding. Bob So this is actually really, I just googled for, you know, baking blog or [00:23:00] something, but this is actually really neat. So this tape I, this jumps we\'re jumped right into a category, but look at the aspect ratio of these images. And if you click on any of them, they\'re the. They\'re the same. And if you click through, they\'re actually using the featured image, uh, to the side of the title. So like, here, here, I see it twice, go hit back once and click on the first one. There\'s like swirly brownies, which look very good. Yeah. Click on that. So there\'s, there\'s, you know, big brownie image. Scroll down a little and let\'s see if they use it again. I\'m just curious. Yeah, so it does repeat, but you see, it\'s, it\'s the, the coincidentally, I found a blog that has featured images that are taller than they are wide, little unconventional, but again, an a, a different, a another example of a [00:24:00] different layout. Right. So you found, you went to WP Beginner. They use, it\'s, it\'s horizontal. And it\'s in line. So it\'s gonna be smaller cuz it\'s in that with it\'s confined, confined by that column. Go to Freemius . It\'s, you know, 1600, it\'s full width cuz they\'re using it the way, um, I often think of a blog, they want a big, big, big image that takes up the full header. Um, and then found a cooking blog that does taller rather than wider, which I, I was sort of including to just include, but coincidentally right away found a blog that does in fact do that. Um,\n\n\n\nand so I think what, you know, what we\'re really getting at is, uh, again, it\'s the, you know, you\'ve selected a theme or you already have a theme. How are the images being shown? [00:25:00] And so the, you know, the, let\'s pretend that Hummingbird High. Is, uh, an amateur blogger. And so they are new to WordPress. Um, and so they install a theme and they add start adding recipes, and they\'re just taking, like we\'ve talked about, they\'re just taking photos off their phone. So they don\'t know. I think, you know, to your point, they\'re like, I haven\'t put in any posts yet. I don\'t know how big I need my images. Um, the theme seems to want such and such an aspect ratio where I\'ve read the, let\'s pretend they\'re even like, nerdy enough to read the docs. Do the docs include any mention of here\'s how big you want your images, that kind of thing. And so yeah, there\'s, there\'s a need for. [00:26:00] Again, the, the most thorough process of like AIP, post, add a fake image, even temporarily, see how it renders, and then tho that\'s the information you want. Um, and I don\'t know how to do that. I don\'t know that we can do that for them because as we\'ve shown, you know, if you\'ve got a blog that, if you\'ve got a layout that doesn\'t label your featured image as a featured image, like I have no way of going and writing a little code that like goes and scrapes it. Mm-hmm. and imports that and tries to import that information. Cory Miller: So what if we looked at the, okay, yes, that is, um, all that stuff underneath all this that someone would need to, if they\'re really gonna do this at a high, high level, they need to understand all that stuff. Um, you [00:27:00] know, like really what is your theme? I think for the premise for this free one could be like, if I just look at WP Beginner, um, you want to, the outcome is nice looking, um, scaled appropriate images. There\'s an NCO side to it, but like how do you get somebody, and this is bigger than the plugin right now for sure, but you go, I think a huge win could be like this makes it easier to get nice images that kind of break up. Mm-hmm. your post and show specific things. And if I just go default. Don\'t worry about themes so much cuz those could be specific integrations. Like Cadence has an integration builder. Builder. Right. You know, specific for that. That could be all that paid stuff that we talked about. Yeah. But if I [00:28:00] go, if we keep it the way it is now, which is in, well it\'s either fit featured image, which for sure has the theme stuff that you were talking about, where you go in post, how do you create something like, like this is, these sites we\'ve seen have for are formulas and I\'m trying to think through how we can get through the formula is an easy button to nice looking blog post with some images appropriately sized. Mm-hmm. , um, you know, like I\'ve long admired what WP Beginner does cause they\'ve got this formula that works. Like, yeah. All this, every post. Not trying to, this is not a negative to me. Every post is a very defined formula. Yep. Screenshots are in here, you know? Um, they do have to create an image and then still get it in there. So they, that\'s part of their formula. Just like your, [00:29:00] the baking site with the brownies, you were, you were pulling apart the tech specs for how they do all that. And it seems like, yeah, so anchoring back, back in these presets is like, how do you just get somebody to, Hmm. Sorry, I\'m probably getting a little lost in my own thoughts here, but Corey Maass: as long as you keep talking, you\'re good. Cory Miller: Um. But you go, like when you buy, when you get a product or you buy a product, whatever, you\'re, you\'re really buying whatever the result of it is, you\'re actually not buying the product, you\'re buying this out, this outcome. Corey Maass: And when you buy a piece of software and fire it up, you start hacking away at it, Photoshop you, you\'re create new and then, [00:30:00] and it, and it says, here\'s some, here\'s some document sizes, but you know, here\'s a thousand by a thousand, a white canvas. And off you go. And then you\'re like, well, but I really want, I wanna see my text options. I wanna see. And so then you start playing with what menus to show or hide or you start playing with, and that\'s when you dig in, right? So, um, yeah, I, we, what would be great, and this is, this is sort of what we\'ve started with. again, sensible presets I, or sensible, I mean, I, again, I\'m calling \'em presets, preset aspect ratios. So if somebody doesn\'t go to the setting screen at all, they click featured image. They\'ve got six predefined aspect ratios that, again, are sensible. Um, and they\'ve got, and, and they don\'t know anything about sizes, but we\'ve put in some pretty [00:31:00] industry standard.\n\n\n\nMm-hmm. , safe for mobile, safe for desktop image size, men and Max. So we might be pretty close to what you\'re talking about. Mm-hmm. and maybe six isn\'t the magic number. Maybe it should only be Square Circle and 16, nine. And the other ones are. Extra. So maybe it\'s too many. We don\'t know that yet, but, Cory Miller: well, you know what, I lost track a little bit of the settings page because this was intended for the agency, like mm-hmm. I mean, you deliver, like, one of our thesis here was you deliver a client project. This really, like the intention for the settings was for those freelancers, web owners, agencies delivering products or delivering websites to clients. And then from that point, like I was trying to reconcile the settings page with just [00:32:00] being a user, but that wasn\'t our intention. Our intention was give those tools to put in the little scoot in the little bumpers on the bowling lane, right? Like that\'s what the agency does pull, you know, Hey, were you, we, whatever theme framework we use, we know it\'s gonna be 69. You know, put the minimal X. Yeah. And then when they do that stuff from the featured image, And, and the user starts using it, it\'s already there. So we\'ve, we\'ve taken this thought of like, this is, to me, this is for an agency to ship better guardrails for images for their client work. Yeah. So my question to you, I mean, as a, you\'ve set this up with the thought, I thought, you know, as a developer, right? So like, I, I\'m not, but I go, your mindset was to do, put these tools, settings in here for that technical person at the agency. Yeah. Or we delivered it. [00:33:00] Make sure this is like, go through real quick and set these, and that\'s, that was our intention for this. Yep. So as long as it speaks to the, like, I don\'t have to note it, know it necessarily as a user, as long as the devs do. And if we check that box, I think it\'s, we ship it and we start talking about like, we, what we try to do is give a. Guard, I\'m rehearsing some of this for a copy. Mm-hmm. , it was like, this is to give guardrails to your clients for their images. Take, take it, take 30 seconds, you know, when before you deliver the client and do these real quick, and then you\'ll put the little bumpers on the bowling alley for \'em. Corey Maass: Yeah. And I, I think I want to, the only, the only caveat or addition I want to add to what you just said is that it\'s not, let\'s not say dev, right, because dev implies code is, it\'s a scary thing to [00:34:00] a lot of people, whereas. Uh, you know, in my mind the, the word like there, there\'s never been a good word for the people who are WordPress pros who don\'t necessarily write code or write a lot of code or write custom plugins, right? So there\'s still experts in my mind at some, at some time. Like 10 years ago the word was, um, that I was introduced was implementer. So it\'s like someone who implements WordPress and WordPress tools but isn\'t a developer, right? But, so to me, this is like somebody who doesn\'t even, doesn\'t write code, but is setting up a site for a client, installs their favorite theme, knows that the theme looks great with 16 nine images. And so they\'re the ones that are gonna go in and tweak these settings. Um, and so, yeah, and, and I think the analogy of, there\'s nothing that says. There\'s really nothing that [00:35:00] says you have to even touch that setting screen if 16, nine or circle meets your needs. Um, and then the, and, but, but I agree, like the language could be a, a heck of a lot friendlier. Um, and we need docs that explain it, right? Um, and so that\'s where like, I think, I think you come in and the kind of thinking that you\'re doing of, you know, the, the, the unknowledgeable, the as yet unknowledgeable user, you know. So on that little welcome screen, on the settings page, it says, welcome, you know, watch a 62nd video that explains what the heck is going on here with 10 seconds. That explains, you know, why image size and shape is important in the simplest possible terms. Um, And then the other thing that just occurred to me is actually that, that you kind of alluded [00:36:00] to is, uh, I don\'t remember how you put it, but the, the idea of the sort of pre preset, like, I\'m, I\'m way down, I\'m close to the metal where I\'m, I\'m calling a preset, or when I say preset, I\'m saying preset aspect ratio. But I, but you actually kind of alluded to, um, like a preset featured image or a preset something, something, right? Mm-hmm. . Um, and I realized that like, again, what I\'ve created I think is a great, we\'re still on version 0.0 0.3. Mm-hmm. , so I think it\'s appropriate. Um, but, uh, uh, and so, or what I\'m say, sorry.\n\n\n\nUm, we have the crop. That is identical in three different places. Right? Featured image. And the likelihood is your, what, what The assumption that we\'re going under, which I think is, is pretty safe, is [00:37:00] you always, once you get rolling, you always want your featured image to be the same size and shape. Mm-hmm. So that mm-hmm. , all of your posts look consistent. Mm-hmm. . And the same might go for, might not go for in, in post images, cuz you might want a smaller one shifted, left or shifted right. You might want an infographic that\'s tall and so you don\'t necessarily want to be confined, but here are some, some presets that, you know, look we like, you know, getting a level deeper with design is you often want. Your images to be similar throughout a website, the same way you want fonts to be. Similar throughout a website, you want colors to be similar without throughout a website. So, you know, in a perfect world, not that you shouldn\'t sometimes break the rules, but you often want, if your featured images are all 16, nine, you know, [00:38:00] design a a design guideline might encourage you to have 16, nine images elsewhere. That\'s a little digression, but I think that\'s true. And then taking this even further, if you go to the media library, uh, again, right now for the sake of simplicity, I\'ve got the same settings and the same UI applied to the media library, upload a 16 nine image. But here I actually see, uh, a different, or I\'m envisioning a different UI that says, Upload a featured image, which uses the settings from the featured images. But we could also include things like upload an image for Twitter, upload a, you know, and this is where a preset comes in, right? Upload, you know, a circles a circle, but upload a, and this is, I think what, going back to, uh, the, [00:39:00] the little, um, sticker mule menu that we were talking about where there\'s sort of these predefined touchpoints. And so, yeah, so it\'s like you\'re, you\'re in a post, you\'re writing a post. And we also, I think we are spending a lot of time, we are being very word pressy. Um, and it might be to our detriment, um, we are assuming anybody is actually writing a post. And I even saw a headline I think this morning that was like, should WordPress get rid of the blog? You know, it started as a blog, but should we, should it actually get rid of the blog focus altogether? Because most people are using it as a C M S and building pages more than posts. Mm-hmm. is, is the, was the hypothesis. But anyway, uh, you know, feature image images still applies to pages. Um, when you\'re writing a page, you know, we say in post [00:40:00] image, but an in, in page image, so we\'re not thinking wrong. But, you know, thinking of WordPress as a c m s, you\'re like, you build a page, but then you also need an image for two, an OG image, open graph image for social, you might want to da da da da da. And this is where we were talking about, you know, what, what you really need is an image crop so that no image gets uploaded to WordPress incorrectly. Mm-hmm. , right? And that\'s where, uh, I, I\'m, you know, again, I, we\'ve sort of talked about it and you kind of alluded to it a minute ago as like, within at least media library to have a, you know, what kind of image do you want to upload an image for Twitter? Okay, well that needs to be this size, the shape. I wanna upload a header for Facebook. Or, you know, it\'s like, I mean, these are bad examples cuz you\'d upload those to Twitter or [00:41:00] to Facebook. Um, but it could also be, uh, you know, it doesn\'t even necessarily get up, get saved to your media library, crop in image for Twitter. Download it and now, now post it to Twitter. Crop an image for Facebook. Now post it to Facebook. Do you wanna also save this in your media library? and that\'s where we kind of end up taking over. You know, it\'s like media library bec, you know, becomes, uh, Photoshop within WordPress. Okay. Now that\'s interesting. Um, what kind of image do you want to create today? Cory Miller: You said something that was really interesting to me, um, that stuck out and it\'s like the c m s conversation. Hmm. Is it just the c m s or, you know, [00:42:00] do we, so I was trying to find this blog site to see how they did it, but you go like, but there are people that still use publishing their WordPress is their publishing tool. Um, and I think of that like your client\'s content journey clients mm-hmm. and. They\'re using the blog side. And I go, that was a helpful distinguishing for me is like if you just using the c m s, our image is gonna be static. For instance, most cases, like you\'re not gonna do a lot of image manipulation.\n\n\n\nYou may in turn, uh, initially, but we\'re turning over to people that are pushing the publish button. Like you have a newspaper or a magazine client, for instance. They are like, they\'re in the business of publishing. Yeah. Steady content. And that just made me think about the use case again, is I still think the settings [00:43:00] conversation is great because a lot of these people are gonna have agencies build the site because they. To do the publishing really fast. So we\'ve given those tools to the setting, they\'ll look over here. It\'s like I went to moz.com just to see how they use damages. Oh, sure. I went to HubSpot, like the bakery site. Oh, HubSpot. Yeah. Corey Maass: Since they\'re big on SEO and, but I bet. But they do a lot of content. Cory Miller: They\'re publishers, um mm-hmm. which is really interesting. That aligns with where WordPress is, you know? Yeah. Okay. Let me find, try to find, I, I think this is important. This isn\'t wasted because it\'s, um, we\'re drilling down closer to really crystallizing who, yeah. Who, who, yeah. Okay, so [00:44:00] lemme just go back. Okay. So they\'re obviously using, this is probably, Well, hope has their own thing, but like they\'re using some image to draw some interest to the, Corey Maass: so up top you\'ve got four, three. I\'m just, I\'m gonna keep nerding out about this cuz it\'s like, this is what people aren\'t seeing. They\'re, they\'re seeing but not absorbing right? Is Right. On that previous page, you had four, three images and square images, and then you drill, drill down and what would be, you know, a primary image at the top again after the paragraph? Looks like it\'s about four three. But it, but I, I, I liked your WP beginner example. Same with HubSpot, is that they\'re just, they\'re just, they\'re essentially just putting images in line and just like a magazine. So you\'re reading a magazine and they might have a big pretty picture, but they\'re, um, you know, throughout an article they\'ll have [00:45:00] photos. So like, Cory Miller: huh, good Corey Maass: God. Okay. I go to like rolling stone.com. Like go to a publisher. That\'s interesting. Whoops. Yeah, so those look like four, three images and then some square images. Just scroll down a little interesting that this layout is almost identical to, um, Huffington Post , or not Huffington Post, uh, the Atlantic. If you go to the Atlantic , it\'s almost identical. Um, but anyway, there\'s another example. So [00:46:00] like we get into actual news sites, so they\'ve got those look closer to like 16, nine. Um, yeah, go back to Rolling Stone. I don\'t need to see Huffington Post homepage. That\'s too depressing. . Um, but click, click into, click into any one of these stories. And here\'s a pretty typical layout. You know, there\'s that featured image again, and then the story below it, and then, but I bet they have images within, I guess this one\'s just a short story, but anyway. Yeah. You think this is four 30? It looks pretty close. I mean, I\'m eyeballing it. Yeah. But, but also, but I guess close enough that if somebody who isn\'t rolling Stone wanted to create their own website, they\'d be like, okay, every time I in. Insert an image into a story, [00:47:00] I will use the four three. Like we, so we, you know what, what, I guess I never finished the description of the, the new version is we have settings and we also now have a block, a Gutenberg block. Yeah. Cory Miller: By the way, you snuck that in on me. Corey Maass: Yeah. So, so we now have, we\'re, we\'re, we\'re pretty close to like feature complete, right? So we have fe you can crop a featured image, you can crop, um, a Gutenberg block and you can crop images going into the media library. Um, and so I think, you know, again, I, uh, I th we\'re focusing a lot on settings, but I think that there\'s a good chance that most people, your average person, will never need to go to those settings. The likelihood is that most will, uh, so I called it cropped image because I think most people are gonna look for image. So it says, select, select an image to crop, and then here\'s our presets. And so I think what most people are gonna do is [00:48:00] they\'re like, they will decide, they will choose four, three, and then, and then every time they do this again, they will choose four three.\n\n\n\nLike, that\'s how most people use these kinds of tools. Like they, they do something once or they learn, click, click, click. They don\'t necessarily think about optimizing their clicking, and so they\'ll just choose four, three every time. If it looks good, the first. Cory Miller: So question about the four three. So we\'ve just said this is probably one of the four, three and 16 by nine, you already know this, but four three was a lot on these sites and that typically, like I\'d look at beginner and all these others, and I go, it\'s four three, like in the, in the vicinity, right? So how did you determine what this with is? Corey Maass: Uh, so that is what\'s set by the, on the settings page. I\'m not saying go there, but there are, [00:49:00] um, some common sense defaults. So it\'s at least a thousand wide and it\'s less than 2000 wide. So if you tried to upload something that was off of your phone, high res, you know, 8,000 wide, it would bring it down to 2000 or something. But you also, if you tried to upload just an emoji, it would make it. Bigger, unless you said bypass. Cory Miller: I see. Okay. So the rationale, so we\'re picking four, three, and then we\'ve got these bigger bumpers. So like this mm-hmm. , if we, so this image is actually whatever the settings\n\n\n\nare a thousand wide. So it\'s technically bigger than it needs to be because of the settings. Mm- hmm. . But that probably has advantages, I\'m guessing, [00:50:00] for.\n\n\n\nCorey Maass: For and for responsive. Like, I\'ve actually built sites before that. So, you know, when you think about responsive and I, I know I\'m devving out here, but, um, no, go for it. You\'ve generally responsive. You\'re thinking mobile phone, you\'re thinking tablet, and you\'re thinking desktop. Right. And uh, I\'ve actually seen sites where, uh, on desktop we had multiple columns of content. So the images were a third of the total width of the site, which, which didn\'t go edge to edge on the screen. So an image was never more than like 800 wide. But then if you looked at it on tablet, it, it went to a one column view images over text and, and not multiple columns of content. And so suddenly it was 10,000 or it was a thousand wide, uh, or, you know, [00:51:00] the size of my iPad here with right. And so it actually went wider on mobile. And so a lot of people will be messing around building their website on their desktop computer or on their laptop, and then eventually they\'ll look at their phone or they\'ll look at their tablet, um, to do, to test it, and the images will actually go wider. Um, and so it\'s not a bad thing to have an image that\'s, again, it\'s if it\'s compressed, which is a whole different conversation. Um, and not, if it\'s not four megs and 8,000 pixels wide, it\'s okay. That. A little too big cuz browsers will size things down. Um, and better that than then it\'s the, then it\'s 800 and gets upsized to be 1200. Cuz that\'s when it looks bad. Cory Miller: Gotcha. Okay. I\'m, I\'m much more understanding this now and it makes [00:52:00] sense, um, because it\'s okay to have like a thousand, whatever the default settings are Yeah. Because you\'ve got these benefits, but it\'s not like an 18 meg file. Exactly. You know? Exactly. But it, it\'s, it\'s in the window of like being quality image and you can set those differently if you want. Like in the setting. Yeah. So that\'s, that\'s great there. Yeah. Um, I gotta tell you, I think right here you\'ve nailed it. , like we\'ve got the Gutenberg block. Mm-hmm. . All right, magician, how\'d you, how\'d you get this done? Have you been working on this ? I think you told me you were gonna work. Corey Maass: No, no, no, no. We, so we, you know, early days when you and I first started talking about this, um, I hired a couple of different developers, one who helped me out with featured image and one who helped me out with block. Um, and they got me [00:53:00] pretty close to the block working, but I couldn\'t, I hadn\'t wrapped my head around. Uh, everything else that I\'ve subsequently wrapped my head around by building it for featured images and building it for media library. So then when I went back and looked at, uh, what he did for the block, I was like, I literally copied the code from Featured Image. And so it took 45 minutes or something because he had already done the, the tricky part. And I, again, have learned a lot more in the interim time. So, uh, so yeah, it was, it was, uh, too big of a lift early on, but coming back to it, it was almost easy. So, yeah. Um, for me, I want to. See if [00:54:00] I can, cuz again, I, I\'m using, um, the classic editor.\n\n\n\nI wanna see if I can overwrite the featured image for that. And then we\'re pretty close to, um, I guess we need the media, like if you click on the add, add image button, you know, in the classic text editor, um, you know, there\'s a couple of, of little things, but they\'re not, they\'re not insignificant, but they are not like modern WordPress. So we\'re, we\'re in pretty good shape. But yeah, I, I definitely would love your input. Like things like, don\'t call them presets, call them preset aspect ratio. Mm-hmm. , um, um, and start thinking about the, you know, the happy text, the explanation text, the, um, do you upload one of your broken images again? Yeah. um, You know, and, and docs and, and welcome text. [00:55:00] And, and if we start talking about, um, a little video for, um, you know, to put on that welcome screen, like that\'s, that\'s where we\'re at. Like starting to actually make this, uh, friendlier and, and more clear. I like your guy. Cory Miller: Okay, now I was just playing with that. Yep. That\'s awesome man. I think this is a game changer. I think this right here could be the v1, like in this, you know, that\'s where we started from a long time ago. We just weren\'t there. We needed some time and space to like be able in opportunity obviously to do this, but like that right there. Hits my original. Holy crap. Can we have this? Can I have this? Mm-hmm. , I want this thing [00:56:00] because Yeah. That\'s super cool. But now some more, I, I heard what you were sayings like more all text. If, if I, if I may though. So is the, em the image is cropped right here. Mm-hmm. . But there\'s white space. So is this the block takes up the whole thing. So we, we would, we can\'t do like Right. Justified or something like that. Corey Maass: What? Right. These are things we need to, to work on. Okay. Add, yeah. These are, and I, and the truth is, is, is I need more real world usage. Mm-hmm. and people telling me what they need for me to know what to add. Okay. I mean, the, I think, you know, the, the easy analogy is if you go at a regular image block, Good luck figuring it out, cuz Gutenberg is confusing [00:57:00] as heck. Not that I\'m cynical. Um, but you\'ve already got, uh, yeah, alignment. Um, what\'s the little triangle next to it? Oh, those filters. Mm-hmm. . So there\'s, you know, like that\'s where, you know, if people are using them, if they want them, we can start adding stuff like that. And this is where, what we\'ve talked about, like we can, you know, we can start messing around with other stuff if, if people want them, um, people need them. You know, we\'re, we\'re still currently at version 0 0 3, so, Cory Miller: okay man, you can get lost in these settings. They\'ve added a lot of the settings it seems. . Mm-hmm. . So would we be able to take, I think somewhere along the way, you mentioned you [00:58:00] looked at a current block and saw some opportunities here, but would these, taking this block with some of these things like the filter, um, would be, we\'d be able to hook into that. I mean essentially like fork? Fork. Corey Maass: Yeah, I think so. I think so. Or ex extend it basically. Yeah. See there\'s your aspect ratios. Cory Miller: This must have got a big update or I\'ve never looked at it. Corey Maass: Yeah. And you know, and part of why it was, I loved your idea of. Doubling down on featured images is none of these are available and, and are not at, at least as far as I know and are not available in media library.[00:59:00] But, so maybe we should do a session where we like, walk through these and, um, yeah. Begin further. Seriously. Wow. Cory Miller: Okay. That\'s, yeah. We de I, I, I for sure need to do this because I had no Corey Maass: idea. People at watching are gonna be like, uh, yeah, it\'s been there for six weeks. Cory Miller: Now that, oh, you have to upload the image first. Okay. Or you have to get the image. Corey Maass: Sorry. Yeah. I think, I think especially, I especially think the alignment [01:00:00] stuff, because that, that to me is version one, right? Like, you need an image, you need the\n\n\n\nimage to behave the way you want. Yeah. Shift left, shift right. Whatever. Um, and then getting into this kind of stuff is, is gravy and is a rabbit hole. Oh yeah. Like, you know, we can start again. I, I, I like that we set up a request for feedback. Um, It would be nice if we started getting people using it cuz then they\'d be like, oh, the default block has such and such. Three, two, why don\'t you have three, two, and go, okay, so let\'s go add three, two as a default preset aspect ratio. And you know, or hey, we, you know, why doesn\'t the image shift left sh you know, uh, or why can\'t I set widths? Okay, great. We\'ll go add that. Mm-hmm. . [01:01:00] Cory Miller: Okay. Maybe I need to play with that a little bit more. Um, yeah. Now, but standing now you don\'t wanna like best, uh, that we don\'t have at the moment, but alignment, we\'ve already talked about that. Having that, that\'s, that\'s pretty cool. Cause you can go over here. Right, exactly. You know, all that stuff. This is incredibly compelling to me. Um, because it\'s kind of your way like. You know how themes do this with your color settings. Mm-hmm. , but having some, I don\'t, this is just a, this is a pretty cool way to Dr. Like, this is just this boring image just done with a little filter. Mm-hmm. , or they call these filters, duotone filters. Yep. The filters are really interesting to me because you can make it like, it\'s not gonna be just another stock. Yours. Yeah. You kinda make it yours. Um, but I think now with the Gutenberg plug, man, that\'s the, [01:02:00] that\'s the feature. Um, I could get us to more installs. Um, Corey Maass: I agree. Um, I don\'t, I don\'t know that I\'d, I\'d be curious why that\'s not the right word. How the core team and, you know, 500 volunteers, et cetera, landed on Duotone. Um, mm-hmm. rather than something else, because it\'s, you know, WordPress is at the whim of the people who, who are involved. So it\'s like, did they ask for this? Did they want this? You know, did somebody like me come along and go, oh, this is a neat thing, let\'s add it. And everybody was like, yeah, it\'s cool. We\'ll add it, you know, or people using it. I, which is, and that\'s of course the black box, black box part of WordPress is [01:03:00] we will never have any idea whether people are actually using Duotone filters, um, et cetera. I know that\'s a bit of a cynical approach, but it\'s like, I want to, I wanna make sure that we are focused on. We want our own bumpers because it\'s, you know, this is, this is the slippery slope that I often fall into. It\'s like, I trusted my gut when you were like, I need a circle. And I was like, yeah, we need a circle. But I don\'t, my gut doesn\'t jump when, when we say duotone filters unless, yeah. You know, but unless we have compelling evidence that people are using them. Cory Miller: Yeah. Well I think though the, the single po single block, the, the, the crop to image block could be really that ticker for, uh, um, getting those active installs. Um, and now we [01:04:00] need to switch to, I wanted to make sure we talked to that side because, uh, you surprised me with it. I saw it in there and I was waiting. I was like, no, let him talk about the settings. You\'re like, go. Featured image or whatever, and I was like, I really want to click on GI Berg Block by White Corey Maass: Um, well, and that\'s, I really, yeah. Uh, the block I think will evolve unto itself. It\'ll have those settings, right? Because your, your media library, even your featured image doesn\'t have left or right. A line, like that\'s up to your theme, how it\'s being used. Um, so, so the block will start to evolve with additional settings. Whatev, and we did, again, my gut jumps. Yes, we need alignment for sure. Um, you pointed out yourself, you\'re like, I uploaded a Lego man and he\'s always aligned, left, like, that\'s useless. So immediately we need those, we need alignment. Um, and then I also want to start [01:05:00] evolving the idea of, again, media library presets, meaning, you know, what kind of image do you want to upload? And, and again, and I, I start to get really excited about the idea of images that aren\'t even stored in the library. You\'re going to, like media library implies, or we are taught by WordPress that this is where we store images for WordPress. But why isn\'t it just called media? And why isn\'t a place where you can go and edit an image and download it and it, and it has nothing to do with WordPress. And that\'s exactly the, the sticker mule conversation we had. Mm-hmm. like utility, go to media. Yeah. It\'s a utility to go to media. And it\'s not a media library or it\'s not just a media library. It\'s a\n\n\n\nplace where, you know, you can edit an image and then download it. So it\'s like, yo, you just created a post for.[01:06:00] You know, a new post about the brownies, the brownies images image is already in there. Now you need to create an image for Twitter, you need to create an image for Facebook, you need to create a square image for Instagram. So jump into media, grab that image that\'s already in the media library, edited a bunch of times, maybe put a title over it. Download the result. Again, doesn\'t get uploaded to Media Library necessarily. And then now you go over to your socials, or go into Buffer or whatever tool you use for scheduling your, you\n\n\n\nknow, multi broadcast to all of your socials and upload the appropriate image for each one. Mm- hmm. . And that also diverges us from Word.\n\n\n\nwhich I think is important, especially now seeing the default image. Like you said, I didn\'t realize half that stuff was in there. And so we are starting to overlap with them, [01:07:00] which I don\'t want to do. Like, what\'s the point? If it\'s built into core. I mean their, our original thesis was within media library image cropping is awful and I\'ve maintained that. It still is. But if you can crop an image as quick as we can inside of a block, then, then maybe we don\'t need a block. What\'s our differentiator there? But image manipulation elsewhere within WordPress. Like right now, I would absolutely argue that our featured image handler is better than the defaults. And same with media library still. Mm-hmm. . Cause that, that\'s that original crop. That\'s awful. So these are the things that we need to, to balance. Yeah. I, Cory Miller: I mean, I still think the image blocking burg, the, the crop tool is just, I don\'t, I don\'t even know how to use it. Right. [01:08:00] Um, Corey Maass: yeah, yeah. I\'m not, I\'m not necessarily saying we, we rip, you know, I\'m not gonna go rip it out in version 0 0 4. Mm-hmm. , but I don\'t wanna, we don\'t need to recreate that, which WordPress already does. That\'s silly. Yeah. Um, because, and, and I mean, to be like, there, there are plugins out there that do core features better, and we can still do that. But that, that\'s, that, uh, the me, the margin is thin. The, the margin of value that we add is thin if the features are already there, whereas not jumping over, having. Create a post, a story, a page in WordPress, and then jump over to Canva to create your social images. To me, the margin of value add is much larger. Mm-hmm. . So, Cory Miller: yeah. 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Because you continually say, this is what I love working with awesome developers. We could do that. Oh, by the way, I already did it. Here it is. And um, now we\'ve got enough ingredients I think. We need to nail that use case where, right.\n\n\n\nCorey Maass: Yeah. We\'ve got, we\'ve got screwdrivers, we\'ve got a hammer, we\'ve, we\'ve now got the tool belt. What the hell are we gonna build? Literally Cory Miller: any, yeah, exactly. We need a person. I wrote this down as you were talking. I was like, we need a person, you know, the, the, [01:12:00] the user in client, whatever that is, and whether they want it, you go, I want it to speed it up, what I\'m trying to do. Mm-hmm. Like if we just looked at, because for the publishing conversation, you\'re like, what do you really need? You need to be able to get your content. You\'re gonna do the text. That\'s your thing when you\'re looking for the images. 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So I\'m really thinking for that user, the publisher user, um, and trying to build that case for the product of what we\'re doing. Um, mm-hmm. , because like I, I think about the filters and I go, um, I told you, we, we talked about my cartoon app, I\'m like, now the problem when I write content is I don\'t have an image in mind. Mm. So finding an image is pain the butt, like, let\'s put down, we have discovered a [01:14:00] problem. It is finding, creating sourcing images that are good is a big problem. We haven\'t, we haven\'t, we\'ve just identified it\'s just a problem. We\'re over here. Um, but like I go, if we had, it\'s like Instagram. I can take, okay. I\'ve got a camera in my pocket, carry with me all the time. My iPhone, it lets me take pictures. What did Instagram did? Make them look a little better. Mm-hmm. , you know, just a little bit better. And that\'s, that\'s something in this where I think that this is what pulls me back to the duo turn thing, is it doesn\'t have to be due to, it\'s just the, a aspect of Sure. You know, how do I look like it\'s not stock Corey Maass: or Well, and that\'s, it\'s not, I mean, that\'s why AI is, is going running rampant, is that people are like, I can now generate original art without paying for it, or paying nominally for [01:15:00] it that nobody else has over and over and over again. Yeah. And that\'s why people are over the moon. You know, obviously there\'s no substitute for hiring a photographer to take pictures of products, people, things like that. But if you need a. Abstract picture to just kind of add that compelling human visual element. You\'re like, generate a picture of I\'m writing a post about coffee, so generate a picture of a guy on a horse drinking a cup of coffee, you know, I don\'t have to spend hours. The, the image will come to me and it\'ll be unique and literally nobody else will have that. Whereas, you know, the sites like stock, whatever, the stock photo, stock image sites historically would charge you more. You could go buy an image, you could pay, you know, a thousand times more for them to take it off the site to guarantee that nobody else ever used it again. [01:16:00] Right. Um, that\'s not a, that\'s not gonna be an issue for much longer, you know? Cory Miller: Um, it\'s not Will it? Okay. So something you said, I wrote down here, I was like, nobody else has it. See. Like we, we are looking at the, I\'m gonna share my screen again. Do you have a second to keep talking about Corey Maass: this? Yeah, let\'s Cory Miller: go 10 more minutes. Um, okay, so Rolling Stone. I don\'t have a, the Desi design ability, I don\'t have the resources to create this, this thing now with ai, is there that opportunity That\'s mm-hmm. . That\'s, that\'s really interesting. But that\'s a sidebar. Yep. But like, you think about this now, for now, when I look at this site, I go, this is thoughtful.\n\n\n\nLike this is unique. It\'s interesting. Like this, Ima I didn\'t even read what this is, but I [01:17:00] was like, it it fits, you know, the, the case and cuz what you\'re trying to, I\'m sorry, I\'m just trying to keep talking about the use case. Here is what you\'re trying to get is. , you know, back to beginner, like, hey, nice sight, nice clean, clear side design. They\'re trying to get you to the content. So they\'re doing a great job with SEO here with the intro, restating what the headline\'s about. Then they use the image, which I think is clever. Like, I don\'t like the featured image going outside of the post because it just fills out a whack for me. But I\'m like, this is interesting. They have given an image that probably, you know, uh, this has SEO in it, you know? Mm-hmm. , I, I, I would guess, look at this. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, the past and future of website hosting.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice. Or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.\n\n\n\nIf you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the show, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you all your idea on the podcast as soon as possible. Head over to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there.\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today, we have Steve Persch and Brian Perry. They&#8217;re both employed at Pantheon, an enterprise website operations platform. And they&#8217;re here to talk about the evolution of website hosting.\n\n\n\nBack when the internet started, hosting was a fairly straightforward enterprise. You created HTML files and uploaded them to a server. That was it. An HTML file was a page.\n\n\n\nServer-side technology such as PHP came along, and the picture became a little more complex. Web pages needed to be constructed on the fly. Databases were thrown into the mix, and the complexity increased. Add in the different languages that you could write your code in, and the server configurations. The CMS that you choose also plays into this mix. Now we&#8217;ve got CDNs, headless, React, Gatsby, Node.js and much more. Is it even possible for the non-technical to have any understanding of where their website is?\n\n\n\nSteve and Brian talk about how they got into the hosting space, and what&#8217;s changed over the years. We address what Pantheon is doing with WordPress and Drupal.\n\n\n\nWe discuss how headless can be difficult for content teams, given that there&#8217;s a disconnect with hitting the publish button and that content going live on the site.\n\n\n\nWhat&#8217;s certain is that there&#8217;s no end in sight in terms of the rate of innovation in the website hosting space. What&#8217;s popular today might not be several years from now. And so it&#8217;s a timely discussion of what Steve and Brian see as the best bets for the future.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading over to WPTavern.com forward slash podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.\n\n\n\nAnd so, without further delay I bring you Steve Persch and Brian Perry.\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast today by Steve Persch and Brian Perry. Hello.\n\n\n\n[00:03:37] Steve Persch: Hello, Steve Persh here. Happy to be here.\n\n\n\n[00:03:39] Brian Perry: Yeah, Brian Perry also really excited to chat.\n\n\n\n[00:03:42] Nathan Wrigley: Well, thank you for joining me on the podcast today. We&#8217;re going to talk about something, and I seem to have said this sentence much more often recently, about something that that really is a mystery to me. You are going to school me in all sorts of ways about something that I&#8217;m really not that familiar with, and that is all about how files get served up. Where are our website files being kept? Where are the computers? Where&#8217;s the infrastructure, and how much more complicated it has become over the last 10 or 15 years.\n\n\n\nBefore we begin that, I think we&#8217;ll take you in order. I&#8217;ll go Steve first, if that&#8217;s all right? I&#8217;m wondering if both of you can give us a little bit of orientation about who you are, who you work for. Your history with technology and possibly WordPress in particular. So yeah, we&#8217;ll launch that with Steve.\n\n\n\n[00:04:28] Steve Persch: Sure, so Steve Persch here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I&#8217;m the director of technical marketing at Pantheon. We&#8217;re a website operations platform for Drupal, WordPress and now front end frameworks, which is, much of what, thinking about that question of what computer makes the website.\n\n\n\nI&#8217;ve been in the web space for a while now. I first started making websites, first semi-professionally, and then professionally in the early days of WordPress. I built some of my first professional websites in WordPress 2, back in 2006. Then for some of the sites that I wanted to make, that took me into the Drupal world. And now in Pantheon, we play in both of those worlds, in the lamp stack, and as Pantheon is aiming itself at running extraordinary websites, as we like to say, the best possible websites. We see that that requires us to step more fully into the JavaScript centric front end framework ecosystem.\n\n\n\n[00:05:23] Nathan Wrigley: Well thank you Steve. That was great. We&#8217;ll hand it over to Brian to do a similar job.\n\n\n\n[00:05:28] Brian Perry: I&#8217;m Brian Perry. I&#8217;m a staff software engineer at Pantheon. What I&#8217;m focusing on at Pantheon is leading a project we&#8217;re calling Decoupled Kit, which is a set of open source utilities and projects that aim to make this decoupled architecture or running headless WordPress and Drupal sites easier.\n\n\n\nWhat brought me to that is, prior to Pantheon, a lot of my background was in the agency space. Specifically focusing on front end and front end develop. More and more I found myself interested in what was going on in the JavaScript ecosystem, and working on projects where using a CMS like WordPress or Drupal to feed data into the front end. But also found that there were a lot of solutions that were being invented over and over to solve those problems. So being able to focus on trying to make that easier for folks has been really exciting.\n\n\n\n[00:06:24] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you very much indeed. So you&#8217;re both coming from Pantheon and you mentioned there that you have a very keen focus on, well you mentioned two CMSs, which is curious actually. Obviously this is a WordPress podcast, but we&#8217;re not here to destroy the opposition if you like. But Drupal and WordPress, I think I&#8217;m right in saying that you don&#8217;t find too many hosting companies that lay claim to both of those. Is that a relic of the past of Pantheon, how it all began back in the day?\n\n\n\n[00:06:51] Steve Persch: It&#8217;s an intentional choice. We think that supporting both of those systems gives us more flexibility. It ends up fitting us better to our core audience. Pantheon started with digital agencies. Our four founders came from running web development agencies, that&#8217;s the background.\n\n\n\nAnd for a lot of the agencies and in the ecosystems we came from, we knew that it was normal for those sorts of agencies to have a preference between Drupal, WordPress or, you know, Ruby and Rails or any other of system. But often, the given client you&#8217;re working for might have both, for any number of historical reasons.\n\n\n\nSo yes, the initiation of that was, uh, somewhat happenstance. Our customers figuring out like, this platform was first built for Drupal, I bet we could make it run WordPress. And then Pantheon as a company realizing like, yes, we should support WordPress. That&#8217;s something that I think was a bit inevitable.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s good for us technologically and business wise to support more than one. And at the same time it&#8217;s good for us to not open it up as wide as, well, anything PHP. Some of our competitors take the other extreme of, hey, if you can make it run then you&#8217;re good. We think of ourselves as, we prefer the term, a website operations platform.\n\n\n\nAnd hosting is a feature of that. But don&#8217;t want to have a relationship with our customers that&#8217;s as simple as like, well, yeah, if you can make it run, that&#8217;s good. We&#8217;re only here to provide the server. We see ourselves as facilitating more growth of value of the websites, not just the question of can this run at all?\n\n\n\n[00:08:21] Brian Perry: Yeah, I think that, that same sort of concept also extends to the front end and JavaScript frameworks in that, there&#8217;s definitely a lot of excitement around Next.js. But we are looking to build a platform where other future frameworks can run on it. But also, yeah, we&#8217;re not necessarily trying to be like, run whatever crazy JavaScript project you want. We want to have some guardrails there.\n\n\n\n[00:08:44] Nathan Wrigley: I remember back in the day prior to stumbling across WordPress, which I did quite a long time ago now, I used to use Drupal exclusively actually, and I have a, have a memory of Pantheon cropping up, and at the time, really hadn&#8217;t heard of a hosting company that was binding itself to a CMS in that way.\n\n\n\nIt was curious to me that Pantheon had laid claim to, okay, if you&#8217;re using a CMS, we&#8217;re somebody that you should look at. Prior to that, it was always, we&#8217;re just a hosting company. You know, we&#8217;ll host anything.\n\n\n\n[00:09:16] Steve Persch: I often go back to the first blog post that was done by, one of our co-founders, our four co-founders, when Pantheon started. I think the title of the blog post was Putting the Humans at the Top of the Stack. And it laid out, or at the time, but a decade plus ago, two common ways of running websites.\n\n\n\nOne was just that hosting mode of a host providing some baseline technological capabilities, but the team buying the hosting is responsible for assembling the parts and making it all work. And yes, that&#8217;s an appropriate choice for some teams, but it&#8217;s not a great recipe for success for what we see as the broad plurality of professional web teams.\n\n\n\nThe other extreme at the time, and it&#8217;s still present there, is the Squarespace, Wix, very templatized, cookie cutter way of building a site. Which again, is totally appropriate for certain people who need websites. But Pantheon, a decade ago and still now, wants to find a middle path that empowers the majority, or a plurality of professional web teams to make the best possible websites.\n\n\n\nAnd we see that, fulfilling that mission does require us to build CMS specific capabilities, and now front end framework specific capabilities, while not putting ourselves as narrow as only WordPress, or only Next.js.\n\n\n\n[00:10:35] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. That&#8217;s really interesting. Thank you for that. The subject at hand is really about how hosting has changed over the last decade, two decades, what have you. And it might be of interest to the listeners to the podcast if they pause for a moment and go and watch one of the videos. It was created by Steve, I believe, created the video.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s called Decoupled Architectures, What Computer Assembles the website, and it&#8217;s a great watch. It&#8217;s. 10 minutes long, and it&#8217;ll give you a real insight into the things that we&#8217;re going to talk about. What Steve brings to bear is lots of papers and drawing, which we can&#8217;t do on this podcast, but they really do help solidify the problem. He&#8217;s got lots of nice diagrams of how things are working.\n\n\n\nBut just to rewind the clock, let&#8217;s go back 20 years or so ago. It seems like an age almost at the birth of the internet almost. But if you had a website, whatever CMS it was. You would have to host it somewhere, and you would probably select a host and upload the files.\n\n\n\nThey were probably at that point, just static HTML. I imagine CSS probably hadn&#8217;t even emerged at that point. And you just uploaded them. And you had a great idea of where that computer was. You had a slice, a share of that computer. It was yours. You could point to where it was on the map and so on and so forth.\n\n\n\nAnd that&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s done now. Or at least that&#8217;s not how everybody&#8217;s doing it. So I want us to run through a history of how that&#8217;s changed over time. Going right back from the beginnings when the internet began and you could build your own websites. Right up to how it&#8217;s done now. We can really be ponderous about this, we&#8217;ve got a whole episode ahead of us. So, whoever wants to begin that journey, you can flip flop and change, do tag team if you like, but that&#8217;s what I want to do. The history of how hosting has changed.\n\n\n\n[00:12:19] Steve Persch: Brian, if you don&#8217;t mind, I&#8217;ll start from flat HTML files, and enter us into the era of PHP. And then you can talk about CMSs. So one of my first experiences getting paid to maintain a website, a thing, I wasn&#8217;t even pondering as a career path. I was a theater major, and then I found myself working in the marketing department of a theater company. And they had a flat HTML website that did the job, was good enough for the early two thousands. A few hundred pages of flat HTML files, mostly it&#8217;s like if you want to buy tickets, call this phone number. Here&#8217;s the production that we&#8217;re producing, here&#8217;s the calendar.\n\n\n\nAnd one of the most annoying tasks, once I became the person getting paid to update the website was, add this menu link in the sidebar. And that sidebar appears on like a dozen pages. Okay, so I open up a dozen flat HTML files and then I notice, oh, this sub sidebar menu for the education department of the theater company. This menu isn&#8217;t even consistent on these 12 HTML files, because over however many years, copy paste errors happened. And that&#8217;s annoying, and creates a bad, confusing experience.\n\n\n\nBut, I know enough to realize that I could put in some PHP tags, and save myself some time. That&#8217;s how I first started transitioning that question of, what computer assembles the website? How does this website really come together? The first answer of, it&#8217;s all flat HTML that I&#8217;ve got to hand code on my own machine to, what if I put a little bit more, just a little bit more intelligence in the server and told it to like PHP include education sub sidebar dot PHP.\n\n\n\nThen I don&#8217;t have to worry about copy pasting menu updates across 12 HTML files. That started to transition the question of what computer assembles the website, but the content management systems that were cropping up at the same time, WordPress, Drupal, others, provided a much more robust answer. But I can let Brian talk about that.\n\n\n\n[00:14:25] Nathan Wrigley: I&#8217;ll just interject at that point because the pain that you&#8217;ve just described was my pain. I remember exactly that. I mean, it wasn&#8217;t the 200 page website, but I remember the exact same thing. And then stumbling across the, oh, you can include something with PHP can you? That will take that whole burden, maybe the header or the footer or wherever it may be on the website.\n\n\n\nAnd I do remember finding that really quite startling, and thinking good grief. I&#8217;ve just saved myself literally hours of time, and it was fabulous. It was really, really an excellent moment. So, okay, so.\n\n\n\n[00:15:00] Brian Perry: It&#8217;s also a, it&#8217;s a gateway to the danger of creating your own CMS, I don&#8217;t know if anybody on this has done that?\n\n\n\n[00:15:07] Nathan Wrigley: Yes, that&#8217;s exactly what I did. We&#8217;ve laid the pathway then to, we&#8217;ve got PHP in there somehow now, and so now we&#8217;re moving towards CMSs. So I guess we&#8217;ll hand it to Brian to tell us what came next.\n\n\n\n[00:15:19] Brian Perry: Yeah, and Steve, feel free to jump in as the overall tour guide with any color commentary. But yeah so, many of us have rolled our own CMSs. But then projects like WordPress and Drupal come along and provide a consistent user experience to being able to manage your data. Have an associated front end.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s the great situation where there&#8217;s a community of folks making that project better, rather than the CMS we built on our own. That is a situation where you have your CMS, that handles that data. But it is essentially a single lamp stack. And your CMS is responsible for assembling your website. So you can edit things in the admin. But at the end of the day, WordPress, for example, is what puts everything together, using its templates and providing the end page that the user interacts with.\n\n\n\n[00:16:15] Steve Persch: Another way I think about this progression is through the lens of the three really broad groups of people who make a website like this possible. Especially in those early PHP days, to make something like this work there&#8217;s someone probably with an IT sort of job title who&#8217;s setting up the server. There&#8217;s someone with like a web developer type of job title who&#8217;s making the Drupal or WordPress part work, and they may be working with designers as well. And then there are people managing the content.\n\n\n\nSo in addition to what computer assembles the website, a more specific framing is where is the work of these three broad groups of people coming together? It&#8217;s coming together over and over and over and over again, to make a functioning website. And in the lamp stack era, it&#8217;s that PHP server, you know, be it shared hosting or a server in the closet. That is where the work of those three groups has to fit together.\n\n\n\nAnd for the decade or so that the lamp stack was dominant, there became pretty solidified best practices on how those three groups need to work together in order to do their jobs most effectively.\n\n\n\n[00:17:26] Nathan Wrigley: I feel that&#8217;s a really nice segregation of the different things that were going on. But also it makes the two bits that you are not involved with suddenly quite mysterious. If you&#8217;re the content editor, suddenly the IT bit, the hosting if you like, you&#8217;re no longer involved in that in any way. And, so that over time becomes a little bit more murky and what have you.\n\n\n\nBut the advent of the CMS suddenly opened up a whole range of possibilities for people who really don&#8217;t have any technical, they don&#8217;t desire to be technical. They want to be consumed with the content. They want to log into something, type away, upload images, what have you, and press publish, and for it to be done.\n\n\n\nSo I think that&#8217;s a really useful definition. Prior to that, you had to be fairly technical, at least technically enough to create the HTML and what have you, to then upload it to the server. And now we&#8217;ve got a kind of career path coming out of it, haven&#8217;t we? We&#8217;ve got the IT people, we&#8217;ve got the editor people, and various other different pieces of the puzzle.\n\n\n\nIt feels like maybe that is where quite a few people will still be with WordPress. That is to say they&#8217;ve got a WordPress website, they&#8217;re paying a monthly fee to a hosting company. That hosting company is literally holding the files of the CMS, in our case, WordPress. Holding them on a particular box somewhere. The DNS is pointed correctly. It all works. That set up is still doable, but I guess the journey doesn&#8217;t end there. I suppose we&#8217;ve got quite a long way to go in this journey.\n\n\n\n[00:18:59] Steve Persch: Yeah, the journey does not end there. Actually it might, because it comes back around. There are other steps along the way. So, I see the next big event in this history as the release of the iPhone. Which for a while I wondered like, am I drawn to that as the key moment? Because that&#8217;s when I was coming into professional web development, around 2007. In the decade plus remove, I can see, no, that really was a big deal when we had to figure out how to make websites squish, and fit on different size devices. Phones, tablets, Android devices of every single size and resolution.\n\n\n\nThat was a huge change. And it came about at the same time these native application ecosystems sprung up, and really, really raised the bar for how good of an experience you could have on these devices. So not only is this just a new form factor to make work at all. The quality bar jumps up very, very high. In retrospect, I can see like, oh, that set off a bit of a panic in the web development community. And different people reacted in different ways and, you look at the 2010s and think, oh yeah, people ran in a bunch of different directions trying to handle or deal with the existential question of, how does the web stay relevant when literally billions of dollars are pushing technology towards native applications.\n\n\n\n[00:20:33] Nathan Wrigley: I feel there&#8217;s some other pieces I might add into that as well, and that is, the invention of the iPhone, which then spawned so many other similar devices, some slightly larger, some competing operating systems. But the thing there was suddenly the internet went from something which was probably peripheral in your life.\n\n\n\nYou would interact with it, maybe with email or something at work. You&#8217;d have to turn on a computer and sit in a chair. And the internet would be on that screen and then you&#8217;d walk away from it and you&#8217;ve forgotten about the internet. Suddenly you&#8217;re at a point where the internet is with you 24 7, should you wish. It&#8217;s there all the time. So it marks a moment where not only is it technically possible to do it, but it increases the importance in everybody&#8217;s lives. So, almost everything now, what are we now about 15 years later or something?\n\n\n\nAlmost everything can have a web presence. You know, you were talking about buying tickets earlier. Well, what&#8217;s the best way to do that now? It&#8217;s the internet. How do you consume your radio? It&#8217;s the internet. Where does your entertainment come from? It&#8217;s the internet. There&#8217;s almost nothing, which the internet hasn&#8217;t touched, and I feel that that was the inflection point when it went in your back pocket and suddenly every company on earth had a window into everybody&#8217;s lives.\n\n\n\n[00:21:50] Brian Perry: It&#8217;s a blessing and a curse.\n\n\n\n[00:21:52] Nathan Wrigley: But also a convergence of the technology, you know. So cellular data was suddenly getting rolled out. Prior to that it was just mobile phones was as, as much as you could do. You could do voice chat and so on. But then mobile data came along and it all coincided at the same time. So I, yeah, Steve, I think that&#8217;s a really insight thing. The iPhone being this moment.\n\n\n\n[00:22:09] Steve Persch: So the iPhone, when it comes out, it suddenly becomes the most powerful computer in the whole stack. If you&#8217;re thinking about what can we make a website or a native application? What can I do with this device? A lot of people consciously or unconsciously realized if we push more responsibility to this last computer in the chain. From the developer&#8217;s computers. There are still servers involved.\n\n\n\nThere are increasing number of computers in the cloud that are involved in getting the website to that iPhone. But the iPhone in many respects, the most powerful computer in the whole stack, and that leads to an architecture of, oh, let&#8217;s make that end device, be it a laptop, a high powered iPhone or a low powered budget Android phone. Let&#8217;s put all the responsibility there. Brian, I bet you could talk in greater detail about the upsides and the downsides of the single page application architecture that came about when a lot of the web development ecosystems said, oh, let&#8217;s put all the responsibility in the client, in the end device.\n\n\n\n[00:23:16] Brian Perry: Yeah, there&#8217;s definitely like a huge trade off to that in that the end result that we&#8217;re doing there, especially thinking about modern JavaScript frameworks, were essentially pushing more responsibility, more code, more JavaScript to that end device. So there&#8217;s more places where things could potentially go wrong.\n\n\n\nThere&#8217;s more cases where rather than having just a HTML document that is passed from a device to device, it actually has responsible, responsibility for rendering the page and executing all of that code. And it&#8217;s even a situation where things as simple as being able to click the back button in your browser to go to the previous HTML document, that&#8217;s things that need to be handled within that client device.\n\n\n\nSo it really does increase the complexity there. And then also related to what we&#8217;ve been talking about and thinking about, the three audiences that we talked about before. One thing that jumped out to me is that as we&#8217;re finding all of these, you know, the internet everywhere, and all of these, different devices that can be used for these different purposes. I think some of also what brings us to the headless architectures that we&#8217;re going to get to down the line, is in some ways, I think driven by the content editor. In that they still want to have one place where they can go and manage content that is going to show up in all of these different places.\n\n\n\nWhether it&#8217;s a client side page, a traditional website, things managed by PHP, and I think that also does start to lead us in the direction of how can we manage this content in one place and make that data available to all kinds of different consumers.\n\n\n\n[00:25:01] Nathan Wrigley: So we have the, we have the iPhone, and prior to that we have just regular servers. I guess we&#8217;ve now got to take a bit of a leap and stray into an area where maybe many of us really don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re talking about, and I&#8217;ve very much include myself in this. What are the evolution of things that have happened subsequently since the iPhone?\n\n\n\nAnd what was the purpose of all of that? Were there things which were tried and failed? And I suppose we are slowly getting towards the present day, but if there&#8217;s been some interesting evolutions during that time which need to be mentioned to give context, please do.\n\n\n\n[00:25:35] Steve Persch: Absolutely, I think one dynamic that played out in the 2010s was the splintering of all these different disciplines. I said in that lamp stack era, there are these three broad groups, of IT and content editors and developers. And I was even lumping in designers with the developers there.\n\n\n\nThere might be some designers who take offense to that, but you know, it&#8217;s a blurry line. I lump them together because at a very, a very zoom out level that that&#8217;s the group that&#8217;s responsible for controlling how the website looks. And the handoffs that happened between designer and developer have changed over the years.\n\n\n\nBut in the 2010s, there&#8217;s just an incredible splintering of the amount of detailed knowledge necessary to make websites look good across all these different devices was so large it was just unreasonable to think that you can hire one human being to know how to even implement a good design across all of these devices.\n\n\n\nWho also knows how to, like, configure Advanced Custom Fields and WordPress. That&#8217;s not a terribly reasonable expectation, to think you can find one person who is excellent at both of those things. Some of those people do exist in the world, but for many team leaders putting together teams, they&#8217;re realizing, we&#8217;re going to be better off if we say like, Steve, you&#8217;re going to be the backend expert, and Brian, you&#8217;re going to be the front end expert. And, even though Brian has a whole lot of that backend expertise, for many teams, they just decided to make a hard divide in the people.\n\n\n\nAnd then subsequently, or the order was sometimes flipped, a hard divide in the technology. So for, you know, a lot of websites built in this era, there is a very hard divide between the content management system is over here, be it WordPress or Drupal or a natively headless system like Contentful or Sanity. That&#8217;s going to be managed by one group, and then this group of front end specialists will handle the front end presentation.\n\n\n\nThat&#8217;s a hard cut to make. A question I&#8217;ve been asking for the last decade or so is, if we&#8217;re going to cut off WordPress&#8217;s head or Drupal&#8217;s head, where is the neck? That is an answer that is constantly moving. The next era, after single page applications, is static site generation. As people saw the, you know, that downside of single page applications, then it&#8217;s, oh, well what if we, what if we get some of the benefits of that old way of doing it where it was just flat files? Can we have flat files again, Brian.\n\n\n\n[00:28:06] Nathan Wrigley: Full circle.\n\n\n\n[00:28:07] Brian Perry: Exactly. That introduces a whole new set of challenges and trade offs. You know, it certainly does, things being completely static does provide a build asset that is immutable, and it&#8217;s easy to roll back. It&#8217;s something that can be cached on a CDN. But also it really changes, kind of going back to again, the editing experience. It really drastically changes that experience where someone who was used to editing a page in WordPress and clicking publish and then being able to see the page.\n\n\n\nNow you have a workflow where you make a change in your CMS or whatever the source of the data is, and then a build has to run to be able to have the end website updated. And how do you preview what that looks like before the build runs? Do you need a separate environment? That trade off definitely brings a lot of additional complexity potentially to the content editing experience now.\n\n\n\n[00:29:07] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I think it&#8217;s potentially very frustrating as well because although the technological benefits and probably things like SEO and all of those things. There probably are great benefits there. If you&#8217;re the content editor, there&#8217;s probably only annoyance that when you click publish nothing happens.\n\n\n\nWe&#8217;ve got to wait for some, like you say, some build process to carry on. You&#8217;re adding in a great deal of incredible technological innovation, which speed things up and pushes things to different parts of the world, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s something we can get into. But also from the content editing point of view, we&#8217;ve had this evolution toward being able to edit everything right away, and click publish and seeing it, to then suddenly yanking that carpet out from underneath them, which is yeah, kind of frustrating I guess.\n\n\n\n[00:29:55] Steve Persch: I called this the cliff of complexity. If you search on YouTube for that phrase, you can probably find a presentation that I did at Gatsby Conf. So Gatsby, as a front end framework, really became popular as that static site generator pattern was on the ascendance, because there are so many technological benefits to be had, but when you add in a handful of possibly extra requirements. Requirements like, well, the content editors really like to be able to press publish and see it immediately. That shoots you up this cliff where making that work in an architecture that is fundamentally static, is really cutting against the grain.\n\n\n\nLike it can be made to work, but is massively complex. And we think for a lot of teams like that complexity is just now worth it. The fundamental mode that WordPress has done for 20 years of like, you press publish and then you see it immediately. That is something that should not be compromised on for most teams.\n\n\n\n[00:30:56] Nathan Wrigley: We&#8217;re used to a trajectory where technology just gets better in every respect. So, not only does it get quicker, but the, you know, the UI is easier to use and there&#8217;s a complete expectation that if I could publish it yesterday, and click publish and it was published right away and I could examine and look for errors that I&#8217;d made.\n\n\n\nWell, we&#8217;re a year on from that. Why have you taken that capability away from me? We&#8217;re going backwards? Well, we&#8217;re kind of going sideways. We&#8217;re not going back because we&#8217;re just changing things. I think that would be a bitter pill to swallow. Hard to understand if you&#8217;re not technical.\n\n\n\n[00:31:30] Steve Persch: Yeah, absolutely. And I think that&#8217;s, that backwards moving or that sideways moving does happen in other places. That&#8217;s not something I think that&#8217;s unique to web development. I remember the first time I got a car that relied heavily on a touchscreen. I was like, no, I want a knob to turn up the volume on the radio. This is so much worse. But somebody thought, no touchscreens, that&#8217;s the future. No. A lot of cars are now backswinging. There&#8217;s some parts that we do need physical buttons and dials for. That is better.\n\n\n\n[00:32:01] Brian Perry: I was going to say, it&#8217;s funny that you bring up the car example because, my car actually has both, which is somewhat infuriating. There is a touchscreen that could do everything. And then on the console, all the knobs and buttons, they can do the exact same things. I feel like the JavaScript frameworks in trying to address the shift aggressively in the direction of static sites has had a period of time where it was the equivalent of my car that had both.\n\n\n\nSo things started shifting back over to server side rendering. But a lot of the frameworks had, and still have, concepts of both at one time. So there are ways that you can say, I want to either build things statically by default, and after some period of time they&#8217;re invalidated and re rendered on the server. Or say that it&#8217;s this subset of pages that are pre-rendered statically. Maybe it&#8217;s my homepage, and my 100 most popular pages.\n\n\n\nAnd then other things are handled server side. That also does increase the complexity now. You have to know what things are static, what things are not. It&#8217;s kind of two different approaches. But yeah, it does feel a lot like my car that has essentially two completely redundant ways to interface with it.\n\n\n\n[00:33:19] Nathan Wrigley: I&#8217;m waiting for somebody to invent the car which has levers in it. So that you&#8217;ve got screens, dials, and levers. Then we&#8217;ll, we&#8217;ll truly have the car from across the entire century. So is that where we&#8217;re at now then? If we chart our history we spoke about HTML files, and then PHP coming along and then flattening things. Is that this history lesson ends, or is there more to say?\n\n\n\n[00:33:42] Steve Persch: The way I think about it, a phrase I often like to repeat to myself that came from a customer of ours, is that Pantheon needs to aim for state of the art, not bleeding edge. We see the state of the art for many web teams right now is one where you use a totally stable content management system like WordPress or Dupal for the content management systems.\n\n\n\nAnd because so many front end developers simply expect to be working in JavaScript centric tools for teams in that, in that pool. Yes, you should have the front end then controlled through JavaScript centric tools. But do so with server side rendering because the content editors expect to press publish and then immediately see the change. And that works well with server side rendering.\n\n\n\nSo that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s a mode that we support in our front end sites product, the front end sites product does also support that static mode. Which is beneficial for a subset of teams out there. Like Pantheon&#8217;s own documentation site has been a totally static site for nearly a decade. I think as long as we&#8217;ve had a standalone docs site, it&#8217;s been static. And that works for that team where everything is all just in a Git repo. An edit to code can happen at the same time as an edit to the content markdown files. That works for that mode.\n\n\n\nBut we see that, you know, the state of the art for some web teams, as that mix of a contact management system, and a server side rendered Node.js framework. I should also say, because we&#8217;re on a WordPress centric podcast here, if you are totally comfortable with WordPress, as is, you don&#8217;t need to jump on a new React framework or a new JavaScript framework, just because there are a lot of people on Twitter saying it&#8217;s great. If you can do your job without taking on the extra complexity, stick with what works.\n\n\n\n[00:35:28] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it&#8217;s a really good point. You mentioned there, now, I can&#8217;t remember the exact phrasing that you used, but you made a differentiation between bleeding edge and something else. Is that an approach that you take? Do you keep a watchful eye on what is happening at the extremes of technology.\n\n\n\n[00:35:44] Steve Persch: Oh absolutely, yes.\n\n\n\n[00:35:46] Nathan Wrigley: PhD thesis which are describing what the future might look like. But holding back just a little bit until it&#8217;s embedded and we figured out what all of this stuff is. That&#8217;s the approach?\n\n\n\n[00:35:56] Steve Persch: Absolutely. So it is not a coincidence that Pantheon as a company started a decade after Drupal came into being. It was starting as a Drupal centric company, and then adding WordPress a few years later. That&#8217;s not a coincidence. There needed to be a decade or so of figuring out, how do we make websites like this before Pantheon or any company like Pantheon could do what we did. Which is put guardrails around what our founders considered to be a best practice mode of developing and maintaining and improving a lamp stack site.\n\n\n\nTrying to impose those guardrails the same year that a system like WordPress or Drupal comes out, that wouldn&#8217;t make sense. Similarly, we didn&#8217;t really enter this front end framework ecosystem until about a decade in. I think almost exactly a decade after React, was released publicly is when we entered this space fully.\n\n\n\nWe&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on it for a very long time. I&#8217;ve been at Pantheon for seven years and that was one of my very first questions, my first week, like, when are we going to get into the Node.js space? And the answer then was not yet. And then for a while, it was soon. And then the answer was like, okay, now.\n\n\n\nAnd now we can see, okay, the edge and one of the reasons I like to use that term bleeding edge is because that&#8217;s also the term for where the bleeding edge is now. The edge, as a synonym for the content delivery network. So companies like Cloudflare or Fastly that cache your website all over the world, have been adding more and more advanced capabilities beyond the simple caching that makes the website faster. That is very clearly where the bleeding edge or the cutting edge is now. We have a CDN baked in. We have ways of exploring that. However, put it all on the edge is not an acceptable answer yet for the broad plurality of professional web teams.\n\n\n\n[00:37:50] Nathan Wrigley: Why is that? What&#8217;s the thing which makes that untenable?\n\n\n\n[00:37:53] Steve Persch: The very short answer is because your database is still in one place. Even though the cloud abstracts so much like. There is a MySQL database or an abstraction thereof that lives physically in one place. Because we run on Google Cloud, that place for most sites on Pantheon is in Council Bluffs, Iowa.\n\n\n\nFor a WordPress site that you know, may be making in some cases hundreds of MySQL queries to generate an HTML page, hopefully fewer than, than a few hundred, but in many cases, hundreds of queries. It&#8217;s best if the PHP process that&#8217;s making those queries is right next to, physically right next to that database.\n\n\n\nThere are new companies popping up spreading your database all over the world at the edge. Okay, that sounds cool, but before, before we take some of the biggest websites in the world and say, oh yeah, your database will be everywhere. We need to see how that plays out with those who, who want to jump on the edge earlier. Because for the sites we serve and cater to they need to be planning in very long terms.\n\n\n\nWe&#8217;re highly adopted in the edu space, and I, I&#8217;ve put together timelines on yardsticks to represent like the multi hundred year history of these universities that we&#8217;re working with. And asking like, on a multi a hundred year scale or a scale of decades, it doesn&#8217;t matter that much if you switch to the new thing, whatever the new thing is, this semester or next semester, or this year or next year? Let&#8217;s wait till we know that that next thing is solid before we jump on it.\n\n\n\n[00:39:23] Brian Perry: As the JavaScript guy, I got to say I want it now. But, aside from that, one thing that&#8217;s interesting from the front end perspective as well, thinking about running things on the edge. One of the challenges there is that right now, all of the different solutions for edge functions tend to use different variations of JavaScript runtime. So there&#8217;s really no consistency there. And I think that&#8217;s another thing that&#8217;s going to have to change before that gets real wide adoption, when there can be one consistent JavaScript runtime that is typically used for that solution.\n\n\n\n[00:39:54] Nathan Wrigley: You mentioned Steve, but Brian maybe can answer this as well, I don&#8217;t know. You mentioned that there are people who are endeavoring to break up the database and put it in all sorts of different parts of the world and what have you. So that&#8217;s one innovation which people are trying to achieve. I&#8217;m just curious about what the next 10 years will look like. What kind of fun, interesting projects have you guys been keeping your eye on, which the listeners may be interested in? Just to give some insight into what hosting a WordPress website might look like Well, in 2025, 2026, whatever it may be.\n\n\n\n[00:40:29] Brian Perry: My kind of, it&#8217;s partially my hope, but also where I&#8217;d like to think that things are going. With all of the constant changes in the JavaScript framework landscape, I think that more and more of the things that people like about that sort of developer experience is going to find its way just more generally into the platform and into browser standards.\n\n\n\nAgain, like looking back in the rear view, jQuery is a good example of that, in that jQuery brought so many wonderful niceties for how you can interact with the DOM. And then over time, most of the things that jQuery can do are just in JavaScript now. So they&#8217;re part of the platform.\n\n\n\nSo my hope is that the things that people like about React and Vue and et cetera, start to find their way into the general platform. Web components are one potential technology that might help there. A component based approach that can be used regardless of the framework.\n\n\n\nMy hope is that in the next 10 years, a lot of the things that people turn to React or Vue or different frameworks for, are just a part of the platform, rather than having to find your cool JavaScript framework that was released three months ago,\n\n\n\n[00:41:47] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. Nice. Thank you, Brian. Steve, anything to add to that?\n\n\n\n[00:41:51] Steve Persch: I&#8217;ll give a quick tech answer, then a longer, uh, philosophical sort of answer. So the quick tech answer is web assembly. I&#8217;ll be quick because I can&#8217;t speak to many of the details of web assembly, maybe Brian can? I see it as a layer that can abstract away many of the differences between the different computer languages that we&#8217;re all writing in. PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust. If web assembly is a common target that can be used to leverage software. You write in these different modes. Run it in the same place, be it at the edge, or I saw a demo recently that I think involved web assembly getting WordPress to fully run in your browser, like the WordPress running in web assembly in your browser. Okay, that, that looks cool.\n\n\n\nThe thing I&#8217;m, I&#8217;m probably most excited about right now for where the overall web zeitgeist is going is, is that the web development ecosystem seems to be coming back to what WordPress has been saying for a long time, of decisions, not options as that philosophical pillar for the WordPress community.\n\n\n\nI find it very reassuring that these front end framework projects that for a decade or so, provided so many options and put so many decisions on the plate of individual web teams and said like, you figure out whether or not you want Redux or this other thing to pair with your React project, and good luck sorting out the hundreds or thousands of NPM dependencies that get installed.\n\n\n\nThe frameworks that seem to be, that just are ascendant, right now, are the ones that are consolidating a lot of those options. Turning them into decisions that are made at the framework level, be it Next.js or Astro or Remix. The leaders of those projects seem to understand that there&#8217;s a desire in the community for, for those framework maintainers as experts to make a good quality decision that works for the broad majority of users of those frameworks. Be it Next or Astro or anything else. The users of Next.js are comfortable with an increasing number of decisions being first made in a centralized framework. WordPress has been doing that again for 20 years. Again, it&#8217;s fashionable.\n\n\n\n[00:44:11] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, history I think in many respects is fairly cyclical. What goes around does seem to come around. Yeah, good observation. I&#8217;m curious at this point, we&#8217;ve reached the 50 minute mark, and I want to wrap it up. I know you&#8217;ve got things to do with your day. But is there anything that you had wished that we had talked about that we failed to?\n\n\n\n[00:44:31] Steve Persch: Brian, do you want to touch on Decoupled Kit?\n\n\n\n[00:44:34] Brian Perry: Yeah, I&#8217;d love to talk about that a little bit. The Decoupled Kit project is essentially what we&#8217;re thinking of as a kit, is essentially a backend starter project and a front end starter kit that are intended to work together as close to out of the box with as little configuration as possible. To try to simplify the process of setting up the headless or decoupled architecture sites.\n\n\n\nAnd also provide some common examples of types of integrations and common problems that need to be solved there. And the thing that I think is most interesting about some of what we&#8217;re doing there. Again, thinking about this being an open source project sponsored by Pantheon, is we&#8217;re trying to solve some of these problems in cases where it makes sense in a framework agnostic way.\n\n\n\nSo, obviously starter projects for both Drupal and WordPress. And then within that we have a starter kit, we have multiple starter kits that are based on React. So we have a starter kit for Gatsby and WordPress, and a starter kit for Next.js and WordPress. So we&#8217;re trying to find cases where there are things that we can abstract out, which are just essentially like general utilities for sourcing data from WordPress. And not things that are really strictly tied to any one framework.\n\n\n\nSo that if there is, you know, another framework in the future that we need to support, or gains popularity, it&#8217;s easy to make adjustments there and adapt to that. And I think in the headless CMS community, both in the Drupal world and the WordPress world. I think there&#8217;s a lot of opportunity for tools that are a little bit more framework agnostic, that can still serve popular projects like Next.js. But hopefully are things that the community can use as the JavaScript world evolves.\n\n\n\nI&#8217;ll just also throw out there that, would love to, as we continue to build things, any feedback on the project. The main repo is decoupled dash kit dash js, under the Pantheon Systems GitHub. Would love to hear what people run into, any features that they&#8217;d love to see us support in the future. Any feedback is welcome.\n\n\n\n[00:46:45] Nathan Wrigley: I will make sure to link to all of the bits and pieces that we&#8217;ve talked about in the show notes. So if you are listening to this and you want to follow up on what the guys have been mentioning, then head over to wptavern.com, search for the episode, and all of the links will be in the show notes. Just before I let you go and get on with your busy days. If somebody wants to reach out to you personally and connect, what are the best ways, what are the methods that you are willing to share publicly? Let&#8217;s go with Brian first.\n\n\n\n[00:47:16] Brian Perry: Sure. Yeah, I&#8217;m in a number of CMS and Pantheon community Slacks, usually as Brian Perry. That, that&#8217;s one decent way to get at me. And then also I am still on Twitter. That is my main connection to the web development social media world, currently. Bri Comedy, b r i comedy on Twitter.\n\n\n\n[00:47:38] Nathan Wrigley: Brian, thank you very much. And Steve.\n\n\n\n[00:47:40] Steve Persch: I am spending less time on Twitter these days, although I&#8217;m still there as at stevector. And LinkedIn is the social network that I&#8217;m opening most often these days, and I&#8217;m easy to find just by searching for Steve Persch.\n\n\n\n[00:47:55] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you very much. Brian Perry and Steve Persch really appreciate you coming onto the podcast today. Thank you very much indeed.\n\n\n\n[00:48:02] Steve Persch: Thank you, Nathan.\n\n\n\n[00:48:03] Brian Perry: Thank you.\n</div>\n\n\n\nOn the podcast today we have <a href=\"https://pantheon.io/team/steve-persch\">Steve Persch</a> and <a href=\"https://pantheon.io/team/brian-perry\">Brian Perry</a>. They’re both employed at <a href=\"https://pantheon.io/\">Pantheon</a>, an enterprise website operations platform, and they’re here to talk about the evolution of website hosting.\n\n\n\nBack when the internet started, hosting was a fairly straightforward enterprise. You created HTML files and uploaded them to a server. That was it. An HTML file was a page.\n\n\n\nServer-side technologies such as PHP came along and the picture became a little more complex. Web pages needed to be constructed on-the-fly. Databases were thrown into the mix and the complexity increased.\n\n\n\nAdd in the different languages that you could write your code in, and the server configurations. The CMS that you choose also plays into this mix.\n\n\n\nNow we’ve got CDNs, headless, React, Gatsby, Node.js and much more. Is it even possible for the non-technical to have any understanding of where their website is?\n\n\n\nSteve and Brian talk about how they got into the hosting space and what’s changed over the years. We address what Pantheon is doing with WordPress and Drupal.\n\n\n\nWe discuss how headless can be difficult for content teams, given that there’s a disconnect with hitting the publish button, and that content going live on the site.\n\n\n\nWhat’s certain is that there’s no end in sight in terms of the rate of innovation in the website hosting space. 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In my own journey within the WordPress community, I have faced challenges and insecurities while navigating an environment where my work and accomplishments sometimes go unrecognized. However, I have also discovered the incredible impact that women&#8217;s contributions can have on the community and the importance of overcoming fear to make a meaningful difference. Today, I will share my experience and mission to empower women to contribute to the WordPress project, regardless of the obstacles they might face.\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-my-experience-in-the-wordpress-community\">My Experience in the WordPress Community:</h3>\n\n\n\nEven though I’ve used WordPress from its first release, I began my journey in the WordPress community back in 2010 by visiting my first WordCamp in Berlin, Germany. This WordCamp was my leap into deep waters, I couldn’t imagine. There I made valuable contacts which led me joining one of the biggest WordPress agencies in Germany. After joining the Inpsyde Agency, whose founder also initiated the German-speaking WordPress community and ran the community forums, I was soon made responsible for overseeing the translations and compiling the software packages for the WordPress releases in German.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSince then, I have contributed in various ways, from organizing meetups and writing support documentation to translating the software and providing training materials. Like many others, I was not always vocal about my contributions, and due to the lack of visible logs, I could not easily measure the impact of my work. This lack of recognition sometimes left me feeling discouraged and questioning my value within the community.\n\n\n\nNonetheless, I persisted – with some mental health related sabbaticals – in contributing to the project, driven by my passion for WordPress and a desire to help others. Over time, I began to recognize the importance of the work I was doing, regardless of whether it was acknowledged by others. I saw firsthand how my efforts, along with those of countless other women in the community, helped to shape the WordPress ecosystem, making it more inclusive, accessible, and user-friendly.\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-the-importance-of-embracing-contributions-and-overcoming-fear\">The Importance of Embracing Contributions and Overcoming Fear:</h3>\n\n\n\nDespite the challenges we may face, it is crucial for women to embrace their contributions and overcome their fears in the WordPress community. By stepping up and sharing our skills, talents, and insights, we can help shape the future of the project and make a lasting impact. There are several reasons why this is essential:\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Diversity in perspectives: Women bring unique perspectives and experiences to the table, which can lead to innovative solutions and a more well-rounded community. By contributing, we help ensure that the WordPress project remains diverse and inclusive.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empowerment and personal growth: Taking on challenges and pushing ourselves beyond our comfort zones can be an incredibly empowering experience. Contributing to the WordPress community not only allows us to grow professionally, but also boosts our self-confidence and sense of accomplishment.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inspiring others: When we step up and contribute despite our fears, we become role models for other women who may be hesitant to get involved. By sharing our stories and experiences, we can inspire and encourage others to join the community and make their own impact.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building a supportive network: By actively participating in the WordPress community, we can form connections and relationships with like-minded individuals who can offer support, mentorship, and encouragement. This network can be invaluable in overcoming challenges and fostering a sense of belonging within the community.</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-my-mission-to-empower-women-in-the-wordpress-community\">My Mission to Empower Women in the WordPress Community</h3>\n\n\n\nAs someone who has experienced the challenges and rewards of contributing to the WordPress project, I am dedicated to empowering other women to do the same. My mission is to create a supportive environment where women feel encouraged to share their talents, ideas, and expertise, regardless of any fears or obstacles they may face.\n\n\n\nTo achieve this goal, I am committed to:\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Raising awareness about the importance of women&#8217;s contributions in the WordPress community</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Actively recognizing and celebrating the achievements of women who have made a significant impact within the project</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encouraging mentorship programs that support and guide women in their journey as contributors</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sharing my own experiences and lessons learned to inspire and empower others</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fostering a sense of camaraderie and support among women in the community, promoting collaboration and understanding</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nFear can be a powerful deterrent that prevents us from realizing our full potential and making meaningful contributions to the projects and communities we care about. However, it is crucial for women to recognize the value of their skills and insights and to overcome their fears in order to make a lasting impact within the WordPress community.\n\n\n\nBy embracing our contributions, seeking support, and empowering one another, we can help create a more inclusive, diverse, and vibrant WordPress ecosystem that benefits everyone. So, to all the women who have thought about contributing to the WordPress project but have held back due to fear or uncertainty, I encourage you to take that first step. Your talents, ideas, and passion are needed, and together we can continue to shape the future of WordPress.\n\n\n\nDisclaimer: While the content of this essay primarily addresses women, I wholeheartedly acknowledge and embrace the diversity of gender and sexual orientation, including those who identify as female, non-binary, or belong to underrepresented groups.\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-row-layout-wrap kb-row-layout-id_ade563-ae alignnone kt-row-has-bg wp-block-kadence-rowlayout\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-mobile-layout-row kt-row-valign-top\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column_d879cf-9a\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 id=\"work-environment\" class=\"kt-adv-heading_1e8c32-97 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\">Birgit&#8217;s Work Environment</h2>\n\n\n\nWe asked Birgit for a view into her development life and this is what she sent! \n\n\n	<div class=\"hotspots-image-container\">\n		<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/birgit-olzems-desk-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Birgit Olzem\" class=\"hotspots-image skip-lazy\" />\n	</div>\n\n\n\n\nHeroPress would like to thank <a href=\"https://wpdrawattention.com/\">Draw Attention</a> for their donation of the plugin to make this interactive image!\n</div></div>\n\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" />\n\n\n\n<h1 id=\"deutsch\" class=\"kt-adv-heading_ca583d-16 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\">Empowerment von Frauen in der WordPress-Community: Mitmachen und Ängste überwinden</h1>\n\n\n\nDie Welt der Technologie und der Open-Source-Projekte kann oft einschüchternd wirken, insbesondere für Frauen, die sich unzulänglich fühlen oder Angst vor Ablehnung haben. Auf meinem eigenen Weg in der WordPress-Community war ich mit Herausforderungen und Unsicherheiten konfrontiert, in denen meine Arbeit und meine Leistungen manchmal nicht anerkannt wurden. Aber ich habe auch entdeckt, welch unglaublichen Einfluss die Beiträge von Frauen auf die Community haben können und wie wichtig es ist, Ängste zu überwinden, um etwas zu bewegen. Heute werde ich meine Erfahrungen und meine Mission teilen, Frauen zu befähigen, einen Beitrag zum WordPress-Projekt zu leisten, unabhängig von den Hindernissen, auf die sie stoßen könnten.\n\n\n\n<h3>Meine Erfahrungen mit der WordPress-Community:</h3>\n\n\n\nObwohl ich WordPress seit seiner ersten Veröffentlichung benutze, begann meine Reise in die WordPress-Community im Jahr 2010 mit der Teilnahme an meinem ersten WordCamp in Berlin, Deutschland. Dieses WordCamp war mein Sprung in tiefere Gewässer, als ich es mir je hätte träumen lassen. Dort habe ich wertvolle Kontakte geknüpft, die mich zu einer der größten WordPress-Agenturen in Deutschland geführt haben. Bei der Agentur Inpsyde, deren Gründer auch die deutschsprachige WordPress-Community initiierte und die Community-Foren leitete, war ich bald für die Betreuung der Übersetzungen und die Erstellung der Softwarepakete für die deutschsprachigen WordPress-Versionen zuständig.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSeitdem habe ich mich auf verschiedene Weise eingebracht, von der Organisation von Meetups und dem Schreiben von Support-Dokumentation bis hin zur Übersetzung von Software und der Bereitstellung von Schulungsmaterialien. Wie viele andere habe ich meine Beiträge nicht immer laut ausgesprochen, und da es oft keine sichtbaren Aufzeichnungen gab, war es für mich nicht leicht, die Auswirkungen meiner Arbeit zu messen. Dieser Mangel an Anerkennung führte manchmal dazu, dass ich mich entmutigt fühlte und meinen Wert innerhalb der Community infrage stellte.\n\n\n\nNichtsdestotrotz arbeitete ich &#8211; mit einigen gesundheitsbedingten Unterbrechungen &#8211; weiter an dem Projekt, angetrieben von meiner Leidenschaft für WordPress und dem Wunsch, anderen zu helfen. Mit der Zeit wurde mir klar, wie wichtig die Arbeit war, die ich leistete, unabhängig davon, ob sie von anderen anerkannt wurde. Ich konnte aus erster Hand sehen, wie meine Bemühungen und die unzähliger anderer Frauen in der Community dazu beitrugen, das WordPress-Ökosystem inklusiver, zugänglicher und benutzerfreundlicher zu machen.\n\n\n\n<h3>Die Bedeutung von Beteiligung und die Überwindung von Ängsten:</h3>\n\n\n\nTrotz der Herausforderungen, mit denen wir konfrontiert sind, ist es für Frauen von entscheidender Bedeutung, ihren Beitrag zu leisten und ihre Ängste in der WordPress-Community zu überwinden. Indem wir unsere Fähigkeiten, Talente und Einsichten mit anderen teilen, können wir die Zukunft des Projekts mitgestalten und einen nachhaltigen Einfluss ausüben. Dies ist aus mehreren Gründen wichtig:\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Vielfalt der Perspektiven: Frauen bringen einzigartige Perspektiven und Erfahrungen ein, die zu innovativen Lösungen und einer vielfältigeren Gemeinschaft führen können. Durch unseren Beitrag tragen wir dazu bei, dass das WordPress-Projekt vielfältig und inklusiv bleibt.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empowerment und persönliches Wachstum: Sich Herausforderungen zu stellen und die eigene Komfortzone zu verlassen, kann eine unglaublich befähigende Erfahrung sein. Die Beteiligung an der WordPress-Community lässt uns nicht nur beruflich wachsen, sondern stärkt auch unser Selbstvertrauen und das Gefühl, etwas erreicht zu haben.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andere inspirieren: Wenn wir trotz unserer Ängste einen Beitrag leisten, werden wir zu Vorbildern für andere Frauen, die vielleicht noch zögern, sich zu engagieren. Indem wir unsere Geschichten und Erfahrungen teilen, können wir andere inspirieren und ermutigen, sich der Gemeinschaft anzuschließen und selbst etwas zu bewegen.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aufbau eines unterstützenden Netzwerks: Durch die aktive Teilnahme an der WordPress-Community können wir Verbindungen und Beziehungen zu Gleichgesinnten aufbauen, die uns unterstützen, beraten und ermutigen können. Dieses Netzwerk kann von unschätzbarem Wert sein, wenn es darum geht, Herausforderungen zu meistern und das Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl innerhalb der Community zu stärken.</li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n<h3>Meine Mission: Frauen in der WordPress-Community stärken</h3>\n\n\n\nAls jemand, der die Herausforderungen und Vorteile der Teilnahme am WordPress-Projekt selbst erfahren hat, möchte ich andere Frauen ermutigen, dasselbe zu tun. Meine Mission ist es, ein unterstützendes Umfeld zu schaffen, in dem Frauen sich ermutigt fühlen, ihre Talente, Ideen und ihr Fachwissen mit anderen zu teilen, unabhängig von Ängsten oder Hindernissen, denen sie begegnen könnten.\n\n\n\nUm dieses Ziel zu erreichen, verpflichte ich mich, die folgenden Maßnahmen zu ergreifen:\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Sensibilisierung für die Bedeutung der Beiträge von Frauen in der WordPress-Community</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aktive Anerkennung und Würdigung der Leistungen von Frauen, die einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Projekt geleistet haben.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Förderung von Mentoring-Programmen, die Frauen auf ihrem Weg als Mitwirkende unterstützen und begleiten</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eigene Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse weitergeben, um andere zu inspirieren und zu stärken</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Förderung von Teamgeist und Unterstützung unter den Frauen in der Gemeinschaft, Förderung von Zusammenarbeit und Verständnis.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nAngst kann ein mächtiges Hindernis sein, das uns davon abhält, unser volles Potenzial auszuschöpfen und einen sinnvollen Beitrag zu den Projekten und Gemeinschaften zu leisten, die uns am Herzen liegen. Es ist jedoch von entscheidender Bedeutung, dass Frauen den Wert ihrer Fähigkeiten und Einsichten erkennen und ihre Ängste überwinden, um eine nachhaltige Wirkung in der WordPress-Gemeinschaft zu erzielen.\n\n\n\nIndem wir unsere Inputs annehmen, Unterstützung suchen und uns gegenseitig stärken, können wir dazu beitragen, ein inklusiveres, vielfältigeres und lebendigeres WordPress-Ökosystem zu schaffen, von dem alle profitieren. Daher möchte ich alle Frauen, die darüber nachgedacht haben, einen Beitrag zum WordPress-Projekt zu leisten, sich aber aus Angst oder Unsicherheit zurückgehalten haben, ermutigen, den ersten Schritt zu tun. 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They discuss finding the balance in the small and big pictures of product development, highlighting the process of trial and error.\n\n\n\nTop Takeaways:\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Courage Under Fire. After what feels like a miserable failure, it’s vital to keep trudging forward. Great product design takes time to build and grow in the space you are putting it into. Keeping your passion alive and remaining consistent in your efforts will eventually lead you to success.&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Impact of Thoughtful Design. Developing a product is, of course, based on meeting some kind of user need, but it’s important to consider if you are going to make that user’s life easier with your product. When the end user is your top priority, your product will shine, and you’ll be proud of your direct impact on someone’s everyday life. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finding the Spark in Your Product. Focusing on the overall product journey is key for great product development, but zooming in on the minor details is equally important. Brainstorming and finding the spark is not easy, but setting your product apart from the rest is crucial. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using Your Audience to Improve Development. Put your ideas and questions out there for your audience to speak to. If you are wondering how people will perceive a certain product aspect or want more information on their exact pain points, it’s good to ask directly. Getting information straight from your customers or peers can help you make well-informed decisions in product development.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n</div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"eplus-wrapper\" id=\"h-mentioned-in-the-show\"><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f517.png\" alt=\"🔗\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> Mentioned in the show:</h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://crop.express/\">Crop.Express</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwiIyKyw6PL9AhVlyZQJHT6EAcYYABAKGgJ5bQ&ei=bawcZJe0G8epqtsPivSAqA8&sig=AOD64_0_PN97hzZ3jYMLTv3M0suhf9h2Ag&q&sqi=2&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwjXnqSw6PL9AhXHlGoFHQo6APUQ0Qx6BAgKEAE\">StickerMule</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"eplus-wrapper\" id=\"h-you-can-follow-post-status-and-our-guests-on-twitter\"><img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f426.png\" alt=\"🐦\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> You can follow Post Status and our guests on Twitter:</h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\n<li><a href=\"http://twitter.com/coreymaass\">Corey Maass</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/corymiller303\">Cory Miller</a> (CEO, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/post_status\">Post Status</a>)</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/lemonadecode\">Olivia Bisset</a> (Intern, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/post_status\">Post Status</a>)</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nThe Post Status Draft podcast is geared toward WordPress professionals, with interviews, news, and deep analysis. <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4dd.png\" alt=\"📝\" class=\"wp-smiley\" /> <a href=\"https://poststatus.com/category/post-status-podcasts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Browse our archives</a>, and don’t forget to subscribe via <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/post-status-draft-wordpress/id976403008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iTunes</a>, <a href=\"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS8ySkU5c2M4UA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/PostStatus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube</a>, <a href=\"http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/krogsgard/post-status-draft-wordpress-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stitcher</a>, <a href=\"https://wordpress-post-status-draft-podcast.simplecast.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simplecast</a>, or <a href=\"https://feeds.simplecast.com/2JE9sc8P\">RSS</a>. <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f3a7.png\" alt=\"🎧\" class=\"wp-smiley\" />\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"eplus-wrapper\" id=\"h-transcript\">Transcript</h2>\n\n\n\n<h2>Session 7 Corey & Cory Launch a WordPress Product Live</h2>\n\n\n\nCorey Maass: [00:00:00] So now I\'m following along. I\'ve gotten in the habit of. I opened the YouTube, which is, well, it\'s live, which is really disorienting cuz of course I\'m talking, uh, 10 seconds ago or 10 seconds in the future. And then grab the chat and then close it as fast as I can, because it seems that people do ask us questions, but mostly on YouTube, not on, uh, the webinar, the Zoom webinar. Cory Miller: Um, sorry, I was just trying to get all that going. Um, yeah, speaking of what we\'re talking about today in the marketing channel with post status, there\'s some good conversations about product. Hmm. I was like, you know, there\'s enough of this going around that we, um, should we have more conversations about product and marketing. And [00:01:00] channels. Corey Maass: Um, I have to go find, I\'ve got, um, I\'m in product owner and I\'m in a couple of others, but I\'m not in marketing. Oh, okay. You\'re already in here. Yeah. Product leaders I\'m in. Cory Miller: Yeah. Um, I really want that product leaders channel to. This type of, you know, conversation, whatever it has to do with product, you know? Right. Corey Maass: So, yeah, and it\'s, I mean, it\'s a popular topic. Like I, I was on Twitter five minutes ago and somebody was asking like, who is marketing WordPress plugins? Well these days? And of course was scrolling the answers to see who to follow or what examples to look at, or, you know, there\'s, I mean, a few known quantities. Um, and articles and, and references and stuff, but well, you know, [00:02:00] year to year and, and new products that will cause blips and, and whatnot. Yeah. Um, you know, because it\'s definitely still not a. You know, not a known thing. I mean, marketing anything is not, is never necessarily reliable. But, uh, marketing a WordPress plugin. There are people who are very successful with WordPress plugins, but I don\'t know that the marketing is, it\'s not a solved problem. You know, Cory Miller: I think we said this a lot, but I really love product. Um, but it feels like. Almost like gambling, you know? Um, like this one, I continue to see there\'s something here and we say this, we don\'t know what it is and we\'re trying to kinda keep stepping into it. But gosh, I\'ve tried a bunch of products between I themes and today, you know, bunch of different things. And they weren\'t like [00:03:00] pure software products of course. Um, but. Every time I talk about product, I realize how much I have to learn . Corey Maass: Um, so there\'s, um, they\'re the people who I, I\'m not gonna even try to mention names, but it\'s like, there are, there are people who are famous for breaking the land speed record, you know, or the like, uh, What was his name? Hopkins was in the, a movie called The Indian, and it was his, about his motorcycle or you know, there\'s nascar, like there\'s the people who win over year, over year. And, and then there\'s, there\'s gotta be the people who were fascinating, you know, they, they worked a, a regular job and they spent every night and weekend working on, you know, Build, trying to build the fastest [00:04:00] race car or the fastest motorcycle and, and have absolutely died in obscurity, , you know, like, they just never, they d take a, take a motorcycle out to the flats, crash it, start over again, you know, and, and have done it. Or did it, you know, for 30 years or whatever, and, and we\'re never gonna hear about any of those people, you know, or they consistently came in third and we\'re never gonna hear about any of those people. Yeah. And it\'s like, I\'m a while ago, I had to th there was a time in my life where I was absolutely convinced that I was going to be a rockstar dj, where I was going to be the gazillion. Uh, entrepreneur or, and I still would love to be all those things. Well, I don\'t know if I have the energy anymore, but Me too. Um, you know, um, but it, they were, they were tied into my identity and they were like constant. You know, a need and would keep me up at night. And now I\'m like, I [00:05:00] have, I think part of middle age is accepting your mediocrity.\n\n\n\nUm, and, and just going, you know, okay, if, if I\'m, if I\'m successful, if I\'m having some fun and I\'m successful enough that I\'m not, Uh, starving, you know, then, then that\'s then and, and then it\'s fun to keep trying, you know, and, and on my deathbed, it, it\'s still probably gonna hurt that I didn\'t, you know, uh, headline, uh, you know, some huge music festival or something, but, uh, but at least I tried, I suppose Cory Miller: I, I love that. Thank you for sharing that. Um, you know, because I, I totally. , um, in so many ways. I feel like I had my time. Mm-hmm. , you know, I got my opportunity and I made, I made the most of it. I\'m, I\'m proud of it, you know, uh, and that, that was a [00:06:00] very magical period for me. You know? But when you\'re talking, have you seen the Netflix? It made me think of the Netflix special full swing. It\'s about golf. So, I know you golf. I don\'t, I put putt golf, you know, but, um, even though we have a son named Callaway, everybody thinks we named it after a golf club. And I\'m like, no, sorry, , um, him out after a golf club. But, okay, so this last episode, there\'s a guy, and you may name, you may know his name, and I\'m like, I, if, if there were jerseys in golf, I\'m not a. I would go buy his jersey today. He\'s like the 70th best. Mm-hmm. golfer in the world. His name is Joel Drum. I can\'t remember. I\'ll f I\'ll find his name. So the first episode, have you seen this? Mm-hmm. . Okay. You, I think you\'d be interested. I\'m like you said. Full swing. Full swing. It\'s a documentary about the [00:07:00] PGA. I\'m morbidly curious about sports because I think it has so many parallels. Anyway, so the first two were like, the brand names Justin Thomas, uh, Jordan Sp, and now I know those names well, but I was familiar with their names. Sure. And like they\'re at the top pinnacle of the sport. Then the third episode is, is is Joel, and he\'s basically like, I\'m okay being seven. like he\'s got immense talent. Um, his caddy, everybody\'s like, no, he\'s a top 30 golfer. And he\'s just kinda like, you know, he\'s, he could be like, he won, he\'s won, but like, he could be even better. But he\'s just like, k he feels like almost resigned contend of being like 70th. And I. Maybe I\'m okay being like 500th best or five thousandths best at being an entrepreneur, being a product person, right? Um, [00:08:00] I am morbidly attracted to entrepreneurship and product. Like I think you and I resonate with this. Like every time I hear you talk, man, I would go. Rather from another mother, like he, you know, Corey Maass: I could have said those words or have had or have said those words. Yeah, exactly. Cory Miller: But I think there\'s something resonating here, Corey. It\'s the esteem that I, I\'m gonna talk by myself. The esteem I might talk about, like iconic, everybody says it, Steve, let me invoke his name. Steve Jobs right now, first time around, I think. Right time, right place, and of course genius, you know, but right time, right place, right. Critical thing got kicked out of Apple, comes back and doing it again, and we always talk about him. Right. You know, maybe, maybe Elon Musk in my mind before he started doing, just, I don\'t know. Um, he, I think he went too far. He overreach. But anyway, but I go, God, [00:09:00] I\'d love to have that kind of genius for product for. and, but selling down in Maine, like you were saying about middle, middle age and Meoc, just going, Hey, I think I got some talent , you know, but mainly I just work my ass off. Mm-hmm. Corey Maass: I\'m one of those, try things and try things. Cory Miller: I feel like one of those sports players, like if we use that metaphor analogy, whatever it is, and I. Never gonna be number one. Mm-hmm. never gonna be top 50. But for my brand of those, I\'m really content with who I am. You know? Right. Even though I\'m just like, God, it feels like with product it\'s miserable Failure. Miserable failure. Miserable failure. Miserable failure. When 2008, man, I felt like I\'m gonna mix all these sports things, get up to the plate, ball\'s coming, [00:10:00] and I hit it. And I get into the field Corey Maass: and you scored a touchdown Cory Miller: and . Yes. And a hole in one and you know, let me find another sport so I can do it. But you don\'t end up in the gutter. I think the reality is, yeah, , I need bumpers for my bowling entrepreneur, bowling, and there you go. Product person. I need some bumpers. I feel like sometimes, and I\'m glad I. I couldn\'t laugh\n\n\n\nabout this a couple years ago at all. Hmm. I\'d be like, what? I have magic. I\'m supposed to be magic. I\'m supposed to come. Right. You know, and then you\'re like, maybe not . It\'s the humbling effect of that. Yep. And I think when you come down to it, you go, I think the reason why I\'m so interested in product is like it\'s a gift. It should be like this cool gift that you\'re trying to help someone. Make somebody\'s life better and in the process be [00:11:00] able to do it vocationally and get paid for it. Yeah. And man, I love that about work, you know, and products specifically is like tie to this little bow, here\'s your present and I\'m trying to get better about this is I\'m trying to offer a gift that you pay for. Of course. You know, like those win-win things. But I digress. Corey Maass: Yeah, it\'s, I love solving a problem. I love the, like, this is gonna sound weird, but I love the angles of it. Like the, uh, moving through a problem, uh, like screens and inner, like, I, I want to feel clever for having built it, like build a better mouse trap. But I also want, that\'s a bad analogy cuz a mouse, mouse uses a mouse trap. But it\'s like, I, I wanna build, you know, the, the better. Thing that other people then get pleasure out of using to, again, to [00:12:00] solve a problem. Um, and so then I feel smart. And they feel smart. And, and it\'s like, to me it\'s, it\'s one of the epitome of the human condition is, is solving problems, is manipulating the space around us. And, um, and so yeah, product just absolutely. Resonated with me early on. Which is funny because I think I, and a lot of, a lot of developers and a lot of product people also are passionate about music in one way or another, which is the opposite. It\'s so abstract. It can mean anything to anybody. It\'s totally subjective, uh, as opposed to like, In the world we live in, like there\'s a little bit of subjectivity. Like there\'s, you know, there\'s a reason why there\'s a million to-do list apps because everybody solves it slightly differently or wants it to feel slightly different. But it\'s still, uh, you know, there\'s still ones that objectively don\'t [00:13:00] work. , uh, uh, But anyway. Yeah, it\'s, it\'s, it\'s fun. It\'s interesting. It\'s, I\'m glad that it\'s now a hobby rather than, uh, something that I, that I\'m relying on. Cuz I remember building, I think I\'ve talked about this before, like, I remember building things because I was like, I\'m not gonna make rent if this doesn\'t succeed. And of course it didn\'t come close to succeeding. I don\'t even think I was able to finish it cuz it was like, I can\'t make a logical decision. From a position of desperation, like some people can mm-hmm. , but I just, I can\'t, I have to like sit in it and splash around. Which is also why, because I think maybe it was another Twitter conversation I was having, but, um, I, I often. Will. Oh, so yeah, somebody, somebody asked like, do you, do you do any planning or do you jump right in? I\'m like, I a hundred percent jump right in, just like you, you keep saying like, there\'s something here. I often jump right in when I just, my gut [00:14:00] tells me that there\'s something here and, uh, Because I\'m finding, and this is, I was noticing this again over the weekend. Um, the setting screen that I wanna show you is like, I had to start building the setting screen in order for me to go, oh, no, this setting isn\'t right, or, we don\'t need this, or This is better organized a different way. But I had to like, and I suppose I could put pen to paper and come to the sum of the same conclusions, but for me, pen to paper is usually writing. You know, some, some aspect of code to, so that I\'m clicking on a button or I\'m, I\'m starting to fill in a screen or I\'m even at this point, I can just look at a screen and be like, no, this isn\'t what we need, or this isn\'t intuitive, or, um, no. With that said, what I\'ve designed is quite ugly. Um, I was futzing around. Information architecture, and I don\'t know why I was bothering, it was Sunday. I was having fun. Um, but anyway, yeah, it\'s, uh, there\'s, [00:15:00] there\'s definitely a difference of, of, for me anyway, like getting in and actually clicking on things. Cory Miller: It\'s uh, when you say, when you said hobby, it reset me back to me going, is this, should this really be a hobby for me? You know? Hmm. Um, cuz. I gotta tell you, I\'ve, I presented my business group about a week or two ago, and I was like, yeah, I don\'t know. I don\'t know if I keep going. You know, back to middle age mediocrity, whatever it is, it\'s like, I, you know, we\'re trying to do some things with post status and it\'s been one frustration after the other hitting walls.\n\n\n\nI think that\'s starting to loosen up, maybe with my own growth, you know? Okay. But like, just trying to make progress on stuff where I had a team previously and now we\'re trying, you know, put stuff together. But that\'s the bigger business. But down product too is like, you know, I think there was a hope in me that you launch it and everybody\'s like, hell yes.[00:16:00] You know? Yeah. There\'s more to it, you know? I just wanted people to instantly love it. Corey Maass: Well, and starting from scratch is freaking hard. I mean, you were, you were on a, a winning team. You were, you know, you were on a, a bus with a group of people. You\'d built the bus. You got the bus moving, and then you were hurling down the highway successfully. And it\'s real easy to forget that, like, oh, right. When we were building the bus, nobody cared. And when the bus, the wheels first started moving, nobody cared. Now they do. And so yeah, if you are, you know, leveraging something, if you\'re building a trailer onto a bus that\'s already moving, that\'s different than getting off the bus, chilling for a couple of years and then starting to build another bus, you know? Weird, weird analogy, but , Cory Miller: no, no, no. I like the bus thing cuz that\'s how it was. I was like, I. I don\'t, I get credit, but I try not to ever take it and [00:17:00] be sure to point it in other ways. Like it was very much a band back to music. I like, this is like, we\'re a band that makes great music together. You know, somehow it\'s working, you know? Yeah. And I can\'t really take credit for a lot of that. I was, don\'t get me wrong, I contributed, I impacted it, but it was a magic of. Yeah, things flying together with it. And I think I\'ve been trying to ree that magic, you know, particularly with product. Um, but the word that comes up for me, and I\'m curious what your thoughts about this are, like de detachment, detachment from my brilliant ideas, Corey, like, man, I\'m very attached to my brilliant ideas, you know, and like here I go. How to detach from that pride aspect and then go just kinda lean into like passion and interest, which is what your pace and how you [00:18:00] approach This has been really healthy for me because you\'re kinda like, I\'m having fun doing it today. I\'m having it and then tomorrow having fun doing it and it. It\'s, it\'s taking some box for you. And I\'m like, I need to be just okay with like, it\'s taking a box for me. Now when I am working with a developer partner, , I\'m like, I wanna talk to you about filters. I wanna talk to you about all these things. Cuz like I had, like all the stuff that we could do with images. I\'ve been planning around with stuff and wanting, been wanting to go like, you know, Instagram revolutionized photos, for instance. I think it, it took the iPhone or the smartphone, whatever it is, and made most anybody a pretty decent photographer, right? Like, you know, Photoshop, you could do the Gazi blur and you can kind of filter and like make things a little like correct stuff with Instagram. I did that and I\'m like, I, I love that. I love taking photos. I\'ve been taken. [00:19:00] So this is a weird sidebar onto the product by. But I\'ve been, um, you know, there\'s those cartoon apps that\'ll take a photo and make a cartoon of it. Yep. I\'m a freaking geek about cartoon illustration, all that stuff. So what I\'ve been doing, this is gonna lead back to product, by the way, an actual question on our product future. And you can say, Hey, can we pause that? Can we hold that later? But, so I\'ve been taking, I love taking pictures of sunsets, you know, and I. So I\'ve been taking my sunset pictures and putting \'em into my cartoon app. . Mm-hmm. nice. Yeah. And making these really things. But the premise here was, you know, back to our philosophical conversations about images and the web and on a website, and I go, you know, with ai, there\'s a, that mix in there too, but I go, that\'s interesting to me. Like for, for, for our product perspective is like, there\'s cool things going on. I think we could be creative and innovate downstream a bit in this [00:20:00] market. While I\'m kinda like really impatient, but trying to be patient about getting to the stage of like, I want somebody to pay for it. I want somebody to give some validation to go, okay, should we put a little bit more time and effort and money into this? You know? Right. But anyway, the filtered conversation was where I\'ve been going as we\'ve been talking, going man, You would know, but like are there libraries and stuff that we can do filters or something different to make things just a little nicer in the pro side? Yeah, that I just freaking love, like I\'m such a geek Corey about that.\n\n\n\nBut I take my picture and then I share it over to whatever the tune app is and I really like, I don\'t know, it\'s kind of fun. There\'s gotta be . I can\'t help, this is my idealism. There\'s gotta be something. On this other side when we start being able to get to the pro side. Okay. Corey Maass: Looking for the other, the other app, there\'s one that, um, I got really into a [00:21:00] couple years ago. That\'s, um, it\'ll, it\'ll take any photo and basically make it a painting Yes. In a bunch of different styles. Yes. Because there was a, a woman at the la in the, uh, woman who posted on Facebook this like really cute watercolor painting of a farmhouse. And then I noticed at the bottom that there was a watermark of the app that she\'d used. And I was like, oh crap. She just took a picture of a farmhouse and ran it through this little, you know, 99 cent app and then had. Like a watercolor that I would\'ve put on the wall, you know? Um, Cory Miller: see that, that, that\'s like the heart of publishing for me is expression, and I\'m very much an amateur photographer that flunk photography twice, by the way, in college. But I go, Corey Maass: you forgot to do that. No, the, the cover, the lens cover off . Yes, yes. Cory Miller: I know what depth to field is, but I\'m like, The manual. Mm-hmm. cameras I had to use suck. But all that to say [00:22:00] like this is interesting and that\'s a hobby of mine and so I would say it\'s a hobby of mine. It\'s taking these photos. I even had my son do it while I was driving. I was like, could you take a picture of that sentence? Yeah, Corey Maass: yeah, I do. It\'s one more thing. We have the same of, you need to look at my Instagram. It\'s literally just sky pictures. That\'s Cory Miller: so, okay. This is called Tune. But yeah, let\'s see Corey Maass: here. Oh, it does it live? It Does it live? Oh, that\'s cool. I assumed it was like, it had to be a photo, but it, it actually applies the filter while you\'re moving the photo. Cory Miller: Yeah. So I was like, that\'s wild. And then they\'ve got impressionism, they\'ve got all these filters and I go, right, you know, there\'s something about Instagram having, yeah, I, I don\'t know, 10, 15 filters. I always use like the first six. Sure. You know, but it\'s like there\'s something about that taking something, making it, just dressing it up a little bit and being able to put it out there. Like I\'ve been playing with the tune stuff on the colors cuz it really pulls [00:23:00] out some of the sunset photos and stuff and I go, I hope there\'s something there on this pro. I want it. You know what I mean? Like I want something that just Corey Maass: I conceptually, I think. You\'re onto something. I mean, again, go, what\'s our mantra? You know, making creative tasks simpler, easier, fun. And so we\'re starting with what we\'re hoping is the widest base. Everybody needs to crop an image and get it into WordPress. Um, and then. So I, my Instagram, again, I\'m fascinated, I\'m captivated by mostly cloud shapes and especially sunlight coming through the clouds. But I didn\'t want to, I, I was never. Really impressed with filters. Like they\'re neat for doing different things, but I didn\'t, they didn\'t do what I wanted. And so what I [00:24:00] actually do is, um, because I noticed that the, whatever it is, the polarization from my sunglasses, Make things more distinct. So I usually take my sunglasses off and then take a picture through the lens, and that\'s my real world filter, so to speak. Right. But it\'s like, it\'s, it\'s my style. Nobody knows I\'m doing it, but that\'s stylistically. Right. And so I imagine that, uh, a lot of people like. They, they have their feed and so they have their favorite one or two filters and they think of it in part as their branding. Um, and maybe it\'s the same with blogs where it\'s like, oh, if I\'m, I\'m blogging week over week, whatever photo, I\'m gonna give it the same treatment. Um, you know, even if that means, it\'s not necessarily some manipulation of the photo, but I put. My own watermark, or I put the title of the blog post in a certain font with a certain background. You know, [00:25:00] there\'s a treatment so that you know when it\'s shared. It\'s the same with the OG images, which is why I\'m so fascinated by those. Um, and that\'s the other plugin that I keep messing around with as generating social images. But it\'s the idea of being, again, that same sort of the concept of set it and forget it, but so, Um, so the, another, another word that we should somehow incorporate into one or another of our sort of overarching rules here is consistency, which we\'ve talked about.\n\n\n\nIt\'s like, but, but taking that, like all of your images should be 16, nine, but taking it much further so that it\'s all of your images should be watermarked the same way, or they should have some. You know, coherent look and feel so that I land on any page on your blog and, and I know where I am or if I see an image on, in, you know, I\'m scrolling Twitter and I\'m like, oh, there\'s another one of Corey\'s photos. Because it\'s, it\'s [00:26:00] a, it\'s a sunset, but it\'s got the, the comic book treatment, you know, so whatever, whatever it is, like, um, I, I think you are, you\'re, what I take away from what you\'re describing is, An example of still kind of what we, our long-term goal, like whatever the handling of images, but allowing people to handle images consistently. And if it\'s, if it\'s unrecognizable, if it\'s just a task, if it, if we just make uploading images easier than great, like, and we\'re, and everybody has that problem, but if down the road, like, yeah, we hear from people that they all want watermarks or they all want. Uh, you know, an image filter and we can figure out how to do that. It\'s, it still, to me, falls in the same, the same ballpark. Yep. Cory Miller: Now we need a business case, like, you know, take some of this [00:27:00] abstract, creative thought and go, okay, how can we, back to what you kind of grounding us in as like consistent, I heard the word consistent, consistent. unique to the brand Yeah. That they\'re trying to portray. That\'s really interesting thought cuz I, I love templates. I mean, obviously mm-hmm. , that\'s the it that\'s High Themes came from Template. Template Monster. You know, I was a, I had used Template Monster 2004 or five for a website, um, that wasn\'t in WordPress. I don\'t even know what it was in. Um, and I. Offering somebody some flavors to have a head start to, to create something creative. Like for, for, for me, I can\'t draw, you know, I doodle, but some kind of headstart to help somebody do the things. Yep. Consistent you need to your brand, um, you, your [00:28:00] own kinda style that you could develop. Um, kinda like paint by numbers, so. Okay. Thanks for letting me die. Tribe on. Wonder and fascination about all this. Um, you wanted to talk about settings? Corey Maass: Yeah. So I just shared, uh, something with you. Um, you see my screen? Yeah, I can. So starting a settings page. Um, so we\'ve got, I don\'t know if it\'s working in this version yet, so featured images, um, Oh yeah, I, I have a fix for this. So you see the three, four is not actually three four. Um, so that I\'ve, that\'ll, that\'ll be fixed in the next version. A little thing that\'s been bugging me. Um, but the, you know, we\'ve, we\'ve got the actual cropper in a couple of places. Media ad new, no, it\'s not in here. [00:29:00] Again, this is just a non, a little local demo thing. Um, but I started adding what we\'d talked about previously. Uh, uh, the next thing we need, or one of the next things we need is a settings page where we can define the, essentially the defaults like we\'re talking about. Um, So starting with one of the use cases or the, the place, the implement, one of the implementations we\'ve done, um, being featured images. The idea being that right you, when you first install a plugin, we\'ll walk you through these essentially where, you know, okay, for featured images, what is, you know, you always want your photo to be, or the resulting photo to be at least, you know, 500 wide, uh, you know, but not more than 2000 wide. And then same with. You know, something like this, right? So that you don\'t, [00:30:00] you don\'t end up with images that are too small, but you don\'t also don\'t end up with images that are too large. Um, and then, uh, presets, Cory Miller: oh, you can remove. That\'s cool. Corey Maass: So, yeah, because it\'s like, uh, the, the example of the featured image, right? It\'s like we have given you these six square circle, 16, 9 43. but it\'s like, you don\'t, you don\'t want to give you, you, you know, if, if your featured image should always be a circle, then, then why do you have to select circle every time? Right. And so in settings, yeah, you can go in and remove, um, you know, everything but the circle. Um, and then save it. And then that\'s the idea being that, you know, you hit save here and then the next time you come into here where you\'re setting your featured image circle would be the only thing available. Um, and obviously if there\'s, if there\'s only one, then it\'ll be pre-selected and so then [00:31:00] it saves you a step. Um, and then, and then there\'s also the option of, um, so this isn\'t quite\n\n\n\nfunctioning, but, um, Choose a preset. So it\'s, if you, if you know, I\'ve now deleted all of the, the default preset 16 nine, you can re-add it here, or there\'s this, you know, I, this just, this is my preset, but it\'s like you can, you can name it the query, uh, Miller preset with an aspect ratio of, you know, whatever, whatever. Um, I think this works. Yeah. There\'s the Corey Miller preset. Um, awesome. So, so this is, this is what I started with, um, again, with the idea that what you set is what\'s gonna get translated to here. So the presets are choose your shape, you then have those to choose from. Um, and then when you cropped an [00:32:00] image, the output would match whatever your Minn Max is. Um, I haven\'t quite, I\'m not sure what. Parallel is yet, is it, is it always you? It should be the minimum, but should it go up to the max? You know, we\'ll figure that out. But, um, is, is this kind of what you had in mind? Does this resonate with you? Anything missing? Cory Miller: Um, now that the preset thing is really awesome, like being able to set that here, I think that\'s very forward thinking. Work. You know, I continue to think through work, through flow, come in here, configure it yourself, save it, make it easier on the client, and it becomes a pretty easy thing to, for the problem of getting right sized images per the theme design. So I think that\'s cool. Would you scroll up a little bit? So this puts it, [00:33:00] this men stuff puts it where, Any image that goes through it and scrub by it will not be bigger. So that then whatever we\'ve listed here. Corey Maass: Okay. Yeah, the, you know, it\'s like if you thinking about pr, you know, protecting people from themselves. So if they upload a 10 pixel by 10 pixel emoji and they, but they want to use that as a high res, uh, featured image, then it. Upscale it and look terrible, but that\'s better than them, than a 10 by 10 pixel image getting stuck in there. And then same with like, what we keep talking about is uploading from your photo where, or uploading from your phone where a photo is six megs. No, bring it down, you know, and, and, and 4,000 pixels. It\'s like, no, bring it down to the web. Really doesn\'t need more than 2000 pixels. [00:34:00] Cory Miller: So, okay, so the experience is come in here, set it here, put some guardrails. Um, bumpers. Bumpers. Keep talking about bowling, bowling. Bowling bumpers. Okay. Then when they go to do it from like, this is the basic settings. Start, you know, start hearing, get a little bumpers, but then the workflow, if they\'re going into the image and all that kind of stuff. Is there a plan for. Letting them customize that in the featured image and the other, you know, tools in the post. That\'s a good question because here\'s what I\'m thinking. Like web designer developer would go, there\'s your guardrails. Cool. You know? Yeah. And then they get into the live, and I think maybe they, like we were doing the ratios to be simple. Click boom, there you go. But if someone goes. You know, I don\'t know. I want [00:35:00] the cropped image, like I think we were talking about, there\'s a featured image section, then there\'s another section which is in lieu of the block. Yeah. It\'s like upload an image and, and my question would be like, I think we should consider in that, that screen over there, letting them do the custom dimensions there potentially. Corey Maass: Mm. Yeah, so I, I think if I understand you, like we\'ve got a, we\'ve got a bypass, which lets them upload. Straight from their hard drive. And then I also think, if I\'m hearing you correctly, we need a bypass, essentially, these settings. So it\'s like you can still use the cropper, but you can essentially make bad choices if you want to. Uh, and I, and I think maybe that, like there\'s a, I also envision a toggle in here that enables that. And so there\'d be like, here are the [00:36:00] guardrails, you know, a and maybe this screen, so at least, at least for my use case, right? I am, I am an ad I, I have the WordPress admin role. I have the WordPress role of administrator, and then all of my clients have a contributor role, or I\'ve made up another, um, another role called site admin. And so they still think that they\'re admins, but I\'ve actually disabled a bunch of things so that again, they can\'t, they can\'t go in and update a plugin that they shouldn\'t or delete a plugin or change themes. Have had clients go in and just be like, what does this do? And totally break a site. . And so I think in, in, in here, there\'s a, there\'d be a, like an advanced toggle that says, lock this shit down.\n\n\n\nYeah. Or these are the recommended. Let them make bad choices if they want to. And so like for my clients, for [00:37:00] featured images, hard, hard, hard rule, it\'s 16 nine. Full stop, no exceptions. And so I would switch that toggle to be like, do not let them make any other choices. But you know, the o our other implementation, so this screen would essentially be repeated for media library. I haven\'t reported it over yet, but in media library I might allow more presets. I also might toggle it the other way and say, you know, let them. Upload something because frankly, like we also use the media library for, um, you know, hosting an image to send to the press. And so we then we want a high res image and we\'re just basically using our WordPress install as file storage. And so they would, they would hit a little button that says, just let me upload, you know, leave me alone and let me upload the, the image or let me crop it, but leave it at 7,000 pixels or, or whatever. So, yeah. [00:38:00] That\'s another necessary. Cory Miller: I think this is the work, this is the workflow for an organization or the developer here in this screen. Yeah. What I\'m thinking is I go, okay, because we, the crux of the problem we started with months ago was it\'s a pain in the butt to like crop an image to make it reasonable for the web and look good. And I, if I\'m just Corey Blogger, Corey website thing, I go, okay, I\'m writing a post. I go, okay, I need an image. I want an image for it in here and want it. Obviously I you won\'t believe how many times I\'ve like gotten. A screenshot tool or something to go How many pixels wide is my Yeah. Post column with, you know, and I, we\'ve talked a lot about this, but I go, maybe I [00:39:00] want it really tall in the, in the place or something like that doesn\'t fit a preset mm-hmm. you know, like, here\'s the quick presets we\'ve done. Just go here and you can kind of keep it standard that checks that consistent box, but, Utility of the crop to make it whatever it needs to be for that page design. Yeah, that\'s the workflow I\'m thinking about because I think this is where we need to be for the, I\'m handing this project over to you and I\'m trying to keep you right in the bumpers and I think that big time checks the agency box and some point I wanna share that with our agency owner channel and just get some feedback and. Understand the problems they actually face, but the other side is to make this ubiquitous and easy to use. How do we make it really practical and easy for what they\'re trying to do? And I\'m just talking that out, going, I wonder, you know, they find the image, [00:40:00] they upload it, but they want it, you know, you know how it goes. Sometimes the image doesn\'t fit right. A, a ratio. Corey Maass: So, yeah. Well, and yeah, and I think, you know, we. What we don\'t want to do is limit people\'s creativity and so, you know, and what\'s WordPress? Uh, The mantra, but I think it, I think it\'s actually backwards. They say decisions, not options or something like that. But anyway, in, in our case, we actually want at least, at least sensible options. Um, you know, or, or we don\'t, we can\'t speak for everybody, at least not yet . Um, and, and so yeah, letting people. Bypass the, all these things. Um, I think if nothing else, you know, I mean more of the spirit of WordPress and, and more, you know, the freedom to, to do what you want. I mean, they can always disable the plugin. I\'ve even done that with, there\'s a plugin by short [00:41:00] pixel that. It\'s called something like resize after Upload. And so it, I installed that early on so that client\'s uploading it just lets you, uh, ju similar to some of this, right? It lets you set a sensible limit, so it\'s like resize anything over 2,500 pixels, down to 2,500 pixels. And that\'s all it does, but it\'s it per it, it has saved us so much disk space. They will make a mistake and upload something that\'s, you know, two megs and 7,000 pixels or whatever. So, um, but I\'ve had to. Like, there were times when we wanted, uh, like we had a blog post that was a web comic, and so we needed it 7,000 tall. So I went in disabled, the plugin, and this is the process I had to do right as I went in. Had to go in, disable the plugin, upload the full, full version, and then go back in and reenable the plugin. So yeah, if there was a like click here to bypass just this one time, [00:42:00] uh, you know, then it would\'ve saved me. Six clicks and a, and a bunch of load time. Um, so yeah, to, to make sure that we ac we accommodate that or offer the option to accommodate that , uh, options to offer options always gets a little meta, but I do think that that\'s crucial as much because like we keep talking about, we don\'t, we just don\'t know yet.\n\n\n\nWe don\'t know who\'s really gonna use this. We don\'t really know. And that\'s, that\'s why like, I like the thinking. We did at the beginning of this phone call about using, talking about filters. But to me, filters is an example or of, of that, which we don\'t know yet, but are the kind of features that we can offer. Not fi filters specifically, but some sort of photo manipulation, assuming that that\'s what people want. But I also, I think I\'ve, I mean, I\'m having fun looking at discovering. How robust JavaScript is [00:43:00] now and, and what it can do, including photo manipulation. But to me, cropping a circle was a no-brainer for this, you know, for v1. But adding photo filters is, is down the road at some point because it\'s, it could be a lot of noise within the product and if nobody wants it, then we don\'t wanna add that much noise. Cory Miller: I feel like too, a lot of this just kind of pulling up for the overall product journey we\'re on. Mm-hmm. is trying to find that spark. Yeah. Like we\'re talking through things that we think are good ideas, thought like really thoughtfully trying to embody the experience and I feel like we\'re trying to find a little spark of something when we, when we talk about feedback and like, Someone goes, yeah, that what you just said there, but like a lot of the process of product like this is trying to get just lucky and, and find that little spark of, [00:44:00] hey, here it, here it goes. You know? So it\'s good for me to kind of reset and go, yeah, doesn\'t feel good to see fewer than 10, you know? But like we\'re trying to get it out there enough and we\'re doing this obviously, so we find a spark somewhere in there and they go, Hey, that\'s what I. To, I don\'t know, let\'s, let me throw in another sport. Fishing, We\'re trying to fish and go like, yeah, we think this is good. So I\'m trying not to make too many, um, minute feedback things about the thing. I go. We, we, we decided a couple weeks ago, we kept talking about like the custom dimensions. So you\'ve done the settings page and now this seems to be the other side. And just kind of getting it out there and going, like, does this, does this work? Part of it, I think for me is I\'m not actively blogging as much at all, and I haven\'t for a long time, but I need to get back in the [00:45:00] process and start documenting, you know, when I\'m Yeah. Trying to express a. Feeling, emotion, whatever those things are. Um, and then going through the press of like, what, you know, for me, I\'m trying to commit to this, this going, okay, let me find an image for this. That kind of hits at what I\'m trying to get at, you know? Yep. Um, back to Instagram, that\'s what I loved about Instagram and those little apps, you remember those apps that take like a second a day and it\'d kind of be a journal and. It started with an image and then it became, you know, people tried to blow up the content underneath. Um, I needed to play around that with, in my head a little bit and practice it of like, what if I started with an image and wrote and just put, get back doing my click and publish again, and then note all my pain points with finding [00:46:00] images that are appropriate. Corey Maass: And I\'m going to, um, to me we\'re, I like your fishing analogy. We\'re fishing with a, with a all lure. We\'re still building. You know, we, we\'ve got the hook and we\'ve got the eyes, but we need the little wiggly bit that the fish will actually be attracted to or whatever. Um, but I\'m not, I guess I\'m, to me, I\'m not yet casting with the intent of actually catching fish like I\'m casting to just kind of make sure that it, it all still holds together when it hits the water. Um, I think with a, with some basic settings, uh, with a block at that point. Like I wanna start promoting it a lot more, putting it on, you know, actually put it in some places. Um, I think at that, that\'s when, you know, we actually are version complete and we can start sending it to some blogs. Um, You know, you, you do a, a Google search for word [00:47:00] plug, you know, WordPress plugin, photo cropping or photo manipulation, and then go find all those listicles and add some comments and, and basically just do kind of the, the, the bare minimum, uh, s e o and spreading of the word. I think the other thing is, um, I don\'t remember who it was, um, Kathy. Or somebody. Yeah, Kathy, um, typed in crop, uh, in the plug-in directory and. Um, and it was like, I think just crop, we\'re not even on the first page. If you do crop.express, we come right up, but crop space express doesn\'t come up. So we, you know, we need to start tweaking some of, you know, looking at, cuz at that point, like the, the README that\'s in there now is, is almost, is already almost not.\n\n\n\nAccurate in that we\'ve added more features. And so revisiting that, revisiting the wording, starting to play with the [00:48:00] wording, but it\'s like at that point we are at least a fully functional product. And so then, then I feel much better about talking about it. I also look forward to like, I will make my clients use this whether they like it or not, and I will toggle it so that they are locked down. Um, and then I will hear their complaints, you know, good, or, or I guess you don\'t have good complaints, but I will hear their feedback, good or bad. Um, but it\'s, um, you know, to me a very real world use case. So, um, we\'re. I guess I\'m trying to get us there, right? Like basic settings, basic implementation. Um, and then I, I, and then frankly, like at that point, at we, we, we. It\'s fun to keep talking every week, but I almost feel like at least what I\'ve done in the past is at that point we, like, we let a couple of months go by and maybe we\'re working on, we\'re still working on it [00:49:00] or we\'re working on a companion or we\'re, you know, something else is cooking. But, um, The, you know, one of the best things that happened to me was, you know, my social link pages plug in. I built it and then, uh, had to stop working on it cuz of a job I was doing. And the year went by and I stopped doing that job and I came back and was like, oh, it has a thousand active installs. And it was like letting it grow organically. Mm. You know, letting time happen naturally. Like I probably could have made that ramp happen a little bit faster, but not a lot, you know, at least at the level I\'m at. Like we, like we talked about, if you\'re starting from zero, you\'ve only got so many favors you can call in. You\'ve only got so many eyes on you. You\'ve only got, um, you know, I think we\'ve, we\'ve both got a little bit of an, I, you\'ve got a much bigger audience than I do. We both are involved with communities, but you know, we are not, [00:50:00] Uh, who\'s a successful blogger? Tim Ferris or, you know, Paul Jarvis or, um, Joel s Spolsky, or, you know, whoever, like big, big names that have attention on them. And so we\'ve, we\'ve, there will be, there will come a day when we\'ve, we\'ve basically tapped every lead that we can think of, and then it\'s like, okay, so let\'s let a week go by and let some, you know, let the internet do its job and, and spreading the word. Cory Miller: That\'s good grounding. Corey Maass: It\'s hard. It\'s hard, Cory Miller: like even if I want to, I, I\'m always so impatient and want to accelerate and get to the things, but I, that\'s really good grounding. Corey Maass: It\'s like, well, if we, if we had a gajillion dollars, if, if we had investment, I\'m not, obviously, I\'m not advocating that, but it\'s like, If we were in that kind of situation or we were able to, you know, sit down in an office day after day and say like, this is our job. [00:51:00] Very different trajectory. Yeah, but I don\'t, but we\'re not in that position. Cory Miller: Yeah, it\'s true. Okay. Well anyway, so go ahead. Corey Maass: Oh, I was just gonna say like, we\'ve got five minutes and I actually need to wrap up on time today, so, okay. Um, just wanted to check in with you, see, see if there\'s anything else to talk about or what else you wanted to talk about. Put you on the spot here. I Cory Miller: think that\'s it. I want to keep kind of pushing in and trying to find, um, I think my part in this is sniffing the problem that we go there. It, you know, there it is. That could potentially illuminate it to bring in money for sales, whatever it might be. But, um, and going like, I think we got a pretty cool thing here. It seems to me for the future, it\'s like [00:52:00] image creation in that cate, something in this category is the potential for the pro. And I\'m keen to just go, like, personally finding the angles in there that would go right here. This could be a little, this could be a V1 into the paid, you know, finding that, that little mix. But thanks for keeping us on track with this. I, I think where we\'re going with this setting is great. It\'s all there. It\'s functional or it will be, and, uh, try to get a little bit more stepped in the, into the. Finding our people Corey Maass: Yeah. For this. Yeah. And I\'m, I\'m, you know, I don\'t think I need to say it, but I\'ll say it anyway. Don\'t get me wrong. Like, I\'m also anxious and excited. Unfortunately, this week, once again, life happens. And so I\'ve, on Monday, a tight deadline Okay. With a day job. 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You’ll note overall faster load times for block themes of 14 to 18%, and for classic themes, speed increases of 2 to 5%. Server-side performance is also significantly boosted, with an increase of 17 to 23% for block themes and 3 to 5% for classic themes, 3 to 5%. The performance team is dedicated to these kinds of improvements. You can learn more about their work by following the Making WordPress blog using the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/performance/\">#performance hashtag</a>.\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn more about WordPress 6.2</h2>\n\n\n\nExplore <a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/workshops/\">Learn WordPress</a> for quick how-to videos, courses, and other resources for the latest features in WordPress. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, what the founder of Yoast is working on now.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice, or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.\n\n\n\nIf you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m very keen to hear from you and hopefully get you or your idea featured on the show. Head to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there.\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today, we have Joost de Valk.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;ve been in the WordPress space for any length of time, it&#8217;s likely that you&#8217;ve come across the Yoast SEO plugin. This was the brain child of the guests today, Joost. Same pronunciation, different spelling.\n\n\n\nWe talk about how Joost found WordPress and quickly started working on his SEO plugin. How it rapidly grew and became his career.\n\n\n\nWe discussed the WordPress landscape during this time, and whether it&#8217;s more difficult now to have the type of success that his plugin received, given that there are more players vying for our attention.\n\n\n\nThe conversation then moves into why the plugin was recently sold to Newfold Digital. What were the guardrails that were put in place to ensure that the plugin continued and the employees felt safe?\n\n\n\nWe then get into a conversation about Joost&#8217;s new role. He&#8217;s been tasked with reaching out to WordPress community members in order to see what projects or initiatives need more thought and support.\n\n\n\nThis leads us into the topic of the current WordPress UI, and how Joost is hoping for a refresh at some point soon. 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You&#8217;ve been with WordPress for a really long time. Certainly whilst I&#8217;ve been using WordPress, I joined the party a little bit later than a lot of people. But your company and your name was already a really big deal.\n\n\n\nIf anybody hasn&#8217;t heard of you, I&#8217;d appreciate it if just for a few minutes, you could just give us a little bit of your background story. Where you are, what companies you&#8217;ve worked for, how on earth did you get into WordPress and so on.\n\n\n\n[00:04:05] Joost de Valk: Okay, so that&#8217;s a lot to cover, but let me try. So, I am Joost. I&#8217;m Dutch. I live in the Netherlands with my lovely wife Marieke, who I think you&#8217;ve also had on your show, and our four kids.\n\n\n\nI started Yoast coming from a background of working in several different IT companies. I started university, basically failed at university because I wasn&#8217;t a very good student. Then started working in IT, in a web hosting company. And later on moved into an SEO company where I learned SEO consulting.\n\n\n\nWhen I started doing that, I had already been coding a bit. I&#8217;ve actually always been coding since I was 12. I built my first website when I was 12, which was in 1994, so you can do the math. I&#8217;d been working on that and I, I learned SEO at this company. Started blogging, and then also started building plugins for the blog platform that I chose, which happened to be WordPress. Building plugins to basically fix my own SEO needs. This was in 2005, 2006. So that&#8217;s relatively early days.\n\n\n\nI started contributing to WordPress Core at basically the same time. I&#8217;d been doing other open source software development. I was a part of the WebKit project, which is the core of Safari, and Chrome. Actually committer in that project before I joined the WordPress world.\n\n\n\nAnd I had two sites. I had one where I blogged about SEO, and one where I blogged about CSS. And my specialty at that time was CSS 3, which was at that point being created, and I was creating CSS 3 previews. So I was doing SEO for that, building my own plugins, just for myself. And I started releasing them and more people started using them. I started speaking at SEO conferences, and people started asking about these plugins.\n\n\n\nAnd one thing led to another. And some point in 2010 I decided to start working on my own. At that point thinking I would never hire anybody, but I would just be an SEO consultant, which is why I called the company after myself. Which in hindsight was a stupid idea, because whilst it is a very beautiful brand name, it is super annoying to hear your own name the whole day, because you can&#8217;t really not hear that.\n\n\n\nSo, did that in 2010. Basically started SEO consulting. I was consulting for pretty large brands at that time, Facebook, eBay, the Guardian, companies like that. And, well I was still doing that plugin. Decided to bundle the several small plugins that I&#8217;d built into one larger WordPress SEO plugin, which later on became the Yoast SEO plugin.\n\n\n\nAnd then, at some point during 2011, I hit a million users with what was called WordPress SEO at the time. And Marieke said to me, you can&#8217;t keep doing this. You either have to start making money from this, or stop doing it, because this is nonsense. And she was, as always, right.\n\n\n\nAnd then started working on that. And she joined quite quickly. Had a couple of other colleagues who I&#8217;d hired to do part of the other work that I was doing at that point already. And we started building, and that went quite well for a very long time. So we sold in 2021, and at that point we had almost 150 employees, and a very well running business. So we&#8217;d been growing between 30 and 50% year over year for almost a decade. And yeah, it&#8217;s been a very interesting journey. And throughout that time I&#8217;ve been doing WordPress, because I love WordPress as a system, and I love the open source community.\n\n\n\n[00:08:05] Nathan Wrigley: I have a quick comment in here and I love how you described it, your successes. We did quite well. To get a million users in the space of, well, it sounds like under a year.\n\n\n\n[00:08:17] Joost de Valk: Well, no, it was, it was slightly more because it was, I had small plugins that people were already using, and then I bundled them into one. So I was basically combining all these user bases. But yeah, no, it, it did go very quickly. So a fairly limited amount of companies I&#8217;ve seen that do it quickly, although I have to say if you look at Elementor, similar and better actually.\n\n\n\n[00:08:39] Nathan Wrigley: When you look back at that time, do you consider that you entered WordPress at what might be described as halcyon days or something? Was there just something about it at that time, which was ripe for the picking? Because the growth from zero to a million, I mean very, very few plugins managed to jump that hurdle. And the fact that you did it, let&#8217;s say, relatively quickly, really quickly in fact, is pretty amazing. But I just wondered if the, if it was more wild west back then? If it was more possible because there was less competition, there was less rivals in the space. Do you have any insight into why it was so successful?\n\n\n\n[00:09:19] Joost de Valk: So part of it is that the people that were building WordPress sites at that time were, almost all of them developers, or at least website maintainers with a fairly good technical grasp. And they switched plugins fairly easily and often. I think that was a bit easier than it is now. Although that group is still there, but it&#8217;s just a smaller portion of the entire user base of WordPress now.\n\n\n\nSo yeah, it was a bit different. It was a bit more pioneering I think, in a way. The thing is, we build these ginormous websites on WordPress now, right? So these enormously important websites as well to people. And you&#8217;re not going to play around with plugins on sites like that. So it&#8217;s on personal blogs that you can do that. And just a lot more people did have a personal blog at that time. It was probably the best days for the actual blogoshpere in comparison to what later happened with Twitter, et cetera.\n\n\n\n[00:10:19] Nathan Wrigley: We probably could spend the entire podcast talking about Yoast over the years, but we&#8217;re not going to do that, because we&#8217;ve decided to take a different route. But I, do want to ask, in terms of your journey since the day that you committed to having Yoast a plugin, right through to maybe today, maybe a year or two ago.\n\n\n\nWere you always in love with WordPress, the community and so on? I get the feeling that there might have been a few wrinkles along the way where the whole ecosystem was something that you wanted a little bit of a break from. I could be getting that wrong. If so, ignore the question.\n\n\n\n[00:10:53] Joost de Valk: I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever really wanted a break from WordPress itself. I think the community is a wonderful thing, but at the same time it&#8217;s very brittle. People come and go, and that&#8217;s fine, right? But we, I feel, have failed in the last few years especially to, well to show our excitement for it to each other.\n\n\n\nI think part of that is Covid, because there weren&#8217;t as many WordCamps and other things while we did that. Part of that is also, we&#8217;re all growing up and all these companies are becoming bigger and, well the demands on those companies are getting bigger. But it&#8217;s also like we&#8217;re getting more professional, but with that maybe also a bit more dull\n\n\n\n[00:11:37] Nathan Wrigley: So you&#8217;re still committed to WordPress. Is that the case? Are you going to be with WordPress do you imagine 3 or 4, 5, 10 years from now? You&#8217;ll still be coming on podcasts like this and talking about WordPress, albeit in a different role?\n\n\n\n[00:11:51] Joost de Valk: I absolutely hope so, yeah. If I wasn&#8217;t thinking that, I wouldn&#8217;t have taken on this new role that I took on at Newfold.\n\n\n\n[00:11:58] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, let&#8217;s talk about that. But before we get onto that, I would imagine there&#8217;s a subset of users who know that Yoast as a plugin exists, but they may not know about the ownership and the structure and how it&#8217;s all run and what have you. Just run us through that little piece. A little while ago it was announced that you had sold to Newfold Digital. What was the reasoning behind that? So that could be maybe there were personal reasons behind that. Maybe it was just something that you wanted to get away from and give yourself a bit of head space, try something new. What was going on in the run up to that, and how did it all go?\n\n\n\n[00:12:32] Joost de Valk: So, well running a company&#8217;s hard. And as a company becomes bigger, it becomes harder. And during Covid, Marieke and I decided it&#8217;s time. It&#8217;s time to, to sell it and to look at, like, hey, what else do we want to do? And we were talking about that to our other partners. I think we all felt the same at that point.\n\n\n\nAnd so we went into a process. We actually engaged a banker who helped us sell the company. And we ended up with Newfold Digital, which is not really a household name, but it&#8217;s the parent company to companies like Bluehost, Hostgator, domain.com, and multiple dozens of other brands.\n\n\n\nThey put in a good offer, but they also had a very good story about why they wanted to buy Yoast, and what they would do with it. And that really was very interesting to us. And then, they ended up after acquiring us, quite quickly after that, they also acquired Yith. A WooCommerce plugin shop, also from Europe. It&#8217;s been good. It&#8217;s a very nice group of people.\n\n\n\n[00:13:41] Nathan Wrigley: With the transition there, when you went out and as you said, you got some third party in, who obviously had your best interest, but also presumably could be somewhat dispassionate as well. Did you have any sort of guardrails? Because you described that you&#8217;d grown from, well, you solo up to 150 employees, and just before we hit record, you were mentioning that in some cases, some of your employees have been there for as much as a decade. You know, there&#8217;s a real long heritage of people working there. So presumably a lot of these people, you&#8217;re very close to them. Friends you might say.\n\n\n\n[00:14:15] Joost de Valk: Absolutely, yes.\n\n\n\n[00:14:17] Nathan Wrigley: I presume part of that process was protecting them, knowing that when you stepped away and released the reins, that whoever took over the reins was going to behave in a way that you would have behaved. Did you get into that? Did you struggle with that? Was there any, any pieces that you needed to in place?\n\n\n\n[00:14:36] Joost de Valk: It&#8217;s definitely a part of why you&#8217;re thinking very long and hard about who you&#8217;re selling your company to. To some extent, we don&#8217;t need to do all the defense because there&#8217;s Dutch law that will actually prevent them from just firing people. If I lived in an at will firing world, I would probably think about this even more specifically.\n\n\n\nBut, honestly it was never a question, they wanted the people. And they wanted everyone to come board and to stay on. And actually in the first year after we sold to Newfold, nobody left. Or in the first six months, I should probably say, I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s entirely true for the first year. Nobody left for a long time.\n\n\n\nNo, I think actually treating your employees well is super important. To be fair, that&#8217;s always been one of the things that Marieke has run at our company. So for a long time I was the CEO, then she took over from me. So she was the CEO for the last three years before we sold. Well, she did a tremendous job at making well, creating that culture and making it even better.\n\n\n\nWe do indeed have quite a few people that work here for, well, five years or longer. And a couple of them, two people now who are at a decade and one is closing in, yeah.\n\n\n\n[00:15:51] Nathan Wrigley: You mentioned, I can&#8217;t remember whether it was in the conversation we&#8217;ve just had or whether I read it in some show notes. But Newfeld Digital, the company that you ultimately sold for. This for now at least, this is the direction of travel for you. What&#8217;s the role that you&#8217;ve taken on there and what are the sort of key points that you are trying to achieve? You also mentioned that it&#8217;s not a household name. I suspect there&#8217;s some will to change that might be part of your role.\n\n\n\n[00:16:15] Joost de Valk: Not necessarily, I mean, Newford is a corporate brand mostly aimed at other things than, it&#8217;s not like we need everyone to know Newford. But I do think it&#8217;s, well the combination of Bluehost and Yith and Yoast, and quite a few other things under our umbrella make us quite a big player in the WordPress world. We are, I think, the biggest or the second biggest WordPress host out there. Maybe GoDaddy&#8217;s bigger, I honestly don&#8217;t know.\n\n\n\nSo my role specifically for the foreseeable future, is to look at hey, what&#8217;s happening in the WordPress world? How can Newfold help WordPress, and what can we do in the WordPress world that would benefit both Newfold and the WordPress world?\n\n\n\nAnd how can we use our knowledge of WordPress internally a bit better as well. It&#8217;s funny how this works at large hosts and these are, Newfold is not unique in that I&#8217;ve found. I&#8217;ve been talking to other people in the hosting space a lot in the last few months. A lot of these hosting companies, only in the last few years have started realizing that they&#8217;re actually WordPress companies.\n\n\n\nThere&#8217;s a bit of a catch up to do there. Well, it&#8217;s one of the things that I want to focus on is like, how can we see that these large hosts who make a lot of money on WordPress and who together create quite a big economy, that they contribute back to WordPress as well? And what can we do about that?\n\n\n\n[00:17:40] Nathan Wrigley: So if I&#8217;m right, your role is head of WordPress strategy for Newfold Digital? That is a part of it. It&#8217;s just trying to figure out where WordPress fits in the overall structure, the products that you&#8217;ve got, the direction that you&#8217;re going to take, the events that you&#8217;re going to show up to, and all of that?\n\n\n\n[00:17:57] Joost de Valk: Yeah, absolutely. And it is honestly, it&#8217;s sort of a perfect role because I have no one reporting to me, and yet I get to talk about these things, which I love.\n\n\n\n[00:18:08] Nathan Wrigley: What have been some of the things that you have been mulling over that at Newfold you think you might like to get your hands dirty on?\n\n\n\n[00:18:15] Joost de Valk: Well, I think it actually ties into one of the other things you wanted to talk about, which is the WordPress Admin UI. So we did a new settings UI for Yoast, and as I was looking at it and we were building that. I was talking to my colleagues at Newfold responsible for the Bluehost interface and for Yith, and we were like, hey, can&#8217;t we just use this across the company?\n\n\n\nSo it&#8217;s stuff like that where we, we help each other with our knowledge of WordPress. And we also let people who are good at one specific thing inside WordPress do that. But it&#8217;s also like, okay, we have a couple of different teams of WordPress Core contributors within Newfold. How can we effectively use those?\n\n\n\nSo yeah, there&#8217;s a lot of different angles to it. There&#8217;s how do we make more money from WordPress? What direction does WordPress need to go, and how can we help that? How do we make WordPress better usable for our customers so that we actually maintain our customers better? There&#8217;s a lot of different things to do.\n\n\n\n[00:19:17] Nathan Wrigley: You&#8217;ve been really keen publishing statistics over the years about WordPress adoption and WordPress usage and all of those kind of things. So it really does seem like the perfect role for you. You&#8217;re very interested in the bigger picture of WordPress and how widely it&#8217;s adopted and whether the numbers are going up or going down and publishing data about all that. Yeah, it&#8217;s fascinating.\n\n\n\n[00:19:35] Joost de Valk: It is. WordPress is just a perfect project for a large number of the websites out there. And honestly, I think that we, that we don&#8217;t always do ourselves a good service as WordPress on marketing what we can do. And we&#8217;ve also, I think, underinvested a little in some parts of WordPress, in terms of performance and in terms of onboarding, that we should probably invest a bit more in.\n\n\n\n[00:20:02] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, that&#8217;s an interesting point. Just as a segue, the whole performance thing, not the onboarding piece, but the performance bit in particular. I feel that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s really been kickstarted over the last 12 months. There seems to be a lot of work going into performance and a lot of chatter about it.\n\n\n\nWhether everything should be bundled into one performance plugin or whether it should be split out and become different canonical plugins, if you like. So I think you&#8217;re right. I think it&#8217;s quite interesting that some of the things that you&#8217;ve just mentioned do seem to be getting some attention, and performance is just one that springs to mind.\n\n\n\n[00:20:36] Joost de Valk: Things like performance on an individual site level, they&#8217;re important, but if you are the host that is hosting literally millions of WordPress sites. It is just literally also cost to your bottom line.\n\n\n\n[00:20:49] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I hadn&#8217;t really thought about it from that perspective. But if you can shave, I don&#8217;t know, 5% of CPU cycles out of the whole hosting platform, that&#8217;s quite a large amount of money that you&#8217;ve saved.\n\n\n\n[00:20:59] Joost de Valk: Yeah, and we did a lot more than that in recent releases. So it&#8217;s been in the double digits. And that&#8217;s absolutely a good thing for, well, not just for our bottom line, but for nature and for electricity usage. I mean, there&#8217;s tons of reasons to want to do better at that. And I think there&#8217;s still a lot more that we could do.\n\n\n\n[00:21:21] Nathan Wrigley: I think it does seem genuinely to be a perfect role given, well, given that I don&#8217;t know you particularly well, but from all of the things that I&#8217;ve read over the years, it seems like this is kind of like a match made in heaven.\n\n\n\n[00:21:32] Joost de Valk: Yeah, and it is actually a very nice team. So it&#8217;s, it is very nice to be able to work with these people, and look at like, hey, what can we do here? And yeah, I hope to be able to make an impact.\n\n\n\n[00:21:42] Nathan Wrigley: Let&#8217;s talk about the UI, because over the years, if you&#8217;ve been using WordPress for all these years, you must have logged into WordPress, oh, I daren&#8217;t even count. But it&#8217;s probably multiple tens of thousands of times. And each time you&#8217;ve logged in, you&#8217;ve stared at the same UI. And certainly over the last decade, that UI has been exactly the same.\n\n\n\nIt basically has looked the same since I started WordPress, with tiny, teeny modifications to things like the color blue. There&#8217;s a slight variation in the color blue that&#8217;s being used now than previously. But broadly speaking, it&#8217;s exactly the same.\n\n\n\nYou guys, and we&#8217;re going to use Yoast as an example, but it really, it could be any company. You guys took it into your own hands to say, enough. We think that the UI, if we stick with WordPress standard UI, it doesn&#8217;t really fit what we&#8217;re doing. Technology&#8217;s moved on. We&#8217;ve got more things available to us. Certainly the way things look in WordPress is beginning to be a little bit tired.\n\n\n\nTell me about that journey. And are you hoping that your free UI kit, that you&#8217;ve open sourced is going to be taken on? Maybe it&#8217;s a cue for the team over at .org to have a look at this and adopt this across WordPress, dare I say?\n\n\n\n[00:22:53] Joost de Valk: I honestly doubt that&#8217;ll happen. Yeah, no, I doubt that. Not because they are against using something that we&#8217;ve built, but because what we build is quite opinionated and uses stuff that they might not be willing to use, like Tailwind.\n\n\n\nIt definitely needs a change. It&#8217;s been a tired look for, well, almost a decade as well now. We&#8217;ve had experiments. We&#8217;ve not really moved on that. Gutenberg itself has changed in what it looks like a couple of times over its development, and now we&#8217;re basically stuck with three different types of designs, even within the WordPress admin.\n\n\n\n[00:23:29] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, tell us what you mean by that because I&#8217;m not sure everybody will pick up the nuance of that.\n\n\n\n[00:23:33] Joost de Valk: Well, if you look at the site health page, it uses different styling from say, add a post. And then go into a post and you edit it in Gutenberg, then that looks entirely different as well. And, I just think that&#8217;s weird. I think it&#8217;s weird that we have different types of buttons. I think it&#8217;s weird that we basically teach a user two or three different UIs. And if you use the customizer with it, then even more. So you&#8217;re basically teaching people new user experiences all the time, and that makes it hard to use.\n\n\n\nAnd then because there is no real design system for WordPress anymore, that you can use to build your plugin&#8217;s admin pages, everyone starts building their own and all of them start looking differently. And that means that if you have five plugins, you have five different admin pages. And I just don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s a good experience.\n\n\n\n[00:24:35] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I guess if you are a user of WordPress, a frequent user of WordPress, and you&#8217;ve got let&#8217;s say, the one site that you are maintaining all five sites or whatever it may be. Because you&#8217;re in there all the time, that dissonance doesn&#8217;t really happen for you as much, does it? You know, you&#8217;re just familiar with it.\n\n\n\nOkay. If I go in here, I&#8217;m going to expect that the menu&#8217;s going to change. The whole color palette and everything. The buttons will look different, but okay, that&#8217;s how it is. But if WordPress continues to grow, and it wants to get into the late forties and early 50%, which is, I guess, a target which is within reach. That isn&#8217;t really going to fly anymore, is it?\n\n\n\nBecause if you go to any SaaS app, let&#8217;s say for example, I don&#8217;t know, let&#8217;s say you go over to Google and you want to interact with Google Docs, it would be really weird if the UI for Docs was different from spreadsheets. And, I don&#8217;t know, let&#8217;s say that you are using Notion or Evernote or something like that. If when you went into some portion of it, it was just different.\n\n\n\nYou just fully expect everything to look and feel the same. And in our own experience of WordPress, we just forgive that, don&#8217;t we? We just, oh, okay, that plugin author has done this. But if you are looking to compete against the rising stars, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, all these other things, that really starts to matter.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s a bit like death by a thousand teeny, tiny little paper cuts. Those things stick in the head of the end user. That just seems a bit unprofessional. Not sure about this WordPress thing. Do you think I&#8217;ve hit the target there?\n\n\n\n[00:26:08] Joost de Valk: Yeah, no, absolutely. I think that is our problem. I think it actually ties into the other thing I mentioned, the onboarding. It&#8217;s actually pretty hard to start using WordPress. So you are thrown into a dashboard and then the first thing you&#8217;re greeted with is WordPress meetups. And as much as I love WordPress meetups, if you are just on that page for the first time, why are those in my screen?\n\n\n\nAnd, well there&#8217;s a hundred things like that where I think that we, we could and probably should do better. And the first thing would be, in my opinion, a design system that we all agree on. And I think that is actually an achievable goal. I spoke a bit, before and after I published my post, to a couple of people from the design team, Joan and Mathias, and they also seemed to want something like that.\n\n\n\nWe seem to disagree a bit on how far, in how far that actually already exists. Because there is a somewhat of a component system within Gutenberg. I just think that as long as I search for WordPress design system and don&#8217;t get a post or page from WordPress.org, that actually explains the design system in simple to use terms for every plugin developer out there, it doesn&#8217;t exist.\n\n\n\nThat means that we have to build it. We have to market it. We have to think about how it&#8217;s going to be used and then write good docs for that. That&#8217;s quite a bit of work, but it&#8217;s not unconceivable that we do that. There&#8217;s a lot of people in the WordPress world who want to make that happen. We&#8217;re just not prioritizing it at the moment. And I think we&#8217;re doing ourselves a disservice by not doing that.\n\n\n\n[00:27:45] Nathan Wrigley: I am going to link in the show notes to an article that you put out recently where you express a lot of these thoughts. And in it you make the point that it was a really difficult decision over at Yoast. Sorry to keep going back to Yoast.\n\n\n\n[00:27:59] Joost de Valk: No, it&#8217;s not a problem. It was a very difficult decision. We&#8217;ve been literally been talking about this for five, six years, and my UX team at Yoast had been wanting to do a redesign for a long time, and I basically stopped them all the time because I was like, I want to stay in line with the WordPress admin.\n\n\n\nAnd over time we started moving away from it more and more because we needed stuff that simply wasn&#8217;t there. And then at some point you have to admit like, okay, I&#8217;m wrong. This is not going to happen and we need to build our own. It was sort of like a bittersweet decision. And I&#8217;m happy to add that people are responding well to the library that we built and that, that we open sourced.\n\n\n\nBecause I want to spare others to work. Because it&#8217;s stupid. It&#8217;s stupid that as a plugin developer, I have to spend time thinking about what do my buttons look like? What do my toggles look like? They should just be the same for everyone.\n\n\n\n[00:29:03] Nathan Wrigley: I can completely sympathize with that, in the sense that you&#8217;ve spent years basically saying, no, to your design team. We&#8217;re just going to stick with this. But eventually, I guess there&#8217;s too much water has gone under that bridge that really you&#8217;re stifling your own company&#8217;s enterprise.\n\n\n\n[00:29:20] Joost de Valk: Literally, I mean, people moved to others plugins because they thought it looked better. Which I think is a stupid reason to switch SEO plugins. But who am I? But it was literally happening, and I, at some point you go like, okay, I really need to do better at this. And to be fair, the new settings you are that we ended up building, I think our UX team did an amazing job on, and makes the plugin a lot easier to use.\n\n\n\n[00:29:49] Nathan Wrigley: I will link to the design library, which has been open sourced again in the show notes, but it&#8217;s a really amazing endeavor. If you are a plugin developer or, you know, you have aspirations to be, it&#8217;s definitely well worth checking out because looks like Yoast have really gone to town. It&#8217;s soup to nuts. Almost every component or element that you could possibly imagine putting inside of a WordPress UI, is there, you know. Progress bars, radio buttons. Every single thing is there with loads of instructions on how to implement it.\n\n\n\nI guess if the endeavor was to begin that conversation, then already, I think it&#8217;s been a success. If the endeavor of this blog post and the, the new UI that you&#8217;ve bring into existence. If the endeavor there was to start a conversation about this, then yeah, I think you&#8217;ve done that.\n\n\n\n[00:30:39] Joost de Valk: At this point we&#8217;ve invested so much time that I don&#8217;t see us switching to something else anytime soon. But that also sort of saddens. That&#8217;s why I wrote the post on my personal blog. I&#8217;m like, this is not necessarily the decision I would&#8217;ve wanted to make. But yeah, you are sort of forced into it. At that point it&#8217;s better if we build something and we open source it, and then maybe a lot of others can use it as well. And maybe we can actually get to an interface where we all sort of look alike.\n\n\n\n[00:31:08] Nathan Wrigley: Have you been in the role at Newfold long enough to have interfaced with customers to know that this is a, a thing which is stifling WordPress growth. The fact that it does look out of date. The fact that it&#8217;s a jumble of different colors and patterns and design libraries being in used in different plugins. Does this turn people off in the real world?\n\n\n\n[00:31:28] Joost de Valk: I&#8217;m a hundred percent sure. You test with these things, of course, and you see the data on how many people start. Register with a host. They get a hosting package. They get a WordPress site, and how many then get to a published site? Not everyone gets to a published site, and that I think will never happen, but well the more that do, the more that will basically remain customers. So for a host, that&#8217;s an important metric.\n\n\n\nAnd people just get stuck. And then when you look at where they get stuck, they get stuck at picking a theme. And then when they have a theme, they get stuck at making it look good, especially making it look like the demo.\n\n\n\nAnd then they get stuck at building pages. They get stuck at several phases. And there&#8217;s quite a few of those phases that you have to get through before you get to a website that you&#8217;re happy with. So we&#8217;re trying to make that simpler, and I think we&#8217;re actually doing very cool work on that at Bluehost and Newfold in general. But some of that should also happen in Core.\n\n\n\n[00:32:29] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it&#8217;s interesting. 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You can submit them to <a href=\"mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org\">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits</h2>\n\n\n\nEditor:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/\">Dustin Hartzler</a> Logo:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiarce/\">Javier Arce</a> Production:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/santanainniss/\">Santana Inniss</a> Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod \n\n\n\nHave a question you&#8217;d like answered? You can submit them to <a href=\"mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org\">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Notes</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://riad.blog/2020/06/11/write-as-blocks-in-an-encrypted-collaborative-environment/\">Write as Blocks in an Encrypted Collaborative Environment by Riad Benguella</a> </li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/youknowriad/asblocks\">Riad Benguella’s collaborative editing GitHub repository</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/\">Riad Benguella&#8217;s WordPress.org Profile</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23129\">Block Collab: New package, a framework for collaborative editing GitHub PR</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/\">Phase 3: Collaboration</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/48457\">Matías Ventura Quick Search GH Issue</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/matveb/\">Matías Ventura WordPress.org Profile</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/23/wordpress-6-2-release-day-process/\">WordPress 6.2 Release Day Process</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/introducing-the-wordpress-developer-blog/\">Introducing the WordPress Developer Blog</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/contributor-day/\">WordCamp Europe Contributor Day Registration</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wp20.wordpress.net/wapuu-coloring-giveaway-style-your-own-party-wapuu/\">WP20 Wapuu Coloring Giveaway</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript</h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nHello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:40] I have with me today Hécto Prieto. You all may know him from the WordPress Slack. He recently was, I believe, a release coordinator, maybe for the last release. Was that for 6.1?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:00:51] Yes. It was for 6.1 and also 6.0, in fact.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:54] All right. Well, welcome to the WordPress Briefing today. How are you doing?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:00:59]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nWell, I&#8217;m excited to be here. I&#8217;m a longtime listener of the podcast since the first episode. So I&#8217;m super excited to be here with you today.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:06] Yes. Longtime listener. First-time caller. All right, well, we&#8217;re gonna have a topic that just dumps you right in the soup, as they say in the United States. So we are actually here to talk about phase three of Gutenberg. It&#8217;s been a long time coming, and there are a lot of questions that folks have about what&#8217;s going into it and what&#8217;s not going into it.\n\n\n\nAnd as someone who works really closely with our Gutenberg technical architect, Matías Ventura, I figured you would be exactly the right person to come and talk about your favorite things. From your perspective, what is going to be the biggest enhancement that we start to approach in phase three?\n\n\n\nLike which thing, which API is gonna take the most work, do you think?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:01:53] Well, the most work, that&#8217;s a very hard question to answer because we are still we are going to start an exploration phase to determine how far we want to go with each of these APIs. So, in general, all these APIs and these products are standalone projects. And some of them are shorter, and some of them are longer.\n\n\n\nI would say, in general, the real-time collaboration sounds the most technically challenging because of what it represents and all the changes needed to how we interact with WordPress from async to sync, basically. That would be the hardest part. I think there are also already a few prototypes working, but we need to see how that scales, for example.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:02:32]\n\n\n\nYeah. So speaking of a few prototypes, I know that there are two or three different prototypes specifically for collaborative editing, but do we have people or groups, working groups in the community that have built any other prototypes? Or is it just kind of first passes at collaborative editing that we&#8217;ve seen?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:02:52] Well, apart from Riad Benguella’s exploration, there&#8217;s a public repository with that exploration, there are a few plugins trying the same, trying real-time collaboration.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:03] Yeah, I can think of co-blocks and as blocks, and then I feel like there was a third one.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:09]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nYeah.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:09] We&#8217;ll find the links to all these\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:12]\n\n\n\nYeah. Let&#8217;s add them to the show notes.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:14] Excellent. So that&#8217;s going to be the biggest one. Is there, of the list of APIs, and this is based on the post that Matías sent out last week. If you all haven&#8217;t seen that, we&#8217;ll put that in the show notes as well. But from the APIs that Matías sort of helped us to identify last week, is there any one that you are particularly excited about for fixing things in WordPress or just generally like an interesting topic of development for you?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:42] Well, I would say all of them and how they all play together. But, if I need to pick one of them…\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:03:48] Everything&#8217;s the best!&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:03:50] I&#8217;ll cheat anyway, and I will going to pick two out of them because they solve issues at different levels. I&#8217;m very excited about visual revisions. I think it helps a lot of users, and it affects even non-technical users.\n\n\n\nSo it&#8217;s one of the projects that lower how hard or complex WordPress can be to use sometimes. It&#8217;s going to be a huge improvement. It&#8217;s going to, I mean, bringing blocks to the revision system. I mean, it&#8217;s just a dream come true for me. I&#8217;m also going to highlight the search everywhere or quick search feature Matías already opened an issue in the GitHub repository right now.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:04:28] Mm-hmm.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:04:28] So the idea for this product is to have a power user shortcut that opens searching, an Alfred-like or Spotlight-like interface for those familiar with MacOS operating systems.\n\n\n\nWhen you can type anything, any place you want to go, or you want to search for any specific text in a document. And it&#8217;s supposed to be your power user command tool. So that you can do most things there.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:04:53] Oh, and I mean not only power user command tool, but also there are some applications there for folks who have mobility issues, people who are using primarily keyboard as opposed to keyboard and mouse, all that kind of stuff, right?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:05:07] Exactly. And just thinking long term with the rise of AI, it could be possible even to add some natural language processing to this interface so that users could just write in, in plain text, in natural language, what they want to do, and WordPress would provide the action for them.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:05:23] Very nice. My two favorites, since you gave two favorites and I can&#8217;t just give one at that point, my two favorite projects, which are also probably really, really hard projects, are those explorations around fixing notifications. That is a really big project. And one that I think that, in general, the WordPress project is going to be really excited to have some input on.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nAnd so that&#8217;s one that I really will have an eye on. And the other one that I&#8217;m going to definitely have my eye on is the media gallery redesign. I realize that this shows, between you and I, that shows our two specific focuses. Because, of course, you work directly with guiding all of our developers. And I am very much like our user advocate. And WordPress “everyman.”\n\n\n\nI don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a term that makes sense outside the US. But I do a lot of advocacy for folks who are using WordPress from the user side as opposed to from the developer side because, of course, we have a lot of excellent developers. So y&#8217;all don&#8217;t need my help with your advocacy.\n\n\n\nBut yeah, that really shows that you and I have different focuses, which I think is good too.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:06:32] Yes. Also, it’s worth noting that at the end of the day, any improvement we make for developers is so that developers can build better things for users. So, at the end of the day, everything is in the best interest of the users.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:06:45]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThat&#8217;s right. That&#8217;s definitely a good point. Yeah. So, a final question about this particular thing because we&#8217;re trying to keep it a little brief and also because we&#8217;ll have a few other podcasts that are specifically about phase three as our explorations get going. Final question here: If you felt like there was one API or one project in particular that could benefit from a lot of community involvement which would you guess that was?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:07:20] I don&#8217;t think I can single out any of them. I think getting user feedback is going to be a vital part of this phase, as always. So I would encourage our listeners to just participate in discussions and provide feedback as we start releasing the first prototypes in the Gutenberg plugin. I don&#8217;t think I can pick one of them for you, completely honest.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:07:43]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nYeah. My guess for that is going to be the rework of the dashboard, the admin, WP admin. I think that a lot of people are gonna have a lot to say about what they use it for, what they would like to be able to use it for, how to make it look more modern, how to make it feel more modern. I think that that probably is going to benefit from a lot of early testing and possibly some specific user testing around the concepts of design in there.\n\n\n\nAnd so that&#8217;s one that that I think probably is going to take a lot of feedback from the community. And community, in this case, I think, is not only our developers and designers and copy folks who are working to build the CMS, but probably also all of our folks who are extending WordPress, everybody who is working in agencies, things like that.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:08:35] Hmm, well, if I need to pick one, I would say the publishing flows could use also lots of feedback and testing because we are going to implement editorial requirements and customized user flows. And, of course, there are many, many different workflows out there that we might not be able to think of ourselves.\n\n\n\nSo just imagine the sheer amount of different use cases. There&#8217;s going to be, or there currently is with customizations of third-party plugins. So, yeah. I would like to listen to how people would like the publishing flows to be. What are the specific use cases?&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:09:09] So really, just everything, we need a lot of user feedback on everything.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:09:13] Yes. That&#8217;s the summary.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:09:15]\n\n\n\nI don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a bad summary. I know that we talk a bit about how WordPress is made better by the activity of our co-creators, the people who are using the software and testing the software, and telling us how it could be better. Those are the groups of people that make sure that we are the best version or headed in the best direction on any of our things with the software.\n\n\n\nAnd so I guess it&#8217;s probably not super unusual for everyone to hear like we need your feedback on everything because that&#8217;s probably what we do half the time.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:09:44] Yeah, absolutely.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:09:47] So the publishing workflows, that reminds me that there has been a little bit of a conversation lately around the naming of this phase, basically.\n\n\n\nAnd I know that the phases don&#8217;t necessarily need names. Like that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re numbered, and that&#8217;s a great idea. Like numbers are wonderful ways to reference things, but it also is just easier to reference it in kind of general conversation.\n\n\n\nSo the first phase was easier editing, and it really focused on the editing experience itself. The second one was customization, and now the third phase has been called collaboration for quite a bit of time.\n\n\n\nBut as we got closer and closer to this phase and we had more and more conversations that were coming out of phases one and two, it became really clear that really what we&#8217;re looking at here is more around workflows. And I love that that is an option for how to refer to this. Probably that&#8217;s how I will refer to it for most of the time that I talk about it as we are looking at phase three. \n\n\n\nBecause I remember that when we were first building the prototypes of Gutenberg, one of the big flags that I had was that breaking changes are not just about what we can see or any sort of visual regressions or what causes the white screen of death. Also, some of the things that are breaking changes should be considered in those workflows when we change where things are or how you accomplish a task.\n\n\n\nAnd our users weren&#8217;t ready for it. That is something that is breaking for them, right?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:11:25]&nbsp; Yes. As you mentioned, this phase was referenced as collaboration, real-time collaboration, for a long time, but if we think of how this collaboration looks, it&#8217;s much more than just editing at the same time. A very big part of collaboration is also asynchronous collaboration by adding in-line comments and improving these notifications when you have a comment in your draft. I think the power of this phase is how everything comes together. These individual pieces come together.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 0:11:51] Yes, and I don&#8217;t know where that first flag that sparked the discussion around, like, okay, but collaborative editing is not quite big enough and also means a bunch of different things for a bunch of different people. It depends on the size of your organization or the type of content you&#8217;re writing.\n\n\n\nLike, I don&#8217;t know where that conversation started. My guess is, you know, some WordCamp somewhere, and an attendee was like, did you, did anybody ever think about these problems? And then they kind of worked their way around the Make Core site or otherwise made their way around to Matias&#8217;s ears.\n\n\n\nBut yeah, I think that was a really smart choice. And you&#8217;re exactly right, collaborative editing; that can refer to the synchronous kind or the asynchronous kind, and both of those types of collaboration are equally valuable and probably equally used.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:12:40] Yes. And one important point to note here is that this editorial flows, and this collaboration is crucial to implement multilingualism going into phase four. We need to think that as soon as we have posts and pages in different languages, there are going to be requirements in terms of how to translate these pieces of content.\n\n\n\nSo this will need collaboration, all forms of collaboration.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:13:02] Yeah, absolutely. This maybe was before your time with the project, but I was team multilingual-first for a long time. Or at least thinking that we could do the multilingual part of this work alongside the collaborative editing part of the work. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what we think is going in phase three versus what probably we need to be able to do as far as having native multilingual support in the project.\n\n\n\nAnd I have softened my very hard position on that. You know, we&#8217;re big fans of strong positions loosely held, strong opinions loosely held. And this was one of those moments where I had that really strong opinion that we could just do them concurrently. We can do them at the same time.\n\n\n\nAnd I think it was a conversation that you and I were having when you were pointing out the complexities of translating WordPress at all, let alone being able to translate all your content as well. And it makes a lot of sense, and you&#8217;re right. I think that there are a lot of interactions, a lot of workflows that we&#8217;re gonna have to kind of refresh or redesign or rebuild before it really makes sense for us to help make that a nice streamlined option for multilingual offerings.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:14:17] Yes, absolutely. As a Spanish-speaking person, I&#8217;m super excited about having multilingual in Core, but I also understand that we need some tooling ready before implementing multilingual in Core.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:14:29]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nThere are no, there really are no easy problems left in WordPress, right? Like, we all agree on this now?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:14:36] That&#8217;s correct. And we&#8217;re creating something incrementally. If we look at the phases, they are ordered sequentially. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that when we start phase three, we are, finishing phase two completely in the same way. We have not finished phase one.\n\n\n\nThat will be like saying, when is WordPress finished, when is the development finished? So it&#8217;s an incremental project, and it&#8217;s always going to be to need refining. So it&#8217;s of course, multilingual needs to come after collaboration because we need those tools.\n\n\n\nBut that doesn&#8217;t mean we need to finish the collaboration phase or have it very advanced phase three before we can start phase four. That will be determined in the next month as we start explorations.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:15:17]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nSo if you all, which I know you are, are interested in better workflows, more streamlined ways of working inside WordPress, and or interested in how we are gonna get multilingual settled in the future, this is a great time to get involved in this project and in the community. Like I said, we&#8217;ve got that post up that Matías shipped last week, which, again, if you have not read it, go read it because it&#8217;s got excellent, excellent information in there for you.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nHéctor, before we head out, is there anything that you wanna make sure that you let the listeners know, either about phase three or just about WordPress in general?\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:15:57] Well, tomorrow is WordPress 6.2 release day. So happy 6.2, everybody!\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:16:04] Happy 6.2. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which means today is the dry run; probably in three hours, we&#8217;re doing the dry run.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:16:14] Depends on when we&#8217;re listening to this, but yes.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:16:18]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nOh, that&#8217;s a good point. Right? Not everybody listens to this the second it becomes available. Time zones. That&#8217;s right. Oh, man. Look at us being a global project and just pretending like everybody listens to this particular thing the moment that it&#8217;s available.\n\n\n\nI apologize to everybody who&#8217;s listening to it after the release or in the middle of the release party or whatever you&#8217;re doing. Regardless, tomorrow, if you&#8217;re listening to it today, is the WordPress 6.2 release, and it&#8217;s gonna be great.\n\n\n\nWell, Héctor, thank you so much for joining me today. I really enjoyed having you on, and thanks for letting me interview you.\n\n\n\n[Héctor Prieto 00:16:59] Thank you for having me. It was my pleasure to be here.\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:17:10]\n\n\n\nSo that brings us now to our small list of big things, and as is frequently the case, it&#8217;s actually kind of a big list of big things. So we&#8217;re gonna hop right in here. As Héctor and I mentioned in the episode, the release WordPress 6.2 is coming out tomorrow, depending on when you&#8217;re listening to this. If you listen to it on the 27th, it comes out on the 28th of March.&nbsp;\n\n\n\nIf you have a chance to drop by the release party. I would encourage you to; they&#8217;re pretty interesting just to get an idea of everything that it takes to build WordPress. It is, of course, the last few hours before a release, and so you don&#8217;t get a full scope.\n\n\n\nBut it&#8217;s always nice to see the way that everybody in the community works together, especially there in that last moment when we&#8217;re trying to package something and test it in a bunch of environments all across the world.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:18:00]&nbsp;\n\n\n\nI love attending those. And so I encourage it. The next episode of the WordPress Briefing is going to have the release rundown.\n\n\n\nI&#8217;ll go through the key features and highlights that finally made it into 6.2. The reason we don&#8217;t do those beforehand is just in case we have to remove anything at the last minute from a release. It doesn&#8217;t happen too often, but it does happen sometimes. And so, next episode of WP Briefing, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll be talking about.\n\n\n\nThe next thing on my list is a new developer blog. So there is a brand new developer blog. 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To remember the &#8220;whys&#8221; &amp; the important &#8220;whos&#8221; of our early days, I advise you to read (again) the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/2018/03/10-years/\" target=\"_blank\">great post</a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://buddypress.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/\" target=\"_blank\">John</a> wrote when we reached 10.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-activity-permalink.jpg\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"825\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-activity-permalink-1024x825.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328800\" /></a></div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"></div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let’s talk about the next 15 years!</h2>\n\n\n\nIt’s starting today with the <a href=\"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bp-attachments.1.0.0.zip\">first BP Attachments Add-on version</a>. The screenshot above shows you an image attached to an activity update: you may say &#8220;OK, great, but it’s a basic feature every social network software include, what’s your point?&#8221;&nbsp;\n\n\n\nOur point is: this long awaited feature is finally available in BuddyPress <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f38a.png\" alt=\"🎊\" class=\"wp-smiley\" />, you simply need to install &amp; activate it from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-attachments/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress.org plugin directory</a> or directly from your dashboard using the BuddyPress Add-ons tab of the Plugins/Add new WP Admin screen <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f447.png\" alt=\"👇\" class=\"wp-smiley\" />.\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-bp-addons-screen.png\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"475\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-bp-addons-screen-1024x475.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328809\" /></a></div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"></div>\n\n\n\nWe’ve been talking about Media in BuddyPress for a long while, we know there are a lot of expectations about it: these are probably the reasons why adding the feature was an intimidating task for the development team. 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Depending on the allowed media types the administrator chose, this directory can contain one or more navigation items to filter the displayed layout : one for all media, one for images, one for movies, one for sounds and one for all other file types.\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-community-media-directory.jpg\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-community-media-directory-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328804\" /></a></div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"></div>\n\n\n\nWhen you click on one of the displayed media items, you reach its single view where you can download it, and where you’ll be able to comment, like, share etc.. in future releases of the BuddyPress Add-on.\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-single-media.jpg\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-single-media-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328806\" /></a></div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"></div>\n\n\n\nPS: you can already share an embedded version of the media copying &amp; pasting its link into a WordPress embed block.\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-wp-editor-upload-bp-attachments.png\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https://buddypress.org/wp-content/uploads/1/2023/03/bp-15-wp-editor-upload-bp-attachments-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328807\" /></a></div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"></div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Attach rich media to WordPress posts</h4>\n\n\n\nFinally, the BP Attachments Add-on comes with image, video, sound and file blocks. 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Are you prepared? You could use the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/23/wordpress-6-2-release-candidate-4/\">WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 4</a> for your testing and make sure. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nIf you want to follow along, Hector Prieto posted the <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/23/wordpress-6-2-release-day-process/\">WordPress 6.2 Release Day Process</a>, with the schedule for the Dry Run, 24-hour Code Freeze and the Release party on March 28, 2023, which is tentatively set for 2 pm EDT / 6 pm UTC. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/dan_knauss\">Dan Knauss</a>, iThemes published <a href=\"https://ithemes.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-wordpress-6-2\">What to Expect in WordPress 6.2</a>, and highlights all the improvements of Blocks, Site Editor and new tools. He goes into details on the various new Header and Footer Patterns that will be available via WordPress 6.2. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nCarlo Daniele, wrote on the Kinsta blog: <a href=\"https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-2/\">What’s New In WordPress 6.2: Browse Mode, Style Book, Improved Navigation Menus, New APIs, and Much More</a>. In his post Daniele covers the update coming to 6.2 in four categories: \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-2/#improved-editing-experience\">Improved Editing Experience</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-2/#extended-block-capabilities\">Extended Block Capabilities</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-2/#enhanced-design-tools\">Enhanced Design Tools</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-6-2/#changes-for-developers\">Changes for Developers</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n🎙️ New episode: <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-81-wordpress-6-2-interactivity-api/\">Gutenberg Changelog #81 – WordPress 6.2, Gutenberg 15.4 and 15.5, Phase 3 – Collaboration and a new Interactivity API</a> with Birgit Pauli-Haack and special guest Leonardus Nugraha\n</div></div>\n\n\n\nJustin Tadlock and Ryan Welcher co-led the Gutenberg 15.4 plugin release. In the release post, <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-4-22-march/\">What’s new in Gutenberg 15.4 (22 March)</a>, Tadlock wrote: &#8220;The latest release of the plugin is lighter on user-facing features than normal and focuses heavily on bug fixes, testing, and other much-needed improvements.&#8221; The highlights included: \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-4-22-march/#color-and-layout-support-for-cover-block\">Color and layout support for the Cover block</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-4-22-march/#updated-template-descriptions\">Updated template descriptions</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nPersonally, I like the new <code>textColumns</code> property that allows me to split text-based blocks into self-adjusting columns. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nMatias Ventura, lead developer of the Gutenberg projects, posted <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/\">Phase 3: Collaboration</a> and explored briefly, what the next phase of the Gutenberg project would encompass. He identified seven areas: \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Real-time collaboration &#8211; more than one person can edit a post at the same time.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asynchronous collaboration. Writers and editors share drafts and discuss via a comments assignments, topics etc. This part is all about workflow among a team of editors. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publishing flows. Publishing checklists, managing requirements and allowing for customization as every site has different needs. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post revisions interface. A way to coordinate updates and add new content in a scheduled manner. There will be overlap with Theme switching and applying styles, for instance for Christmas, or other occasions. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admin design. Ventura wrote about this last year in <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/design/2022/06/13/thinking-through-the-wordpress-admin-experience/\">Thinking Through the WordPress Admin Experience</a>. Notifications, list views updated UI to include new features. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Library &#8211; A space where users manage Patterns, Blocks, Styles, and Fonts. </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop a global search &amp; command component</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nI just briefly touched on the seven areas, and might not do it full justice. Ventura provided in his post many more details. <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/24/phase-3-collaboration/\">It&#8217;s worth a read</a>. Give it time to digest, too. Then, see if there is something you are missing, that would fit into the third phase and share it in the comments on the post. \n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>\n\n\n\nAnne McCarthy organized again a Hallway Hangout and invited Automattic-sponsored design developers, Isabel Brison and Saxon Fletcher to <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/03/14/hallway-hangout-lets-chat-about-all-things-layout/\"> </a><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/03/14/hallway-hangout-lets-chat-about-all-things-layout/\">Chat about All Things Layout</a>. The recording is available as well as summary of the demos and topics covered. It was a continuation of Brison&#8217;s WordCamp Asia talk <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordcamp-asia-2023-eight-gutenberg-related-talks/#layout-layout-layout\">&#8220;Layout, Layout, Layout&#8221;</a>.\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nNick Diego just released version 3.0.0. Learn more in his post <a href=\"https://blockvisibilitywp.com/block-visibility-3-0-0-a-new-chapter-begins/\">Block Visibility 3.0.0: A New Chapter Begins</a>, in which he announces that he makes most Pro features available for free. With the plugin, you can control show or hide blocks depending on, for instance, a date, a user role, a location, or referral source. It extends the core block editor with additional settings. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nWes Theron posted a new tutorial on WordPressTV <a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/03/20/intro-to-temaplates-block-theme/\">Intro to Templates (Block Theme)</a>. A template provides the structure or design for how a page is displayed. That usually includes a header template part, a content area and a footer template part. 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In addition to description of the conceptual implementation, you&#8217;ll find real life practical code examples paired with screenshots. \n\n\n\n\n <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2022&#8221;</a>  A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. Updated by yours truly. <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/\">The index 2020 is here</a>\n\n\n\n\nDaisy Olsen uploaded the recording of her livestream <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7Y6pXOlPI\">Speed Building a Block Theme</a> to YouTube. In this session, she &#8220;created a completely functional Block Theme based on the templates and parts included in the Underscores Starter theme in just about one hour.&#8221; Olsen used the <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-block-theme/\">Create Block Theme plugin</a> and the Site Editor for this project. <a href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1767688887\">Part Two covering Styles and theme.json</a> is available on Twitch.tv.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press\">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </h2>\n\n\n\nDon&#8217;t miss Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/291332837/\">Developer Hours: Migrate a plugin to blocks </a>with Michael Burridge and Jonathan Bossenger, who will provide provide WordPress plugin developers with the opportunity to connect with, and learn from, one another. It&#8217;s a great AMA and you can get your burning questions answered! <a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/291332837/\">Monday 27, 2023 at 4 am EDT / 8 am UTC / 3 pm Indonesia Time</a> &#8211; Yeah it&#8217;s a bit early for the US. This is scheduled for the Asia-Pacific developers 🙂 \n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\nRyan Welcher posted last week&#8217;s Twich stream session to YouTube: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Ohee5fos0\">Reviewing Gutenberg 15.3 features. Live stream: March 16, 2023</a>. He went over the features of the Gutenberg 15.3 plugin. He discussed the new time to read block and showed how it works and also highlighted the improvements made to the duotone design tool. Welcher also elaborated on the fast release cycle of Gutenberg and how it can sometimes result in smaller updates. Another topic was the process of creating custom duotones and Welcher suggested that it would be great if the editor could save custom duotones for future use.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"4-word-camps\">WordCamps</h2>\n\n\n\nWordCamp Phoenix livestreams talks from two tracks (<a href=\"https://phoenix.wordcamp.org/2023/schedule/\">schedule</a>). There are quite a few talks about blocks, the block, and site editor. \n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://phoenix.wordcamp.org/2023/livestream/\">You can catch &#8217;em all on the re-runs</a>! \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://phoenix.wordcamp.org/2023/session/building-custom-blocks-no-js-required/\">Building Custom Blocks. 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You talented, man. Corey Maass: So yeah, session six. Okay. Impromptu time change, but life happens. And that\'s part of the journey of being a founder. Exactly. Cory Miller: Let me push it to Twitter. Corey Maass: Are we founders? Yeah. Entrepreneurs, founders Starters, for once. I\'m not a solopreneur, Cory Miller: you know, I talked to a lot of people over the years and, um, Like solopreneurs. And the one thing I hear from a lot of \'em, cause I had, I had partners from the beginning, they weren\'t active. But is that, you know, business as lonely as it is and um, [00:01:00] having somebody else to kind of walk with I think is pretty dang awesome. Yeah, Corey Maass: I, I did it best when I worked in a co-working space with, Four other guys that I was friends with and we had formed a little cohort and so regularly, you know, get out of, get out of the house, get to a, a focused place of work. And then have people who you were on a journey with and knew their journey. And so you could grab somebody and say, Hey, can we talk this through for a minute? And that went in all directions. Like it just makes such a difference. Yeah, Cory Miller: it, it really does. Um, I had Matt Daner and I themes, um, On the team. And of course my Lindsay was, um, in and around the team in different ways. Um, and it was just then I have my business group, which I told you I\'m meeting with this afternoon, [00:02:00] I\'ve walked with for 11 years, and I tell you, wow, it\'s such a tough job. You know, where you\'re trying to, like we\'re doing here. Where if it wasn\'t with you, I\'d be sitting here going, okay, what segments are we gonna try to hit? You know, and. And the highs and lows. You know, there\'s things that you celebrate as an entrepreneur that you not, maybe not necessarily celebrate with your team. And just having another group, or a sidekick or a partner or whatever that is, I think is pretty dang healthy for me Corey Maass: at least. Yeah. And yeah, it\'s, it\'s a step better than rubber ducking it also, I find, Because it\'s like, you know, I don\'t, I don\'t always immediately respond to you, and you don\'t always immediately respond to me. But I have a, a real human being to say things at, even if it\'s not to talk about it with, and, you know, when you see the message in the afternoon and, and [00:03:00] celebrate it with me, that I fixed a bug or whatever it is like that. Makes a difference and you ping me out of, you know, whenever you kind of, whenever you need to. Like, that\'s such a difference cuz like, who did I, oh, for a different product. I was having issues with, not issues at all with, um, EDD I was trying to hack the hell out of EDD , let\'s be honest. Um, to make it do things that it has no right doing. Because it\'s the better product. I\'d rather use the core and slap my janky ass code on top of it. Anyway, there\'s my little EDDendorsement. Um, but I know one of the head programmers over there and was like, I would love to have him look at this. And he and I were in a. Co-working group years ago. And so I have a little bit of connection with him, you know, but haven\'t talked to him in a year or two. And so I had to hesitate and I hemmed and hod and was like, let me, let me refactor this five [00:04:00] times before I send it over to him because I don\'t wanna waste his time. I\'m using up a favor. I guess that\'s my long way of saying that I\'m using up a favor. And uh, and if you have somebody. You\'ve lost count of favors or you have a partner, then you don\'t have to hesitate. And honestly, that, that lack of hesitation is huge. I hadn\'t really thought about it like that, but it\'s just that what a waste of time. I mean, it was great that it made me refactor my code because, you know, that\'s never a bad thing. But, uh, have to think that hard about just asking a question rather than just asking a question. Maybe that\'s why we all like chat, GPT or something. Cory Miller: Yeah. You\'re not alone, . No, I, I think that\'s, uh, when I left eye themes, I wanted to do coaching and had some clients my first year before I started with post status and, um, I said, you know, the hardest for me was when I was [00:05:00] in trying to make these big decisions and, and even the little ones, and just having someone. I could bounce things off of. So that, that\'s one of the reasons I did coaching. One of the reasons I talked about my group as much like I left, came back, they were gracious enough to, to let me come back. And, um, these were the several of the guys that were in Phoenix with me and, um, In fact, that\'s who\'s funeral, uh, dad\'s funeral. One of the guys that went with us is where I\'m going today. Mm. Uh, while we couldn\'t meet at a normal time, but, you know, just kind of doing life together, but then having someone just to bounce stuff off of, like, I feel like you\'re very open and we\'re having this conversation where it\'s, it feels like, you know, the whole improv plus one, it\'s like we\'re keeping, we\'re, I think we\'re trying to keep each other kind of. on the trail here, but you know, you\'d let me veer off and like discuss it. Let\'s take a sidebar side trail. Yeah. [00:06:00] And come back, . And that\'s part of my process though, and I really deeply respect that and appreciate it for you. Um, but just having somebody that understands that you can bounce stuff off, it\'s pretty, pretty critical. Corey Maass: Yeah. Well, I, I\'m a big proponent of, uh, discussion, not decision, which I. Once I learned that I, I\'m a, I\'m a big rule person, so like I applied that rule to most conversations and try to make sure that it\'s clear to everybody else. Um, but also I think more often it\'s the. Being vocal about when you\'re switching to decision. So it\'s like, okay, you know, we are still discussing, we are still discussing. Now we are deciding because as you\'ve seen, I\'m prone to go, oh, that sounded cool, and then I just go off and, and do it rather than, you know, is that the best use of my time, is at the highest priority, all [00:07:00] those kinds of things.\n\n\n\nSo try to impose that upon myself a lot of the time too of like, is. You know, because I\'m also, I\'m the type of extrovert who needs to talk out loud. And so there tends to be a lot of discussion. Um, you know, oh, hold on, I got a barking dog. Come on. Cory Miller: I think that\'s good, especially in the beginning, in the start, you know, um, is making, you know, the whole woodworking thing is measured twice, cut once kind of thing. Not to say to get into overthinking or overanalyzing, but we\'re, we\'re figuring it out, you know? Right. Uh, together. And I think that\'s been pretty critical and really, like last week was huge breakthrough for me. It\'s. Seeing, okay, here\'s v1, or here\'s the free version, I should say, what we\'re gonna do there, and then there\'s all this, we can kind of chase and see what\'s there for [00:08:00] the pro side. Corey Maass: Yep. Yep. One more, one more comment on partnerships too is I think I\'ve talked about like I\'ve, I\'ve looked for people to work with for years and one of those. one of the outstanding questions is always that I\'ve, that I\'ve heard from other people that I\'ve worried about too, is the, like, how do you, how do you quantify compatibility? Right? And it\'s like, I couldn\'t, I think I\'m, I\'m bringing this up rhetorically, like, it\'s not a question necessarily unless you have something, unless you have an answer. But it\'s like, You, you and I sort of talked about it a little bit and then said, okay, let\'s work on this together, and I didn\'t hesitate and, and of course then I\'m like, you know, then we have amazing con like we\'ve had amazing conversations. . And I think that it helps that we both have [00:09:00] been aware of each other for a while and so have some sense of how we operate. And I think I\'ve also, I\'ve heard you speak in public, you\'ve heard me speak in public, so I, I had a sense of you, and I\'m being presumptuous, but I imagine you had some sense of me. Um, but it\'s, it\'s definitely one of those, What does this look like in a year? And if we end up with, you know, an I themes or a, you know, something, something, Of of decent size. You know how, how do you know that that person that you casually said, oh yeah, we should work on this little plugin together with ends up being the person that you partner with. And that\'s, it\'s crazy cuz there\'s so much around pairing people and, you know, meeting co-founders and stuff like that, and, Yeah, I don\'t know. It\'s ju it\'s like I say, I think I\'m bringing it up rhetorically from my perspective. It\'s just, it\'s a crapshoot. You just kind of go with your gut . Cory Miller: [00:10:00] Yeah, I, I totally agree. Um, you know, I, I\'m trying to think how many times I\'ve partnered and it\'s been quite a few, you know, uh, Brian, initially with post status, I had two partners. They weren\'t, weren\'t active in the business. Um, at Ithe, I\'ve had several. Um, partnerships last four years. Um, and, uh, I, I almost think it\'s like this product stuff, partner, partnerships and products are very similar in my experience for me is that . I told Lindsay, I said, you know, when we started Ithe, it\'s like people bought it and they kept buying it and it was pretty, pretty simple, like a good looking theme. You know, and this is 2008, and I did these things and put \'em out there and things that I kind of wanted for myself, but I didn\'t think, like, I didn\'t have a big inner monologue of like, should I do dropdown menu? Should I not? Should I do? [00:11:00] I was just doing things I wanted to do, which spoke to like, I was obviously embedded in our user group that were customers that eventually bought to us. And I think that was first. But like I say, I compare it to baseball, like products and maybe even partnership and people, it\'s like, you know, classic growing up was Tony Gwen, San Diego Padres. He got on base all the time. If you hit 300 in the majors, you\'re, you\'re in the Hall of Fame. If you have a career consistently with 300 in, you\'re, you\'re in the Hall of Fame, even close to it, you\'re probably in the Hall of Fame. And, uh, when I left Ithe and tried to start some new projects, products, and businesses and partnerships, I was like, oh yeah, I just know, I know how to do this, I can do this. And I was like, oh, you know, that means Tony struck out three out of 10 means Tony struck out or got out seven times out of 10, but he\'s in the Hall of Fame. And I\'m like, wow. That\'s kind of like [00:12:00] entrepreneurship and products. And, and I\'m gonna go even further, uh, uh, partnerships, you know, like it\'s, it\'s not a high percentage of wins in my personal experience. , um, from products like, I don\'t know if you, if I told you this, we had 200 s skews that I think were not left 200 plus. How many of those actually made money? Right? Like maybe it\'s, that\'s a little bit low, but like, you know, and uh, then I\'ve gotten crushed cuz things just don\'t go as fast or as easy as I always want them to. And you\'ve done a number of products and I don\'t know where you\'re, you staying with partnerships, but, Just a lot of failure, a lot of learn learning lessons. Corey Maass: I, I learned, I was in New York, uh, I had just moved to New York after college and there was one couple, so I was pursuing mo a music career, mostly, um, DJing, producing dance music, electronic music. And there was one [00:13:00] married couple who threw a party and had started a label and. They were, uh, they were bananas. They were all over the place. They were, they\'re still very eccentric people. I, I love them to death, but they are, uh, sometimes out there. But I would follow them anywhere. And I, and I finally quantified it and I was like, because they. 7% of what they say they\'re gonna do. Everybody in New York City talks a great game. Every bartender is a comedian. You know, every person you meet, working any kind of job is actually writing a script or is in a band or whatever, which is awesome. But most people talk a really good game and don\'t actually do. What they say they\'re gonna do. And so I think that for me, a lot of it is, is exactly what you talked about. Like people don\'t have to have success. Like I didn\'t wanna work with you be necessarily because you had success, [00:14:00] but because you\'ve put yourself out there, you\'ve clearly done a lot, you\'ve tried a lot, and you keep trying. And I think that that, like for me, that\'s the gold standard. Like I try to live by that. Like I put, I put a lot of products out there. Same thing have, how many of my products have actually like done anything made little blips, you know? But you\'ve gotta keep getting up to bat. I think this is the first baseball\n\n\n\nanalogy I\'ve ever made in my life. But you\'ve gotta keep getting up to bat and eventually you\'re gonna hit something, presumably, you know, big or small. And then you want to keep, you know, practice makes perfect kind. Cory Miller: I tell you, the part of like, keep going on is the one I\'ve really struggled with the last four years. Hmm. Just keep going on. Um, and then last year with the burnout, um, and all that kind of stuff is just like, it\'s, it\'s tough because, uh, it\'s, it\'s one thing if like this, nothing huge, significant, but not like life shattering. Is dependent on [00:15:00] this. Um, but you know, when I left Ithe, I didn\'t really have another business to just kind of walk onto. Now Posttest came next, you know, the next year, and it wa and it was like really good timing for me. Um, but now it\'s, you know, it\'s still a part-time gig for me. So like, It, it\'s been tough cuz you just kind of have these ideas to put \'em out there. And the theme I told people for how I\'ve done business, at least my ithe chapter, is stumbling successfully. Like , keeping going, tripping but not falling flat on your face. You know, like, just kind of keep a low profile to the ground. Cause you\'re gonna keep stumbling. And, and you know, a lot of the products, for instance, were stumbled like, and I\'m not, I\'m not saying it\'s pure. However, there was healthy blend of right time or a place, um, hard work, right. To get more luck. And then once the first one was rolling, it was easier to add [00:16:00] new, you know, when you get that first hit, it\'s easier to hit to do others. But I still didn\'t have even a like 50% success rate , you know? Corey Maass: Yep. Well look at Google. How many products have they shut down, you know? Yeah. So anyway, sorry. I wanna respect your time. So we\'ve got 10 minutes. I\'ve, I\'ve dragged this out much longer than I needed to. I did too. Um, um, so product, we have version 0 0 2 is in the repo. Uh, the has come a long way. Uh, we have added, uh, a few bells and whistles. I\'ve cleaned up the UI a bit, and then a duplicate. Cropper is now in the media library. So if you go to media library, there\'s now an extra button that says Upload and Crop. Next to add new. I felt a little bad totally ripping out the ADD new button, but we can decide to do that because there is now a [00:17:00] bypass. So you, even if you open the cropper, And select an image. There\'s a button that says, crop it. There\'s a button that says Just upload it so you can bypass the crop. Um, and then the other sort of sneaky thing that I, I added last minute yesterday is if you go to media, add new, it technically opens the media library with the cropper open. So we are totally hijacking media a new, so I mean, all these. Discussions, not decisions, but at this point we\'ve still got fewer than 10 users. And you and I are, are kind of, you know, we are a kitten with a ball. We\'re bating it around just kind of deciding, you know, where we wanna land with it. Cory Miller: Um, it\'s great. The new stuff that you pushed out, I think that\'s awesome. Iterating on some things that you feel like, hey, I, this is a small little check I can do that I think is so good for progress on the product. [00:18:00] So I was looking at it on my personal site and then my test site and um, I\'ll give you, I\'ll give you notes, uh, in chat too. But when I tried to upload from the media library and I just installed the new plugin on my personal, lemme do this real quick. It\'s not showing the preview. Sorry. I should just be showing you. It\'s not showing that preview. And maybe I\'ve got the wrong image or something like that, but, oh, huh. So we got uploading crop so it\'s not preview in here, and then I just click square crop. Huh. So I don\'t, I I, I\'ve done it at least on two sites and it\'s done this, so I wanted to mention it. Ooh. But lemme just say, Thank you for that button iterating on those buttons, these two, because I was testing your previous version [00:19:00] and with my, with images from my phone, and one was like sideways and I was like, Hey, so oh yeah, you got that in like, I don\'t know, an hour after we test. Corey Maass: Well, I, yeah, the, I mean this is, we are still riding the, the happiness that is the library we\'re using. Um, so there\'s, there\'s, they. Rotate. They also have, um, you can actually flip it horizontally and vertically, which is an option, but I don\'t think we need it. Um, I don\'t, I don\'t yet see the use case. Um, but rotate, I was like, I will add it. He must be onto something. And the fact that you pulled it from your phone and we\'re like, oh, instead of rotating it on my phone and then uploading it again, make creative tasks simpler, easier, fun. There you go. Like, you shouldn\'t have to think like, oh, I have to rotate it in one place before I upload it to another. Um, but I will go fix that bug. So, um, the, to me, the outstanding [00:20:00] question is, um, we, I think we did come to the conclusion last week that we want a settings page, which let. The creator of the site or the whoever is controlling the site, which might be the same person who\'s creating content, but to go into a settings page and say, four featured images, we want 16, nine, and we want them to be 1600 pixels wide every single time. Set it once, forget it, and then they go set their featured image right. When we are including that. Originally we\'d said that that was be, that would be a paid thing, but I. I kind of feel like the free version\'s useless without it. Cory Miller: Yeah, I do too. And I think we\'re gonna get more momentum, um, with this, with that thing cuz we, like we talked last week, really becomes a cool utility tool for a, a problem. And so Corey Maass: and, and is and is feature complete? Is product complete? [00:21:00] Yep. Cory Miller: Yeah. So the savings page with the custom. Dimensions. That\'s really our biggest thing left, is that right? Corey Maass: Uh, and, and we want to, there\'s all the other holes, all the other places where you upload an image. So to me, um, after media library, I think block is the next big one. So I think we, I think we need, cuz I, I use the classic editor and I\'m gonna look at. Adding our cropper to featured image. You know, and, and classic editor plugin has, you know, millions of installs. So I, it\'s, it there. I don\'t think there\'s, to me, there\'s not a clear majority one way or the other. Gutenberg block editor over classic editor.\n\n\n\nWe need, we need the cropper in both. Um, but since we have [00:22:00] the beginning of the block, I think that that\'s, um, the way to go. And I, I, at some point I will look. Also applying it to the classic editor. Okay. But it\'s, it\'s finding all of those primary places and there\'s a lo as we\'ve talked about, there\'s a long, long tail. Like eventually we will build a module for Elementor and, and Beaver Builder. Um, but we need to work, work for vanilla WordPress first. Yeah. Cory Miller: So that leaves me at really, and I\'m with this with process too, is like, we need a lot, it seems like we need a lot of users. Mm-hmm. to start getting more users in there, giving feedback, requesting features. And this next one with the, uh, well the blocks will be big, but that\'s another conversation. But like, I think the custom dimensions, then we\'re getting [00:23:00] something. I ped and ccd you in those. As you know, Robbie from Beaver Builder, Kathy San from Cadence. Um, I need to look at generate press. Um, but then we bumped up against like everybody be gone, being gone for Asia or Camp Asia. Um, but yeah, are you going to any word camps? I\'ll have it down for like a placeholder for Europe and then US is standard for me for sure. You are gonna go, yeah, I was supposed to go to Phoenix, but yeah. What, what about you? Do you have any plans. Corey Maass: I was, uh, thinking about US . So if you\'re gonna be there, then yeah, we need to meet up. That\'s in August, so. Okay. It gives us, um, let\'s do plenty of time to, I think that\'d be a blast. Yeah. We could do this live. That\'d be fun. Do it live. Cory Miller: Let\'s, uh, let\'s plan. Yeah, let\'s plan on that. I\'d be, that\'d be great if another opportunity comes up in between. Um, I know work camps are getting started and [00:24:00] stuff, or, um, we\'ve loosely been throwing around some in-person stuff with. Post, but I\'ll let you know, uh, before we even announce that and see if you\'re able to, to get to it too. Um, nothing, sorry. Corey Maass: Yeah. Um, I derailed us. So you were talking about getting users. Um, do we, to me, I\'m starting more and more, I\'m getting anxious that we don\'t have a website. Okay. Which, I mean, we. crop.express the website that is currently just the cropper, um, but to, with no mention of the plugin. And so I\'d love for you to start thinking about what that looks like, even if it\'s a little banner that then links to a landing. You know, we could have crop.express/wordpress plugin and have a landing page temporarily, but [00:25:00] just cuz it\'s even like I\'m now. I\'m linking people to the plugin in the repo, but I feel like we wanna start expanding the use case, expanding what we\'re talking about, you know, to a website. Cory Miller: Um, yes, absolutely. I think we\'re there Corey Maass: in the coming weeks. It doesn\'t need to be tomorrow. Yeah, Cory Miller: I was thinking about. Um, from the brand we talked about last week too. Mm-hmm. , it\'s like, do we just go ahead and make the keep, keep crop.express like it is? Hmm. Probably link to it, but then at some point we\'ll probably want to change an update plugin to go what our new brand is. And that made me think about, my mind went to. Some discussion that could be recorded like this for users, not about our product [00:26:00] necessarily, or this detailed stuff, but you know, hey, here\'s some sources we can, where you can go find all, you know, all these images. Um, some of those mar more messaging, marketing content, thoughts we had last week. I was like, you know, that might be, um, pretty good. It\'s like having that site. Maybe scheduling, you know, some, like, we outline it loosely and just talk through and then we can take that, you know, put it on our YouTube channel, all that kinda stuff. And then, um, maybe see if we turn that into like our lead magnet or something like that to start building emails. That\'s where my head goes initially, but I\'ve. We\'ve got two things on my list, outreach and website. Um, right now, at least until you tell me otherwise. Um, Corey Maass: well, and, and the other thing that Kathy brought up that I thought was valuable was to aid in your discussions. [00:27:00] She\'s like, oh, what does it do? And we\'re, and you were like, here\'s the plugin. And she\'s like, Oh, thanks. Now I have to go find a WordPress install, install it on this WordPress install. And then because it\'s essentially a a beta, we have no guidance. We have no user docs, we have no anything. And so she\'s like s Now if she even gets that far, she\'s like splashing around trying to figure out what the hell it does and how so? Um, I kind of feel like we are getting close to, like, I could do a. QuickTime, screen capture of here\'s how you re crop your featured image. 1, 2, 3. Mm-hmm. , here\'s how you crop an image going into media library, you know, and put them on YouTube or you know, even just to have them in our back pocket. One for any potential users, we can link to those. If they\'re on YouTube, we can put those in our readme, which goes on the, you know, So it\'s Crop Express in 30 seconds, a video in [00:28:00] that, in the Read Me Doc in the, in the repo. Um, and it gives you something to link to when you\'re having dis discussions because rather than you having to do a demo or people trying to figure it out, you know, here\'s, here\'s a quick 32nd video, then let\'s have a conversation. Yeah. So it seems like if you agree that I feel like that should go on my list. Oh, Cory Miller: if you\'re good to put on your list, absolutely. Yeah, I Corey Maass: can bang through those pretty Cory Miller: quick. And that lends back to website is like having something where people can see it. Mm-hmm. . Um, yeah, I\'ll, okay, I\'ll do some thinking on that. Corey Maass: Yeah. Again, I feel like we\'re, right now these are discussions, not decisions, but good ideas, so, Yeah. Uh, ruminate on them a little bit today, and then, you know, this week or next, let\'s make some decisions.\n\n\n\nOkay? [00:29:00] All right. And I\'ll continue. No matter what, there\'s this. You know, as a developer, you\'re like building product and it\'s, and it\'s a straight line. It\'s a rocket ship going up, but it\'s inevitable to do everything else. There\'s, there\'s the, the triangle. So as the triangle goes up, it gets wider and wider. and wider. I\'m just seeing it. It\'s like I can just keep adding features. I can just keep making the product better, but nobody\'s gonna know about it. Nobody gives a shit. There\'s no, you know, but it\'s like, Ever so slightly the more features then it\'s like the more you want a website, the more you want docs, the more you want, uh, feedback. The more you want assets, the more you want swag, the more you want, you know, and it just keeps getting broader as, as much as it gets taller. It feels like that Cory Miller: It does, it def definitely blends over time. Um, okay, so I\'ve got outreach and website to continue the outreach outreach. Um, [00:30:00] I think Kathy, I think Robbie, when he\'s back, um, I need to reach out to the Elementor team. Corey Maass: Do you have, um, like the starting in the conversation seemed good. Do you have a plan for specific questions that we\'re trying to get answered? Um, or do you wanna leave it broad? Cory Miller: What I intend to get to them with that is like getting to the heart of what are the things that annoyed the team, building the themes. Mm-hmm. , what are they hearing from customers? Um, and, or even, even seeing like they see sight and like the images just blown out and stuff. And I, I want to keep those conversations open enough where they can tell us something I might surprise us that goes in a particular direction. So, and I think Rob Robbie\'s very open to that. He just is out this week. So yeah, [00:31:00] sure. I\'m really eager to hear what he says. And that\'ll be our first integration or, you know, potential integration for us thinking through that. Um, so that\'s kind of my intention. And then, uh, same thing with, um, any other theme framework from Element towards generate press sounds. But open. Do you have any thoughts or anybody else we should talk to? But you know, and then, well, the story I\'ll share too is like, here\'s what free is gonna be, you know, and then to start to share the story to lead to this. This could be a great tool for y\'all to recommend to your communities kind of thing. So I\'ll, once I get some of those, I\'ll drill down into, okay, cadence. What are the ratios, what are the things that we could build into free to be, you know, that utility tool? Corey Maass: Yeah, for sure. [00:32:00] So that, that\'s kind of my plan there is just kind of digging in and seeing what we hear. Trying to get to that true marrow of it. Like how are people using it? What are you seeing? And hopefully be surprised. Love. Um, and I\'ll, I\'ll do some thought too on the website. I know that\'s been something we\'ve been talking about, um, but I like what you just said, like that solves the problem. If we switch to a branded site that talks ab, that\'s, or a company site that lets us be open up to anything, crop Express can stay the same. Start to talk about the plugin and link back to what ultimately would be the shopping cart or the mm-hmm. , you know, the main marketing site around it. But let crop.express as a website, be a lead magnet, a U [00:33:00] utility site that is a lead magnet for the WordPress plugin. And for anything else, we end up spitting up. Mm-hmm. Cory Miller: Yeah. And then you\'ve got a great free tool out there, so. Right. I do think, like you said, the banner to, do you want the WordPress version, you know, you want this in WordPress and link over to the thing will be helpful as we kind of grow for people to Yep. See the vision. Okay. All right. Anything else you had? Corey Maass: No, I, I just, we\'ve been, I like, I think I talked to you before. I, I\'ve been watching Silicon Valley, so I\'m, I\'m feeling like we need to scale up. We need to get some, um, venture capital. I need at least three more developers under me. Cory Miller: Um, I gotta get back and Corey Maass: watch that. Move all of our operations out to Silicon Valley. Of course. Hey, I\'m in San Francisco in three weeks I\'ll do our first raise. Um, I\'ll talk to some angels out Cory Miller: there. There you go. . When that came out, I, [00:34:00] I actually happened to have at the time a little community car. It was a Ford Escape. Yellow, just like, uh, , Corey Maass: Avi Avik, Cory Miller: ak a classic. Corey Maass: All right, man. Well, good luck today. Okay. It\'ll be a long day. Hope you\'ll be all right. Yeah. And, uh, I\'ll Cory Miller: appreciate that. Corey Maass: Um, yeah, I\'ll keep you posted. Cory Miller: Okay, sounds good. And I\'ll get these webinars back on the, reschedule them and put \'em on our calendars. Okay. So, sounds Corey Maass: good. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Steve. 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My name is Nathan Wrigley.\n\n\n\nJukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, why you might like to add Composer into your WordPress website workflow.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice. Or by going to WPTavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.\n\n\n\nIf you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you or your idea featured on the show. Head to WPTavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there.\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today we have Chris Reynolds. Chris has been working with WordPress for over 15 years. He&#8217;s freelanced, worked with Event Espresso, WebDevStudios, Human Made, and is now at Pantheon as a CMS ecosystem engineer and WordPress technical lead.\n\n\n\nHe&#8217;s spoken at WordCamps and at OpenWest about all aspects of WordPress.\n\n\n\nI suspect that many of the people listening to this podcast are not using Composer in their WordPress workflow, and to Chris this is something that you should think about implementing, and he&#8217;s here to explain why.\n\n\n\nChris starts off by talking about the kinds of projects that he&#8217;s worked on, and how we found WordPress.\n\n\n\nWe then get into the weeds of what Composer is and the benefits that it brings. It&#8217;s essentially a package management system, and makes it easy to set dependencies for your project and manage them within Composer.\n\n\n\nWhy would you want to do that though? If you&#8217;re just building brochure websites, then perhaps you&#8217;ve don&#8217;t. But if your project is more complex then this might save you a lot of time.\n\n\n\nChris describes scenarios in which she thinks Composer is a good fit; if you want to add in specific packages and how those packages are managed and updated.\n\n\n\nHe explains how you can install composer depending on the OS that you&#8217;re working with, and how it structures the files and directories that are created.\n\n\n\nTowards the end of the podcast, we talk about how composer can be useful for teams, and Chris&#8217;s use of Composer to keep everyone clear on how the project is structured.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;ve thought about using a package management system, such as composer, this episode is for you.\n\n\n\nIf you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to WPTavern.com forward slash podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.\n\n\n\nAnd so without further delay, I bring you Chris Reynolds.\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast today by Chris Reynolds. Hello, Chris.\n\n\n\n[00:03:40] Chris Reynolds: Hi. How&#8217;s it going?\n\n\n\n[00:03:41] Nathan Wrigley: Very well, thank you. Chris is on the podcast today to talk to us about something that I confess I know very little about. I&#8217;m going to guess that if you&#8217;re a typical WordPress user, you too may be learning a few new things today. It&#8217;s all going to be about Composer. Before we get into Composer, what it is, how it works, and all of that, wouldn&#8217;t mind Chris if you just orientate our listeners. Give us a little bit of insight into you and your WordPress journey. The companies that you&#8217;ve worked at. The things that you&#8217;ve been involved in and so on. So over to you, Chris, give us your intro.\n\n\n\n[00:04:14] Chris Reynolds: Sure. I came across WordPress right around the time that my son was born, which was 2005. The internet was a very different place back then, wasn&#8217;t it? At the time I was looking for something to like share pictures with family and stuff, make a website.\n\n\n\nBack then I had what was then referred to as a weblog. It was before that was shortened to blogs, and it was literally a log of things that I did on my website, update changes. And that was all hard coded html. So when I was trying to think of something to share pictures, didn&#8217;t want to do it hard coded. I did do that for a little while and then I decided this was not the thing I wanted to be doing.\n\n\n\nSo there used to be a website called Hot Scripts. There I found a blogging platform called S Blog, and I was using that for a really long time. But as happens in open source, and actually honestly, as part of what happened in the WordPress history, the original maintainer and author disappeared for a little bit, and it wasn&#8217;t getting updates and I think there were some security things at some point. And I started looking for something else. Had some friends that were talking about WordPress, so I was like, I&#8217;ll try this thing out, and basically haven&#8217;t looked back.\n\n\n\nAt a certain point after my son was born, I decided that I wanted to quit my regular job, which at the time was doing tech support for grocery stores, and become a freelance web designer. And I did that for a few years. Was familiar with all of those Elance and I don&#8217;t even remember all, like freelancer.net or something. Like all those really old sites to get freelance work. And I worked for a time for a company that&#8217;s actually local, as an outsource, freelance web designer.\n\n\n\nThere, I believe owner, ran off with all their money or something, and the company closed down. That was a fun story. And then I met the folks from Event Espresso, which is a event management plugin. I met them at WordCamp Salt Lake City because they&#8217;re local, and Salt Lake City is where I live.\n\n\n\nAnd I started working with them initially just doing tech support for them, and then I got into a little bit of development and then I got into a little bit of project management and development. And then I was at a WordCamp, I was speaking. And Pluralsight, which is an online training platform saw me speak and asked me if I wanted to do that sort of thing for them as a, as an author of WordPress related training courses.\n\n\n\nSo I started doing that while I was working at Event Espresso, and then eventually I quit to focus on that. And did that for about a year or so. And then, I started getting into agency world. So I worked at WebDevStudios for a couple years. And then I went to Human Made. I was there for almost five years. And now I&#8217;m working at Pantheon as a software engineer focusing on WordPress ecosystem things.\n\n\n\nSo I&#8217;ve been involved in very small projects. I&#8217;ve been involved in very large projects. I&#8217;ve been involved in training. For a while I did some work with the docs team for WordPress documentation. I went to the community summit in San Francisco way back in the day. I&#8217;ve spoken at lots of local WordCamps and OpenWest which is also held locally. And yeah, I&#8217;ve been around for a little while.\n\n\n\n[00:07:12] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, you really have. That&#8217;s an amazingly long history, and going back with WordPress to 2005, you really were right at the forefront. It was just the very beginnings at that point.\n\n\n\n[00:07:22] Chris Reynolds: It had been around for a while. If you look at the screenshots of the admin, I wasn&#8217;t the very first iteration, but I think I was maybe the second iteration.\n\n\n\n[00:07:31] Nathan Wrigley: Who knew back in 2005 that it would become such an important part of the ecosystem of the web in general. We&#8217;re at the point now where 40 plus percent, I still never quite know what that number means, but it&#8217;s a big number and WordPress is an important part of it.\n\n\n\nYou say that you&#8217;re a Pantheon at the moment. Just give us a little bit of insight into Pantheon because I confess, I don&#8217;t know a great deal about it. But in my mind I&#8217;m thinking managed WordPress hosting and also managed CMS hosting possibly some other variants as well. Just tell us a little bit about what Pantheons skin in the game is with WordPress.\n\n\n\n[00:08:09] Chris Reynolds: You&#8217;re not wrong. We like to call ourselves a web ops platform and we also have kind of coined that web ops phrase, which means that outside of, speaking about Pantheon, it almost doesn&#8217;t exist. What web ops is, it&#8217;s website operations, right? It&#8217;s the things that make your website go.\n\n\n\nAnd what that means practically is that the way that the platform has been built is from the ground up to make sure that teams are able to develop on their websites in a way that is easy to deploy, that is safe, and that is secure. And there&#8217;s all sorts of platform centric things that are part of the workflow.\n\n\n\nPantheon was one of the first, when I was working at WebDev, was the first exposure that I really had to Pantheon. And it was the first platform that I had used that had integrated Git. So you didn&#8217;t have to like, put your stuff on GitHub and then figure out a way to point that deploys to a server somewhere.\n\n\n\nIt was already built in. And they had been doing that from the very beginning. It also had as part of that there is a dev test live workflow where there&#8217;s separate environments. And this isn&#8217;t uncommon today, but it was one of the first places where you could do that and had it built in.\n\n\n\nAnd then the real sort key feature that I enjoyed as a developer and still enjoy as an employee honestly is the concept of multi devs. Where if you have a branch that you are doing work on and you want to see what that branch would look like. Typically in my agency days, the way that you would handle this is by merging that into dev, and dev becomes really messy, dirty because it&#8217;s got lots of basically untested code, or code that was maybe tested and then rolled back or whatever.\n\n\n\nDev is always nasty, a nasty place to be, and you never deploy from dev. That was always the rule when I was working in agency stuff. Multi devs solve that problem by spinning up an entirely new environment for a branch. So you can create a multi dev off of whatever branch, and then you can test it there, and then you can merge that into dev or whatever.\n\n\n\nYour dev branch is clean because it&#8217;s not, you&#8217;re not getting all this test code, experimental code that&#8217;s getting merged in, and then maybe you&#8217;re making some changes or maybe you&#8217;re fixing some stuff, undo some stuff that was from an old merge.\n\n\n\nThat way you can keep your branches clean. And that&#8217;s a really cool thing that Pantheon does that I&#8217;ve often have wished for when I was working elsewhere, or working on sites that were not hosted on Pantheon. So that&#8217;s one of the things that Pantheon does.\n\n\n\nWe were talking before we started recording that Pantheon was built by four or five Drupal dudes. So it&#8217;s been a Drupal shop for a very long time. And then maybe about 10 or so years ago, when I became aware of them they started doing WordPress sites. Still built on the same infrastructure that they had built with all the same live workflows, multi dev, all that sort of stuff.\n\n\n\nAnd now we&#8217;re getting into a point where we&#8217;re really trying to build out and optimize for WordPress and find where our gaps are in terms of how the platform has been built and what WordPress specifically needs. And that&#8217;s essentially what my team is involved in.\n\n\n\n[00:11:10] Nathan Wrigley: Nice. Yeah, that&#8217;s a real interesting set of things that you talk about there. I didn&#8217;t actually know prior to our conversation we had before we hit record, I didn&#8217;t know that it had all begun on the Drupal side of things, but obviously as WordPress has been in the ascendancy for the last 10 years, it does feel like an important pivot for any company really to make, is to give an experience to WordPress users which is optimized for them.\n\n\n\nSo, yeah, I&#8217;ll make sure to link in the show notes to anything that we talk about. So if you&#8217;re listening to this, don&#8217;t worry too much, you can go to the WP Tavern website and search for this episode and find all the links there.\n\n\n\nNow I&#8217;m going to include quite a few links to what we&#8217;re about to talk about. This is the main thrust of the podcast. It&#8217;s something called Composer. Now, when Chris reached out to me, he mentioned that he wanted to talk about Composer, and I&#8217;ll be really honest, it&#8217;s not something that I&#8217;m familiar with. Chris was very kind to gather a bunch of links, which I&#8217;ve now read, and I&#8217;ve tried to understand.\n\n\n\nBut I feel that Chris, you are going to school me today, so we&#8217;ll go right back to the basics. The first thing I think to mention is that I don&#8217;t think I know anybody else in the WordPress community who is using Composer with the sort of urgency that you feel it should be being adopted. Most of the people that I know are freelancers, possibly working in an agency and the typical workflow is, you know, if you&#8217;re working with a team, you&#8217;ve got a method of doing that.\n\n\n\nBut you may well be working on your own website. You may be working for client websites, and you&#8217;re just installing WordPress and a bunch of plugins and themes and so on and so forth. But you&#8217;ve got this bee in your bonnet about Composer and the virtues of it. So let&#8217;s go right back to the beginning. You&#8217;ve probably heard the word Composer before if you&#8217;re listening to this podcast, I imagine. But you may not know what it is. So let&#8217;s go there. What is Composer and why is it in any way important?\n\n\n\n[00:12:59] Chris Reynolds: At its base Composer is a package management system. So if you&#8217;re at all familiar with npm which is primarily for JavaScript packages, maybe you&#8217;ve used that for Gutenberg stuff. Maybe you&#8217;ve used that for other JavaScript things. Composer is that thing for PHP packages.\n\n\n\nIn the past there were things like Pear and PECL, P E C L which did the same sort of thing. Composer does those same-ish things, but better. So at its core, it&#8217;s a package management system, which means it&#8217;s able to do like dependency management. And what that means is, if I have a package, and I have a certain version of a package.\n\n\n\nSay I want php code sniffing, I can require that package with Composer. I can make sure that package is up to date. But I can also be specific about the versions of that package that I want to keep. Maybe I want to be on PHP code sniffing version eight or eight dot whatever, but I don&#8217;t want to upgrade to nine yet, or something like that.\n\n\n\nI can be specific about my version dependencies, the versioning system that I&#8217;m choosing and be really, either really explicit. I can pin it to a specific release. I could do, I only want the security or patch releases. Or I could be really vague and say, just give me the latest version of whatever.\n\n\n\nAnd Composer has, it&#8217;s based on the idea of semantic versioning. So as long as your packages and WordPress itself doesn&#8217;t use semantic versioning notably, and neither to do a couple other things like Yoast doesn&#8217;t do it, because they&#8217;re using sort of the version numbers don&#8217;t matter school of thought, which kind of breaks the whole thing a little bit.\n\n\n\nBut if you&#8217;re doing that sort of semantic versioning, which is common throughout just open source software in general, of major dot minor dot patch fr security then you can be really, you can update your things and feel fairly confident that an update is not going to break your thing, break your site. This is perhaps not a myth now as things in WordPress have improved. But the analogy that I like to think of and the reason why feel like Composer is, really important in a WordPress environment is the, I&#8217;ve got a million plugins, maybe not a million, maybe 20.\n\n\n\nAnd I&#8217;ve got a couple themes and I go to my WordPress updates page, or maybe it&#8217;s got auto updates, right? And something happens and an update happens, and I wasn&#8217;t there. Either I bulk updated all of them or it happened in the background. Either way, I&#8217;m not looking at each individual update that I&#8217;m doing, and something breaks. My website white screens, and I have no idea what caused that problem.\n\n\n\nI have to go back, I have to undo everything. I have to like, rename my plug-ins folder. I&#8217;m now in panic mode because my production site is white screening. It&#8217;s because of an update. It&#8217;s because something went through that I was either not paying enough attention to, or that happened automatically in the background that broke my site.\n\n\n\nComposer, and the way that WordPress is built with allowing, essentially anybody who has access to the plugins page or the updates page to run those updates means that you&#8217;re putting the power and the control over administrating code that is deployed to your site, to whoever has access to those screens, right?\n\n\n\nAnd Composer almost flips that and says, no, we&#8217;re going to give this power to people who actually touched the code. Who maybe are more aware of dependencies and change logs and what an update might mean to a site. And that&#8217;s, sort of where I, see the value of Composer just broadly.\n\n\n\n[00:16:21] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. That was, yeah, a really interesting description of how it works. Could you give us the nuts and the bolts of that? In other words, could you unpack what&#8217;s going on? In other words, how is it, how is it installed? How do you get it to bind to the different variations? You mentioned, that you may want it to update to a certain version of such a thing. How do you actually do all of that?\n\n\n\n[00:16:44] Chris Reynolds: Composer is software that runs on your computer. You can install basically anywhere. So if you&#8217;re on a Mac, you might use Homebrew to install it. You can run it on a Windows machine, it&#8217;s just a binary. You can run it on a Linux machine, there are packages for it. It&#8217;s essentially cross platforms, so you can use it or you can run it anywhere. Once you have it on your operating system. . Then, we&#8217;ll just use a WordPress, vanilla WordPress site, as an example, if I had a WordPress site maybe I do wget or download the zip file of WordPress and I unzip the package. Okay, that&#8217;s great.\n\n\n\nAnd then I have Composer on my, on my, system so I can run at the command line Composer in it. And that&#8217;s going to start the process of building a Composer dot json file. And then once I have that Composer dot json file, I can start pulling in dependencies. I can say Composer require this thing, this package by this vendor.\n\n\n\nAnd that&#8217;s going to, by default, install my dependencies into a vendor folder. Composer also has a built-in auto loading system. Which means that then in my project, if it&#8217;s a WordPress project, I can have a file. I could throw it into wp-content or a rather wp-config, or I can throw it into a mu plugin that loads the Composer auto loader file so that any packages that are being pulled in through Composer or libraries or whatever, are automatically pulled in because Composers does that, just does it for me.\n\n\n\nIf I&#8217;m doing WordPress specific things, what I would also need to put in my Composer file is a additional repository for W Packagist. So out of the box, Composer works with a platform, a website, a repository called Packagist, and that&#8217;s where all of the packages live.\n\n\n\nIf you go to packagist.org today, you can do a search and you can find all sorts of stuff. What you won&#8217;t find is a ton of WordPress related stuff. You&#8217;ll find some. There&#8217;s Human Made has a ton of stuff up there, which I know because I worked there. And I&#8217;ve put a bunch of Pantheon things up there.\n\n\n\nThere&#8217;s some other people who have been putting stuff on Packagist, just core like, Yoast notably has stuff up there. But it&#8217;s not a WordPress place, it&#8217;s just a general open source place, just like npm again. W Packagist is a bridge between the wordpress.org repository and Composer.\n\n\n\nAnd it is just a mirror of the WordPress plugins and theme repositories for Composer based WordPress projects. So if you add W Packagist as a repository in your Composer json, now I can do Composer require and I can say W Packagist plugin slash WordPress SEO. And that&#8217;ll pull in the latest version of Yoast SEO into my Composer file.\n\n\n\nOr I can say Composer require P Packagist theme 2010, and it&#8217;s going to pull in the 2010 theme, of most recent version. That&#8217;s sort of a little bit of the nuts and bolts. That&#8217;s how the Ccomposer json is built. You can also obviously edit this file manually. And then if you want to get into versioning, when you pull that stuff in, it&#8217;s going to give you a sort of its default. Which is typically the major dot minor with a little caret before it, which means that it&#8217;ll accept all minor versions, but it will pause if the version number, the latest version number changes for the major version, right?\n\n\n\nif it was like 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.7.2, .3, .5 point whatever, all of those things would get pulled in. But as soon as that 1.7 turns to 2.0, because maybe they made a major release, it&#8217;s not going to get 2.0. It&#8217;s only going to be one point, whatever. Until I change that in my Composer file.\n\n\n\nThat&#8217;s sort of the default setting. You can be more specific. You can go all the way out to the minor point release and just say, the only updates I ever want to get are these minor or patch releases. To make sure I&#8217;m getting all the security updates or whatever. And not getting minor version updates because maybe I&#8217;m afraid that one of those minor updates might do something bad, or I&#8217;m not, prepared for it yet. Or you can be very vague, and say, just star and give me everything. Or you could say just one, no points, just caret 10 or something. That means that anything above version 10 you&#8217;ll get, doesn&#8217;t matter what the point release is.\n\n\n\nAnd that&#8217;s a way that you can solve for that white screen of death scenario that I talked about earlier. Because if I&#8217;m being specific and explicit about what versions I&#8217;m allowing in my updates then I&#8217;m not going to, I shouldn&#8217;t get to a point where something unexpected happens because of an update that happened that ran on my system.\n\n\n\nAnd in addition to that the way that those updates happen at all is by me or an automation system running a Composer update command. And that&#8217;s the thing that says, go look for things that have changed and pull in any differences based on my defined versioning scheme.\n\n\n\n[00:21:21] Nathan Wrigley: So you can get really granular with it. You can instruct it to do whatever you choose to do. I like the example there of pausing at the point release. So instead of going from 1.9 to two automatically it just pauses because it&#8217;s two. But 1.8 to 1.9 was okay to do. Yeah, it&#8217;s really interesting, you can get really granular. And then you run the command to run all of the updates and off it goes.\n\n\n\nIt sounds like, I could be wrong about this. It sounds like you could broadly break down your description for why to use Composer into three things. I&#8217;m thinking, first of all, security. It sounds like it provides, it&#8217;s not really providing security, but it&#8217;s providing security in the sense that it&#8217;s going to update plugins and themes and whatever else you may have coded yourself. It&#8217;s going to do that without your intervention. It&#8217;s going to run on a schedule and it&#8217;ll just get those things updated for you.\n\n\n\nWhich as we know in a lot of cases, a lot of WordPress websites, I don&#8217;t think the updates are happening for weeks, possibly months, who knows, maybe even years. So all of that gets taken care of. It also sounds like there&#8217;s a big time save here. If you can get this into your workflow, then you can step away from the dull task of updating things. This will just happen on the fly. You could have a setup in Composer that you reuse over and over again on a sort of typical website that you might set up.\n\n\n\nAnd thereby you can just drag in all of the packages on day one of the project. And within moments you&#8217;re up and running with a typical install that you mentioned. Suck in a particular theme or suck in a particular SEO plugin or what have you. You just run the Composer and all of that is just dragged in and you&#8217;re off to the races. It&#8217;s a quick way to get started.\n\n\n\nBut also, you didn&#8217;t mention this, but it feels like this is a real win for teams. It feels like a team using this workflow, there may be benefits there. So broadly speaking, I&#8217;m talking about teams, times and security. Is there anything in that? Have I sort of got that about right?\n\n\n\n[00:23:16] Chris Reynolds: Yeah, I think so. Obviously there needs to be an automated step somewhere in the process of actually running the Composer update. But beyond that, yes, absolutely. And interestingly one of the things that you touched on maybe accidentally even, the idea of sucking in all of these different packages. When I was at Human Made, I worked on Altis, and Altus is their digital experience platform.\n\n\n\nAnd Altis is built almost entirely on Composer, and lots of cool Composer things happening. Altis itself is what&#8217;s known as a meta package. When you install Altis, the initial Composer file is just linking out to a whole bunch of other projects or packages that it brings in. And those themselves have their dependencies. So each, each of the modules, like the security module or the core module or whatever, each of those has its own set of dependencies that it pulls in. So it, really does just sort of like package a whole bunch of stuff that you get just for free when you initially set up a new site using that.\n\n\n\nAnd that was one of the things that going from the idea of, oh, I&#8217;m just going to throw this Composer file in my WordPress site and call that good. That&#8217;s one of the things that really made me think, oh, actually there&#8217;s, there&#8217;s a lot more to it here. And one of the things that I first was exposed to when I was working at Human Made, and that I&#8217;m actively doing now with what I&#8217;m working on a Pantheon, is the concept of WordPress itself being just a dependency of your project.\n\n\n\nAnd so like with the initial example, I&#8217;ve got a WordPress site. I unzip it. I throw my Composer, json in the root folder. That means that I&#8217;m using Composer probably to manage my plugins and themes, any other packages I might have. But I&#8217;m still using WordPress itself to update itself. Because WordPress is still part of that root directory, and it&#8217;s not part of the Composer structure.\n\n\n\nThere are projects, there&#8217;s a couple things out there in the world that&#8217;s already, that have been existed, but one, a big thing that&#8217;s been part of the WordPress ecosystem for a while is by the Roots team called Bedrock. And that&#8217;s what we use at Pantheon. And that, among other things, what Bedrock does is it pulls WordPress in so that it can be a dependency. So that can be just another thing in your Composer file that is being versioned.\n\n\n\nSo again, same rules apply, right? You can say I want everything past six. You can say I want 6.1 dot anything beyond that. Or you can say, I only want 6.1.1, and when the next version comes out, I&#8217;m going to manually make that change so that I can be explicit about my testing process to make sure that I&#8217;m not going to ship broken code.\n\n\n\n[00:25:42] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, that&#8217;s really interesting. The idea that WordPress itself is a package. Okay. I can imagine, given the audience of this podcast, it really does span the whole community, you know. There&#8217;s people in every part of the WordPress ecosystem listening to this. And I can imagine there&#8217;ll be a certain proportion of them who as soon as you start to say things like npm and packages and all of this, and you mentioned, you know, things to do in the command line and da, da, da.\n\n\n\nThey&#8217;re scratching their heads thinking I don&#8217;t know if this is for me. This all sounds a little bit complicated. So just address that. There&#8217;s a certain level of tech geeky here, I would imagine, But, is it difficult? Is the payback for a, let&#8217;s say a user who is just playing with five or six sites, they&#8217;ve got a few client sites and they can well manage to go in and update the plugins and the themes and all of the bits and pieces that they got set up.\n\n\n\nIs there a use case here where, okay, if you&#8217;re sitting on that side of the fence, don&#8217;t even bother? This is probably not needed. Whereas if you&#8217;re on this side and you know you&#8217;ve got more sites than a certain number where it&#8217;s going to be of more use.\n\n\n\n[00:26:47] Chris Reynolds: I mean, I definitely think that a lot of the freelancers that I know when I talk to are of the mind that, it&#8217;s just one more thing I need to worry about. And certainly if you are not going to on behalf of your clients go in and make updates, and you&#8217;re handing, once you&#8217;re done at your site, you&#8217;re handing that responsibility off to them.\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s going to be too much work for your clients probably. I&#8217;m thinking like small business. I&#8217;m thinking like mom and pop shop. That sort of thing where it&#8217;s really just a user, one person or two people that are running the site. They&#8217;re probably not going to want to do stuff on the command line and you&#8217;re not going to want to train them and that&#8217;s fine.\n\n\n\nBut I think about when I was at WebDev and we were doing maintenance contracts with clients, and WordPress updates came around and we had basically a person dedicated to reading all of the change logs of every plugin on every site before making any updates. Just to make sure that nothing was going to happen that could potentially break.\n\n\n\nAnd then if there was something that was maybe potentially breaking, they would have to like manually test that themselves on a dev environment, or a local environment or whatever. Just to make sure we&#8217;re not going to run an update and it&#8217;s going to break something. And I think that that process is very tedious and time consuming.\n\n\n\nAnd that process is the process that you&#8217;re saving by using something where you can be more explicit like Composer. And you know that your updates are not going to break anything because the way that you&#8217;ve set up your versioning is the thing that you want it to be, and you feel confident about that structure so that when there are updates, you can go in and yeah, you still need to do testing, you still need to evaluate those things, but you know that you&#8217;re not going to accidentally push something out.\n\n\n\nOr you can be at least fairly confident that you&#8217;re not going to accidentally push something out that&#8217;s going to break something. Because breaking things is not a good thing. It&#8217;s not a good feeling to have shipped something when you&#8217;re just doing a maintenance WordPress update release and your client is calling an hour later saying, why is my website white?\n\n\n\n[00:28:42] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I guess in the case of some of the agencies where you&#8217;ve worked, so Human Made WebDevStudios and so on, it really is enterprise level stuff, and there is no scope for bringing a site down because of a careless update. So the notion that most WordPress users would go in and read the change log before clicking update.\n\n\n\nI think that&#8217;s probably not the case. I would imagine most people are fairly cavalier because it&#8217;s their own site, or it&#8217;s a client site that they&#8217;ve got a backup of, and there&#8217;s some mitigation that they&#8217;re, doing all of that. But in the case that you&#8217;ve just outlined where, I don&#8217;t know, maybe these are international brands that we&#8217;ve heard of where the press damage alone in having a website go down for 50 minutes is just unconscionable. You&#8217;ve got to do the background research, and so having these systems in place is truly important.\n\n\n\n[00:29:36] Chris Reynolds: Yeah, for sure.\n\n\n\n[00:29:36] Nathan Wrigley: In terms of, we&#8217;ve been talking quite a lot about updates. I just wonder what your thoughts are on the, I mean, it&#8217;s not that recent, it&#8217;s several years ago now. The idea that in WordPress you can click a link in the, let&#8217;s say the plugin page. And you can say just go on, update. Whenever something new rolls out, just get on with it and update it. So you can, if you like, trust it. What are your thoughts on that?\n\n\n\n[00:29:58] Chris Reynolds: I think it&#8217;s nice for the people that it&#8217;s good for. And I think it&#8217;s definitely helped with WordPress adoption. Because if all I was doing, if I wasn&#8217;t a WordPress developer and all I was doing was being a podcaster and I had a website that was just about my podcast. I&#8217;m not going to care about code. I&#8217;m never going to want to touch the code. I&#8217;m going to want to install WordPress and never look at FTP, or know my server configuration, or care about my database.\n\n\n\nNone of that. None of that is interesting to me. What I want is I want to plug it in, turn it on, and let it run. And be fairly confident that it is going to continue to run when I have my eyes closed and I&#8217;m not looking at it. So I think that it&#8217;s nice in the sense of creating an ecosystem in which things that you do in WordPress are relatively easy. And the counterpoint to that, I work at Pantheon. Pantheon&#8217;s been involved in the Drupal committee for a very long time.\n\n\n\nTalking earlier too about how Drupal has, I think since version eight, integrated Composer into the core of how Drupal works. So sort of the antithesis of this idea of, I&#8217;m going to turn it on and set auto update and then walk away, is the idea of Composerizing everything. So that every change is a code level change.\n\n\n\nAnd what I&#8217;ve found interesting, that I&#8217;ve learned over the last year of being at Pantheon in a difference between the sort of like Drupal ecosystem and WordPress ecosystem, is in WordPress, yeah, there are some people who make it their job to kind of do just general site administration for people.\n\n\n\nBut it&#8217;s not a huge thing. It&#8217;s like there&#8217;s a couple people that do that sort of thing or they don&#8217;t actually touch the code, but they will do your WordPress updates and that sort of thing for you. In Drupal, there&#8217;s entire agencies where all of what they&#8217;re doing is essentially that, just the maintenance stuff of having a website.\n\n\n\nAnd part of that is because the Drupal admin is a lot more complicated to use, to create sites and pages and views and all sorts of things. It&#8217;s a lot more complicated than the WordPress admin, which I credit to how WordPress is built personally. But the other part of it is the understanding of like, when it&#8217;s okay to update this Drupal module to the next version or that sort of thing. To be aware of what&#8217;s happening on their other sites. And then what combinations work together and that sort of thing.\n\n\n\nThere&#8217;s a whole ecosystem that it&#8217;s really just essentially website management, which doesn&#8217;t exist in the same way in WordPress. And so that&#8217;s sort of what we&#8217;re talking about. The difference between having really hands-on updates. Making sure that things are safe to do. Or making it so that the people who actually do the content editing or other administration on the site, they don&#8217;t have to worry about the stuff that&#8217;s happening in the background because they know somebody&#8217;s taking care of it, versus having just the software take care of that for itself.\n\n\n\nAnd so I think there&#8217;s a place for it. And I think that the reason why WordPress has grown so much over the last many years is because it&#8217;s embraced this, well, we&#8217;re going to just auto update things and not have people stress over that stuff. But, also like the reason why there&#8217;s so many people that are holding onto Drupal is because they want to make sure, they want to ensure that their site is stable and secure and all of those things. And that those things matter for really big companies. It is that divide, right of more casual users versus the enterprise level stuff.\n\n\n\n[00:33:09] Nathan Wrigley: I guess because Composer is essentially nothing to do with WordPress. I mean, you know, you&#8217;ve described a scenario in which WordPress can combine with it, which is very helpful. Updating plugins, themes and so on and so forth. I guess this can reach beyond WordPress. So if you&#8217;ve got something bespoke, unique, you&#8217;ve got a package, which is nothing to do with WordPress. Composer can take care of that as well.\n\n\n\n[00:33:34] Chris Reynolds: Yeah, and it&#8217;s really useful when you, so in both npm and Composer, there&#8217;s the concept of dev dependencies. And these are dependencies that will install when you do like a Composer install. But you can also say, you can omit the developer dependencies on your production installs, right?\n\n\n\nAnd that means that you can run things like linting and unit testing and all that sort of stuff, which doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s on the prod site. But maybe if you&#8217;re going to push it to your dev site or you&#8217;re going to keep it on your local machine. And you can manage all those things really easily with Composer.\n\n\n\nThere&#8217;s definitely WordPress coding standards and there&#8217;s WordPress suites for unit testing. Those things all exist and you can manage those in WordPress. But essentially, like the core thing, like PHP Code Sniffer is not a WordPress thing. It&#8217;s just a, it&#8217;s just a package that exists in the world. And same thing as PHP unit. It&#8217;s just a thing that exists in the world that we have adopted and embraced and brought it into our ecosystem. So for sure, yeah, there&#8217;s definitely value of using Composer to manage sort of like external things.\n\n\n\n[00:34:29] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, given that if you went down this route and you made Composer an integral part of your process. You then to some extent become dependent upon the functioning of Composer for your whole process to work. And so that brings me to the Composer ecosystem.\n\n\n\nSo we&#8217;re all always talking about how great the WordPress ecosystem is. There&#8217;s a forum for this. There&#8217;s a Slack channel for that. If you want to find something out there&#8217;s ways of learning. Is the same true of Composer? It&#8217;s an open source project. Does it have a thriving community? Does it receive the updates that one would hope? Does it progress in the same way that we hope WordPress does? Does it have that same feel? Are there resources for learning and so on?\n\n\n\n[00:35:07] Chris Reynolds: Well, I will say that the website for Composer getcomposer.org, I believe, is really, the documentation&#8217;s really good. At its core, it&#8217;s a pretty simple idea. The documentation&#8217;s pretty self-explanatory. Where it gets hairy is the distinction between a caret versus a squiggly line, in terms of how you&#8217;re going to do your versioning stuff.\n\n\n\nBecause there&#8217;s a very subtle but specific difference there. And how to pull in different repositories or how to do more complex things. It gets a little bit hairy. But again, the documentation is all there and it&#8217;s all really good and I found it very useful.\n\n\n\nAnd there&#8217;s enough people in the open source ecosystem generally that are using Composer, that it&#8217;s not terribly difficult to find answers to any questions about Composer. Most things you would encounter have probably been done by someone, and there&#8217;s probably some prior art that you can use to base it on.\n\n\n\nSo I think that it&#8217;s generally pretty good. And packagist is a great place to find stuff. What I will do when I&#8217;m looking for stuff is I&#8217;ll look on packages, even if I&#8217;m looking for a WordPress thing, just to see if, if that developer has pushed their thing to packages before even looking at wordpress.org, or pulling it in from the W Packagist mirror.\n\n\n\nThat means it&#8217;s getting a little bit, it&#8217;s like one step closer to the source, right? Because all Packagist does really, to submit a package on Packagist, here&#8217;s your pro tip. You have an account obviously, and then you just say, submit a package and you give it a GitHub repository url, and then it just looks at GitHub. And as long as the GitHub project uses releases, even if it doesn&#8217;t really need to, it just looks at the branches. But if it has releases, then you will have those versions. And if it doesn&#8217;t have releases you can still pull that stuff in using a dev prefix or whatever.\n\n\n\nThat stuff is all self-contained. It all exists. It&#8217;s all well-maintained, all that sort of stuff. That&#8217;s all good. Composer itself does occasionally get updates. The last big thing was sort of a transition from Composer one to Composer two. And that was a little bit of a, there&#8217;s definitely some growing pains in the transition process of going from one version to the next.\n\n\n\nAnd then they threw a wrench recently, not super recently. But they threw a wrench into things a little bit where there is a new thing that goes into your Composer file called allowed plugins. So if it, if it&#8217;s a dependency is calling something else or whatever. You have basically have to give permission to other vendors to, install things on your behalf. So as long as you, if they&#8217;re in the allowed plugins list then those things will get updated, and if they&#8217;re not in the allowed plugins list, then it&#8217;s not going to update those things. And I believe that was for like, security type things.\n\n\n\nThat did cause a problem with you know, at Pantheon we have a lot of stuff that&#8217;s based on Composer and we don&#8217;t want to introduce merge conflicts. So if we have a Composer file, that is basically the thing that is used to build sites. And then suddenly that Composer file needs to have a new part of the Composer file, and we push that change. It&#8217;s going to cause a merge conflict with everybody&#8217;s repository that didn&#8217;t already have that.\n\n\n\nSo it&#8217;s a little bit of a headache for us, but for the user it&#8217;s obviously a net win. Those sorts of things give me pause a little bit, as somebody who is now at least partially responsible for, thousands of people running sites that use Composer. But in terms of like individual users and stuff, I think that Composer has a really good thing going and has a good ecosystem around it.\n\n\n\n[00:38:16] Nathan Wrigley: Just to give us some insight into how you are using it. Your work at Pantheon and all the other companies that you&#8217;ve mentioned that you&#8217;ve worked at. Is this something that is just typical? This is just part of the process. Everything is built with Composer bolted in. Or is this something that you cherry pick? Okay, this one needs it, this one doesn&#8217;t. Is it basically everywhere, all the time?\n\n\n\n[00:38:38] Chris Reynolds: When I was at WebDev, which admittedly is many years ago now, we didn&#8217;t use Composer. We could have benefited from using Composer. And I think they&#8217;re probably using Composer now. I don&#8217;t know that for sure, but based on the types of projects that they&#8217;re doing, and types of things that I see them working on, I think that&#8217;re probably doing it now.\n\n\n\nWhen I was at Human Made, it was just there. Everything that we did had Composer as part of it. And it was a sort of a fundamental part of how projects were built. And obviously like Altis is Composer. It&#8217;s a Composer built thing. It&#8217;s entirely built on top of Composer. One of the things that gives it its stability, but also if you look at the documentation for Altis or things, it&#8217;s always lagging, and is always going to be lagging a little bit behind the latest WordPress release.\n\n\n\nAnd for enterprise, that&#8217;s fine. Because they&#8217;re not concerned about the major or minor point releases. They&#8217;re concerned that their site is secure and it&#8217;s updated and it&#8217;s getting those patch releases. So with each new Altis version that typically aligns with a new WordPress version it sort of, when I was there anyway, the release cycle for Altis followed by a month or so, offset from the last WordPress release, so that they could make sure that the next WordPress version was part of the next Altis version.\n\n\n\n[00:39:48] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so should somebody have been interested in this, you know, their interest has been peaked by everything that you&#8217;ve been saying. Where&#8217;s some good resources? I&#8217;m looking at getcomposer.org and there&#8217;s a get started link right at the top. That seems like it might be a decent place to start. But maybe there&#8217;s more, how to describe it? Maybe there&#8217;s some things which would help a WordPresser as well.\n\n\n\n[00:40:13] Chris Reynolds: I definitely would point towards the Roots Bedrock Project as being a really good place if you&#8217;re looking at wanting to have WordPress as built as dependency, I think they&#8217;ve got a really good framework. And at Human Made, we were doing that thing, but we weren&#8217;t using Bedrock. So it would be a little bit more difficult to come up with those ideas and that system and that framework independently. And that&#8217;s one of the things I think that you would get from the Roots ecosystem. So definitely yeah the, just the get Composer to learn about it and to look at the documentation, to dig into it.\n\n\n\nAnd then from a WordPress standpoint specifically, I would definitely look into Bedrock to understand like how that works. And they&#8217;ve got a thriving community as well around that. And, a whole Patreon thing and Discord channel and whatnot, so that you can actually talk to human beings and get some amount of support.\n\n\n\n[00:41:02] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah I&#8217;ll make sure to link to everything that you sent in my direction into the show notes. But, if anybody wants to check those out, you can see them on the WP Tavern website. Search for this episode, and you&#8217;ll be able to see all of those links there. If anybody wants to link to you Chris, if anybody&#8217;s been interested in, just think they&#8217;d like bit of a helping hand. They&#8217;d like to understand this a little bit more from, from the horse&#8217;s mouth if you like. Where do we find you?\n\n\n\n[00:41:27] Chris Reynolds: Online I&#8217;m jazz sequence most places. Frequently jazz sequence with a three. So j a z z s 3 q u e n c e. That&#8217;s my Twitter handle and Instagram, various other things. I am at @jazzsequence@mstdn.social on Mastodon. And, my website is jazzsequence.com without the three, cause I like to, be confusing. And LinkedIn and places like that. But the Twitters and lately Mastodon, and those sorts of social places where you&#8217;ll probably get my attention.\n\n\n\nI&#8217;m also, you know, on the WordPress Core Slack and like I said I live in Salt Lake City so, we haven&#8217;t had very many WordCamps in the last couple years. There&#8217;s some weird pandemic thing happening, but when those things do happen I often will try to visit the things that are, within driving range. I&#8217;m hoping to be at at US in National Harbor this year. So, maybe I&#8217;ll see folks there.\n\n\n\n[00:42:16] Nathan Wrigley: Nice. Chris Reynolds, thank you for joining us on the podcast today. I appreciate it.\n\n\n\n[00:42:20] Chris Reynolds: Yeah, no worries.\n</div>\n\n\n\nOn the podcast today we have <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jazzs3quence\">Chris Reynolds</a>.\n\n\n\nChris has been working with WordPress for over 15 years. He’s freelanced, worked with Event Espresso, WebDevStudios, Human Made and is now at Pantheon as a CMS Ecosystem engineer, and WordPress technical lead. He’s spoken at WordCamps and at OpenWest about all aspects of WordPress.\n\n\n\nI suspect that many of the people listening to this podcast are not using Composer in their WordPress workflow, and to Chris, this is something that you should think about implementing, and he’s here to explain why.\n\n\n\nChris starts off by talking about the kind of projects that he’s worked on, and how he found WordPress.\n\n\n\nWe then get into the weeds of what Composer is, and the benefits that it brings. It’s essentially a package management system and makes it easy to set dependencies for your project and manage them within Composer.\n\n\n\nWhy would you want to do that though? 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In one of those, our household will be shipped next week. 🚚 We will be AirBnB-ing for a few weeks. Exciting times. \n\n\n\nI need to sort through some paperwork and create the inventory for the insurance. Sorry for the short intro, today. \n\n\n\nWish me luck! \n\n\n\nYours, 💕 Birgit\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\nTable of Contents\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost\"><ul><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled\">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</a></li><li><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press\">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </a></li></ul></div>\n</div></div>\n\n\n\n\nJosepha Haden Chomphosy joined DocPop on the Torque Social Hour. They discussed WordPress 20-year Anniversary celebration, WordPress 6.2 &#8211; Phase 2 to Phase 3. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T0LgQP7M4A\">Torque Social Hour: Preparing for WP20 Celebrations</a>. In this episode, Haden Chomphosy told us about the upcoming plans for WordPress’s 20th Anniversary. They also talked about WP version 6.2, the recent acquisition of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and Plugin Madness 2023.\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-word-press-release-information\">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>\n\n\n\nIt&#8217;s release candidate week in WordPress land: <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/wordpress-6-2-release-candidate-2/\">WordPress 6.2 RC 2</a> was released on March 14, 2023, and <a href=\"https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v15.4.0-rc.1\">Gutenberg 15.4 RC 1</a> is also available for testing. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nWordPress 6.2 comes with a browse mode of the Site Editor. This includes a black left menu bar that blends in and out depending on if you are editing a template or browsing the menu. Until RC 2, &#8220;Navigation&#8221; was one of the menu items on the left admin menu, it was, however, pulled before this week&#8217;s RC 2. Anne McCarthy summarized the discussion around this issue in their post: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/14/fyi-navigation-section-of-new-site-editor-experienced-removed-for-6-2-rc-2/\">FYI: Navigation section of new Site Editor experienced removed for 6.2 RC 2</a> and shared also the list of issues this feature has. Each one a minor item in the sum it wasn&#8217;t up to the quality contributors aimed for. \n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-background-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n🎙️ New episode: <a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-81-wordpress-6-2-interactivity-api/\">Gutenberg Changelog #81 – WordPress 6.2, Gutenberg 15.4 and 15.5, Phase 3 – Collaboration and a new Interactivity API</a> with Birgit Pauli-Haack and special guest Leonardus Nugraha\n</div></div>\n\n\n\nWPEngine&#8217;s one-day virtual developer conference DE{CODE} will take place next week March 21 through 23rd, 2023. DE{CODE} will be broadcast in three global time zones and anticipates over 5,000 attendees in its fourth year, launching in 2020. Matt Mullenweg and Matias Ventura will discuss the future of WordPress and the rapid innovations in the block editor relied upon by millions of WordPress developers worldwide. It&#8217;s also part of the 20-year anniversary celebration of WordPress . Have a look at the <a href=\"https://events.wpengine.com/event/b1c1e30f-2c73-4abb-a609-52afaed68717/websitePage:289e81f7-3e30-49de-9510-696ad303d192\">schedule of all the great sessions at DE{CODE} 2023</a>\n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\nAnne McCarthy was a guest of Rob Cairns for the latest episode. They talk All about 6.2 on <a href=\"https://stunningdigitalmarketing.com/episode-307-wordpress-6-2-with-anne-mccarthy/\">Stunning Digital Marketing</a> podcast. Highlights of the show: \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>What is coming in WordPress 6.2 .</li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;The coolest features in WordPress 6.2</li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;When are we going to update the WordPress Admin Dashboard?</li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;When are we going to fix the Media Library?</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-p\">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>\n\n\n\nJamie Marsland, shows off the <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERIz3diT9Sk\">Side Editor and Block Themes</a> again via YouTube. He uses both to rebuild Austin Kleon&#8217;s website, using the newest WordPress version. Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going.\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://developer.woocommerce.com/2023/03/14/woocommerce-7-5-released/\">WooCommerce 7.5</a> has been released, and the post highlights that Woo Blocks are ready for the new feature of the StyleBook coming in WordPress 6.2, Blocks have been rewritten, so users can use the core design tools for changing the look and feel, the block can be easier styled by block themes, and new blocks to manage the store can now be found in the inserter of the block editor. \n\n\n\nSarah Gooding of WPTavern has more details: <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-7-5-0-introduces-3-new-blocks-expands-support-for-global-styles\">WooCommerce 7.5.0 Introduces 3 New Blocks, Expands Support for Global Styles</a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nLearn.WordPress Tutorial: <a href=\"https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/displaying-testimonials-on-your-website/\">Displaying testimonials on your website</a> with Wes Theron. This tutorial will look at adding a testimonial pattern and installing a new block from the Block Directory to your site.\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/tetsuaki_hamano\">Aki Hamano</a>, a Gutenberg contributor from Japan, released a new version of his <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/flexible-table-block/\">Flexible Table Block plugin</a>, with the main changes \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Tested on WordPress6.2</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Redesigned global settings modal </li>\n\n\n\n<li>apply stripe color to tbody only </li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preserve rowspan/colspan when converting to/from core table blocks </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled\">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</h2>\n\n\n\nMike McAlister acclaims: <a href=\"https://olliewp.com/patterns-are-gonna-be-a-game-changer-for-wordpress/\">Patterns are gonna be a game changer for WordPress</a>, and he tells you why, after a recap of the genesis of Block Patterns: &#8221;&nbsp;instead of designing a page from scratch, WordPress creators can now lean on patterns to quickly prototype or design their full website in the new WordPress Site Editor with little or no code involved.&#8221; McAlister also has concrete vision on how patterns could be a bit more intelligent: \n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Go global: change once, update to all places where patterns were added.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pattern locking features</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Light/dark version of the same pattern.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nIf that topic interests you more, Justin Tadlock wrote a post on the Developer Blog, introducing <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2022/11/creating-themes-from-a-pattern-first-mindset/\">Creating Themes from a Pattern-first mindset</a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nGanesh Dahal&nbsp;wrote on CSS Tricks on <a href=\"https://css-tricks.com/managing-fonts-in-wordpress-block-themes/\">Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes</a>. &#8220;Block themes can indeed use Google Fonts, but the process for registering them is way different from what you might have done before in classic themes.&#8221; he explained. \n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2022&#8221;</a>&nbsp; A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. Updated by yours truly. <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/\">The index 2020 is here</a>\n\n\n\n\nOn the WordPress Developer Blog, Daisy Olsen takes you along when she shows you <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/03/block-theme-templates-the-easy-way-to-build-an-elegant-grid-of-posts/\">Block theme templates: the easy way to build an elegant grid of posts</a>. &#8220;WordPress block themes let you lay out your home page in countless ways, with endless flexibility. To get you started and show you just a few of the possibilities, this tutorial will help you build a magazine-style home page that shows several recent posts and then a traditional post list for inner pages.&#8220;Olsen summarized. Olsen also live-streams regularly <a href=\"httpa://twitch.com/daisyonwp\">on Twitch</a>: Next event: Friday, March 31, 2023 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM Topic: <a href=\"http://clicks.meetup.com/ls/click?upn=XbaZ37larFA-2FuV5MohrYpdrra25MtI4CzodbRR1Rd1lcKVfFkaiAkMoxUvY-2FRvTYasrl05OpUEx72RVyvunbnfpl8aYBoogyprZFTIpUpo22NL-2FoQHUOrtYIfxI6PjJVQFCmp-2B2S-2Fq4FTLYKBM-2BmtFcLYWugMTX9zP0bhY6zZ3DLzmpF0KtJjZgT2sqIJWMLmpmnqQgZd0lq2xEArTmYCpw3GjujFvusA8j5HeNyemAoWMY12BDWC9aKbhEdL43wbmWxsdhlCn-2BVgCcoZjW3jRMKI9i3RSODpkr-2BEywOkyA-3DTYl__J40Cm482JAfcu64pauD5epBU-2Bh0Rd-2FPWHzdxWXz1rewkAa1qNT6zJlNeHNYZFAj0LnD-2Bb1AhQQSz4XVimu5ikL4v4OY5PmVLKfMIPDvE6BMosM9bkdqfAXKOIvxARLwcEaswvLfrjbcOYXZ6C3kRPGZOIfCYy917Fg5QeBskFMUyf3q4tnOMOPPjOqOaBMCUzD1FgXVOIMNE3e3r-2BhQukqfMyS-2FyScFE4d0bJew1heuXhcM4totKIVcUclpyh59sJALeLnEd7rm1-2Fqjh48JlQHN5Mu3Av-2FsH9ygknQvsc5x0A0KIrnZTxG3h2GrtpO7CVUdQl4Bc6wM2zHjt9-2B787S0FNwx7tr-2BI0gnbVhh3msWhB3gwO8L9YvSr-2BK297Bd2xRLzyP5phQS6MLNc8DjP1QvXnZNFPgnkJBi01ij4rj1YPcsSY-2Fo0gaDXyr-2FQVIUGP-2FQRg-2BDysOhbjHIF9IWpTizgKY1H8lY112ok0qu4wmRXXbjeFAqRqDstHdKbn1To22RrqAWiHnuz8gFPcdlUc2AGP-2BiO7jlJY-2BMMFkuaCYYcqV97OLC4u05JDD2KYzbB3loEraPvrnPo83nKJ4w-2B4GQleteGxeO-2BNZkBi5jVzF93Gz-2FQ41-2FqSCjNgHh46QPbQonA1BfYS3KYXiaPoCQTtqTjxDRRvuZOgrx6MeiNm0WMa-2BvS3qV0FFYDI54etDZF01xqafJyfVV0kXDBt7dNp0zsnZNMsTYIVXwErz8HEozy6mQquv99qo2jE-2FsMC7WE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Block Themes and WordPress: Exploring WordPress 6.2</a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press\">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </h2>\n\n\n\nIn his latest recording, Ryan Welcher wrapped up <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88c6z1XEvG0\">building an OpenAI block for WordPress</a>. In a previous edition, Welcher built an OpenAI integrated block that can generate images for use in our content. In this show, he turned it into a plugin that is part of the editor interface and inserted image blocks automatically after uploading the selected image. \n\n\n\nIf you missed the earlier parts of this series, they are also available on YouTube\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQS69SglWOg\">Integrating OpenAI with a custom block. Part One</a></li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIJwXEXt7xE\">Integrating OpenAI with a custom block. Part Two</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\nUsing the WordPress REST API is how block editor development interacts with data. Jonathan Bossenger created a series of Workshops on how to use the API.\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/01/13/lets-code-using-the-wordpress-rest-api/\">Using the WP REST API</a>: Learn how to use the WP REST API to interact with existing WordPress data.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/01/20/lets-code-interacting-with-the-wp-rest-api/\">Interacting with the WP REST API</a>: Learn how to interact add and delete data. The tutorial also looks at a useful developer tool for testing endpoints.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/01/27/lets-code-wp-rest-api-updates-custom-fields-and-authentication/\">WP REST API updates, custom fields, and authentication</a>: Learn how to use the REST API and Backbone.js to make update requests, add/update custom fields, and authenticate requests when logged out.&nbsp;</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/02/03/lets-code-wp-rest-api-modifying-responses/\">WP REST API – modifying responses</a>: Learn one of the ways to extend the REST API by modifying responses.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https://wordpress.tv/2023/02/10/lets-code-wp-rest-api-custom-routes-and-endpoints/\">WP REST API – custom routes and endpoints</a>: Learn how to create custom routes and endpoints and test them with Postman.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\nI also highly recommend watching K. Adam White&#8216;s talk at WordCamp Asia on&nbsp;<a href=\"https://asia.wordcamp.org/2023/session/getting-the-most-out-of-the-rest-api/\">Getting the most out of the REST API</a>. During the talk, White renamed it to&nbsp;“Getting the most out of WordPress when you’re writing Block Editor code”. (<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/vrDwB7iuHL8?t=2299\">Recording</a>)&nbsp;(<a href=\"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PQVcTzcUP2xRbwjEjqo8VENxU7fiDBtz8U7R4cA0-IE/edit#slide=id.g1f27001dabd_0_8\">Slidedeck</a>)\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/\">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s master branch?</a> Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.\n\n\n\n<img alt=\"GitHub all releases\" src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/bph/gutenberg/total?style=for-the-badge\" />\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? 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The challenge is to style your own 20th anniversary party Wapuu using crayons, markers, colored pencils, pastels, or even digital drawing tools.\n\n\n\nThree random entries will be selected (which is why it&#8217;s called a giveaway and not a contest) to receive limited edition swag:\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\nYou have a chance to win one of three WP20 Swag Kits, complete with a variety of unique anniversary goods. From lapel pins to stickers, and some surprise mystery items, they’ll be a memorable collection for this milestone moment in WordPress history. \n</blockquote>\n\n\n\nParticipants will need to download the Wapuu coloring set, which comes in different file types (.pdf, .png, .svg, and .ai). Finished wapuu coloring creations can be shared on Twitter using the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WapuuWP20\">#WapuuWP20</a> hashtag to enter the giveaway. 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