Author: critterverse
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Saving Custom Style Variations
I’ve been thinking through some of the potential flows for saving custom style variations. The goal of this proposal is to bring more clarity around the style switching process and to help users avoid accidentally resetting their existing style customizations when trying out a variation. The above video shows how one of the theme-provided style…
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Block art with WordPress 5.9
Happy new year, all. In celebration of the new release this week, here are a few pieces of block art I created using WordPress 5.9 ✨ Below I’ve included a screenshot and a zip file for each piece that contains the images used and block markup. Feel free to remix these however you like or…
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A Global Styles Switcher
There is various work ongoing on GitHub that explores the possibility of switching out different style settings within the Global Styles panel (for example, if a theme provided alternate theme.json files the way that Twenty Twenty-Two will). I explored a few potential UI directions for this switcher to see if any of these approaches feel…
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Dot Indicators for Multi-Entity Saving
For the better part of this year, I’ve been thinking on and off about saving global entities within other entities — specifically in the context of the Reusable block. More recently, I started trying to expand this logic to other entity blocks and to other contexts within the Gutenberg editors. Throughout the course of working…
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Adventures in Block-Theme Switching
FSE Outreach Program coordinator Anne McCarthy facilitated a recent call for responses (a slight change in format from the recurring FSE calls for testing) on the topic of block-theme switching, which officially kicked off the process of “thinking long term about what folks would want to be able to have across themes.” According to Anne’s…
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Post Type Mangement
An in-the-clouds exploration by Javier Arce and Channing Ritter ☁️ Building on the work of WordPress contributor James Koster and others who have been looking into how to implement a zoom-able mosaic editing view for Templates, we wanted to see if this format could be expanded to other post types. This exploration is loosely based on managing Reusable blocks. In this post,…
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Widgets in WordPress 5.8 and Beyond
WordPress 5.8 (released last week 🎉) brings the power of Gutenberg blocks to widget areas — which means highly customizable layout and styling options, and a more WYSIWYG editing experience. I made a test site based on oldie-but-goodie Twenty Sixteen theme, which has 3 separate widget areas to work with. In this post, I’ll highlight a…
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Pattern Directory Submissions
There is a current a call for submissions for designs to help kick off the WordPress.org pattern directory. This is meant to help populate the directory with a bunch of cool patterns that will be available to users immediately upon launch. Here’s the latest update on how the curation process for this initial set is…
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Side-by-Side Image Challenge
Drag and drop is known for being one of the most intuitive interaction patterns there is. One behavior that users might expect to find in Gutenberg is the ability to create side-by-side images by dragging and dropping an image next to an existing one. Note: This behavior has previously been explored in GitHub issue #13202…
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Welcome to Block Widgets
With WordPress 5.8 coming soon, there’s a new call for testing to try out the up-and-coming block-based Widgets Editor. This is an exciting update because it brings the power of highly customizable blocks to widgets areas, whereas classic widgets could be pretty limiting in terms of styling options. I decided to use the Customizer Widgets…