Full Site Editing and the Future of WordPress
As always, thanks to everyone that spent their Thursday evening with us last night at our April WordPress Meetup – another edition of the WordPress MegaMeetup. A special thank you to Anne McCarthy and Marcus Kazmierczak from Automattic for showing us the future of WordPress with Full Site Editing (FSE). Also, a big thank you to @GoDaddyPro for sponsoring our MegaMeetup once again!
Our apologies for the Meetup.com issues which delayed (and perhaps deterred) many folks from joining us for our great event. Despite the server issues, we had over 120 people connected!
For the TL;DR folks:
You can watch the whole recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4IFn73Nzvk
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Our WordPress Meetup Speakers –
First Speaker – Anne McCarthy
Find Anne on the web:
Twitter: @annezazu
Web: https://nomad.blog
“Full site editing is a collection of projects… arguably too much for a single release”. – Josepha https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/08/full-site-editing-scope-for-wp5-8/
The FSE effort is broken down into 7 milestones:
- Infrastructure & UI
- Browsing
- Styling
- Theme Blocks
- Query Block
- Navigation Block
- Gradual Adoption
WordPress 5.8 Plans include: improvements from Gutenberg 9.9+, introduction of new blocks (Query, Site Logo, Navigation, a theme.json mechanism, a Template Editor for Pages/Blank Template, Widgets Screen & Block widgets in Customizer, and some Design tools.
Important Dates:
- April 27, 2021 – Next Go/No Go decision
- June 8, 2021 – Beta period for WordPress 5.8
- July 20, 2021 – WordPress 5.8 release
- December 2021 – WordPress 5.9 release
Get involved!
- Join the FSE Outreach Program
- Check out the Theme Experiments repo
- Join the bi-monthly Block Theme meetings and the weekly Core Editor meetings in Make Slack
- Watch for upcoming content on Learn WordPress
Anne’s links:
- The WordPress Roadmap: https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/
- FSE Milestones: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551
- Call for Testing via the FSE Outreach Program: https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/04/14/fse-program-testing-call-5-query-quest/
- Join the Slack channel: #fse-outreach-experiment
- FSE Gradual Adoption: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/30662
- Josepha’s post on “FSE Go/No Go”: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/15/full-site-editing-go-no-go-april-14-2021/
- Information about the FSE Outreach Program: https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/
- Anne’s post on “High level feedback from the FSE Program”: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/03/16/high-level-feedback-from-the-fse-program-march/
- Site Editor – “Preview Site” feature issue page: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29398
Link to Anne’s FSE presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPzATDkHzg
Second Speaker – Marcus Kazmierczak
And then we had Marcus do a live demo of Full Site Editing! Marcus even built a theme live. We also got to see how super fast he types – an absolute Command Line wizard! I wasn’t able to take useful notes as he was doing a live demo – watch the video!
Find Marcus on the web:
Twitter: @mkaz
Web: http://mkaz.blog
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mkaz7000
Marcus’s links:
- Keep up-to-date on WordPress News: https://wordpress.org/news/
- Learn how to use Block Patterns: https://wordpress.org/news/2021/03/so-you-want-to-make-block-patterns/
- Check out Theme Experiments: https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/
- The Twenty-Twenty One Theme for testing FSE: https://wordpress.org/themes/tt1-blocks/
- How to Test FSE: https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/how-to-test-fse/
- Improvements to List View: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29733
Special Announcement by Joe Simpson Jr
Find Joe on the web:
Twitter: @joesimpsonjr
Web: https://joesimpson.info/
We also had our good friend Joe Simpson Jr., Lead Organizer of WordCamp Santa Clarita (@wordcampscv), pop in to announce a few upcoming events he is working on:
- WordCamp for HBCU students: https://blackpress.wordcamp.org/2021-students/
- Santa Clarita WordCamp coming in June/July: https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/
Thanks again to David Bisset and Jean Felisme for hosting another fantastic WordPress MegaMeetup! Stay tuned for the May Meetup date and topic announcement.
Cheers.
Guy Cicinelli @guycicinelli
WordPress SWFL Organizer @wpswfl
