


<p>&ldquo;It also lets me auto generate pages from the data &ndash; for example company profile pages,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I attempted to write a blog post in the past about companies that did well, but it was never really a success. Now, I can display all their historical results, pull up analysis, compare them all by year, etc. So I am happier,&nbsp;companies are&nbsp;(hopefully) happier, and most of all &ndash; consumers get better insight into the&nbsp;results.&rdquo;</p>



<h2>WooCommerce Benchmarks Expanding</h2>



<p>WooCommerce benchmarks have expanded since their first time to be included separately last year. Five out of the 11 companies tested scored top tier results, including Lightning Base, Pressable, Servebolt, SiteGround, and WordPress.com.</p>



<p>Servebolt scored 99.999% Uptime and the fastest Load Storm average response time, along with the fastest wp-login, Buyer and Customer profiles and second fastest Home profile. Pressable reprised its top tier status with perfect uptime and the second fastest Average Response Time on WebPageTest. WordPress.com posted perfect uptime, the second fastest K6 average response time, and a solid Load Storm test. On the WebPageTest results WordPress.com took 10/12 of the fastest response times and posted the fastest WP Bench scores Ohashi has ever recorded and the second fastest PHP Bench.</p>



<p>In 2021, SiteGround slipped to honorable mention status in every other tier where it was tested, with the exception of WooCommerce. Lightning Base maintained its top tier status with a 99.99% uptime rating, very good flat Load Storm and K6 results, and no problems with the tests.</p>



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<p>&ldquo;For WooCommerce I had seven companies participate last year and this year had 11 companies, which is a 57% increase,&rdquo; Ohashi said. &ldquo;The traditional WordPress benchmarks grew from ~29 companies last year to 35-37 depending on if you differentiate Automattic brands (VIP, WP.com, Pressable) which is at least a 20% growth in participation.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Ohashi said he is pleased with the mix of new entrants and companies that have participated for years, but the pandemic has slowed Review Signal&rsquo;s business.</p>



<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a bit slow revenue wise,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t sell any products and don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve found any advantage during the pandemic to make what I do stand out relative to what&rsquo;s happening to the world. That is another motivating reason for creating <a href="https://WPHostingBenchmarks.com">WPHostingBenchmarks.com</a>, I wanted to take that extra time I have and make the biggest change for Review Signal in years.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Review Signal&rsquo;s benchmarks are one of the most thorough and transparent evaluations of hosting products in the industry. This is because Ohashi doesn&rsquo;t accept any hosting sponsorship. Each company pays a small, publicly documented, fee for participation to cover the costs of the tests. These fees are standardized based on the pricing tier of the product entered into the testing. Consumers in the market for a new hosting company will find <a href="https://WPHostingBenchmarks.com">WPHostingBenchmarks</a> a solid resource for comparing how companies perform at different pricing tiers. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 08 Jun 2021 04:06:02 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:42;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:75:"WPTavern: Spice Up Your Food or Recipe Blog With the Nutmeg WordPress Theme";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=117981";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:195:"https://wptavern.com/spice-up-your-food-or-recipe-blog-with-the-nutmeg-wordpress-theme?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spice-up-your-food-or-recipe-blog-with-the-nutmeg-wordpress-theme";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5683:"<p class="has-drop-cap">Last week, Dumitru Br&icirc;nzan <a href="https://www.ilovewp.com/nutmeg-plus-food-blogging-recipes-wordpress-theme/">announced Nutmeg Plus</a>. It is the latest commercial theme offering through his ILOVEWP brand. Earlier today, the <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/nutmeg/">free version of Nutmeg</a> landed in the WordPress theme directory. The theme is built for food and recipe bloggers and is another solid example of building on the block system.</p>



<p>As is typical of his style, Nutmeg rests on a foundation of clean lines and readable typography. It pulls elements from some of Br&icirc;nzan&rsquo;s previous work, such as the featured pages section of <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/photozoom/">Photozoom</a> and the two-column intro from <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/endurance/">Endurance</a>. Reusing code is one of the cornerstones of smart development.</p>



<p>The theme never gets too flashy, nor is it a bold step forward in design. However, it has a timeless layout that is hard to go wrong with.</p>



<p>Where it shines is in its use of block patterns and styles.</p>



<img />Recipe post built with Nutmeg.



<p>Sometimes, theme authors surprise me with, in hindsight, simple solutions. Nutmeg&rsquo;s List block styles had me asking, &ldquo;Why didn&rsquo;t I think of that?&rdquo;</p>



<p>Last month, I <a href="https://wptavern.com/you-might-not-need-that-block">challenged theme authors</a> to build out patterns that are often created as custom blocks. In the post, I showcased an example of how themers could provide pricing columns for their users. The Nutmeg theme is a perfect example of that same concept, only applied to recipes.</p>



<p>The unique aspect is that Br&icirc;nzan did not make it complex. With a few simple styles for the List block, he had all the makings of the typical &ldquo;recipe card&rdquo; seen on many food blogs. <em>Is it as advanced as a fully-featured recipe card plugin?</em> No. But, that should not be the goal. If users need more advanced recipe-related features and functionality, that is where plugins make sense. The theme even recommends a few like WP Recipe Maker, Recipe Card Blocks, and Delicious Recipes for those who need more.</p>



<p>However, for bloggers who are just starting, undecided on recipe plugins, or simply do not want another dependency, the theme has built-in solutions for them. It is tough to discount the value in that.</p>



<img />Adding instructions and ingredients.



<p>With a starting point of the Recipe Info, Ingredients List, or Ingredients + Instructions patterns, users can quickly pop these sections into their content. Or, they can go the alternate route of starting with the List block and selecting one of four custom styles.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Theme authors should be able to build unique and complex combinations of blocks with custom styles. Users should be able to just make it look like the demo.</p><cite><a href="https://wptavern.com/block-patterns-will-change-everything">Block Patterns Will Change Everything</a></cite></blockquote>



<p>It was March 2020. The Gutenberg development team had just pushed block patterns into the plugin, but the feature would not land in core WordPress for months. I do not want to call myself a prophet. It was plain enough for anyone to see: block patterns would eventually change how end-users interact with the editor and build their sites.</p>



<p>Patterns were the answer to elaborate homepage setups. Instead of jumping back and forth between non-standard theme options, hoping for the best from a theming community that never learned to entirely leverage the customizer, users could simply click buttons and insert layout sections where they wanted.</p>



<p>Recreating Nutmeg&rsquo;s homepage demo was easy. By just picking a few patterns and adding some custom images, I was up and running in minutes. No tutorial necessary. No half-hour session of figuring out a theme&rsquo;s custom options setup.</p>



<ol><li>Select the custom homepage template.</li><li>Add the Cover with Overlay pattern and upload an image.</li><li>Drop in the Opening Message pattern and customize.</li><li>Insert the Featured Pages pattern and add images.</li></ol>



<img />Homepage built from patterns.



<p>Simple setup processes like this are the exact thing that theme authors have been repeatedly asking about for the better part of a decade. Except for a powerful Query solution, which is arriving in a limited form in WordPress 5.8 (the Post Featured Image block is the weak point), the tools are mostly in place. The feature set is only growing with each release.</p>



<p>One of my favorite solutions in the theme is the use of the Cover block&rsquo;s inner container. The plugin has several styles for moving this inside box around and creating a featured section.</p>



<img />Customizing the Cover block with styles.



<p>One improvement I might suggest is to provide &ldquo;width&rdquo; styles for the inner container here. Core already provides an alignment matrix option. Styles for 25%, 50%, and 75% width (100% being the default) would offer more variety when coupled with the existing alignments.</p>



<p>The only things that felt out of place with the theme were its alignment block styles for Heading and Paragraph blocks. WordPress already provides alignment options for these blocks. I am not sure if there is a use case that I am unaware of for the styles, but they were definitely confusing.</p>



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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:56:"WordPress.org blog: People of WordPress: Tijana Andrejic";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://wordpress.org/news/?p=10427";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"https://wordpress.org/news/2021/06/people-of-wordpress-tijana-andrejic/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13617:"<p><strong>WordPress is open source software, maintained by a global network of contributors. There are many examples of how WordPress has changed people’s lives for the better. In this monthly series, we share some of the amazing stories.</strong></p>



<p>This month to coincide with WordCamp Europe, we feature Tijana Andrejic from Belgrade, Serbia, about her journey from fitness trainer to the WordPress world, with the freelance and corporate opportunities it introduced. </p>



<img width="632" height="387" src="https://i0.wp.com/wordpress.org/news/files/2021/06/2021-07-Tijana-Andrejic_Featured-Img_1.jpg?resize=632%2C387&ssl=1" alt="Tijana - portrait picture" class="wp-image-10713" />



<p>As a professional manager with a college degree in Organizational Science and a certified fitness instructor, Tijana is nothing if not driven and goal-oriented.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Following her time as a fitness trainer, Tijana moved to work in IT around 2016. She first explored content creation and design before focusing on SEO and becoming an independent specialist.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>Tijana was hired as a Customer Happiness Engineer for a hosting company, where she discovered the benefits of having a team. She realized that having close working relationships with colleagues is helpful for business success and accelerates personal growth.</p>



<p>Tijana hopes that by sharing her story, she can help others who are either starting their career or are moving roles. She describes the opportunities she discovered in the WordPress community as ‘a huge epiphany’, especially in the world of freelancing.</p>



<p>She highlights <strong>5 things that helped her to start a new freelancing career</strong>. Let’s dive into them.</p>



<h2>What motivates me?</h2>



<p>“Why am I doing this?” is the first question that Tijana asks herself before starting anything new. This self-review and honesty, she feels, allows her to determine her priorities. She also benchmarks options around her motivations of wanting a flexible schedule and to grow professionally.&nbsp;</p>



<p>She lists the reasons to make a particular choice, like being a freelancer, to help her choose the right job, pathway, or identify alternatives.&nbsp;</p>



<p>She recommends that others can take a similar approach. If freelancing is still the best solution after examining all their goals and motivations, Tijana believes a good next step would be to learn WordPress-related skills.</p>



<img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/cdHeIL-H_mE6QFCUxUT-gfKS2GzizRHtn4iCENoaWOimC82BfModRJh44QbhvHPW0GNVP5eUPhgxQteDRbA_9EUzpssTXMGWje1hUuKyrfXUgGhCnvXQdraaUQiaGBjFr73dNYxr" alt="WordCamp Europe 2019 group picture" />



<h2>Develop WordPress related skills</h2>



<p>The next question you may ask: “Why WordPress?”</p>



<p>WordPress is used by more than 40% of websites in some form and offers various roles, many of which are not developer-specific. Tijana highlights a few:&nbsp;</p>



<ul><li>web developer (coding websites, themes, and plugins)</li><li>web implementor (creating websites from existing themes without coding)</li><li>web designer (designing website mock-ups, editing images, or creating online infographics)</li><li>client support professional (helping people with their websites)</li><li>website maintenance (WordPress, themes, and plugins are maintained and backed up regularly)</li><li>WordPress trainer (helping clients with how to use the platform or teaching other web professionals)</li><li>content writer</li><li>accessibility specialist (making sure standards are met and suggesting solutions for accessibility barriers)</li><li>SEO consultant (improving search outcomes and understanding)</li><li>statistics consultant, especially for web shops</li><li>WordPress assistant (adding new content and editing existing posts)</li><li>website migration specialist (moving websites from one server to another)</li><li>web security specialist</li></ul>



<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/16XExYT_P4R4PX3orOaWbueDfkBIA6PFQ-CuYEXdeN9AvUIuIF33aIjT1DpdnFCqhrijWv1f68OR2Qh14xGT9REHGJ-MqK-OxJ9XcrhZ3IkcW8DBI7nVAtvFcCnCHL0woka_FV6t" alt="WCBGD group picture" />



<p>Tijana emphasized: “Another reason why WordPress is great for freelancers is the strong community that exists around this content management system (CMS).&#8221; WordCamps and Meetups are a way to get useful information and meet people from a large and very diverse community and get answers to many questions straight away.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In the past year, these events have been primarily online. However, the contributors who run them continue to make an effort to provide an experience as close to in-person events as possible. The biggest advantage to online events is that we can attend events from across the world, even if sometimes during these difficult times, it is difficult to get enough time to deeply into this new experience. Since Tijana’s first Meetup, she has attended many WordPress community events and volunteered as a speaker.</p>



<h2>Plan in advance</h2>



<p>Becoming a freelancer takes time. For Tijana, success came with proper planning and following her plan to ‘acquire or improve relevant skills that will make you stand out in the freelance market.’ She strongly believes that learning and growing as a professional opens more business opportunities.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If you are considering a freelance career, she advises improving relevant skills or developing new skills related to your hobbies as ‘there is nothing better than doing what you love.’ In cases where no previous experience and knowledge can be used, she suggests choosing ‘a job that has a shorter learning curve and builds your knowledge around that.’</p>



<p>Tijana started as a content creator and learned to become an SEO expert. However, she highlights many alternative paths, including starting as a web implementer and moving to train as a developer.&nbsp;</p>



<p>She suggests to others: “It would be a good idea to analyze the market before you jump into the learning process.” She also recommends people check the latest trends and consider the future of the skills they are developing.</p>



<p>Visit the new <a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">Learn WordPress.org</a> to see what topics are of interest to you. In this newly established resource, the WordPress community aggregates workshops to support those who want to start and improve their skills, provides lesson plans for professional WordPress trainers and helps you create personal learning to develop key skills. There is also material on helping you be part of and organize events for your local community.</p>



<p>Tijana highlights that there are many places for freelancers to find clients. For example, the WordPress Community has a place where companies and individual site owners publish their job advertisements&nbsp; &#8211; <a href="https://jobs.wordpress.net/">Jobs.WordPress.net</a>.</p>



<h2>Hurray, it’s time to get a first freelancing job</h2>



<p>As a pragmatic person, Tijana recommends: “Save money before quitting your job to become a full-time freelancer. Alternatively, try freelancing for a few hours per week to see if you like it. Although some people do benefit when taking a risk, think twice before you take any irreversible actions.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>She shared some possible next steps:&nbsp;</p>



<ul><li>use a freelancing platform</li><li>triple-check your resume</li><li>professionally present yourself</li><li>fill up your portfolio with examples</li><li>use video material</li></ul>



<p>“By using video material, your clients will not see you like a list of skills and previous experiences, but as a real person that has these skills and experiences and that provides a certain service for them.”</p>



<p>She adds: “Have a detailed strategy when choosing your first employer. Choose your first employer wisely, very wisely. I can’t emphasize enough how important this is”.</p>



<p>When Tijana took her first freelancing job, she considered the following:</p>



<ul><li>how was the employer rated by other freelancers who worked for him previously</li><li>how does the employer rate other freelancers</li><li>how much money had they already spent on the platform</li><li>the number of open positions for a specific job and the number of freelancers that have already applied&nbsp;</li></ul>



<p>“The first job is not all about the money. Don’t get greedy on your first job. If you get good recommendations, your second job can pay two to three times more. And your third job can go up to five times more. That was my experience.”</p>



<h2>Take responsibility as a freelancer</h2>



<p>Tijana reminds us: “Freedom often comes with responsibility; individual responsibility is key when it comes to freelancing.”</p>



<p>She advises others not to take a job if you can not make a deadline and have someone reliable who can help you.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Missing deadlines will cost your client money and affect the review the client will be willing to leave about your job, and this can have a big impact on your future opportunities or freelance jobs.</p>



<p>She adds: “This can start a downward spiral for your career. However, we are all humans, and unpredictable things can happen. If for some reason you are not able to complete your work in a timely manner, let your client know immediately so they can have enough time to hire someone else”.</p>



<p>Tijana emphasizes the importance of making expectations clear before accepting a job, both what the client is expecting and what you can expect from the client.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Lastly, she points out that if you are working from home, your friends and family should treat you the way they would if you were in an office. She advises: “Let them know about your working schedule.”</p>



<p>She hopes that these basic guidelines will be useful in launching freelance careers, as they did her, even though there is no universal recipe for all.</p>



<p>Tijana highlights: “It’s just important to stay focused on your goals and to be open to new opportunities.” Freelancing wasn’t the only way she could have fulfilled her goals, but it was an important part of her path, and it helped her be confident in her abilities to make the next big step in her life.</p>



<p>As a freelancer, she was missing close relationships with colleagues and teamwork, which she has now found in her current firm. Her colleagues describe her as a: “walking-talking bundle of superpowers: sports medicine and fitness professional, SEO expert, blogger, designer and a kitty foster mum”.</p>



<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/PIGT9R6FmtEHsNBvWzyViW5htRAm156asTOsohOGOUwfsWjW1TuDhUI9yuZnjIe-1eFHfFUWPULPtw82P3YYXHa0bsY_jA5keelmDHfSkTdd3xUsVZTmG9KvdE8XTojvU3LxYCsi" alt="Conference reception" />



<p>If you are considering starting your career as a freelancer, take the courses offered at <a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">learn.wordpress.org,</a> reach out to companies that you would be interested in working with, and remember that there are a whole host of opportunities in the WordPress project.</p>



<p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/">The WordPress.org Teams</a> &#8211; what they do, when and where they meet</p>



<p><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">Learn WordPress resource</a> &#8211; free to use to expand your knowledge and skills of using the platform and learning about the community around it.</p>



<p>The 3-day <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe 2021</a> online event begins on 7 June 2021. You can discover more about being a contributor in its live sessions and <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/contribute-to-wordpress/">section on ways to contribute to WordPress</a>.</p>



<h2>Contributors</h2>



<p>Thanks to Olga Gleckler (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oglekler/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>oglekler</a>), Abha Thakor (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">@webcommsat</a>), Chloé Bringmann (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>cbringmann</a>), Surendra Thakor (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sthakor/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>sthakor</a>), and Meher Bala (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/meher/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>meher</a>) for working on this story. Josepha Haden (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/">@chanthaboune</a>) and also to Topher DeRosia (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/">@topher1kenobe</a>) who created HeroPress. Thank you to Tijana Andrejic (<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andtijana/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>andtijana</a>) for sharing her #ContributorStory</p>



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<p><em>This post is based on an article originally published on HeroPress.com. It highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories would otherwise go unheard.</em></p>



<p><em>Meet more WordPress community members in our <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/category/heropress/">People of WordPress series</a>.</em></p>



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<p>You can get it clicking on the above button, downloading it from the&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/">WordPress.org plugin directory</a>&nbsp;or checking it out from our&nbsp;<a href="https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/8.0">Subversion repository.</a></p>



<p><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f449.png" alt="👉" class="wp-smiley" />&nbsp;<em>If you’re upgrading from a previous version of BuddyPress, it’s always a good idea to back-up your WordPress database and files ahead of time.</em></p>



<p>You can review all of the changes in this 8.0.0 release in the&nbsp;<a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-8-0-0/">release notes</a>. Below are the key features we believe you are going to enjoy most!</p>



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<h2>Your current members are the best way to recruit fantastic new members for your community.</h2>



<p>Whether public registration is enabled or not, you can activate this great new opt-in feature from your site&#8217;s BuddyPress settings; with it, your trusted members will handpick new members who will enrich your community.</p>



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<p>Once activated, each member will be able to send new Member Invitation emails and manage the pending invitations directly from his or her profile area.</p>



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<p>You keep control of everything thanks to two new screens we added to the BuddyPress Tools dashboard: invitations and opt-outs management.</p>



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<h2>Improved registration experience.</h2>



<p>First, you can select any xProfile field from any xProfile field group to use on your site&#8217;s registration form. Second, if your site requires that users accept specific rules such as terms of service or a code of conduct, you can now take advantage of the new Checkbox Acceptance xProfile Field type to record their agreement.</p>



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<p>Third, once a user activates his or her account, BuddyPress will send a welcome email to help get him or her engaged with your community. You can customize the content of this email from the Emails menu of your WordPress dashboard. Have a look to this <a href="https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/8-0-0-will-include-a-bp-email-to-welcome-new-community-members/">developer note</a> to find out more about it.</p>



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<p>The WP Biography field type lets you include the user&#8217;s Biographical Info and thanks to the WP Textbox field you can include the first &amp; last name, the Website URL as well as <strong>any</strong> of the custom contact methods of your users.</p>



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<p>8.0.0 includes more than 45 changes to improve the Activity component, the BP Nouveau Template pack, the BP REST API and many more components and features.</p>



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<h2 class="has-text-align-center">Many thanks to the 47 contributors who helped us build &amp; translate BuddyPress 8.0.0</h2>



<p><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oztaser/">Adil Oztaser (oztaser)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/">Ahmed Chaion (chaion07)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dontdream/">Andrea Tarantini (dontdream)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges/">Boone B Gorges (boonebgorges)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sbrajesh/">Brajesh Singh (sbrajesh)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/thee17/">Charles E. Frees-Melvin (thee17)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/needle/">Christian Wach (needle)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/comminski/">comminski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dancaragea/">Dan Caragea (dancaragea)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dcavins/">David Cavins (dcavins)</a>, <a href="https://github.com/dominic-ks/">dominic-ks</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edusperoni/">Eduardo Speroni (edusperoni)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fernandot/">Fernando Tellado (fernandot)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mociofiletto/">Giuseppe (mociofiletto)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hz_i3/">hz_i3</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ianbarnes/">Ian Barnes (ianbarnes)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/atxamart/">Iker Garaialde (atxamart)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nobnob/">Javier Esteban (nobnob)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/">John James Jacoby (johnjamesjacoby)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/krupajnanda/">Krupa (krupajnanda)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/offereins/">Laurens Offereins</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mahdiar/">mahdiar</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/markscottrobson/">Mark Robson (markscottrobson)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/imath/">Mathieu Viet (imath)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattneil/">mattneil</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/meijioro/">meijioro</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kalich5/">Michal Janata (kalich5)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/modemlooper/">modemlooper</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/DJPaul/">Paul Gibbs (DJPaul)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/podporawebu/">podporawebu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/psmits1567/">Peter Smits (psmits1567)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nekojonez/">Pieterjan Deneys (nekojonez)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/r-a-y/">r-a-y</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/espellcaste/">Renato Alves (espellcaste)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/renegade1/">renegade1</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/slaffik/">Slava Abakumov (slaffik)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/">Stephen Bernhardt (sabernhardt)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/netweb/">Stephen Edgar (netweb)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/studiocrafted/">studiocrafted</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sippis/">Timi Wahalahti (sippis)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mobby2561/">Tomas (mobby2561)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/">Topher (topher1kenobe)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/utsav72640/">Utsav tilava (utsav72640)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/vapvarun/">Varun Dubey (vapvarun)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/venutius/">Venutius</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/weddywood/">WeddyWood</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/yordansoares/">Yordan Soares (yordansoares)</a>.</p>



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<h2 class="has-text-align-center">Feedbacks welcome!</h2>



<p>Receiving your feedback and suggestions for future versions of BuddyPress genuinely motivates and encourages our contributors. Please share&nbsp;your&nbsp;feedback about this version of BuddyPress in the comments area of this post. And of course, if you’ve found a bug: please tell us about it into our&nbsp;<a href="https://buddypress.org/support/">Support forums</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 07 Jun 2021 19:45:05 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Mathieu Viet";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:45;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:77:"WordPress.org blog: WP Briefing: Episode 10: Finding the Good In Disagreement";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"https://wordpress.org/news/?post_type=podcast&p=10424";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:79:"https://wordpress.org/news/2021/06/episode-10-finding-the-good-in-disagreement/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12066:"<p>To Agree, disagree, and everything in-between. In this episode, Josepha talks about forming opinions and decision-making in the WordPress project.</p>



<p><em><strong>Have 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.</strong></em></p>



<h2>Credits</h2>



<p>Editor:<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/"> Dustin Hartzler</a></p>



<p>Logo:<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/"> Beatriz Fialho</a></p>



<p>Production:<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkaz/"> </a><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/">Chloé Bringmann</a></p>



<p>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</p>



<h2>References</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.oprah.com/spirit/suzy-welchs-rule-of-10-10-10-decision-making-guide/all">10/10/10 Rule</a></p>



<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method">The Eisenhower Matrix&nbsp;</a></p>



<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax">The Maximin Strategy&nbsp;</a></p>



<p><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></p>



<p><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></p>



<p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/5-8/">WordPress 5.8 Development Cycle</a></p>



<h2>Transcript</h2>



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<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>00:10</p>



<p>Hello, everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of some of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project and the community around it, as well as get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Joseph Haden Chomphosy. Here we go!</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>00:40</p>



<p>For anyone who has ever organized something, whether it&#8217;s a social event, a school project, or an annual family gathering, you know that there are many different opinions. The more opinions you have, the more likely people don&#8217;t see eye to eye. And before you know it, you&#8217;ve got some disagreements. Some things make disagreements worse, like imbalance of information, lack of showing your work, and sometimes just “too many cooks in the kitchen,” to use a regional phrase. Frankly, sometimes it seems like the second you have more than one cook in your kitchen, you&#8217;re going to get some disagreements. But I think that&#8217;s a healthy thing. WordPress is huge. And there are huge numbers of people contributing to WordPress or any other open source project you want to name. So there&#8217;s a lot of stuff available to disagree about. If we never saw anyone pointing out an area that wasn&#8217;t quite right, there would probably be something wrong. If you, like me, think that a healthy tension of collaborative disagreement can be useful when approached thoughtfully, then this quick start guide is for you.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Step one, prepare to host a discussion. This is, by the way, just the hardest step out there. You have to take a little time to figure out what problem you&#8217;re solving with the solution you&#8217;re suggesting, any goals that it relates to, and then figure out what the bare minimum best outcome would be and what the wildest dreams magic wand waving outcome would be. And you have to be honest with yourself.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Step two, host the discussion. The venue will be different for different discussions, but you see a lot of these on team blogs or within the actual tickets where work is being done. Wherever you&#8217;re hosting it, state the problem, state your idea for the solution and ask for what you missed. If you&#8217;re hosting a discussion in person, like in a town hall format, this can be hard. And generally, hosting discussions in an in-person or voice call or zoom call kind of way is hard. So if you have an opportunity to start doing this in text first and level your way up to in person, that&#8217;s my recommendation.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Step three is to summarize the discussion and post a decision if possible. So organizing a big discussion into main points is a really good practice for the people you&#8217;re summarizing it for and yourself. It helps you to confirm your understanding, and it also gives you the chance to pair other solutions with the problem and goals you outlined in step one. If a different solution solves the same problem but with less time or effort, it&#8217;s worth taking a second look with less time or effort. There’s something that I say to WordPress contributors frequently, and that is there are a lot of yeses. There are a lot of right ways to do things and only a few clear wrong ways to do things. So be open-minded about whether or not someone else&#8217;s right way to do things could still achieve the goals you&#8217;re trying to accomplish with your solution. A note on step three where I said, “and post the decision if possible.” Sometimes you&#8217;re the person to make that decision, but sometimes you are not the person who can give something the green light, and so you&#8217;re preparing a recommendation. Whether you&#8217;re making a decision or a recommendation, sometimes you may experience a little decision-making paralysis. I know I do. So here are a few of the tools that I use.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re avoiding the decision, use the 10/10/10 rule; it can help you figure out if you&#8217;re stuck on a short-term problem. If there are too many good choices, use the Eisenhower Matrix that can help you to prioritize objectively. If there are too many bad choices, use the Maximin strategy. It can help you to identify how to minimize any potential negative impacts.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Okay, so you&#8217;ve considered your position. You’ve discussed everything. You summarized the big points. Maybe you also worked your way through to a recommendation or a decision. What about everyone who disagreed with the decision? Or have you made a recommendation, and it wasn&#8217;t accepted? How do you deal with that? That&#8217;s where “disagree and commit” shows up. This phrase was made popular by the folks over at Amazon, I think. But it first showed up, I believe at Sun Microsystems as this phrase, “agreeing, commit, disagree and commit or get out of the way.”</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>05:34</p>



<p>Disagree and commit as a concept works pretty well when everyone agrees on the vision and the goals, but not necessarily how to get to those goals. We&#8217;ve had moments in recent history where folks we&#8217;re not able to agree, we’re not able to commit, and so then left the project. I hate when that happens. I want people to thrive in this community for the entire length of their careers. But I also understand that situation shows up in the top five learnings of open source when you no longer have interest in the project and handed it off to a competent successor. So there it is &#8211; disagreements in open source in WordPress.&nbsp;</p>



<p>As with so many of the things I discuss on this podcast, this is incredibly complex and nuanced in practice. Taking an argument, distilling facts from feelings, and adjusting frames of reference until the solution is well informed and risk-balanced. That is a skill set unto itself. But one that increases the health of any organization. I’ll share that list of references and general materials in the show notes, including a link explaining each of those decision-making tools that I shared. I&#8217;m also going to include the contributor training module on decision-making in the WordPress project. It&#8217;s got excellent information. It&#8217;s part of a series of modules that I asked team reps to take and sponsored contributors. I don&#8217;t require it from anyone, but I do hope that it is useful for you. Also, speaking of useful for you, if you are just here for leadership insights, I included some hot takes after the outro music for you. It&#8217;s like an Easter egg, but I just told you about it.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>07:33</p>



<p>And that brings us to our small list of big things! First off, WordCamp Europe is happening this we; I hope that everybody has an opportunity to attend. If you still haven&#8217;t gotten your tickets, they are free, and I think there are still a few left. I will include a link in the show notes as well. There&#8217;s going to be a little demo with Matt Mullenweg and Matias Ventura on the WordPress 5.8 release that&#8217;s coming up. And then kind of a retrospective discussion between Matt and Brian Krogsgard. I encourage you to join; I think it&#8217;s going to be very interesting.&nbsp;</p>



<p>There&#8217;s also WordCamp, Japan coming up June 20 through 26th. I mentioned it last time &#8211;&nbsp; it has a big section of contributing and contribution time. So if you&#8217;re looking to get started, some projects are laid out, and I encourage you to take a look at that as well.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The new thing on this list, and I don&#8217;t know how new It is, in general, I hope it&#8217;s not too new to you, is that WordPress 5.8 release is reaching its beta one milestone on June 8th, so right in the middle of WordCamp Europe. I encourage every single theme developer, plugin developer that we have, agency owners that we have to really take a look at this release and dig into testing it. It&#8217;s a gigantic release. And I have so many questions about what will work and will not work once we get it into a broader testing area. We&#8217;ve been doing a lot of testing in the outreach program. But it&#8217;s always helpful to get people who are using WordPress daily in their jobs to really give a good solid test to the beta product to the beta package. And put it all through its paces for us.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So, that my friends, is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I&#8217;m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy, and I&#8217;ll see you again in a couple of weeks.</p>



<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>10:09</p>



<p>Hey there, you must be here because I told you about this totally not hidden easter egg about my hot takes on organizational health; I have three for you. And if you&#8217;ve ever worked with me, none of this will surprise you. But if you haven&#8217;t worked with me, hopefully, it kind of gives you some idea about how I approach all of this a bit differently. So, number one, critical feedback is the sign of a healthy organization. And I will never be dissuaded from that opinion. A complete lack of dissent doesn&#8217;t look like “alignment.” To me, that looks like fear. And it goes against the open source idea that many eyes make all bugs shallow.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Tip number two, a bit of tension is good, a bit of disagreement is good. The same thing that I say about women in tech, we&#8217;re not all the same. And if we were, then we wouldn&#8217;t need to collaborate anyway. But diversity, whether that&#8217;s the diversity of thought or of a person or of experience, just doesn&#8217;t happen without some misunderstandings. It&#8217;s how we choose to grow through those misunderstandings that make all the difference for the type of organization we are.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And hot take number three, changing your mind isn&#8217;t flip-flopping or hypocritical. I think that&#8217;s a sign of growth and willingness to hear others. I like to think of my embarrassment at past bad decisions &#8211; as the sore muscles of a learning brain. And I, again, probably won&#8217;t be dissuaded from that opinion. Although, you know, if I&#8217;m sticking true to changing your mind some flip-flopping or hypocritical, maybe I will, but you can always try to, to give me the counter-argument for that, and we&#8217;ll see how it goes. Thank you for joining me for my little public easter egg.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:22:06 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:15:"Chloe Bringmann";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:46;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>It&#8217;s the eve of the second virtual <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/"><strong>WordCamp Europe</strong></a>. Tickets are still available for another awesome three days with talks, workshops and contributor events. This year, the organizer decide to sprinkle contributor event into the rest of the schedule and have for all three days, a mix between techtalk, business talks and contributor presentation and discussions. There are quite a few events around the Block editor, Full-site-editing and block-based themes. <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordcamp-europe-2021-starts-monday/">I compiled a list for you.</a> And just because I am so focused on Gutenberg, doesn&#8217;t mean you have to. 😎 <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/">Check out the schedule</a> and <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/registration/">get your tickets now</a>. </p>



<p>Hopefully, it will be the last virtual conference and we will see each other at an in-person WordCamp Europe in 2022. I am still hoping for Porto, Portugal.  At this state of withdrawal from meeting WordPress friends in person, it doesn&#8217;t matter where it will take place, thought. It&#8217;ll be a Hug-Fest. </p>



<p>Last week, I mentioned the next<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216223029678/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA"> <strong>Gutenberg Times Live Q &amp; A</strong></a> in the subscribers-only section of this newsletter. Now we have a full panel. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216223029678/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA">Registration is officially open</a>. I am thrileed to host Daisy Olsen, Jeff Ong and Tammie Lister for our show on <strong>How to get started on Theme building for Full-site Editing and using the Theme.json file</strong> to configure your theme, and its interaction with the block editor. The Theme.json file will be introduced with the release of WordPress 5.8 in July 2021. <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4216223029678/WN_gyOVb1h4S4iO_UZi1GMQaA">Get a head start and join us!</a></p>



<p><strong>Grzegorz (Greg) Ziolkowski</strong> will be back from vaction next week and we will record our next <strong>Changelog </strong>episode on Friday 11, 2021. I am so excited and can&#8217;t wait until Grzegorz is back!  If you have questions or suggestions or news, you want us to consider, hit reply or send them to <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. We now have consitently 500 &#8211; 800 downloads per week. It&#8217;s humbling, mind-boggling and inspiring.  And if YOU are a listener, Thank You!  If you have a minute or two, <a href="https://lovethepodcast.com/gutenbergchangelog">consider writing a review of the podcast</a>. We&#8217;d be grateful and might read it out loud on the next show. </p>



<p>Alright, that&#8217;s the news around Gutenberg Times. Below you&#8217;ll find what else happened in the Gutenberg universe. Enjoy! </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br />Birgit</p>



<p><em>PS: Hope to see you at WordCamp Europe. Don&#8217;t forget to join the #WCEU channel on WordPress Slack and meet speaker, sponsors, organizer and attendees like you and me. </em></p>





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<h2>Full-Site-Editing &amp; Themes</h2>



<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> published the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/06/02/fse-program-stick-the-landing-pages-summary/"><strong>Stick the landing (pages) Summary</strong></a>. This post is a summary of the sixth call for testing for the experimental FSE outreach program, which also was translated into Italian to reach more of the non-English audience. Earlier calls were also translated into Japanese. The group of FSE testers is much bigger now, thanks to the persistent efforts by Anne to reach out to the community and stay on top of all the issues around the template editor. </p>



<p>A reminder: You can still join the the seventh call for testing:<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/26/fse-program-testing-call-7-polished-portfolios/"> </a><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/05/26/fse-program-testing-call-7-polished-portfolios/">Polished Portfolios</a> </strong>&#8211; The deadline for your feedback was extended to June 16th, 2021. </p>



<p>If you read this before Sunday night, you can participate in the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-WordPress-Meetup-Group/events/278507419/"><strong>Full Site Editing Review and Test-a-thon </strong></a>Sunday, June 6th at  7 &#8211; 8:30 pm with the <strong>WordPress Meetup </strong>group in Philadelphia. </p>



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<p>Reading through the summary,  I am stuck on trying to understand the difference between a template built by the site-owner and a theme template. What will happen with their templates when the site-owner decides to change the overall theme of their site? There is still plenty to be figured out. <strong><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31971">How edited block templates are linked to themes</a></strong> is topic of the discussion on GitHub. The Gutenberg team would appreciate some thoughts from folks familiar with these APIs (theme mods, performance, database).</p>



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<p><strong>Kjell Reigstad</strong> posted again acomprehensive list of issues and discussions regarding block-based themes and Full-Site Editing: <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2021/06/04/gutenberg-themes-week-of-may-31-2021/"><strong>Gutenberg + Themes: Week of May 31, 2021</strong></a>. Any of the listed items are worth checking out and consider commenting. The more the team knows the better the next iteration of Full-Site editing and block-based themes becomes. </p>



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<h2>WordPress 5.8 release preparations</h2>



<p>From the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/05/devchat-meeting-summary-june-2-2021/">meeting notes of this week&#8217;s Dev Chat</a>: &#8220;Docs needs the most help with end user documentation. For block editor in particular. Some changes from 5.6 and 5.7 are still not published and we had a significant drop in number of contributors due to pandemic situation. Anyone interested in getting involved please&nbsp;ping <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/DjevaLoperka">Milana Cap</a></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(<strong>zzap</strong>&nbsp;on&nbsp;Slack).&nbsp;</p>



<p>The summary of needed <strong><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">DevNotes for new features in WordPress 5.8</a></strong> is available on GitHub and could use contributors. There is also a <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+label%3A%22Needs+Dev+Note%22">&#8220;needs dev note&#8221; label for pull requests</a>. </p>



<p>The widget screen could use some more testing. As a reminder, please read<strong> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/12/help-test-the-widgets-editor-for-wordpress-5-8/">Help Test the Widgets Editor for WordPress 5.8</a></strong> by <a href="https://twitter.com/andraganescu"><strong>Andre Draganescu</strong></a></p>



<h2>Block Patterns</h2>



<p><strong>Hector Pietro</strong> wrote in his post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/04/whats-next-in-gutenberg-june-2021/"><strong>What’s next in Gutenberg? (June 2021)</strong></a>: </p>



<p>&#8220;Since&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/05/27/whats-new-in-gutenberg-10-7-26-may/" target="_blank">Gutenberg 10.7</a>, block patterns displayed in the inserter are fetched from the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wordpress.org/patterns/" target="_blank">WordPress.org Pattern Directory</a>. This opens the door to having a big amount of wonderful patterns available in the inserter, which will require&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/31153" target="_blank">iterating on the pattern insertion experience</a>. </p>



<p>For more updates on the Pattern Directory, stay tuned for&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2021/04/28/block-pattern-directory-update/" target="_blank">Block Pattern Directory updates</a>&nbsp;and check the most recent&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/patterns-directory/" target="_blank">design iterations for the Pattern Directory</a>.&#8221;. </p>



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<h2>Plugins for the Block Editor</h2>



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-box/"><strong>Featured Box Plugin</strong></a> with this plugin &#8220;you can highlight a image with your key features&#8221; wrote <strong>Sumaiya Siddika</strong> on WordPress.org. <a href="https://wptavern.com/building-featured-boxes-with-the-wordpress-block-editor?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=building-featured-boxes-with-the-wordpress-block-editor">Justin Tadlock took it for a spin.</a></p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetformbuilder/">JetFormBuilder — Form Builder plugin for Gutenberg</a></strong> from the plugins stable at CrocoBlock. The developers <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjhead/">Andrey Shevchenko</a> and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hugreed/">Oleksandr Ivanenko</a> also added an extensive Post action hook system that allows you to daisy chain actions and integrated with 3rd party systems. I haven&#8217;t tested it yet, but it looks promising. Crocoblock has been building plugins and tools for Elementor and has now started supporing Gutenberg with their products as well. </p>



<p>Another new plugin is the <a href="https://crocoblock.com/plugins/jetengine-gutenberg/"><strong>JetEngine for Gutenberg</strong></a>  a dynamic content plugin that lets you build a complex websites fast and cost-effectively.</p>



<h2 id="fsethemes">Themes for Full-Site Editing</h2>



<p>A few people ask about Themes that are already working with the Full-Site Editing system and Site Editor. So I put a list together of those I know about. Now before you use them, you need to be aware that they are all built while Full-Site Editing is still under active development, hasn&#8217;t been released yet and ergo many features are still experimental. Do not use in production or live site. </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/blockbase/">Block Base</a> by Automattic</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/naledi/">Naledi </a>by Anariel Design </li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/tt1-blocks/">TT1 Blocks</a> by WordPress contributors, the FSE sibling of the Twenty-Twenty-One Theme</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/block-based-bosco/">Block-Based Bosco</a> by Fränk Klein</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/armando/">Armando</a> by Carolyn Newmark</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/q/">Q </a>by Ari Stathopoulos</li><li><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/hansen/">Hansen</a> by Uxl Themes</li></ul>



<p>If you find any missing, let me know.</p>



<h2>Gutenberg related Business Updates</h2>



<p>This week&#8217;s big WordPress business news is the aquisition of <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/elliotcondon">Eliots Condon</a></strong>&#8216;s plugin <strong><a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/">Advanced Custom Fields</a></strong> (ACF)  by Delicious Brains. With over more then 1 million active installs ACF is one of the widest used plugins. Thousands for developers depened on it in the <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/10-years-of-acf-a-truly-wonderful-time/">last ten years</a> to build complex WordPress sites. </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Stepping away from ACF has not been an easy decision to make. The reasoning behind it comes from a place of humility. As the number of installs have grown from thousands to millions, the needs of the product have outgrown my ability to develop solutions. The last thing I want to do to this amazing community is unintentionally hold back the project, so something needed to change.</p><cite><a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/10-years-of-acf-a-truly-wonderful-time/">Elliot Condon, ACF </a></cite></blockquote>



<p>Early on into the development of the block editor, Candon was also developing a<strong> <a href="https://wptavern.com/block-building-without-javascript-testing-acf-block-lab-and-lazy-blocks">php way to build blocks</a></strong> and integrated it into Advanced Custom Fields Pro starting with the version 5.8. This effort certainly helped developers even more. Now they could use their existing tools and offer their users Gutenberg compatible sites withouth learning ES6 JavaScript or ReactJS. </p>



<p><strong><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/">Delicious Brains</a></strong> also caters to WordPress Developers with products like  <a href="https://spinupwp.com/">SpinupWP</a> (💕), WP Migrate DB and more. Their team seems to be the right fit to pick up the torch and put ACF on an even stronger path for future growth. </p>



<p>You can learn more about the aquisition via </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://wptavern.com/delicious-brains-acquires-advanced-custom-fields-plugin">WPTavern (Sarah Gooding)</a>, </li><li><a href="https://poststatus.com/excerpt/12/">Post Status Excerpt</a> (Cory Miller &amp; David Bisset) , </li><li><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/epic-wordpress-announcement/">A WordPress Announcement of Epic&nbsp;Proportions</a> (Delicious Brain) </li><li><a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/10-years-of-acf-a-truly-wonderful-time/">10 Years of ACF – A truly wonderful time </a></li></ul>



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<h2 id="events">Upcoming WordPress Events</h2>



<p><strong>June 6, 2021</strong> <strong>7:00 pm EDT / 23:00 UTC</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-WordPress-Meetup-Group/events/278507419/">WordPress Meetup Philadelphia</a></strong><br />Full Site Editing Review and Test-a-thon</p>



<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; 9th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Europe</a></strong><br />A virtual event and contributor day. <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-sponsors/">Call for sponsors is open.</a></p>



<p><strong>🎉</strong>  Gutenberg Times is a media partner of WordCamp Europe 2021 </p>



<p><strong>June 10th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/events/278491308">WordPress &#8220;Mega Meetup&#8221;: Plugins That Keep Websites Running</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>June 20 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://japan.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Japan</a></strong><br /><em>The schedule has been posted. Most sessions will be in Japanese, with exceptions, I think&#8230; </em></p>



<p><strong>June 24, 2021 </strong><br /><strong><a href="https://attend.wpengine.com/summit-us-2021/">WPEngine Summit 2021</a></strong><br /><em>The digital breakthrough conference</em> <a href="https://events.wpengine.com/event/fd217870-fc78-46d2-8c5e-96c85e6e371c/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?environment=P2&tm=nSwmA1-ZyLXwe2wM80Vzve3wDjKBWeqKrHbJFivPV4o&locale=en-US">just released their schedule</a>. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the Keynote talk with <strong>Reshma Saujani</strong>, founder of Girls Who Code and Marchall Plan for Moms at 12:55 EDT / 16:55 UTC.  I also hope to see talks with Rob Stinston, Carrie Dils and Chris Wiegman. There are also deep dive talks listed into Headless WordPress. Enterprise WordPress is definitely heading down that route. </p>



<p><strong>June 24 &#8211; 26, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://cochabamba.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Cochabama</a></strong> (Colombia) </p>



<p><strong>July 17 + 18th, 2021</strong><br /><strong><a href="https://santaclarita.wordcamp.org/2021/">WordCamp Santa Clarita</a></strong><br />Calls for speakers ends TODAY! </p>



<p><strong>July 23, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://www.wordfest.live/"><strong>WordFest Live </strong></a>&#8211; <em>The&nbsp;</em>festival of WordPress</p>



<p>A<strong>ugust 6 + 7, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://nicaragua.wordcamp.org/2021/"><strong>WordCamp Nicaragua</strong></a></p>



<p><strong>September 21 + 22, 2021</strong><br /><a href="https://2021.wpcampus.org/"><strong>WPCampus 2021 Online</strong></a><br />&#8220;A free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education.&#8221;</p>



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<p>On the<a href="https://wpcalendar.io/online/"> <strong>Calendar for WordPress Online Events</strong> </a>you can browse a list of the upcoming WordPress Meetups, around the world, including WooCommerce, Elementor, Divi Builder and Beaver Builder meetups. </p>




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<p>We looked through the schedule and spotted very forward-looking Gutenberg related talks, workshops and discussions. Before you study the list, I would recommend the site <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html">Time Zone Converter</a> to help you convert the listed times from <strong>C</strong>entral <strong>E</strong>urope <strong>S</strong>ummer <strong>T</strong>ime (CEST) to your local time. Once in a while I get confused by time zones, and that&#8217;s my favorite site to set me straight. </p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size"><strong>Fabian Kägy, developer at 10up:  </strong><br /><strong><a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/session/building-great-experiences-in-the-new-editor/">Building great experiences in the new editor</a></strong></p>



<p><strong>Description: </strong>Starting out building blocks or experiences for the WordPress block editor can be a bit daunting. Where do I start? Custom blocks, block patterns or just styling core blocks. In this talk, Kägy will walk through the different options and share the benefits and downsides of each while talking about overall good practices for building great editorial experiences.</p>



<p>As a sidenote: Almost exactly a year ago,  <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/tooling-using-create-block-scaffolding-and-3rd-party-templates/">Fabian Kägy was a presenter at a Gutenberg Times Live Q &amp; A</a> together with Grzegorz Ziolkowski, and demo&#8217;d how you can use and extend the official WordPress create-block scaffolding tool. </p>



<p><strong>Monday, June 7th, 2021, at 10am EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST</strong></p>



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<h2>Full-Site Editing Panel Discussion</h2>



<p>The names of the panelist are still a secret, and I will update the post when we know more. </p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to get a jump start here are few resources: </p>



<ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/video-full-site-editing-overview-with-anne-mccarthy/">Video: Full-Site Editing Overview with Anne McCarthy</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/full-site-editing/">Full-Site-Editing – the Ultimate Resource List</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing/">So, You want to talk about Full-site Editing?</a></li></ul>



<p><strong>Monday, June 7, 2021 at 12:34 pm EDT / 16:34 UTC / CEST: 18:34</strong></p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size">Workshop: <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/session/a-walkthrough-of-full-site-editing-fse-from-one-of-the-contributors-to-the-experiment/">A walkthrough of Full Site Editing</a> with Herb Miller, Web developer in UK,</p>



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<p><strong>Description:</strong> Herb Miller will give a short tour of Full Site Editing (FSE) in this workshop from his perspective as a contributor to the outreach experiment for this major development in WordPress.</p>



<p>He has created a&nbsp;<a href="https://sneak-peek.me/">learning resource</a>&nbsp;which attendees can use to follow on during the workshop.</p>



<p>Herb will give attendees an overview of:</p>



<ul><li>how to get started</li><li>the components of the Site Editor</li><li>example templates and template parts</li><li>some blocks used to create FSE themes</li><li>example themes</li><li>a very few code samples</li><li>some answers to FAQs</li><li>how to become involved</li><li>and many links to other resources</li></ul>



<p><strong>Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC / 17:00 CEST</strong></p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size">Lee Shadle, web developer  <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/session/blazing-fast-block-development/">Blazing fast block development</a> </p>



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<p>Lee Shadle wrote in his description: <em>&#8220;I’ve been OBSESSED w/ building blocks since before Gutenberg was released. I’ve built a BUNCH of custom block plugins over the years. In this workshop I’m going to share the framework I’ve been using for quickly building custom block plugins for WordPress.&#8221;</em>. Shadle recently also held a talk at WordSesh and demo&#8217;d his create-block-plugin scaffolding tool and it was inspiring. This is definitely not a talk to miss. </p>



<p><strong>Tuesday June 8, 2021 12:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:oo CEST</strong></p>



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<p class="has-large-font-size">The Future of Themes in WordPress</p>



<p>The future of themes will be a topic of this panel discussion. Stay tuned or follow WordCamp Europe on Social Media (<a href="https://twitter.com/WCEurope">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WCEurope/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wceurope/">Instagram</a>).</p>



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<p>Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. The conversation should be the highlight of the WordCamp Europe</p>



<p><strong>Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 &#8211; 11:42 EDT / 15:42 UTC /  17:42 CEST</strong></p>



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<p>This edition of the WordCamp Europe also offers interesting Sponsor talks. Look for them <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2021/schedule/">on the schedule</a>, too.  </p>



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<p>As we’re nearing 5.8, there’s an increasing demand for people to speak about Full Site Editing and this post should help act as a resource guide to enable more people to do so. As always, I would love contributions from the wider community to build this out into an even more comprehensive resource! While this post covers a lot of content, see it as a go to place to mix and match as you’d like for your own presentation rather than something you need to know every detail of. For example, if you’re presenting to theme authors, you can use this to get a sense at a glance of what might be relevant from what to demo, what resources to share, what GitHub issues to highlight, and more.</p>



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<h2 id="0-resources">Resources</h2>



<ul><li>Feel free to re-use or get inspiration from&nbsp;this&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPzATDkHzg">FSE Overview</a>.</li><li>Pull from this&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RGNG3HlB1HXPNXaFi50I56MIr1XHb9MiV3nc--MuBvs/edit">working transcript for the above talks</a>.</li></ul>



<h2 id="1-key-points-to-cover-around-5-8">Key points to cover around 5.8:</h2>



<ul><li>FSE&nbsp;is a collection of features and not a monolith.</li><li>Because FSE is a collection of features, Core can be flexible in shipping what is both stable and adds the most value.</li><li>5.8 is focused mainly on bringing tools to extenders with limited changes to the user experience. This includes theme.json, new theme blocks, design tools, and template editing mode.</li></ul>



<h2 id="2-demo-ideas">Demo ideas</h2>



<p>Depending on who you are and who the audience, the following are your best bets for demo content:</p>



<ul><li>Block Theme building.&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkaz/">@mkaz</a>&nbsp;has some&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcusKazmierczak/videos">great videos uploaded to YouTube</a>&nbsp;that you can check out and Carolina Nymark&nbsp;<a href="https://fullsiteediting.com/">has this lovely site</a>.</li><li>Template Editing Mode.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z571V_jlD-o&feature=youtu.be">Here’s an overview video from yours</a>&nbsp;truly&nbsp;but keep in mind&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31461">this in progress PR</a>&nbsp;that, if merged, would change the experience of editing a post/page inside template editing mode.</li><li>Explore blocks with a focus on the Navigation &amp;&nbsp;Query&nbsp;Blocks. Note that the Navigation Block is not planned for 5.8. You can see a list of blocks&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/trunk/packages/block-library/src/index.js#L172-L192">planned for inclusion here</a>.</li><li>Build a custom 404 page. You can&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/09/fse-program-testing-call-3-create-a-fun-custom-404-page/">follow these instructions</a>&nbsp;to set up your demo.</li></ul>



<h2 id="3-helpful-git-hub-issues">Helpful GitHub issues</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551">Site Editing Milestones</a>: to get a high level overview of how this work has been approached and where to follow along.</li><li>On plans for restricting access:&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/26573">mapping features/functionality in order to update the UI</a>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27597">proposal for a robust permissions system with FSE</a>.</li><li>On types of pathways for classic themes:&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28744">Enabling FSE blocks in Classic Themes</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/209">Experiment to add Customizer Color Controls to TT1</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/173">Experiment using theme.json and Customizer</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/30438">Allow creating custom block templates in Classic themes</a>.</li><li>On the placement of the site editor experience:&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29630#issuecomment-811617222">Design and discussion exploring how best to finalize</a>&nbsp;the placement of FSE related features in wp-admin. This is a long term item to keep in mind as the Site Editor is not shipping in 5.8.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">Upcoming Dev Notes for 5.8</a>&nbsp;to get an early peak at what’s new.</li></ul>



<h2 id="4-helpful-posts">Helpful Posts</h2>



<ul><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/20/ways-to-keep-up-with-full-site-editing-fse/">Ways to keep up with FSE</a>&nbsp;so people can pick and choose their communication adventure.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/01/full-site-editing-and-themes-where-things-are/">Full Site Editing and Themes: where things are</a>&nbsp;from February 2021.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/">Full Site Editing Outreach Program</a>&nbsp;for those interested in helping to test and give feedback.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-answers/">A recent series of questions and answers</a>&nbsp;about Full Site Editing from 2021.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHxsDSAImn0">A great overview of FSE features</a>&nbsp;for non technical people.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/12/10/status-check-site-editing-and-customization/">Status check on Site Editing and Customization</a>&nbsp;from December 2020 for a more historical perspective.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/15/full-site-editing-go-no-go-april-14-2021/">Go/No Go Recap post</a>: to show how decisions were made around this release.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/20/full-site-editing-go-no-go-next-steps/">Go/No Go Next Steps post</a>: to give greater context around what needs to happen for each feature to be properly considered for inclusion in 5.8.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/">Full Site Editing Outreach Program handbook page:</a>&nbsp;to highlight how people can get involved in giving feedback and improving FSE.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment/how-to-test-fse/">How to Test FSE:</a>&nbsp;to give practical guidance around how to explore these features.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/block-theme-overview/">Block Theme Documentation</a>: to help people get started with block theme creation.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/handbook/full-site-editing/">Full Site Editing Documentation</a>: to give a high level overview of FSE and an entry point to learn more.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments">Theme Experiments Repo</a>: to help people explore current approaches to block themes and various in progress experiments.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/gutenberg-themes-roundup/">Gutenberg + Themes Roundups</a>: to help people stay up to date on happenings in&nbsp;Gutenberg&nbsp;that impact themes.</li><li><a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/themes/tags/meeting/">Bi-monthly Block theme meeting</a>: to give people a chance to discuss the latest and greatest with block themes.</li><li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-hallway-hangout/">FSE Hallway Hangouts</a>: to hear from those working on and giving feedback on these features.</li></ul>



<h2 id="5-conversation-starters">Conversation Starters</h2>



<ul><li>What would you like to see done as part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24551">gradual adoption milestone</a>?&nbsp;</li><li>What would make you more inclined to use Full Site Editing? On the flip side, what would make you less inclined?&nbsp;</li><li>Are there any key people or resources like podcasts, courses, documentation, etc that have helped you explore Full Site Editing?&nbsp;</li><li>How do you think Full Site Editing will change the WordPress ecosystem? What excites you there? What makes you nervous?&nbsp;</li><li>What do you think is most helpful to communicate about Full Site Editing right now to put more people at ease and build excitement?&nbsp;</li><li>What are you still confused about when it comes to Full Site Editing?</li></ul>



<h2 id="6-fa-qs">FAQs</h2>



<p>These are the top questions you can most likely expect to get asked with high level answers to get you started in the right direction. For a more comprehensive list of questions and answers,&nbsp;<a href="https://href.li/?https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-answers/">check out the FSE Outreach Program’s roundups</a>.</p>



<div class="schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block"><div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843349108"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What is Full Site Editing and what value will it bring?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">Full Site Editing is a collection of features that bring the familiar experience and extendability of blocks to all parts of your site rather than just post and pages. In terms of value, it depends on who you are:<br />User: empowerment to customize what you want to your liking without needing to dive into code.<br />Themer/developer: focus less on coding thanks to various design tools and more on creating a compelling experience with your theme.<br />Agency: greater control and consistency over what you offer clients including things like setting custom branding colors or locking down various aspects of the site such as typography settings.<br />When you see or feel this value depends on who you are, how early you adopt features, and when stable features land in Core. Thanks to FSE being a collection of features, some independent and some interdependent, there’s wonderful room to ship what’s stable.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843371957"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What is going to happen to themes and what kinds of pathways are being created?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">In the long run, it should make theme development much easier and simpler with design tools ready to tap into allowing theme authors to focus less on coding and functions and more on design expression and aesthetics. Because Full Site Editing requires a block based theme, this makes themes extremely important to get right! As a result, lots of pathways are being created including the ability to use theme blocks in a classic theme, exploring how to use the customizer and site editor as part of a “universal theme”, unlocking the ability to create a new block template in a classic theme, allowing classic themes to adopt the block widget editor, and more.<br />Key: Themes are a key part of the FSE experience, lots of work is being done to allow for a breadth of options going forward, and we need feedback from theme authors to make the transition easier. </p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843448534"><strong class="schema-faq-question">What about page builders/site builders?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">FSE is being built in a way that site builders, if they choose to, can build on top of what’s being created. Overall though, FSE is being built partially so people don’t get locked into one site builder over another. While the goals shared between FSE and site builders are similar in terms of empowering users and give better tools to customize a site, the main difference is that we are developing tools that work for users, themers, and hopefully also page builders by expanding how WordPress uses blocks as a whole. Since Core has to strike a nice balance, it’s expected that future plugins will play a role here in exposing more/less depending on user needs.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843480900"><strong class="schema-faq-question">How will restricting access to these features work?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">This will depend on who is asking the question (a user, a theme author, a developer, etc) but some of the GitHub issues referenced above should help. For users, I’d focus on the fact that they would either need to seek out a block theme to use or their current theme would need to ship specific updates. For a themer/developer, I’d share that there will be various options to opt in and out of this work (<a href="https://href.li/?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27814#issuecomment-823921386">for example with creating block templates</a>). Upcoming <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32365">5.8 dev notes</a> should address this for any new features.</p> </div> <div class="schema-faq-section" id="faq-question-1622843499287"><strong class="schema-faq-question">Will upgrading to 5.8 cause FSE to take over my site like the Core Editor did in 5.0?</strong> <p class="schema-faq-answer">No. 5.8 is focused on giving tools to extenders first and foremost before more user facing changes are launched going forward and integrated into themes. In terms of user facing features, you can expect to see</p> </div> </div>



<p><em><a href="https://nomad.blog/2021/06/02/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing/">Anne McCarthy published this post on her personal blog</a> and gave us permission to republish it here as well.</em></p>



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<p>Version 9.8 also included a security patch for all sites using the Carousel feature. The <a href="https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/08a8a51c-49d3-4bce-b7e0-e365af1d8f33">vulnerability</a> allowed the comments of non-published pages/posts to be leaked. It was severe enough for the Jetpack team to work with WordPress.org to release 78 patched versions &ndash; every version of Jetpack since 2.0. Sites not using the Carousel feature were not vulnerable but could be in the future if it was enabled and left unpatched. </p>



<p>In a rare move, WordPress.org pushed a forced update to all vulnerable versions, surprising those who have auto-updates disabled. Several Jetpack users posted in the support forums, asking why the plugin had <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-updated-without-permission/">updated automatically without permission</a> and in some cases not to the newest version.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So this update was a forced update on WordPress sites even with auto-updates disabled? <br /><br />We had this go live on a prod site at 2am last night that has auto-updates disabled for very specific reasons. <br /><br />Not cool Jetpack. <a href="https://t.co/55upBmyeHp">https://t.co/55upBmyeHp</a></p>&mdash; Brad Williams (@williamsba) <a href="https://twitter.com/williamsba/status/1400498727991787521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<p>Jetpack team member Jeremy Herve said the vulnerability was responsibly disclosed via Hackerone, allowing them to work on a patch for the issue. After it was ready to go, the Jetpack team reached out to the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a>&nbsp;security team to inform them of a vulnerability impacting multiple versions of the plugin.</p>



<p>&ldquo;We sent them the patch alongside all the info we had (a PoC for the vulnerability, what features had to be active, what versions of Jetpack were impacted),&rdquo; Herve said. &ldquo;They recommended we release point releases for older versions of Jetpack as well.</p>



<p>&ldquo;We created those new releases, and when we were ready to release them, someone from the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a>&nbsp;team made some changes on the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress.org</a>&nbsp;side so folks running old, vulnerable versions of the plugin would get auto-updated, just like it works for Core versions of WordPress.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Jetpack team member Brandon Kraft estimated the number of vulnerable sites at 18% of the plugin&rsquo;s active installs. He said that Jetpack was not part of the discussion about the pushing out a forced update.</p>



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<p>&ldquo;What probably adds to the confusion is that WordPress 5.5 added a UI for plugin (and theme) autoupdates,&rdquo; Herve said. &ldquo;That UI, while helping one manage plugin autoupdates on their site, is a bit different from Core&rsquo;s forced update process. Both of those update types can be deactivated by site owners, just like core&rsquo;s autoupdates can be deactivated, but I don&rsquo;t believe (and honestly wouldn&rsquo;t recommend) that many folks deactivate those updates.&rdquo;</p>



<p>Brandon Kraft dug deeper into the topic and published a <a href="https://kraft.blog/2021/06/automatic-updates-in-wordpress/">post</a> that explains the differences between auto-updates and forced updates. It includes how to lock down file modifications if you don&rsquo;t want to receive any forced updates in the future. Forced updates, however, are exceedingly rare, and Kraft counts only three for Jetpack since 2013.</p>



<p>In this instance, the Jetpack team followed the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/plugin-security/#automatic-plugin-security-updates">official process for reporting a critical vulnerability</a> to the plugin and security teams who determine the impact for users based on a set criteria. Users who received an email notification about an automatic update from Jetpack, despite having the UI in the dashboard set to disable them, should be aware that these forced updates can come once in a blue moon for security purposes. </p>



<p><a href="https://perezbox.com/">Tony Perez</a>, founder of NOC and former CEO at Sucuri, <a href="https://noc.org/2021/06/03/automattics-jetpack-plugin-for-wordpress-abuses-user-defined-settings-calls-into-question-auto-updates/">contends</a> that forcing a security update like this violates the intent users&rsquo; assign when using the auto-updates UI in WordPress. He highlighted the potential for abuse if the system were to become vulnerable to a bad actor.</p>



<p>&ldquo;The platform is making an active decision that is arguably contrary to what the site administrator is intending when they explicitly say they don&rsquo;t want something done,&rdquo; Perez said. &ldquo;Put plainly, it&rsquo;s an abuse of trust that exists between the WordPress user and the Foundation that helps maintain the project.</p>



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