WordPress 'Gutenberg Block News' - 11th November 2022: BIG Gutenberg updates coming soon!

Timeline
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Gutenberg custom css
1:05 - Make Gutenberg Blocks sticky
1:50 - Move document outline to list view
2:25 - Push blocks styles to global styles
3:00 - Import and Export theme styles
4:25 - Copy and paste Gutenberg block styles
4:55 - Make reusable blocks better
5:30 - Collaborative editing sneak peek
6:09 - New linktree style theme is released
6:45 - Latest Gutenberg review

[octopusfly]

Thanks for sharing.
Block news helps me feel the WordPress pulse andprepares me for changes to maybe come.

[jugibur]

This is great news, I like Gutenberg more and more, thanks for the presentation.

[Permaslug]

Great video! The collaborative editing is really cool. And oh my gosh I want the UI updates for Reusable Blocks so badly lol.

[DPlugins]

Love the copy paste styles. Hopefully they will create option to save styles like Sketch is doing it. So you have 5-6 saves styles for button and then choose one you need.

[rale]

Favourite news outlet!
Would really love to have an easy way to add CSS and JS.
I also don't like that all HTML blocks are open when you open the page. So, you have to click on each one and select to show you the Preview instead of the code. (cause that's where I usually store my custom styles)

[MelTaylor]

Great series of videos... Jamie. Cheers

[DiegoPereyra]

You make really cool videos, very helpful.
Straight forward, simple explanations, very well delivered.
Thank you...😉

Grate channel.

[nwdesign]

Nice summary, Jamie. Thought the sticky blocks was pretty interesting. Easy enough to implement with basic css on a sidebar layout like you mentioned but handy for non-coders if it's an on/off switch. What would have been more interesting is a fixed header bar which, to be honest, I was very surprised was not included in blocks right out of the (original) box. I mean, how common is that feature on websites? (* cough * very, very common * cough *) While sticky might partially address this, it's not the full picture. With header bars, it's quite common to have a banner slideshow or banner with a background video with semi-transparent, dark overlay upon which you have a transparent background header bar with perhaps a white version of your logo (using filter: brightness(0) invert(1); on the logo image) and white navigation menu links. As you scroll down, the header bar switches to opaque background (say, solid white) and the logo and nav links switch accordingly (e.g., full color logo, black nav links). Sticky solves the fixed position aspect of header bar but not the background/foreground color bits. For this, I'm currently using a bit of simple javascript to add a special class to the header once you scroll down a certain number of pixels (e.g., 100px) from the top of the screen. That added header class specifies the color change for the header background, logo color, and nav link color. Not hard to do but slightly irritating that they didn't at a minimum provide the fixed position header from day zero. Anyway, 'nuff ranting, great video as always, Jamie. Thanks for posting.

[PaulPhillipsUK]

Agree on why do we need all these different themes, but what would be the base theme? They don't seem to have sorted that out.

[aselma]

I still stick to php templates and ACF. I've built very impressive sites like this. Blocks are cool, but not my preference yet. Still cool video

[stuartmorley]

They want to ensure they finish Phase 1 first. Whilst Its good to see they are working on some good stuff there are many very simple things that are just missed. You can't have a list of items flowing over several colums. The List View on the LHS of the page seems to need to be enabled each time you edit a page. Creating multi columns needs you to insert a paragraph before dropping content in content. The cover block althougn great can be painful when adding text and wanting a background around that text as options are limited. If you start using columns then you have that large spacing around each one which is difficult to remove and there are many more. I find editing a page is more time consuming than it needs to be. You can fix some of these thing guessed it...getting another plugin. These are of course rarely updated (once they've got your money), buggy and you spend so much time debugging. I've ditched loads of plugins (including some of yours Jamie - sorry) for this reason although your suggestion of using the Blocksy theme was superb. Walk away from Wordpress for a day and hey presto another 16 plugins need updating. :). New version of WP comes out and most of your plugins aren't tested. I am converted to Gutenberg now but the journey has been so painful. It's good that it's evolving as it means we don't need to rely on plugins to do simple stuff. Had very few of these issues with WPBakery and could create a page so much faster albeit more limited in functionality. It seems the creative people have got hold of this and want to make "reverse parallax, colour swapping, inverted zooming content boxes" (I made that up btw) that few might use (but look cool) rather than fix the simple stuff. :) - Great videosn as always Jamie

[kevinschmidt]

Heh... you had to terminate the Terminator!

[MarkConstable]

Yay, Sticky FTW. Maybe we can finally have a native sticky nav header!

[pomade]

In some of your recent videos i noticed you use FSE features but isn't it still in beta ?
are some people already using that for their clients?

[IainMacGillivray]

Hi Jamie, Is there any way yet to export/import gutenberg templates (theme and custom) ?