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You can submit them to <a href=\"mailto:wpbriefing@wordpress.org\">wpbriefing@wordpress.org</a>, either written or as a voice recording.</strong></em></p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"credits\">Credits</h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/dustinhartzler/\">Dustin Hartzler</a></li><li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/\">Beatriz Fialho</a></li><li>Production:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbringmann/\">Chloé Bringmann</a></li><li>Song: Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"references\">References </h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/11/17/wordpress-5-9-beta-1-delayed/\">5.9 Beta 1 Delay Announcement </a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/11/22/wordpress-5-9-revised-release-schedule/\">5.9 Revised Release Schedule</a></li><li><a href=\"https://sevilla.wordcamp.org/2021/\">WordCamp Sevilla 2021</a></li><li>Charitable Giving: <ul><li><a href=\"https://wordpressfoundation.org/donate/\">WordPress Foundation</a></li><li><a href=\"https://donate.bigorangeheart.org/\">Big Orange Heart</a></li><li><a href=\"https://heropressnetwork.com/support/\">HeroPress</a> <em>(Update: This organization is not a non-profit.)</em></li></ul></li></ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"transcript\">Transcript</h2>\n\n\n\n<span id=\"more-11636\"></span>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>00:11</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I&#8217;m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. See, here we go!</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>00:40</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, today, folks, in our podcast, I am joined by a couple of special guests. I know it&#8217;s been a bit since I&#8217;ve had a guest, so I&#8217;m very excited to introduce you to who I have with me today. Today, I have <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/onemaggie/\">Maggie Cabrera</a> and <a href=\"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jffng/\">Jeff Ong</a>. They both are working on themes, and especially the future of themes as we move into this low code, no code block based experience of editing things in WordPress. And there have been so many questions lately about what does the landscape of being a theme developer turns into once we move fully into this excellent promise of user empowerment for Gutenberg? I figured who best to come and talk to us about that than these two. So welcome, Maggie. Welcome, Jeff. I&#8217;m really excited to have this conversation with you today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Ong&nbsp; </strong>01:39</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for having us. Excited to be here.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>01:45</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m just gonna hop right in, and we will see what happens. The first thing that I want to chat about, I hear so many questions and so much discussion about patterns in a lot of different places. Like obviously, the work that I helped to steward the most is around like the Block Pattern directory and various other user-facing tools. And so I have never really been able to give a really solid answer about like patterns and how they work inside themes. And so I wondered if you all had anything that you could offer to our listeners to help clarify what is the power of patterns inside themes in the future? 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Like no one actually would ever look to me and be like, that one is excellent at design and fixing everything with code, like I was just killer at searching for the right pieces of code, right.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>06:57</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I remember sitting there on Zynga, which is, of course, now powered by WordPress, I absolutely just went out and found bundles of code that are now what we would consider themes and modified the small pieces that I needed to change in order to like really suit what I wanted to have happen on the site at the time. And they&#8217;re like, I knew I could break it all. Really easily. But also, it was, it was not scary to think about breaking it. Like it was clear how I could fix it if I really broke it. The content, like what I had written, was separate from everything to do with the way that it was looking. 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Because like you have coffee, and then decaf coffee, no one&#8217;s like caffeinated coffee, because that&#8217;s what you expect out of it. And so when you&#8217;re like themes, and block themes, it makes it look like block themes are secondary, which at the moment, they are, ish. But in the future, I think you&#8217;re probably right, there will be a time when the modifier isn&#8217;t necessary anymore because it will be hopefully a much better way for people to kind of change the way that their themes work and make it more usable for users and people who are, you know, having to manage their own site without necessarily wanting to or being able to, like, have a Maggie in the room to fix everything that they break.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>12:08</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie is nowhere near me. And so she&#8217;s never been in the room when I&#8217;ve broken anything. 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But they are also able to be customized using the customizer, which is the old way of customizing themes, instead of using the site editor. So they can have a balance between two worlds between the worlds of classic themes and block themes. But they are, at heart, a temporary concept. They are bound to be blocked themes in the future, but with maybe a foot in the past, where they can actually serve users who are not ready for full-on site editor. But they are bound to be full block themes in the future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josepha Haden Chomphosy&nbsp; </strong>14:00</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a really interesting concept in there. So universal themes, it sounds like are basically kind of like an on-ramp for people who are not really ready to fully commit to this for any number of reasons. Like we never want to say that we know the reason that people would be a little bit shy to get started with this. 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(22 December)</a>&nbsp;and points out as highlight the following: </p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/#seamless-navigation-between-the-site-editor-and-the-template-list\">Seamless navigation between the Site Editor and the Template List</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/#improvements-to-post-comments\">Improvements to post comments</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/#a-new-home-for-border-controls\">A new home for border controls</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/#new-font-sizes-in-the-fontsizepicker-component\">New font sizes in the&nbsp;<code>FontSizePicker</code>&nbsp;component</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/#improved-color-picker\">Improved color picker</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/22/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-2-22-december/#preview-for-block-styles-in-the-widget-editor\">Preview for Block Styles in the Widget Editor</a></li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Tadlock gave it a whirl in his post <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-12-2-focuses-on-user-experience-improvements\"><strong>Gutenberg 12.2 Focuses on User Experience Improvements</strong></a>. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/luisherranz\"><strong>Luis Herranz</strong></a> released Gutenberg 12.3 and published the release notes on January 5th, 2021: <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/\"><strong>What’s new in Gutenberg 12.3? (5 January)</strong></a>. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlighted PRs are listed as follows. </p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/#new-blocks-to-build-with\">New blocks to build with</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/#more-controls-to-customize\">More controls</a> for Spacer and Group Blocks</li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/#set-your-site-icon-using-the-site-logo-block\">Set your site icon using the Site Logo block</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/#restrict-navigation-menu-creation-for-non-admin-users\">Restrict Navigation Menu creation for non-admin users</a></li><li><a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/whats-new-in-gutenberg-12-3-5-january/#core-blocks-reference\">Core Blocks Reference</a></li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The last bullet point references the new Handbook page Core Block Reference and it is a big step forward to a complete and updated documentation of the core blocks. The blocks&#8217; block.json information feeds into this page automatically. </p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> wrote about it in <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-12-3-introduces-new-blocks-design-options-and-a-complete-core-blocks-reference\"><strong>Gutenberg 12.3 Introduces New Blocks, Design Options, and a Complete Core Blocks Reference</strong></a></p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grzegorz Ziolkowski</strong> and I recorded the <strong><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-58-devnotes-for-full-site-editing/\">58th Gutenberg Changelog</a></strong> episode on Friday, January 7th, 2022. We talk about WordPress 5.9 release and DevNotes for Full-site Editing and block themes, and Gutenberg 12.2 and 12.3. We also, answered listener questions, this time by <a href=\"https://twitter.com/adityakane\">Aditya Kane</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jessicalyschik\">Jessica Lyschik</a>. </p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"developing-for-gutenberg-and-block-building\">Developing for Gutenberg and Block Building</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For those among us, who still rely on ACF for site data handling, <strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Joey_Farruggio\">Joey Farruggio</a></strong> built a command line tool to streamline the ACF blocks creation. You can read more about the context and the making of the CLI and what you can delegate to a script. <a href=\"https://github.com/joseph-farruggio/create-acf-block\">The <strong>Create-ACF-Block CLI code</strong> </a>is available on GitHub. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of scaffolding blocks, the <strong>official WordPress create-block</strong> received and update, too. Once you are done with developing your plugin, you can automatically assemble the plugin.zip that you can upload to WordPress or share with other users via the plugin directory. Here is a short blog post about it: <a href=\"https://icodeforapurpose.com/run-plugin-zip-for-create-block/\"><strong>Run plugin.zip for create-block</strong></a>. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>In his <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ryanwelcher/status/1478737187738894339\">tweet</a>, <strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/ryanwelcher\">Ryan Welcher</a></strong> pointed to the most recent Block Plugin Checker updates. When you submit your single block plugin to the directory, the Plugin Checker now validates against the block.json schema and also has a check for unique plugin namespaces as well. You can read about the details in this trac ticket: <strong><a href=\"https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5303\">Block plugin validation tool UI improvements</a></strong>. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Only tangentially related to the block editor, <strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/gziolo\">Grzegorz Ziolkowski</a></strong> published for the Core JavaScript team a proposal on <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/05/proposal-changes-to-javascript-coding-standards-for-full-prettier-compatibility/\"><strong>Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility</strong></a>. Several contributor and developers have already commented. Let you opinion heard. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>In his post, <a href=\"https://carlosbravo.blog/2021/01/07/how-advanced-custom-fields-handle-blocks/\"><strong>How Advanced Custom Fields handle&nbsp;blocks</strong></a>, <strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/c4rl0sbr4v0\">Carlo Bravo</a></strong>, discusses how you can create blocks with ACF (the plugin Advanced Custom Fields), what advantage is has and what downsides are for the users of such blocks. If you try to decide to invest in learning how to create dynamic blocks or ACF Blocks it&#8217;s a great article to start the process. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/CometMarie\"><strong>Marie Comet</strong></a> explains in her post <a href=\"https://mariecomet.fr/en/2021/12/14/adding-options-controls-existing-gutenberg-block/\"><strong>Adding options and controls to an existing Gutenberg block</strong></a>, how to extend core blocks with an additional button in its Toolbar or  more option controls in the sidebar. Sometimes extending existing blocks is faster than recreating features via Custom Blocks. </p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/\">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s main (trunk) branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><img alt=\"GitHub all releases\" src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/bph/gutenberg/total\" /></p>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"updates-for-designers-and-theme-developers\">Updates for Designers and Theme Developers</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from the list of developer notes and reading list, <strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/angelasjin\">Angela Jin</a></strong> published a <a href=\"https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/03/proposal-approving-block-pattern-directory-submissions/\"><strong>Proposal for Approving Block Patterns Submissions to the directory</strong></a>. 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The next session will be next week, Thursday at 10:30 am ET / 15:30 UTC</p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>On January 12th, <strong>Daisy Olsen</strong> and <strong>Sarah Snow</strong> present the first installment of another series: &#8220;<a href=\"https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-social-learning/events/283103474\"><strong>Zero to Block Theme Series: Foundations&#8221;</strong></a> at 1pm ET / 18:00 UTC. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kelly Choyce-Dwan</strong>, core contributor on the meta team,  takes you along her journey while <a href=\"https://ryelle.codes/2021/12/switching-to-a-block-based-theme\"><strong>switching to a block based theme</strong></a>. She shares with you her process and her challenges and how she overcame them. Choyce-Dwan also surfaced a few things that are bugs and some have already been fixed. She also noticed that there is no way to give buttons or links hover state/colors, and CSS is your fallback. In conclusion, she wrote: &#8220;It was a fun experiment to refresh this site, and I really see the promise of block-based themes for easy site building. 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Certainly, worth checking out. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexandra Yap</strong> introduced you to a new feature from the team at Stackable: Their plugins now gives you the option to start your design process directly in the Site editor. <a href=\"https://wpstackable.com/blog/how-to-wireframe-a-website-using-gutenberg/\"><strong>Learn how you can use Gutenberg to wireframe a website.</strong></a> </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Although the block editor can handle Markdown in and of itself, it&#8217;s not the most convenient Markdown editor. The <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/markup-markdown/\"><strong>MarkUp MarkDown</strong></a> plugin seems to change that although it gives me unwanted flashback to pre-block editor times. In his review, <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/new-wordpress-plugin-offers-a-markdown-editor-solution\"><strong>New WordPress Plugin Offers a Markdown Editor Solution</strong></a> Justin Tadlock, is of other opinion, so it was a worth a read for me. </p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Flashback, read <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/a-throwback-to-the-past-retro-winamp-block\"><strong>A Throwback to the Past: Retro Winamp Block</strong></a> by <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> on his take on the block plugin that allows you to embed a Winamp player and skin into your 21st-century website.</p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" />\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/phil_webs\">Phil Webster</a></strong> created the <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/a-throwback-to-the-past-retro-winamp-block\"><strong>Newspaper Column </strong></a>block, and interesting approach to have this block automatically display text  over three or four columns automatically. It works best with paragraph and lists. Webster also plans to work on Accessible Block Collection to offer additional accessibility features for core blocks and build blocks that are missing for instance an Accordion block.  </p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a sidenote, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/phil_webs/status/1479242474304552960\">here</a> is a twitter exchange with Webster about <a href=\"https://twitter.com/phil_webs/status/1479242474304552960\">what is best for the user: Single purpose blocks or bock collections.</a> What has been the better experience been for you? And would you pay for a single block premium plugin? And more. 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