Paul Jacobson

Tag: block editor

  • Reminders why blogs remain relevant despite social media

    Reminders why blogs remain relevant despite social media

    Chris Maiorana published a post highlighting why blogs remain relevant despite social media, perhaps because of social media.

  • Still working on a more convenient publishing workflow on mobile

    Still working on a more convenient publishing workflow on mobile

    My publishing workflow for my site on desktop is convenient enough. I’d love to be able to share on mobile as conveniently. I’m just not there yet. That’s probably why this quote resonates with me: This is important. I need to enjoy the workflow and publishing experience. For me, it’s technical and I want to…

  • … you can create blocks like it’s 1999

    I’m watching Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word 2019” from the recent WordCamp US, and almost snorted my tea when he had this to say about the new colour gradients feature for blocks in Gutenberg v6.8: You can create blocks like it’s 1999 … Matt Mullenweg, speaking at WCUS 2019 😂 You can find Matt’s…

  • Making the WordPress block editor even easier with preconfigured layout options that use standard Gutenberg blocks

    Making the WordPress block editor even easier with preconfigured layout options that use standard Gutenberg blocks

    This definitely falls into the This is cool! category. The Gutenberg Blocks Design Library is an awesome plugin that used standard blocks to create a range of useful layouts. What’s great about this plugin is that it uses blocks that are part of the new WordPress Editor already, and combines them to create a collection…

  • Pretty excited about the RSS block in Gutenberg 5.0

    Pretty excited about the RSS block in Gutenberg 5.0

    I noticed that Gutenberg 5.0 has added a RSS block to the editor. This is probably a bit nerdy, but I was pretty excited to see this addition to the block editor. My “Interesting stuff” page is an experiment in sharing things I find, well, interesting online. I had to install a separate plugin to…

  • Watch this if you’re still on the fence about the new WordPress Editor (aka Gutenberg)

    If you’re still unsure about the new WordPress Editor (aka Gutenberg), it’s worth watching Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word keynote at the recent WordCamp US 2018 event in Nashville. You can find links to parts of the talk, along with slides, and commentary in Matt’s post, here: I’ve been using the new Editor almost…

  • MarsEdit + WordPress 5.0

    MarsEdit + WordPress 5.0

    MarsEdit is my favourite blog editor for my laptop. I use it daily, mostly for work-related posts that I publish. It makes it so much easier for me to publish to a variety of blogs (we have a lot of internal blogs at Automattic). The new WordPress Editor has changed how we write blog posts…