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Get Your WordPress Website Theme Gutenberg Ready

Written by Charlie Tapster

Since WordPress 5.0 our developers have found themselves spending a lot of time enabling new Gutenberg features for older WordPress projects. In this post our WordPress Engineer Charlie describes WordPress development best practice on how you can quickly get your older WordPress websites ready for Gutenberg.

Our Gutenberg ‘Block Starter Kit’ is now available

Written by Matt Watson

We’ve been working with the new WordPress editor ‘Gutenberg’ for a while now and one of the key components to this has been the creation of a ‘boilerplate’ or ‘starter kit’ that helps our team to quickly create new WordPress Blocks.

How the WordPress 5.0 Release Schedule Happened

Written by Kimb Jones

WordPress 5.0 and the new block-based Gutenberg editor is finally being released today! (…that’s the 6th of December 2018). But how did we get here? How did we get to the release of this all-new revolutionary change to WordPress? Let’s take a quick look.

How Gutenberg changes the WordPress experience and how you can prepare for it’s release

Written by Matt Watson

Gutenberg is the new editor experience from WordPress, and it is great! It lets you quickly build and reorder a page structure with using content ‘blocks’ rather than just standard text.

It’s coming (Gutenberg that is)

Written by The Team

Are you ready for the most significant change to WordPress since, well, probably ever? If you upgraded to the latest WordPress 4.9.8 this week then you should have been presented with the “Try Gutenberg” prompt.

Announcing WP5.tips – A collection of content related to the release of the next generation of WordPress

Written by Kimb Jones

Today we’re announcing wp5.tips, a blog dedicated to everything WordPress Five-Point-Zero.

Extending CMB2 Controls in for WordPress

Written by Matt Watson

In this tutorial I will look at how you can create a custom control to extend the functionality of CMB2 (Custom Meta Boxes 2) by WebDevStudios.

Slides from our Accessibility and UX September WordPress event

Written by The Team

The September WordPress Sheffield Meetup was one that we have been really looking forward to with our own Matt Watson speaking about Accessibility alongside first-time speaker Harriet Holman.

We’re Sponsoring WordCamp Edinburgh 2017

Written by The Team

WordCamp Edinburgh 2017 will take place on 22-23 July in sunny Scotland and Make Do are sponsoring this fine WordCamp. £20 for a 2-day WordPress conference Sponsorship allows these events to keep ticket prices low and help open doors to WordPress-ers of any background and skill-set. Tickets are on sale now at just £20 for […]