Insights & Resources Archive

Reasons for a customer visiting a website could be endless, however one thing remains common regardless of the customer need, which is that all customers will visit a website to perform a task!

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 been said that new technology is common, but new thinking is rare. It’s often hard to find time to truly think, reflect and learn and that’s one of the main reasons Make Do runs FrontEndNorth.

Techradar have done a great piece on WordPress turning 15 years old. Here’s a quote: In 2018 WordPress core will release the “Gutenberg” update, which is the biggest update yet. The Gutenberg update will add “page builder”-like functionality to WordPress, making it much easier for content creators to create experiences using WordPress.

Our next awesome speaker from FrontEndNorth 2018 Conference is Tejay White. Her session goes into all the details you need to know about ‘Owning Innovation’.

Daniel Bachhuber, a core contributor for a number of years, has just this Call to Action on the WordPress Core blog: As you may know, Gutenberg uses the WordPress REST API as a bridge between the land of JavaScript and land of PHP. There were a whole host of conceptual challenges in translating WordPress internals…

This video from WordCamp Greenville (2018) goes into some nice details on how you can get started making blocks with the new WordPress 5.0 editor. The quality isn’t 100% (as with a lot of WordCamp videos) but give it a look anyway, it’s only just over 30mins long and pretty concise.

The Gutenberg Times has a great post covering some of the more advanced editorial options users will have when using the new editor in WordPress 5.0. From the post: I have found the new editing experience fairly intuitive and getting started with text shouldn’t be too hard. I might be wrong. Let me know if…

This post by Jason Yingling look in detail the best practices for developing new blocks in the new WordPress editor and how to integrate these features into WordPress themes.

The team over at meks have done a great job of pulling together 31 beginner’s tips on Gutenberg Development. From the post: Both from developers and content side, this improvement will change the way we code and produce content in WordPress. Not to mention all the advantages that are coming with the blocks and the ways we…

The path to WordPress 5.0 has been a rough one. With community feedback around the new editor generally split and fear about such a fundamental change generally worrying the WordPress-masses. The team behind TinyMCE looked to ease this tension with their excellent ‘Gutenberg myth-busting: 10 answers on the future of content creation in WordPress‘ post…

The editor team have announced that the latest release of Gutenberg (2.6) now has support for drag-and-drop blocks, see a quick video demo here: This is a welcome (and much requested) change and you can try it out now with Frontenberg. Early tests are a tad ‘clunky’ but the implementation is very young so keep…