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At Make Do we needed a tool that would let us build our project assets dynamically on the server (Sass, JS, etc) and continuously deploy to our production and staging environments without any headaches for our engineers.

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.

One year ago the Make Do team hosted the FrontEndNorth conference at the City Hall in Sheffield and welcomed over 200 people from all over the world into our hands to view sessions from experts in our industry talk about everything front-end!

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.

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.

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 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. This shift highlights the growing necessity for professional custom WordPress development to ensure that bespoke site architectures remain compatible with the block-based paradigm. What about…