#wordpress 2020-05-11

2020-05-11 UTC
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[chrisaldrich] Some small results: https://boffosocko.com/2020/05/10/thoughts-on-wikity/
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Loqi [Chris Aldrich] Thoughts on Wikity for WordPress
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GWG I read it already
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[prtksxna] [chrisaldrich] Thanks for sharing this! The idea seems really cool.
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[prtksxna] But with Gutenberg I don’t know how reliably the in-theme-editor is going to work. Even for Automattic supported themes like P2.
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[prtksxna] One of the things that I noticed around this was that even the Quick Draft panel on the dashboard homepage doesn’t work with Gutenberg.
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[prtksxna] If you create a page using that and then open it on Gutenberg, it complains saying that it is a classic editor block. Its able to convert it into Gutenberg blocks fairly easily though 🙂
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[prtksxna] On the topic of Gutenberg… being able to do anything that feels ‘natively gutenberg’ is so hard, and the documentation is so short!
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[prtksxna] I’ve just been referring to code here - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/packages/block-library/src - to figure stuff out 😕
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[prtksxna] I am also a bit frustrated with the lack of clarity (or my lack of understanding) around block-based themes and block patterns 😞
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[grantcodes] [prtksxna] yeah for building custom blocks with input areas etc that is pretty poorly documented
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[prtksxna] Yeah…
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[prtksxna] [grantcodes] Have you been building any blocks?
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[grantcodes] Occasionally. But not a huge amount. Will need to start making custom blocks for work soon though
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[grantcodes] I can recommend container blocks or whatever they are called though. You can make a custom block that allows other blocks inside it and you can limit what blocks are allowed and set default values etc
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[prtksxna] Yeah, I saw those in the Gutenberg source, but couldn’t understand them fully. Any blog post or tutorial you’ve come across that could help?
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[grantcodes] Not that I remember 😬 I think I just copied from the block that is like media + text
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[grantcodes] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg-examples official examples look good though
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Loqi [WordPress] gutenberg-examples: Examples for extending WordPress/Gutenberg with blocks.
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[prtksxna] Ooh, that is going to be useful!
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[prtksxna] All the ones in the block-editor/src are way more complex though, and not very very documented imho
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[tw2113] “not very well documented” the Gutenberg story
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[tw2113] yeah, that just turned into my next tweet
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[tw2113] smirks https://twitter.com/tw2113/status/1259849047441096705
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@tw2113 “Not Very Well Documented” the Gutenberg documentary (twitter.com/_/status/1259849047441096705)
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[prtksxna] 😅
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GWG Good day, friends
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GWG [tw2113]: Are you around for brain picking?
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GWG And yes, I know I should just ask. But it's a long paragraph to explain
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[tw2113] i have some client work that is hoping to be shipped today, so if it’s not urgent to get the feedback back to you, I can respond later
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GWG Extremely non urgent
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GWG I've been stuck on this for days, just need to get outside my headspace.
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[tw2113] word
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GWG I've been tightening up my location code, and there is one goal I'd like to achieve.
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GWG I want to be able to use my own station data, which I've massaged into JSON.
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GWG So, I need some sort of config and storage to do that.
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GWG I'm trying to figure out how to set it up.
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GWG My thoughts were a station page that has name, location, and URL/provider and it searches said list for matches and overrides other considerations.
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[chrisaldrich] Good morning all. GWG 🎩
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[chrisaldrich] I'll try to take a look at the location changes in the next day or two. Its one of those things that would be nice to have, but I don't think about it frequently since I don't go anywhere anymore.
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GWG [chrisaldrich]: Aspirational
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GWG [chrisaldrich]: Aspirational
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[chrisaldrich] Indeed!
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GWG I am also prioritizing the station weather as I have that for my house..where most of my posts are coming from.
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GWG I need to solve that problem
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[KevinMarks] Actually this fits here I think https://bix.blog/2020/05/10/has-anyone-gotten.html