#wordpress 2020-10-17
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[chrisaldrich] If anyone is interested there's an online WordCamp in Los Angeles today and tomorrow. It's streaming for free beginning in about 20 minutes. https://la.wordcamp.org/2020/schedule/
# [chrisaldrich] GWG, for you specifically at 12:15 eastern there's Steve Zehngut on Five Reasons to Move to Headless WordPress and later Creating Gutenberg blocks using ACF Blocks which might give you some ideas for Post Kinds (?) and one on Understanding React. There's a few more React-y/Gutenberg-y sessions tomorrow too.
# [chrisaldrich] I'd recommend folkx take a look at the schedule quickly to see if there's anything interesting to them.
# [chrisaldrich] GWG, I know you wouldn't do anything with ACF, but in some sense you've got your own custom ACF underlying Post Kinds, so perhaps you could abstract how they talk about integrating it into blocks might make it easier for you to integrate Post Kinds into Gutenberg.
# [chrisaldrich] I'm sure they're recording it all so you can always revisit them later...
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# [chrisaldrich] GWG, my experience with some of those YouTube channels at WordCamps is that they're up for few days after which someone parses and breaks up the video (usually for WordPress.tv) and then they disappear. The when/why is often variable.
# [chrisaldrich] GWG have you played with GraphQL or the associated plugin for displaying data from your site? I just heard about it as a more granular API over/above the WP REST API.
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# [chrisaldrich] Might be useful for some of your weather and location work.
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# [chrisaldrich] GWG, Watching this Gutenberg/ACF session, I don't think the abstract "solution" is going to be helpful as I initially hoped. ACF is doing all the heavy lifting with their Pro Gutenberg blocks, and the presentation is leveraging all of that.
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[chrisbergr] I thought ACF is just a solution for people without the skills to code custom fields by hand?
# [chrisbergr] A colleague always uses this for her customer projects. I hate that, whenever I have to do something on her projects, it takes forever to find the problems.
# [chrisbergr] A php framework for gutenberg block seems to be the only benefit (for me), but I try to learn all that react stuff to get it done as is supposed to be.
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[arush] aCF does make dealing with custom fields more convenient, especially repeater fields, but what I really hate is the whole dependency thing. YOu almost have to drop the plugin into must-use plugins if you're going to use it on a client's project. I can't think of a client project I've used it on in the last something like 2 years.
# [arush] Oh, and hi all.
# [arush] And speaking of custom fields, where can I find the code for the response properties metabox so that I can add a UI to add read statuses to read posts?
# [arush] @gwg are you trying to use ACF to handle your map, or something else?
# [arush] @gwg Oh. I can't help with design.
# [arush] Well I mean I could suggest some design but I wouldn't trust it. lol.