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Updating block based plugins to use apiVersion: 2 with block.json
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October 16, 2021
The WordPress Gutenberg project’s plan for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of Full Site Editing themes (FSE) has not yet been formulated. I’ve written a proposal, entitled Internationalization and localization: translating templates and template parts, raised as Feature request #27402.
I believe that very little needs to be done to Internationalize a file containing Gutenberg blocks and HTML, and that it can be translated and localized into a statically delivered file in the user’s required locale ( language and country ) using the process described in the feature request.
This post briefly discusses some of the challenges of translating rich text content.
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December 6, 2020I’ve been using GitHub since October 2012 but until recently I’ve had very little understanding of any working process that enables me to contribute to other projects using Pull Requests ( PRs ).
But now I’ve started to try to work with branches. Two reasons:
In this post I’ll document the process I’m using for developing PRs against Gutenberg issues.
I read the instructions on WordPress.org. They all made sense, but I couldn’t work out how to create a PR that only contained the changes I’d intended to make. While the overall effect of my PRs were the change I intended, every Pull Request consisted of multiple commits, not just the one I wanted to apply. Obviously I was doing it wrong.
I read some Stack Overflow items ( thanks Angel for directing me to them ) and discovered the git commands that appear to do the job.
I’ve now created 4 or 5 PRs using this method. And so far I’ve not had any problems. This is a good thing. I’ve just re-read the Git Workflow process and realised it’s almost exactly the same.
cd \apache\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins
git clone https://github.com/bobbingwide/gutenberg.git gutenberg-source
cd gutenberg-source
git remote add upstream https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg.git
git fetch --all
Work in a new branch ( gpr.bat
)
git checkout -b fix/%1 upstream/trunk
Now make and test changes in the new branch. Add files and commit as often as necessary, with a nice commit message, referencing the issue number each time?
git commit -m "good commit message 50-70 characters
When ready push the changes to your fork of the repository ( gpush.bat
)
git push -u origin fix/%1
Theoretically this should work for any repository.
Then change back to the main branch
git checkout trunk
To keep the local repository up to date use fetch --all
. I believe this has to be done in trunk
.
C:\apache\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\gutenberg-source>
git checkout trunk
git fetch --all
Fetching origin
Fetching upstream
remote: Enumerating objects: 3248, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3248/3248), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (273/273), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (
Receiving objects: 100% (4749/4749), 51.99 MiB | 3.85 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3648/3648), completed with 996 local objects.
From https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg
...
For the 150 or so GitHub repositories under bobbingwide
I developed all my changes in the main
branch. It’s still called master
for many of them. Then I pulled the changes to a local version in C:\github\bobbingwide\repository-name
and pushed them from there.
I had two copies of each repository. One reason for this was protection against having the repository destroyed accidentally by WordPress updates or unpacking .zip
files into other development enviroments.
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May 28, 2021The removal of jQuery-migrate from WordPress 5.5 broke a couple of my sites. Using the Enable jQuery Migrate Helper plugin helps you to survive the issue. But it just hides the underlying problems in the same way that WordPress core had been doing up until now.
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August 25, 2020The SB Children bock plugin, which delivers a WordPress block called Children is now available in the WordPress Block Directory.
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August 9, 2020