I’m attending WordCamp London in April. Once again, I’m volunteering. So I won’t be able to attend all the sessions. These are the ones that I would choose if I were not otherwise occupied with volunteering duties.
WordCamp London bucket list – 5-7 April 2019
In previous years I’ve written a bucket list for things I want to achieve while attending WordCamp London. This year I already have 9 items. I’m sure I’ll find the 10th very soon.
Magnetic poetry
buymilk
checktheoil
thaisilk
foilthemall
oik-blocks test
I’m testing the latest version of oik-blocks on my iPhone. The Blocklist block below is displaying a list of all the blocks with the namespace prefix oik-block. Some of these blocks were written specifically to help me to populate blocks.wp-a2z.org
- Address – oik-block/address
Displays your address - Block icon – oik-block/blockicon
Displays a Block icon - Block info – oik-block/blockinfo
Displays a Block’s information - Block list – oik-block/blocklist
Displays a list of Blocks for a chosen prefix - Contact form – oik-block/contact-form
Displays a Contact form - Countdown – oik-block/countdown
Countdown timer - CSS – oik-block/css
Inline CSS - CSV – oik-block/csv
Displays CSV content - Dashicon – oik-block/dashicon
Displays icons - Fields – oik-block/fields
Displays Fields - Follow me – oik-block/follow-me
Displays Social media links - GeSHi – oik-block/geshi
Generic Syntax Highlighting – for code examples - GitHub Issue – oik-block/github
Display a link to a GitHub issue - Google Maps – oik-block/googlemap
Displays a Google Maps map - Magnetic Poetry – oik-block/magnetic-poetry
Write magnetic poetry refrigerator messages - Nivo slider – oik-block/nivo
Nivo slider - Person – oik-block/person
Displays a person’s information - Search – oik-block/search
Displays a search form - Shortcode block – oik-block/shortcode-block
Expands oik shortcodes - UK Tides – oik-block/uk-tides
Tide times and heights - WordPress – oik-block/wp
Displays information about WordPress and PHP versions
Some of these blocks are duplicated many times by other plugins. Some of the other plugins provide better versions of the blocks. But, rather than drop my blocks, I’ll continue to enhance my versions while the Defacto standard for a particular block has not been set.
Of course, I won’t know which is the best version until I’ve catalogued them all. it’s going to take some time and i hope it’s going to be worth it.
follow my progress at the
Core RSS
Does anyone still use RSS? It’s a new block in Gutenberg 5.0
My Favourite Block
I wrote this poem, entitled “My Favourite Block”, for a lightning talk that I prepared for the February 2019 WordPress Portsmouth Meetup.
WordPress 5.0.1, Classic editor 1.3 and No Gutenberg
Here we go then. I’m in the pub and have just updated to WordPress 5.0.1.
I started writing this post on my iphone.
My own blocks didn’t seem to work properly. I investigated later. After I’d upgraded oik-blocks to the latest version, everything was fine on my laptop.
With Classic Editor v1.3 per post switching between editors can be done using the Default editor current user Meta Box.
| block | working |
|---|---|
| Csv | yes -when Gutenberg is activated |
| css | expect so |
CSS block to set table text green
table { color: Green; }WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg and the Classic Editor – what did you expect?
Well that was a fuck up!
I’ve heard reports that the Classic Editor plugin was updated just a few hours before WordPress 5.0 was released and now there’s a completely different user experience.
The ability to easily choose the editor to create your content has disappeared. For me, that was the whole reason for having the plugin. Some things don’t work in Gutenberg / 5.0 so I need the ability to use both.
I don’t think the use cases for the Classic Editor and Gutenberg and WordPress version combinations have been thought through. I know that I am going to continue to want to use both Gutenberg and the Classic editor under WordPress 5.0. And I need the ability to easily select my preferred editor. That’s how it was with 0.5. It’s how I tested my sites’ compatibility.
You don’t bugger about with something hours before a release. You give people a chance to test it.
Lessons need to be learned. WordPress 5.0 release should have been delayed until:
- v1.0 of the Classic Editor had been tested with Gutenberg 4.6.1 and WordPress 4.9.8 & 5.0-RC3.
- User documentation was ready.
- The host of issues starting with #4855 had been addressed.
Fortunately, I haven’t yet upgraded anything yet. I will be testing Classic Editor v1.1 very carefully.
oik v3.2.8 now available
I bit the bullet and published, on wordpress.org, the latest version of oik a couple of days before WordPress 5.0 is due to be released.
oik-block – Gut feel revisited
Back in April I was developing a prototype plugin called oik-block that contained a number of prototype Gutenberg blocks plus a whole load of code that helped me to form opinions regarding Gutenberg’s compatibility with my sites and to estimate the code of migrating to Gutenberg and/or WordPress 5.0. I’ve recently forked oik-block to create a new plugin called oik-blocks. Here’s an update.