{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The WP Minute ","title":"WordPress news according to Carrie Dils","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":327,"description":"It’s the WP Minute! This is Carrie Dils and I’m filling in for Matt, who’s tweeting about podcasting.\n\n\n\nThis episode is brought to you by Easy Support Videos. Support your WordPress users by embedding videos and screencasts right inside the WordPress admin. Learn more at EasySupportVideos.com! \n\n\n\nYou know the drill, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLet’s get to the News\n\n\n\nStay tuned for the direction of block development in the next few months.\n\n\n\nJustin Tadlock over on the WPTavern wrote about whether block development is merely a templating system with no build process. Since there still is a big concern around the direction of block development, he went ahead and reviewed where the React-based WordPress block editor (sometimes referred to as Gutenberg) had been hitting speed bumps for WordPress developers who have been more PHP Centric.\n\n\n\nHelen Hou-Sandi also published on her blog how she spent the last 8 months telling anybody she talked to about custom WordPress block development. They were way less scary and much easier than she thought they were going to be for somebody with minimal React experience. She said that a big game-changer for adoption and shifting thinking would be to find a way to unify templating between the front-end and the editor, essentially swapping the places where you output content with the corresponding editor component. \n\n\n\nMy personal opinion: “That sounds amazing”!\n\n\n\nHelen says:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“these are experiments and there will likely be many failed paths”, and that the focus remains on the problem to be solved during the research and experimentation phase, not on the implementation details.\n\n\n\nIf you want the scoop on React and the possible direction of block development make sure you check out her post and follow updates on Twitter.\n\n\n\nFor you plugin developers seeing plugin changes on WordPress.org:\n\n\n\nMika Epstein reported on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/B7hdlYwjqhl9eXRrYH3YmT0lK4oG1XC6kdnjd-ITW0w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zZDhl/YzIxN2QwOWRmYjQ1/OTM2ZjMwZWRiYzli/M2ExMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}