The most anticipated WordPress 5.0 just got released. The core now includes audacious new editing experience code-named Gutenberg along with the all-new TwentyNineteen default theme. WordPress is embracing JavaScript, React.js is now a part of its core. Tell me about thatβ¦
πΊ Watch this quick video on WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” β
The best most humble part for me, as a full-time open source developer and teacher, is that I got to contribute code to all of that β the WordPress Core, theme, and especially this new JavaScript/React.js based editor Gutenberg. Happiness is β contributing to open source that impacts millions of lives.
π― It’s been a couple years since I have been contributing to the core software for every major release β helping people understand that it’s easy to contribute. Everyone should help make WP awesome.
As you can imagine, we are super passionate about the WordPress software and its community. We live and breathe WordPress, build WP products, and give back to the make it better every day.
This time around, I am super proud to share that one of my biggest contributions to the WordPress community, that’s related to Gutenberg editor, is the create-guten-block toolkit.
It’s a developer tooling that helps you get started with building Gutenberg blocks, without any configurations. The last I checked, eight out of every ten Gutenberg plugins on WP.org are built with this CGB toolkit. Check it out, and give it a star.
β¦and we got a new default theme. This one is pretty darn good! π
That’s pretty much about it. I’ll soon be recording a video on this release that I’ll update this post with. Feel free to subscribe here and especially on YouTube.
WordPress 5.0 release was no easy feat. Thanks a lot to everyone who participated, helped, contributed, and made an effort to remove all the negativity and #WPDrama around Gutenberg and whatnot.
Remember that in open source communities empathy, appreciation, sponsorship, and willingness to actually be open to new ideas is a rare sight. You can play your part well. Reach out and do all of this. Be awesome!
Use your code for good, peace!
π₯ Introducing all new @WordPress 5.0. Folks, #WordPress has embraced #JavaScript β @Reactjs is now a part of WordPress core with an audacious new content builder code-named β #Gutenberg! π
π³ Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator. π Teaching thousands of developers Node.js CLI Automation and VSCode.pro course. Over 142 million views, 24 yrs Blogging, 108K developers learning, 200+ FOSS.
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