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Gutenberg and React and ACF blocks, oh my!

Thoughts specifically about Gutenberg. For the moment, there's not much call for me to be developing blocks in React – it's not economical for most client sites, and I don't have a burning need for any one particular block that's not being met by the many, many shops specializing in this. But I'll likely be building ACF blocks on most every site we release, and Gutenberg is still relatively new. So here are some thoughts on that.

How to add contextual styling in the Gutenberg editor

March 26, 2020 by Jon Schroeder Leave a Comment

It’s actually kind of tricky to target the backend of Gutenberg for only a specific post type. Here’s how!

Gutenberg is breaking ACF blocks: here’s how to fix it

January 25, 2019 by Jon Schroeder Leave a Comment

Fixing Gutenberg wrapping paragraph tags

Whenever nested calls to the_content happen in Gutenberg, the editor is outputting paragraph tags all over the place.

The Limitations of Gutenberg

January 11, 2019 by Jon Schroeder Leave a Comment

The Gutenberg editor

So, I’m actually really enjoying the editing experience in Gutenberg. It’s really, really well done, especially considering what a mess the process looked from the outside. But it has limits.

Thoughts on Gutenberg

July 2, 2018 by Jon Schroeder Leave a Comment

Gutenberg

Gutenberg is likely going to help the WordPress system enormously, but until it does, it’s going to be a burden for everyone.

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