{"id":2304,"date":"2020-02-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2020.greenville.wordcamp.org\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2020-03-02T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T20:46:21","slug":"learn-how-to-use-gutenberg-blocks-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/learn-how-to-use-gutenberg-blocks-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn how to use Gutenberg blocks effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlWbi047PyA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-very-light-gray-color has-background has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/2020.greenville.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Buy your ticket today!<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mark Marzeotti will tackle &#8220;Getting Started with Gutenberg Blocks.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>He started using WordPress in 2012 and began building basic custom themes at a small agency. Now he builds themes, plugins and blocks for large-scale websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marzeotti will speak about building blocks for WordPress&#8217; block editor, Gutenberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his session, he will briefly review building traditional blocks using React and Create-Guten-Block. Then, he will approach it from a more familiar side with PHP and Advanced Custom Fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q: Why is it important for us to learn more about Gutenberg today?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2020.greenville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2313\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?w=1858&amp;ssl=1 1858w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Mark.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Mark Marzeotti<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong>Gutenberg and the block editor are here to stay. It&#8217;s an incredibly powerful tool and a lot is being invested in its improvement and continued development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the WordPress ecosystem changes over the next few years, blocks and the block editor will eventually become unavoidable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learning more about it now and how to modify and extend it will benefit you and your clients now and set you up for long-term success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q: What is the most important takeaway of your talk?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong>Use the block editor. Use it with ACF the way you might have used the Flexible Content field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q: Which resources should we follow to stay current on Gutenberg?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Marzeotti suggests the following resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Subreddit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"r\/Wordpress (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">r\/Wordpress<\/a> <\/li><li>Subreddit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"r\/ProWordPress (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ProWordPress\/\" target=\"_blank\">r\/ProWordPress<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Download the Gutenberg plugin: (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/gutenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download the Gutenberg plugin<\/a>. Now that Gutenberg is part of core, the plugin now contains the latest release to test things before they are merged into core.<\/li><li>You can follow him on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Twitter @MarkMarzeotti. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markmarzeotti?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter @MarkMarzeotti.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-very-light-gray-color has-background has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/2020.greenville.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Buy your ticket today!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Marzeotti will tackle &#8220;Getting Started with Gutenberg Blocks.&#8221; He started using WordPress in 2012 and began building basic custom themes at a small agency. Now he builds themes, plugins and blocks for large-scale websites. Marzeotti will speak about building blocks for WordPress&#8217; block editor, Gutenberg. During his session, he will briefly review building traditional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/learn-how-to-use-gutenberg-blocks-effectively\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learn how to use Gutenberg blocks effectively&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17661375,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/files\/2020\/02\/Marzeotti.jpg?fit=2000%2C1042&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":226,"url":"https:\/\/greenville.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wordpress-speakers-become-greenville-thought-leaders\/","url_meta":{"origin":2304,"position":0},"title":"WordPress Speakers: Become Greenville Thought Leaders","author":"Heather Cygan","date":"November 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you passionate about a topic related to WordPress? 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