@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Remember to do what you need to do to learn. You are more important than WordPress, which will always evolve and change.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg There are Gutenberg courses out there.

gutenberg.courses/development/ and javascriptforwp.com/product/gute…

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Gutenberg starter theme: github.com/WordPress/gutenberg-s…

Based off of Underscores which is based off of the twentytwelve theme apparently.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg A good way to learn is to attend other talks even if they go way above your head. It’s ok to sit in a talk and not understand absolutely everything that is said.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Learn to modernize themes to take advantage of Gutenberg. Learn how data is stored. Learn how to style a basic block. And learn as much JavaScript as you need to. It might be a slow process.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Gutenberg was developed on GitHub using the WordPress REST API, JavaScript, and React.

Developers need to understand these parts.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Gutenberg is still new. It’s hard to scope out how long new work will take when building for Gutenberg. A challenge for agencies.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Project managers: Learn how to explain what Gutenberg is (and more importantly) what it is not.

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Resource training for content managers using Gutenberg: gogutenberg.com/

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Read the support documentation on the new editor

wordpress.org/support/article/wo…

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg Familiarize yourself with the standard blocks. Fill in the gaps with other block plugins.

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How learn something new (like Gutenberg). Use the Feynman Technique.

Identify a concept, explain the concept, study the gaps, simplify the explanation of the concept.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until understand has sunk in

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Why is WordPress going with Gutenberg? Watch the user testing section of @photomatt’s 2018 State of the Word address (3:40 in)

youtube.com/watch?v=aWlfp-1Q19I&…

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JavaScript in WordPress used to be a nice to have for frontend technology to a new core competency used for building the bulk of this new UI.

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Gutneberg enables non-developers to build your own custom posts and pages. Similar to Beaver Builder, Elementor, and other page builders.

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New concept: Block Templates

Setup a page with the blocks already populated so the client knows what they can do.

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New concept: Blocks

With blocks, you can insert, rearrange, and style multimedia content with very little technical knowledge. Instead of using custom code, you can add a block and focus on your content.

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The Gutenberg project’s original goal:
The editor will endeavor to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTML, or “mystery meat” embed discovery.
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But the people who know the most about Gutenberg are the ones who actually built the Gutenberg feature. Of course they know everything about it. That’s normal.

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There’s a lot of people really afraid about Gutenberg. Their careers are based on WordPress. And if they don’t learn it, they might get left behind.

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