Blockity McBlock Block

Blockity McBlock Block

With the recent releases of Gutenberg and Full-Site Editing WordPress is changing to the core to be block-centric. There are a lot of newer concepts regarding blocks that can be overwhelming to new users or even developers as well as long-time pros who are not yet used to these changes. Let’s review from a high level with some content and code examples for how to deal with blocks. We have core blocks, custom blocks, dynamic blocks, reusable blocks, block patterns, block variations, block styles, block templates, block-based themes… etc. From a high level, we can see blocks are taking over, let’s dig a bit together to see what it all means and follow the WordPress block evolution thus far.

Talk given at WordCamp Europe 2022.