I’ve been seeing a troubling trend of people trashing the block editor because they didn’t like it early on. But even more so, they say it’s worse for users, which is patently untrue. We’ll unpack that in this week’s main segment. Plus: Happy Trails to Andrea Middleton, who’s leaving Automattic this month, Automattic aquires Frontify, and the Classic Editor gets another year of support.
With all of the news on plugins, like downloads being down, solo projects being acquired by bigger companies, etc. I’m curious to know: is this signalling the end of the solo WordPress plugin developer? Has the ecosystem gotten too complex for solo devs to support themselves? Here’s what I think, plus the news of the week.
WordPress 5.8 is out and I’ve been playing around with Full Site Editing a lot! In fact, this episode is pretty theme-heavy. News about block patterns, the direction of the theme directory, and more.
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