New Shape Divider, Features and Icon Blocks in CoBlocks 1.9
Over the last three weeks, since the initial swing into a page building block system, we’ve pushed three major releases to CoBlocks:
Rich Tabor
A ridiculously hard-working designer & developer. WordPress connoisseur. Aspirant writer. Husband + Dad. Founder @themebeans.
Introducing new Page Building Blocks and Tools for CoBlocks
As I mentioned in my 2018 Year in Review, Jeffrey Carandang and I have recently joined ranks, doubling down our efforts to making CoBlocks absolutely brilliant. And after months of very challenging work, we finally have something to show you. We think you’re going to like this. A lot.
2018 Year in Review
I’ve been building WordPress products for close to eight years now, yet sometimes it feels like I’m just getting started. I can’t believe what a brilliant year 2018 was. It’s been a year of adventure, change, and growth – both personally and professionally.
Block Gallery, Winner at the Automattic Design Awards
Block Gallery, my Gutenberg block project for building beautiful galleries with WordPress 5.0, was announced as this year’s winner in the Best Solution category of the Automattic Design Awards.
Merlin WP 1.0 is Here. Welcome Better Onboarding for WordPress Themes
You have no idea how awesome it feels to finally have the first official version of Merlin WP released. After many months of development, Merlin WP 1.0 is finally here. I first wrote about improving the onboarding experience of WordPress themes late last year, and since publishing the initial beta, Merlin WP has received quite a […]
Tabor and Gutenberg + WordPress 5.0
I’ve prepared a mild release for Tabor, as part of the first round of WordPress 5.0 updates to my theme catalog at ThemeBeans. Tabor v1.6.0 is scheduled for release on Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 . A week before WordPress 5.0 is launching to the public. ?
Introducing Block Gallery, a Suite of Beautiful Photo Gallery Blocks
It’s no secret that I’m a huge proponent of Gutenberg, the new block editor to be released next month in WordPress 5.0. Ever since WordCamp US last year, I’ve been deep into all things Gutenberg, wrapping my head around block development and working on supporting the new editor in all my themes.
Test Drive my Gutenberg Blocks with the CoBlocks Live Demo
Over the weekend, I set up a new, highly interactive demo of one of my latest Gutenberg-inspired projects, CoBlocks. There’s a lot of controversy surrounding Gutenberg, so I wanted to shine a little light on how third party blocks can leverage the new editor and bring some really powerful editing capabilities to WordPress.
What’s new with the Tabor WordPress theme
Tabor has received quite a lot of updates over the past couple of weeks, mostly surrounding Gutenberg. In fact, over the last month I’ve pushed an update nearly every week! So here’s the latest on what’s new with Tabor.
Preparing WordPress themes for Gutenberg with the Block Unit Test
There’s no better time to start exploring how each of our WordPress themes will interface with Gutenberg. So to help folks level-up their themes to support the new WordPress block editor, I built the Block Unit Test WordPress plugin.