My Run in the WordPress Speed Challenge

I participated in my friend Jamie’s WordPress Speed Build Challenge last week. The premise of the show is that two contestants have thirty minutes to build a landing page using WordPress. Good fun.

Tool-wise, I used the Assembler theme, that I’m consistently iterating on, and ran the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin. I didn’t need any third-party blocks, collections, or design tools for this build.

I was able to create the page entirely within the Site Editor without too much effort. I actually didn’t even check the front-end of the page until we discussed my process at the end of the show. Yes, I know. Wild.

In between slinging blocks, I had a bit of time to share on the upcoming section styles effort landing in WordPress 6.6 next month, which garnered a good bit of attention.

I had a good time. It was a fun challenge and solid opportunity to showcase just how far out-of-the-box WordPress editing can get you today.

You can watch it here:

P.S. I’ll be doing another challenge live at WordCamp Europe 2024 this week. Stoked!