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title: My Run in the WordPress Speed Challenge
description: A WordPress Speed Build Challenge showcased the ease of creating a landing page using the Assembler theme and Gutenberg plugin, highlighting new features.
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date: '2024-06-11T06:00:00.000Z'
author: Rich Tabor
summary: A WordPress Speed Build Challenge showcased the ease of creating a landing page using the Assembler theme and Gutenberg plugin, highlighting new features.
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  - WordPress
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I participated in my friend [Jamie’s](https://twitter.com/pootlepress) [WordPress Speed Build Challenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9FCjVifylE) 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](https://github.com/Automattic/themes/tree/trunk/assembler)**,** that I’m consistently iterating on, and ran the latest version of the [Gutenberg plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/). 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](https://href.li/?https://europe.wordcamp.org/2024/session/gutenberg-speed-build-challenge/) this week. Stoked!

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