Really helpful to let clients do more work themselves

  • I wrote a bunch of custom Gutenberg block-types this past year, and I am extremely happy about the results. Because clients can implement the functions that I make in their own way, it saves me a lot of time.

    4 stars because the development documentation is still lacking. I have to check the source code a lot of times to find out how certain block-types should be made.

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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    Thanks for leaving a review @mevanloon. That’s great to hear you are creating custom Gutenberg block types. Is there anything from that experience you think could be learnt or improvements to the way you can create? I see you say there is a lot of source code checking, anything there which could help you?

    Thread Starter mevanloon

    (@mevanloon)

    Oh for sure. The biggest hurdle was documentation, or the lack of it.

    For example, there is nothing I can find in the Gutenberg Handbook (https://developer.www.ads-software.com/block-editor/) that says anything about dealing with innerBlocks. The Git repository does have more documentation, which would be nice to have in the handbook, but still somewhat incomplete regarding those innerBlocks. There where instances, like with autocomplete controllers, where I couldn’t get the example to work, and couldn’t figure out what the issue was.
    That’s about a year ago now, so I’m not sure what the situation is now. I might try implementing autocompleters somewhere again.
    Lot of docs also don’t use that ESNext tab thingy as consistently as I’d like.

    Oh, and it took me a while to realise that the git repo is for the development plugin, rather than the version of Gutenberg that is included with WordPress.

    It’s mostly small stuff, but it adds up.

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