#22 – Daniel Schutzsmith on How He’s Prepared His Team To Use the Block Editor
On the podcast today we have Daniel Schutzsmith. Daniel is the Website and Digital Project Manager for Pinellas County Government, where he creates websites to help the public get the information they need. We start off the conversation by talking about the future of themes in WordPress. Since WordPress 5.9 websites have been able to use block based themes. These allow you to do more with your website without having to touch the code. You can add headers, footers, and create your website navigation. The principle is that more and more functionality is going to be moved into blocks and, given that much of this functionality was the domain of themes, do we now need a multitude of block based themes? Would it be optimal to have one ‘base’ theme built into Core? A theme which you can build on top of, and everyone is familiar with. His team is quite large and when the Block Editor came around in WordPress 5.0 he, like many others, needed to decide whether to jump on board or stay with what they were familiar with. They began using the Block Editor, and on the podcast today we talk about how that decision went.…
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