FSE Outreach #13: Building an Author Template from the WordPress Site Editor
Anne McCarthy announced round #13 of the FSE Outreach Program on March 31. This call for testing focuses on creating an author template via the site editor. Several of the new features used during this round were only added in Gutenberg 12.9 last week. The call asks volunteers to test and provide feedback on features related to Full Site Editing before they land in WordPress. Anyone can participate, and the deadline is April 21. For this round of testing, I used the Archeo block theme. It is a recent favorite, and I have been working with it since I first reviewed it. The following is a screenshot of my final author template design: I read through the testing instructions and forged my own path. I still managed to cover everything except block locking. I had already extensively tested it with Gutenberg 12.9’s launch and wanted to focus on the other features. Outside of the user-experience issues noted below, everything went well. No editor crashes. No problems saving. And the front-end matched what I was seeing in the editor. Building an Author Template The most immediate issue when creating a new author template is that it was devoid of default blocks.…
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