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Adventures in WordPress product design

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  • December 20, 2021

    Beyond the canvas – continued exploration in site management interfaces

    Last month I shared some concepts where “global” site elements could be managed in a dedicated area of the UI. In this post I’m expanding and refining those ideas a bit in an effort to explore the broader viability. If global entities like styles, templates, and navigation menus can be edited in the Site Editor, […]


    Categories: Gutenberg, Sentiment, Templates
  • December 1, 2021

    Visual Revisions

    Today I begun exploring ways to refine the contents of the template inspector for #36951 and stumbled across the idea of visual revisions. I’m thinking it might be neat to have a way to browse through past versions of a document in a more visual manner, similar to Figma. Since revisions are just stored HTML, […]


    Categories: Gutenberg
  • November 26, 2021

    Exploring a global UI region in the Site Editor

    In addition to features like Reusable Blocks a number of other global concepts emerge in the Site Editor: Navigation management Template management Styles Site settings And yet we lack a centralised area in the UI in which to manage these things. Consequently there is a lack of clarity with regards to whether a setting is […]


    Categories: Ideation
  • October 22, 2021

    Site Editing iA concepts – Part 2

    I shared some designs on make.wordpress.org/design that explore how we might bring some site editing features from Gutenberg to WordPress core for 5.9. Check it out.


    Categories: Gutenberg, Ideation, Templates
  • October 20, 2021

    Is the writing is on the wall for the WordPress theme as we know it?

    The essence of a WordPress theme is: layout (templates) + style = presentation.  The template and global style editing features of the site editor are soon going to provide users with tools to create and manage these elements visually in their WordPress back-end. Community initiatives like the pattern directory present opportunities to enrich these features […]


    Categories: Block patterns, Gutenberg, Sentiment, Styles, Templates, Themes
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