WordPress Reusable Blocks Everywhere

A tour of the new reusable blocks that are built into the new WordPress editing experience (formerly known as Gutenberg). This new feature lets you reuse content on the fly, quickly and easily without any special skills and without copying and pasting. Find out how to make the most of it!

This talk will feature how-tos and tips for users, but also include suggestions for designers and developers who want to make reusable blocks work with their themes.

Shannon Smith is a platform services specialist with WordPress.com VIP. She delivers content solutions to some of the biggest names in media, marketing, and enterprise. Shannon has over 15 years experience in open source web development. She is a long-time supporter of diversity, accessibility and internationalization, and was a WordPress Montreal community organizer for seven years. Shannon is also a hiker, poet, and mum of four.

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1. WordCamp Calgary 2019 Reusable Blocks Everywhere
2. Shannon Smith Platform Services Specialist WordPress.com VIP http://chroni.ca
3. New Block Editor A new post and page editing experience that makes it easy to create rich post layouts using “blocks”.
4. Discover the Possibilities Let’s take a look at some feature highlights - Use block templates to guide content creation. - Eventually, you’ll use blocks instead of custom fields, shortcodes, metaboxes and other ad-hoc elements, becoming far more intuitive for editors.
5. New Block Editor
6. New Block Editor
7. New Block Editor
8. What is a Reusable Block? Blocks as content templates
9. You can turn any block into a reusable block!
10. Getting Started Creating reusable blocks is easy
11. How Do I Create a Reusable Block?
12. How Do I Create a Reusable Block?
13. How Do I Create a Reusable Block?
14. How Do I Create a Reusable Block?
15. How Do I Create a Reusable Block?
16. How Do I Manage My Reusable Blocks?
17. How Do I Manage My Reusable Blocks? https://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=wp_block
18. Cool Ways to Use Reusable Blocks
19. Call to Action (CTA)
20. Complex Content
21. Forms
22. Disclaimer
23. Reusable Blocks for Writing
24. Reusable Blocks for Editing
25. Tips & Tricks Get the most out of your reusable blocks
26. Edit All Reusable Blocks at Once
27. Reuse a Combination of Blocks
28. Reuse a Combination of Blocks
29. Reuse a Combination of Blocks
30. Themes For Blocks? “These components can also take cues from themes — like the color palette component does—allowing the theme to overwrite the default colors.” https://hmn.md/white-papers/gutenberg- the-new-wordpress-editor/ https://matiasventura.com/post/ gutenberg-or-the-ship-of-theseus/
31. Add CSS Classes to Reusable Blocks
32. More Blocks Please! Where to get more reusable blocks
33. Exporting / Importing Reusable Blocks
34. Block Directory https:// make.wordpress.org/ meta/2019/03/08/the- block-directory-and-a-new- type-of-plugin/
35. WordCamp Calgary 2019 Questions?
36. vip.wordpress.com/jobs