March and April have brought new blocks, patterns, and abilities to the Gutenberg theme.
Status Update
Here’s a few of the things we’ve completed recently:
- March:
- People plugin (replacement for fac/staff listing)
- Allows you to add and display a list of team members for your group or unit.
- Meta tags
- Allows you to add meta tags that control how your pages and posts appear when sharing on social media and indexed by search engines.
- Sitewide settings
- Allows you to modify certain aspects of your site like the main navigation color, site title and tagline, footer settings, and more.
- Back to Top block
- Allows you to add a link to your pages that jumps the user back to the top of a page.
- People plugin (replacement for fac/staff listing)
- April:
- Created two new Gutenberg blocks:
- Block for adding tabbed content
- Block for adding a single post to a page to highlight specific articles or handpick a list of related posts.
- Embed options for commonly used campus tools (Kaltura, Qualtrics, etc.)
- Design and user experience enhancements to improve content readability and align more closely with the UW brand
- Designs for a ready-made layout (also known as a pattern) you can use to quickly build a homepage
- Created two new Gutenberg blocks:
During this time, we also completed some improvements based on user testing feedback from mid-February, like more flexibility with page titles, improved search keywords for finding blocks, and capturing areas where training guidance can improve onboarding and content creation. We have also continued development on the migration tool that transitions content from page elements to Gutenberg blocks.
Over the next month, we hope to wrap up some changes to page layout improvements, breadcrumbs, post listings, and several new patterns.