WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs
A couple of WordPress contributors are currently looking for folks to sponsor them to work on the documentation for the WordPress block editor (often referred to as “Gutenberg”) and this is your chance to support them.
If you’ve developed blocks for the WordPress block editor — or at least have tried to — then you have likely struggled to find any meaningful documentation. Heck, just look at two recent posts here at CSS-Tricks where Dmitry Mayorov explains block variations and Leonardo Losoviz adds a welcome guide to the block editor. They both lament the lack of documentation and describe how they had to work around it. Chris has even experimented with different build approaches, from create-gluten-block to wp-cli to ACF Blocks. It’s sortuva Wild West out there and documented standards with examples would be a huge win, both for WordPress and for developers.
Now, I don’t think it’s worth getting into a debate into why the documentation doesn’t already exist a year since the block editor was released. There are lots of reasons for that and none of them help move things forward.
We flipped the switch to enable the WordPress block editor here at CSS-Tricks earlier this year and haven’t looked back. Where several of us on the team would write drafts in Dropbox Paper, Google Docs, or even a code editor, I think we’ve all started writing directly in WordPress because, well, it’s just so gosh-darned nice. I know I’m looking forward to contributing whatever I can to help this make this tool more accessible to developers — that’s the best way to spark new ideas and innovations for the future of blocks.
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