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September 14, 2022 69 mins

Cory interviews Ryan Welcher, a Developer Advocate at Automattic focusing on the Gutenberg Project, as a special follow-up to our last episode, titled “We Like Gutenberg, We Swear!”. We talk about his WCUS talk, being a Developer Advocate, how to write to post meta with custom blocks, scaffolding with the @wordpress/create-block package, the convenience of ACF fields, and more.


## Links

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ryanwelchercodes

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanWelcherCodes

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanwelcher

Website: https://ryanwelcher.com

Discord: https://discord.gg/RYtFaYbMRM

(03:34) WCUS 2022 Extending WordPress with SlotFill: https://youtu.be/ql4hhXWcdik?t=27235

(08:34) Twitch repo: https://github.com/ryanwelcher/twitch

(30:28) HTML Walker proposal: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/19/a-new-system-for-simply-and-reliably-updating-html-attributes/

(33:34) @wordpress/create-block package: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/packages/packages-create-block/

(1:03:50) Query Block variations PR: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/43632

(1:04:55) Twitch Code Repo for custom field block: https://github.com/ryanwelcher/twitch/tree/trunk/plugins/custom-field-block/src

(1:05:09) Integrating a custom post type into Gutenberg and Full Site Editing: https://youtu.be/vr3wgD9IZRA


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