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
## Upcoming WP Events
WordPress Accessibility Day, Nov 2-3: https://wpaccessibility.day/
WordFest Live, Nov 18: https://www.wordfest.live/
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