Gutenberg with Birgit Pauli-Haack

In this episode, I talk to Birgit Pauli-Haack about the WordPress block editor, Gutenberg. Birgit is the self appointed cheerleader for the Gutenberg project, she runs the Gutenberg Times website and is the host of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. In this episodes we talk about how agencies should think about Gutenberg and what the future of the project looks like.

Links

• Birgit on Twitter
• Gutenberg Times
• Gutenberg Changelog podcast

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Transcript of this episode (automatically generated)

Today I'm really excited to have Birgit Pauli-Haack on the show. Birgit runs her own podcast called Gutenberg Changelog. Gutenberg is of course the code name for the WordPress block editor. And I thought Birgit would be the perfect person to bring on, to talk about blocks. Birgit is also the  founder of Pauli systems.
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We started this episode by talking about Birgits involvement with Gutenberg. Okay, Birgit, so do you want to tell us how you got involved with Gutenberg? Well, after three years, I'm pretty much the self appointed cheerleader for the product. It seems, but I'm not alone anymore, but in June, 2017, that was the first time I saw the first demo video at WordCamp Europe in Paris.
And I thought this was the biggest innovation since, um, yeah, I have a battle. What you see is what you get editor as developer, as, as content creator and try to teach people things so Gutenberg or the block editors it's called now has been a real revelation for me as that. So I wanted to learn everything I could about it.
And also see what the people in the community did with it. So I collected all the updates that went up many at the first, but then coming closer to what came to us 2017, there were quite a few people experimenting with the block. Editor was building blocks, was making the seams work and all that. My updates were on Storify and Adobe, the owner of story five announced in December, 2017, that they will discontinue story five in may of 2018.
And I said, Oh man. Yeah, again, never build on rented land. Um, so sooner or later, so it turned out. I also have many requests to actually. Build a newsletter around the updates on good Morgan block editor. So it was time to build a website and in January, 2018, couldn't work times came about. And then where I update things, I have a weekly newsletter that goes out on Saturday and noon.
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