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10up Gutenberg Training

Overview​

The purpose of this project is to help you build and customize (Gutenberg) blocks. This training applies to all engineering disciplines at 10up.

Training Prerequisites​

  • Basic understanding of WordPress including how themes are structured.
  • Understanding of JavaScript fundamentals and ES6+ concepts.
  • Basic understanding of React components.

For resources on learning JavaScript and React.js, look through this internal document.

Project Setup​

For this training we recommend the usage of 10up-docker for the local environment. To get everything setup on your computer follow these steps here:

  1. Create a local WordPress installation with the domain gutenberg-training.test
10updocker create gutenberg-training
  1. Clone the gutenberg-lessons repository into the wordpress directory replacing the wp-content folder
cd gutenberg-training-test/wordpress && rm -rf wp-content && git clone git@github.com:10up/gutenberg-lessons.git wp-content
  1. Install the dependencies and build the assets
cd npm install && npm run build
  1. Activate the tenup-theme in WordPress
10updocker wp theme activate tenup-theme

You can now navigate to the editor of your WordPress installation and see the Example Block with the Completed Examples show up in the Block Picker.

caution

The tenup-theme build system requires node version 16 in order to build successfully. If you have nvm installed it should auto-detect which version to use.

Also make sure that you are running your npm commands from the wp-content folder. Not from the Theme folder.

If you want to have your code automatically compile again and even hot reload directly in the editor when you make any changes you can start the watch mode. Before that works you need to enable the WordPress Debug mode by setting WP_DEBUG and SCRIPT_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file to true.

Once that is done you can start the watch mode by running:

npm run watch

Lessons​

Support​

If you run into issues with this training project, feel free to reach out in Slack to #10up-gutenberg. We also welcome bug reports, suggestions and contributions via the Issues & Discussions tab on GitHub.