With the introduction of Gutenberg in WordPress 5.0, the themes and plugins of the future will revolve around this notion of ‘blocks’. But what is a block? Maybe you’ve heard you can create your own blocks, but where and how does one actually do that? Are blocks written in PHP? Are they JavaScript? Both? Do you need to know React to create a block?
In this talk, we will step through the creation of a custom block. You will gain a big-picture understanding of how Gutenberg works, and exactly which JavaScript bells and whistles you need to learn to keep up with this exciting shift in the WordPress ecosystem.