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And then I found Mind Grub, and I’ve been with Mind Grub for three and a half years, and we do all sorts of things from really large enterprise scale things hosted on WordPress VIP. Landing pages, some internal intranet type things.

I worked at another company that had quite a few websites, both internal and external.Īnd they were across a number of different states in the US, and so working with those, using WordPress on quite a few of them. So I, I was there for another four years. And I somehow talked leadership into letting me take over the site without any of that development experience that was probably critical.īut, I dove right in and got used to it and followed some tutorials for building a WordPress theme from scratch, and just took off from there.

I had been on the editorial staff of our city magazine in Baltimore, Baltimore Magazine for seven years, and people knew what the internet was at that time and we didn’t have a very good site and we needed one. And at that point I was not a developer, I was an English major. So I started with WordPress probably in 2007 or so.

How is it that you’re at a WordCamp, talking to a bunch of people in your presentation. Tell us about yourself, your journey with WordPress. We’ll get into that in a moment, but Alex, just give us a little bit of background. We’re sitting in the media room, and Alex has joined me today to have a little bit of conversation about block patterns and blocks and locking blocks and all of those kind of things. Nathan Wrigley: We are at WordCamp US 2022. Alex Ball: Very well, thank you for having me. And you’ll find all the other episodes there as well.Īnd so without further delay, I bring you, Alex Ball. If you’re interested in finding out more, you can find all the links in the show notes by heading over to WP. Whilst the podcasts are more than listable, I hope that you understand that the vagaries of the real world were at play. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be bringing you recordings from a recent trip to WordCamp US 2022, and you might notice that the recordings have a little echo or other strange audio artifacts. Typically when we record the podcast, there’s not a lot of background noise, but that’s not always the case. Or it might be that you need to take some time to educate your clients more about the block editor and how it works. Maybe you lock certain features down so that only certain users can achieve specific tasks. Add to that the fact that more and more of the website can now be modified inside the editor, and it’s easy to see how mistakes can be made.Īlex talks about solutions to this problem, and he comes at it from different angles. The editor is new and perhaps confusing.Īs the block editor is under constant revision, this can create confusion, and lead to mistakes. For many clients, this familiarity simply does not exist. Over time, we’ve understood how things work and where we need to go in the UI to alter things. Most regular WordPress users have become accustomed to the way that the block editor works. And that, in essence is the subject of the podcast today.ĭuring WordCamp US 2022, Alex gave a lightning talk in which he laid out some suggestions on how the block editor can be made more straightforward for clients. Especially for training clients and making the block editor as easy to use as possible. His website leadership experience continues to inform his decision making today. He spent seven years at Baltimore magazine on the editorial staff, before managing their website. Prior to joining Mindgrub, Alex worked in-house for a company handling a suite of internal intranet type sites, and external marketing lead generation sites. He’s been there for over three years, during which he’s worked on headless implementations, multinational multi-site installations, and much more.

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Alex is a lead software engineer at Mindgrub, a digital agency in Baltimore, Maryland. So on the podcast today we have Alex Ball. Head over to forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the form there. If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m very keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea featured on the show. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice, or by going to forward slash feed forward slash podcast. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, making it easier for clients to use the block editor. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things, WordPress. Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern.

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