It’s been a while since Gutenberg has arrived in WordPress core, and has since opened endless possibilities for content creators, introducing a significant change from the classic editor world in which such layouts would have been impossible to accomplish without developer intervention. But as we all know, this is only the first step towards a more user-friendly content creation flow. Outside of the post content, site owners today are still limited to a fairly inflexible set of widgets and other content elements which may not be configurable at all, depending on the theme or plugins providing them. This is what the next phase of Gutenberg is tackling.
This talk explores what full-site editing with Gutenberg blocks will look like, and which new opportunities and challenges it presents to the WordPress ecosystem. It particularly focuses on how to be prepared for this paradigm as a theme author, demonstrating what themes of tomorrow will encompass.