Free riding on public goods is much more of a threat to our continued welfare than the physical scarcity of raw materials. Public goods are already at risk because of their nonexcludable, nonrival nature.
Manu Saadia
Author: Joseph Dickson
Joseph Dickson is a front-end web developer with experience building higher education websites using ClassicPress, WordPress, and Drupal.
Zero to hero: building custom Gutenberg blocks with ACF
Nathan Wallance | Session | Georgetown
Using ACF to create a Faculty Profile block
If you’re already running ACF it opens opportunities to pull content. Change styles and colors dynamically.
Think about a block building strategy to prevent a bloated library.
I call it Pandora’s Block
Nathan Wallace
When running multiple sites build your block library into a plugin for easy deployment and maintenance.
Think about designing blocks within a usable system.
Uses GitHub updater as a method to push updates form their repos to the website.
- Register your block
- Create your field group
- Think about accessibility features
- Connecting fields to your block
- Render your block
- Apply dynamic styles to your block (inline block css)
Ready for review: workflows in WordPress
Notes from the live stream of WP Campus
Nathan Monk | Elaine Shannon | Session
After a post has been published you have to un-publish the post. It’s a pretty big deal as it takes the page down.
Moving from one single website user to multiple users created a need for “Border Control” and a governance process to manage the flow of contributions and edits.
wearesmile.com has an open beta
Policy Library
The default WP workflow didn’t meet the needs of St Mary University, they needed to restrict to offices.
They sent all posts to “Submit for Review” instead of publishing it live without review.
SSO conflicted with varied WP Roles be sure to test for conflicts before moving from WP to SSO accounts.
A good workflow tells the author/editor who the approving admin is so they can follow up if necessary.
Presenters would like core to focus on user workflows for users, post types, notifications etc.
