About

blockHandbook is a community for learning how to build blocks for the new WordPress editor.

Learning how to build Gutenberg blocks from scratch for the new WordPress block editor is hard.

You need to know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, NPM, Terminal, Webpack, PHP, WordPress, and much more depending on what you want to do with it.

It’s a tall order.

But I want to make it easy, and more importantly, I want to make it fun!

Blocks offer the perfect canvas for constraint and creativity. Every block we’ll build in my courses solves a unique problem and presents a new challenge and opportunity to learn!

I have been building blocks and experimenting with the new editor since before Gutenberg was released. I’ve spent the time since it launched learning the ins-and-outs of building blocks for the new block editor. Reading and re-reading the official Block Handbook.

I even launched my first Gutenberg course on Udemy around the time the new editor was released.

Throughout this time learning how to build blocks, I found a simple yet very effective formula for learning how to build blocks.

The easiest, most effective way of learning how to build blocks from scratch for the Gutenberg editor is by BUILDING A BUNCH OF BLOCKS!!

So that’s what blockHandbook is all about. It’s a community where we’re going to build a bunch of blocks together and have some fun along the way!

Hi, I’m Lee

I’ve been designing and coding websites for the past 9 years. I absolutely LOVE building blocks. They offer the perfect canvas for constraint and creativity. Every block we’ll build in my courses solves a unique problem and presents a new challenge and opportunity to learn!

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