Adapting to Gutenberg
Channel: Boston WP
Date: 07/08/2018

Adapting to Gutenberg: How The Events Calendar is Embracing the Block Editor

The forthcoming block editor in WordPress has forced us to reimagine how users build content with our plugins—plugins like The Events Calendar, which have more than half a million active users. Join Zach Tirrell, Modern Tribe’s Director of Product, as he recaps our experiments in design, strategy, and development that have helped us ensure our plugins take full advantage of the new editor while gracefully supporting content from the old one.

Zach Tirrell

Zach Tirrell is Modern Tribe’s Director of Product, which puts him at the helm of hugely-popular WordPress plugins like The Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and Event Aggregator. Zach hails from Plymouth, New Hampshire, and has been a full-stack developer for over 18 years—including several-year stretches at Gigaom and Plymouth State University prior to joining Tribe.

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