How WiscWeb and StratComm combined forces to bring us the UW Theme 2.0
Room 1524 & Virtual
Over the last year, two teams at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have worked together to prepare for thousands of sites to move to the new Gutenberg Block Editor.
These teams have collaborated in:
– understanding the new block-based development environment in WordPress
– creating a new design system for a custom UW theme and plugins
– migrating data from ACF fields into WordPress core and custom blocks
– building everything with accessibility in mind
– creating educational resources for users and developers across campus
In this panel, we’ll walk through our process, design, migration tooling, and user reports and experience in the new environment. We’ll cover decisions we made, why we made those decisions, and the pros and cons of each.
In covering the migration, we’ll talk about what date we decided to bring to the new system and what we’ve decided to leave behind. We’ll talk about the infrastructure and community that we’re building for.