There’s no question that Gutenberg has become an extremely powerful tool for building websites. But as Spiderman’s various family members have told him in various reboots of the franchise, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Using core blocks in a custom site helps streamline development and keep the customer’s cost down, but it can also give clients too much ability to break a carefully crafted design. This Lightning Talk will be extremely useful for anyone developing WordPress sites for clients or WordPress themes for the public, and will address the various ways of customizing core Gutenberg blocks in order to keep a site’s administrators and content editors within the guard rails established by the designer.