Benenson Gutenberg WordPress Theme

Enterprise WordPress development agency Big Bite built an entirely new site platform for Nobel Peace Prize Winner Amnesty International, compatible with the new Gutenberg editor.

Benenson v1.0.4 was just released yesterday with many improvements, new features and fixes (changelog below). They focused on developing custom blocks and a core theme that serve as the heart of Amnesty’s digital efforts moving forward. More than a new site, this is a framework for applying consistent brand identity, design, and user experience standards to many new sites and for allowing creators to spin up new, powerful sites quickly and with ease.

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And as a part of Big Bite’s and Amnesty’s shared commitment to give back to the community, large parts of the project are released as open source components for anyone to use.

In the short video below, you’ll see a quick overview of what it’s like to build new sites quickly and publish and manage content.

Requirements

• WordPress >= 5.0
• PHP >= 5.6
• Node >= 8.9.* (for development)
• Yarn (for development)

Third-party Resources

Benenson bundles the following third-party resources:

• Playfair Display & Lato fonts served from Google Fonts
• Feather Icons
• IcoMoon Free Icons

Changelog

v1.0.4

Released on January 21, 2019. In addition to the features/fixes listed below, several items were refactored, removed, tidied up, or otherwise improved without affecting existing functionality.

Improvements/Features

• Add contributor guidelines
• Add filters to configurable Gutenblocks
• Add actions to theme options template
• Add script to simplify version bumping
• Add Shellcheck to list of required linters
• Add Media Aside Gutenblock
• Add background image capability to Section Gutenblock
• Add new layout option to Post List Gutenblock
• Transform shared Components to a reusable packages build
• Prevent nesting of Section Gutenblock
• Improve portability of binaries

Fixes

• Fix duplicate DB query on theme options
• Fix logo theme option validation
• Fix issue with GA output when no user code defined
• Fix Travis CI build issue post-release of WPCS v2
• Fix disappearing inputs in Post List Gutenblock
• Fix issue on blog index when used within a child theme
• Fix issue with Header Gutenblock pre-WPv5

v1.0.3

Released on December 13, 2018.

• Adjust a11y function bail precedence 
• Fixes markup being added to grid item block PHP renderer
• Added travis processes 
• Removes unused code 
• Fixes missing social icons 
• Fixes social links and removes Google+ 
• Fixes issue with Post List block quantity attribute datatype.
• Fixes issues reported by the Theme Check plugin for compatibility with WP.org themes.
• Fixes missing sprites 
• Updates localization 
• Updates GitHub templates 

v1.0.2

Released on December 7, 2018.

• Fixes call to block localisation function for WPv5

v1.0.1

Released on December 6, 2018.

• Removes unnecessary block deprecations.
• Fixes button styles within the Gutenberg Editor.
• Fixes some issues with html getting encoded within button links.
• Fixes issue where default variables not set for hero image.
• Corrects PHPCS cosmetic issues.

v1.0.0

Released on December 5, 2018.

• Initial Release