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title: "What happens to tutorials when WordPress renames a feature? WPwatercooler 457"
date: 2023-06-30
author: "Courtney Robertson"
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# What happens to tutorials when WordPress renames a feature? WPwatercooler 457

What happens to every tutorial when WordPress renames a feature? In mid 2023, reusable blocks became synced patterns, and WPwatercooler episode 457 talked through what that rename costs the people who teach WordPress. I joined the panel, fresh from WordCamp Montclair.

## 🎙️ Episode details

- **Show:** WPwatercooler, episode 457, “A Reusable Block By Any Other Name”
- **Panel:** [Jason Tucker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasontucker/)colleague, [Jason Cosper](https://profiles.wordpress.org/boogah/)acquaintance, [Sé Reed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sereedmedia/)colleague and me, Courtney Robertson
- **Streamed live:** June 30, 2023
- **Topics:** WordCamp Montclair’s broadcast setup, and who updates training when reusable blocks become synced patterns
- **Watch:** [EP457 on the WPwatercooler YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5thQ9fxyzH4), or read [the episode 457 show notes](https://www.wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep457-a-reusable-block-by-any-other-name/)

 Captions and an interactive transcript are in the player controls (Transcript button).The captions are YouTube’s automatic captions, cleaned for repeated lines and names but not checked against the audio.

## 🎙️ WordCamp Montclair’s broadcast setup

WordCamp Montclair takes place on a college campus with a journalism school, and broadcast students need recording hours. So the camp had production quality gear recording the sessions.

## 📚 Who updates the training when reusable blocks get a new name?

One of the hosts pointed out that a rename leaves teaching material wrong the day a release ships, and credited me with much of the release documentation for Training. However, I clarified my part: I find what needs to change in Learn WordPress for each release, rather than writing all the new content myself.

I also added that the Docs and Training teams were working with locale ambassadors so translated materials keep up too, and I pointed listeners to the release’s call for testing, where the Test team wants detailed feedback.

## 🧪 What can you take from the reusable blocks rename?

- **Educators and authors:** audit your materials against each release’s terminology changes.
- **Testers:** answer the call for testing before a release, while names can still change.

Also, more conversations like this one live in [my podcast and speaking archive](https://courtneyr.dev/category/speaking/).

## 🗓️ Archival note

This episode streamed live on June 30, 2023, per the YouTube listing. Then I added this post on November 9, 2026, from the YouTube description and automatic captions, which have no speaker names. I attributed only statements whose speaker is clear from the conversation, and I didn’t rewatch the stream.





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