Gutenberg

Description

“Gutenberg” is a codename for a whole new paradigm in WordPress site building and publishing, that aims to revolutionize the entire publishing experience as much as Gutenberg did the printed word. Right now, the project is in the first phase of a four-phase process that will touch every piece of WordPress — Editing, Customization, Collaboration, and Multilingual — and is focused on a new editing experience, the block editor.

The block editor introduces a modular approach to pages and posts: each piece of content in the editor, from a paragraph to an image gallery to a headline, is its own block. And just like physical blocks, WordPress blocks can added, arranged, and rearranged, allowing WordPress users to create media-rich pages in a visually intuitive way — and without work-arounds like shortcodes or custom HTML.

The block editor first became available in December 2018, and we’re still hard at work refining the experience, creating more and better blocks, and laying the groundwork for the next three phases of work. The Gutenberg plugin gives you the latest version of the block editor so you can join us in testing bleeding-edge features, start playing with blocks, and maybe get inspired to build your own.

Discover More

  • User Documentation: See the WordPress Editor documentation for detailed docs on using the editor as an author creating posts and pages.

  • Developer Documentation: Extending and customizing is at the heart of the WordPress platform, see the Developer Documentation for extensive tutorials, documentation, and API reference on how to extend the editor.

  • Contributors: Gutenberg is an open-source project and welcomes all contributors from code to design, from documentation to triage. See the Contributor’s Handbook for all the details on how you can help.

The development hub for the Gutenberg project is on Github at: https://github.com/wordpress/gutenberg

Discussion for the project is on Make Blog and the #core-editor channel in Slack, signup information.

Blocks

This plugin provides 13 blocks.

core/social-link-
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core/block
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core/calendar
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core/tag-cloud
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core/post-comments
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core/rss
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core/legacy-widget
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core/categories
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core/latest-comments
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core/archives
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core/navigation
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core/search
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core/template-part
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FAQ

How can I send feedback or get help with a bug?

We’d love to hear your bug reports, feature suggestions and any other feedback! Please head over to the GitHub issues page to search for existing issues or open a new one. While we’ll try to triage issues reported here on the plugin forum, you’ll get a faster response (and reduce duplication of effort) by keeping everything centralized in the GitHub repository.

What’s Next for the Project?

The four phases of the project are Editing, Customization, Collaboration, and Multilingual. You can hear more about the project and phases from Matt in his State of the Word talks for 2019 and 2018. Additionally you can follow updates in the Make WordPress Core blog.

Where Can I Read More About Gutenberg?

Reviews

April 7, 2020
Confusing, uncomfortable to use, bad UX. Please just bring back the old editor. It was much better
April 6, 2020
"...you can feel how much faster your work flows." - I feel a panic attack coming on. "Speed! 14% faster loading of the editor..." - On what planet!? Venus? "...51% faster time-to-type!" - *sighs* Dear Lord, just take me now. "...the block editor supports TikTok" - Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it any less of a pig. The day was March 31st. The year, 2020. Aprox. 480 days since the Gutenberg menace was unleashed. More than 2,000 open issues. Devs got a TikTok block and I've lost complete faith in humanity.
April 5, 2020
Gutenberg's had a lot of impressive development since it was first released. If you've struggled with it before, it's worth your time to try it again.
April 3, 2020
I think the block editor is great. I have however not ever installed and activated this plugin, as it seem to only enhances the interface from what I understand and not add new tools and functions. Maybe I will use it later. Instead, the intersting thing is how the developer community create diverse and several Gutenberg block plugins which add tools and new functions to the existing ones. Without them I could never have accomplished the websites I have. /David
April 2, 2020
Guys really this is not a direction which WordPress should go. It's: 1. Unintuitive 2. Visual representation what u write and how its going to look like on website is terrible. 3. Main box is so narrow. 4. Searching and adding blocks is terrible. 5. Publisihng and changing url of created site cant be found. 6. Developing this feature having simplicity in mind went in so oposite direction. 7. There is no UX and terrible UI 8. Get some good UX Designers before starting a core project. 9. I'm really sorry to writing all of this things. I wish you goodluck 🙁
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Contributors & Developers

“Gutenberg” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Gutenberg” has been translated into 47 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

To read the changelog for Gutenberg 7.8.1, please navigate to the release page.