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Gutenberg

By Gutenberg Team

Description

“Gutenberg” is a codename for a whole new paradigm in WordPress site building and publishing, that aims to revolutionise 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, Customisation, 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 be 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 customising 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/navigation
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core/rss
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core/categories
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core/template-part
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core/legacy-widget
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core/search
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core/latest-comments
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core/post-comments
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core/calendar
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core/block
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core/tag-cloud
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core/archives
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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 centralised in the GitHub repository.

What’s Next for the Project?

The four phases of the project are Editing, Customisation, 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

Bad, but here is how to improve it

April 19, 2020
The new Gutenberg editor is potentially very good, let down by a bad user interface/experience (UX) for beginners: which is all of us, when we see it for the first time. For the experienced user, the interface is OK. Someone who is new Gutenberg MUST have cues and help. There are few of these. Help is hidden in the ⋮ menu, several clicks away. The page is a blank canvass, with no similarity to a document (like the classic editor). Some icons are meaningless, and hovering your cursor over them shows no tooltip. In my opinion, the editor needs the following: On-screen help and cues (that can be disabled when the beginning is comfortable), eg. contained in the sidebar, that can be disabled later The "page" area to have a different colour to the background (eg. white on grey), ideally corresponding to the selected them To return to the Admin menu, there should be a "X" and not a W icon which hints at viewing pages. Or better yet, the Gutenberg editor should follow the layout of the familiar Appearance/Customise editor, and let us edit in-place.

too many bugs

April 17, 2020
The Gutenberg was maybe a great idea but awful execution. Too many bugs one way or another (build in editor in WP has one set of bugs, editor from Gutenberg plugin has another set, and both are impossible to work in comfortably). What is worth now even if I disable Gutenberg I still have troubles becuase some content was created in it and, for example, FooGallery is not visible in visual mode of editor if a page was created in Gutenberg (you can see code for gallery in html mode, but not gallery itself in visual mode).

Cannot Cut/Paste Blocks or Scroll

April 17, 2020
Hi, I can't cut/paste blocks - most of them and I cannot scroll with my mouse while dragging them. This is making editing with Gutenberg impossible for content beyond 2K words with more multimedia, otherwise I would have to spend whole day using the arrows. Very unintuitive! Crazy!

VERY slow over high latency connections

April 16, 2020
I had high hopes for the latest update that came along with WP v5.4. The wise old sage said, "Never buy version 1 of anything", but by this time Gutenberg ought to be better. I'm not too picky about stuff like an editor. The choice of editors is a very personal thing. Problem is that Gutenberg was pretty much rammed down everyone's throat. Yes. I know there are options for falling back to the classic editor. The problem is that Gutenberg does bring a lot of tantalizing capability to the table, so it's a dilemma. Like Jimmy Durante, "Should I stay or should I go?" All the block manipulation stuff is really nice. Problem is that for a writer like me - particularly a writer based way out in the sticks like me, whose only broadband connectivity option is a high latency geostationary satellite link, Gutenberg is abysmally sssslllloooowwww for ordinary text editing. I'm no typing wizard, but over the satellite I can easily overrun the type ahead buffer in just a few seconds. Since I also make a lot of typing errors, going back to correct them is extremely inconvenient and time-consuming. Before you say it, No! It's not interaction with any of my plugins (e.e. Yoast). I've tried it all. I do have an absolutely essential text editing additions plugin that I'm using. That is certainly part but definitely not all of the problem. It's so bad that I've taken to writing my P blocks and correcting the typos in Notepad, and pasting the finalized blocks into Gutenberg. The main culprit is the latency of the link. When I'm up at my weekend location with its landline DSL connection, the editor works fine (when the DSL itself is working - but that's another story). So come on Starlink - or even better yet, come on Gutenberg fix for this issue.

What a joke – major fail, WordPress!

April 13, 2020
It just doesn't work. Confusing, clunky interface. Columns are impossible to select and don't respect page width. Links suddenly turn into bad code. Sections of text unexpectedly become separate blocks. What a mess and a waste of people's time – just to do simple things that themes handle so easily! You could have just created 'official' WordPress plugins to add more features and functionality and streamlined the old framework a bit instead of this squirrelly disaster.

Useless

April 10, 2020
Una auténtica basura. He tenido que instalar el plugin del editor clásico. Mal por WordPress. No tendría que venir instalado por defecto. _______________________ A real rubbish. I have had to install the classic editor plugin. Wrong for WordPress. It should not come installed by default.
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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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Change log

To read the change log for Gutenberg 7.9.1, please navigate to the release page.

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Issues resolved in last two months:

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