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 4 blocks.

core/social-link-
Gutenberg
core/navigation
Gutenberg
core/post-comments
Gutenberg
core/search
Gutenberg

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

May 12, 2020
This is what happens when WP leadership changes. Horrible plugin forced on users.
May 11, 2020
I guess this is a try to make WP more user friendly to random bloggers but for us who want to run online business this update is the worst so far. Content writers take more time to create posts and there is no consistency on the site how things look. Luckily there is a plugin to enable the classic editor and use WordPress for a CMS. For which it still is great.
May 10, 2020
I hated Gutendberg from day 1 and just when you think they can't make it any worse with the new Update it did. Now you get directed to a totally separate page outside the WP dashboard. You first have to click the WP logo in the gutenberg logo to get back in the dashboard I mean wtf? Take your losses and remove it from the core. Compare Gutenberg reviews with the classic editor, enough said!!
May 8, 2020
I have tried several times to use Gutenberg, and I just can not get my head around it. Whether trying to create a page or post, everything seems to take several more extra clicks to get it done... that's assuming I can even find what I need in the first place. The reviews speak to this... with just over 3000 reviews right now, 2000 of them are 1 star, like mine. WordPress should ship with Gutenberg disabled by default. On the Gutenberg plugin page it says: “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. This plugin has NOT accomplished anything close to this at all, and in fact you should rename this plugin "Anti-Gutenberg".
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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 8.0.0, please navigate to the release page.