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 2 blocks.

core/social-link-
Gutenberg
core/site-logo
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?

Where can I see which Gutenberg plugin versions are included in each WordPress release?

View the Versions in WordPress document to get a table showing which Gutenberg plugin version is included in each WordPress release.

Reviews

July 28, 2020
I can't believe WordPress adopted this as the default content editor.
July 28, 2020
It's not acceptable to anyone who uses CSS to format content, that at a minimum there is no option to adjust margins and padding, as well as most other CSS rules. I was not able to override Gutenberg with my own CSS - even with !important. The Disable Gutenberg plugin is recommended until more than the most basic configuration options are given to the user.
July 28, 2020
Are the quirks/issues with Gutenberg? Yes. Are there major improvements needed? Of course. But at the same time this project is moving WordPress into the future and the rapid progression of the platform is very encouraging. Can't wait for full-site editing!
July 28, 2020
I really tried to give Gutenberg a shot. However, there are still too many limitations, too many features not carried over from the Classic Editor. Every time I go to click a familiar option, it of course has moved. This results in a search to see how to mimic functionality. Some features simply don't exist. For instance, I want to create a numbered list for documentation. This can have an image inserted after each item. It used to be easy, shift-enter to line feed, then insert image button. It is not possible to do this in a block. I would have to create a new block, which breaks the numbered list. I had to go back to the Classic Editor to get anything done.
July 27, 2020
I though that to build a page with WordPress, simply by pasting text from a Word or LibreOffice document was easy as you can do it when you reply on any good Forum boards. Not at all. It's a nightmare! The standard paragraph block breaks your pasted text in hundreds paragraphs, everywhere the "return" key is hit! There is no way to change this behavior. The classic Paragraph block, breaks all the spacing in the pasted text. The preformatted block has practically no formatting buttons on its toolbar. The plugin "TinyMCE Advanced" doesn't help. Furthermore, inside of a block you can't set different text alignment to different rows. I wonder why the developers simply doesn't make an option available where the user can decide whether WordPress has to create automatically paragraphs or not. At the moment WordPress is a nightmare if you need to create pages pasting large portions of text, just simply formatted, from .docx or .odt documents. Also the way back is a pain (copy text from the WP editor and paste into a document)
July 23, 2020
Hace muy poco tiempo comencé a utilizar Gutenberg y los resultados son excelentes. Gutenberg poseé una variedad muy completa e interesante de recursos para construir páginas limpias, minimalistas actuales que marcan tendencia. Existen una buena cantidad de plugins para funciones diversas que nos permiten crear sitios rápidos, facilmente nevegables, con exquisitos diseños. Exitos nuevamente y Felicitaciones a todos los que hacen posible que este proyecto continue avanzando. Gualberto Magallanes Art Design Network
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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 8.6.1, please navigate to the release page.