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.

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 6, 2021
Like most users, I had my reservations about the editor when it was released. I continued to use page builders like old times. Recently though, I decided to it a go by building a custom design entirely using the built-in blocks and a couple of custom block sets like Kadence and Getwid. I have to say, I don't miss Divi any more and am actually happier about certain things that Divi never did very well. Plus, the site - front-end as well as the editing UI - is blazing fast!
July 5, 2021
Gutenberg is a clean and easy editor ! It has improved so much for the past 2 years. Start was a bit hard but when get into the hang of it, we can build any page we want, fast and clean. The most important to handle Gutenberg is to forget what we used to do with other editor and try to understand the approach. No way to have a WordPress with an other editor than Gutenberg !
July 4, 2021
Basically the message I got was "What is this crap?" somehow Gutenberg reactivated itself and forced her into it to edit a page. I got her out of it and into classic editor and then went and did some plugin adding until the "crap" as she calls it was gone again. Seriously lousy, counter intuitive, and there are much better block editors out there. I'm installing one as back up in case Gutenberg tries to reactivate itself again even though it was disabled. I am explaining to her how to use it to bypass and get back into her backend in case this burp happens a second time. No. She did NOT even want to consider using Gutenberg and I don't blame her. It's like trying to use a WWI tank in a robot war.
June 26, 2021
If want Gutenberg's demand is to increase, much more needs to be improved. With a drag and drop system, people's demand for it will increase a thousand times more.
June 25, 2021
Auf mehreren Seiten habe ich über Monate hinweg versucht mit diesem Editor zu arbeiten. Er ist langsam, unübersichtlich, umständlich zu bedienen und genau das Gegenteil eines WYSIWYG-Editors. Die Idee mit den Blöcken ist gut, aber wenn man nicht aufpasst, hat man mit einem Mausklick irgendwelche Funktionen aktiviert, die man nicht aktivieren wollte. Schwer zu beschreiben, weil man auf einem weißen Blatt rumklickt und dann "irgendwas" passiert. Grässliches Ding. Dazu noch diese Fullscreen-Kacke, die kein Mensch braucht. Mal eben mit rechtem Mausklick ein anderes Fenster öffnen ist da nicht drin. Wer sich das ausgedacht hat, der macht sich auch mit der Zange die Hose zu,
June 21, 2021
It would have been intelligent to make the Gutenberg editor deactivatable, because there are also people who prefer to have everything under control. The project is immature.
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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 51 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 10.9.1, please navigate to the release page.