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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 1 block.

core/social-link-
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

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June 15, 2020
Gutenberg (8.3.0) plugin has a conflict with Yoast SEO (14.2). Unable to edit record pages in block mode. I tried updating Yoast SEO to 14.3, it didn’t help! When you disable any of the plugins, Gutenberg or Yoast SEO, editing posts normally opens! Tell me what should I do? (Switching to the classic editor is not appropriate.)
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June 14, 2020
Thought I'd point out what a lot of people have no doubt noticed: that of Workflow. I could see this happening ever since this disaster was introduced, which is why I always install the Classic Editor on any new websites, but with every update, the problem remains and goes unresolved. I was playing around with a visual contact card plugin earlier, which when using the Classic Editor just needs one click on the icon above the editor, details added in a modal pop-up, and finally, one click on the 'publish' or 'save to draft' button. That's TWO clicks (apart from the filling in of details). Going over to Gutenberg, first of all, we need to create a block, and then find the widget. No modal in this version, the settings are all on the sidebar, so the details get filled in and then another click to confirm. Finally (usually) TWO clicks on 'publish' or 'save to draft' and the post is published. So that's at least FOUR clicks (possibly five) to publish the same object. This might well be an extreme situation, as most objects within Gutenberg might only require THREE clicks, but even so, TWO clicks in an extreme situation is far better for workflow than needing to do FIVE, and in the majority of situations it will be ONE click using the Classic Editor. As soon as WordPress realise that they're flogging a dead horse with this shambles of a 'page builder' (lol) and return it to the bloggers and website builders rather than developers who are probably having the same problems with workflow, the better it will be for everybody!
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June 11, 2020
Like most forward thinkers and products there is a group of long time users who value the status quo and resist change because to the limitations of early stage innovations. That noted I have to say, once you begin to learn the new interface metaphors (a trying chore for me) of Gutenberg it is a excellent tool! The recent updates have made it just what I needed for me and my clients.
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June 10, 2020
I don't understand why there are so many people complaining about Gutenberg. I consider it a very intelligent and elegant movement. People hate the changes. It's the future, either you adapt or you stay behind. Is an intelligent encapsulation of elements in blocks. It permits to make easily operations without technical knowledge. And for the developers it is a simple manner to include complex blocks easily configurables (best than the anachronic shortcodes). Besides, if you still insist in work with the old wysiwyg editor, you can insert one "classic block" and create inside it all the stuf.
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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 8.3.0, please navigate to the release page.