This download page is for people who would like to alpha/beta test Gutenberg, but
- Don’t want to do install NodeJS and npm ✅
- Don’t want to use the command line ✅
- Don’t want to download 2.7 Gigabytes in 232,740 files ✅
Call for Testing the Widgets Screen in Gutenberg
A friend of mine asked me, “Every two weeks is not fast enough for you”? As you can see in the screenshot from this morning, since the last release (9.1.1) 227 commits = changes were made, and no, it’s not fast enough. If the number of people who test Gutenberg before it is released can be increased the better the editor gets.
Daily Builds from Gutenberg master branch.
I build a new zip from master every morning, unless git pull tells me, my local version is already up to date. During the week of an official Gutenberg release, we’ll refer you to the official versions, RC and Stable on GitHub.
Gutenberg Nightly.
November 4, 2020 – It’s the official Gutenberg 9.3 release day. You can download it from the WordPress repository
For testing purposes, we released a gutenberg-nightly just now.
Step 1: Download Zip File
Step 2: Upload the zip file to your test site, via wp-admin/plugin Add new click on Upload
Don’t use on live site or in production.
If you already have a previous version installed or the stable version, your site will notify you that this plugin is already installed and will show you meta-data from both version so you can make a decision.
It’s safe to click on “Replace current with uploaded”
Step 3: Activate plugin
How do get updates to Gutenberg Nightly?
Download the plugin GitHub Updater. It will check for you the Gutenberg Nightly repository and alert you of updates in your plugins screen.
Note: GitHub Updater has a 12 hrs cache. Need to ‘Refresh Cache’ on the settings page.
History of the experiment.
Day 21, Nov 4, 2020 Gutenberg 9.3 was released. Also published a Gutenberg nightly for practice purposes and to see if they update is announced by GitHub Updater since the changes from yesterday. Gotta refresh that Cache!
Also:
Day 20, Nov 3, 2020: Built again a zip from master seems to might fix the issue I found yesterday. Yesterday my site to crash with fatal error. Turns out it was caused by Gutenberg and they already had a PR that fixed it. So today, I was able to test what happens when someone has the release Gutenberg plugin installed an upload the Gutenberg Nightly version. It gives an upload update screen:
Using the button ‘Replace current with uploaded’ gets you the Gutenberg Nightly installed.
Day 19, Nov 2, 2020 – Andy Fragen and I optimized the workflow and will test it Friday Nov 6th, when 9.3 is released. For today and tomorrow, I just link to the RC, Thursday to 9.3 and Friday to our new Gutenberg nightly.
Two parts:
- Provide a gutenberg.zip build that has all the proper headers to work with GitHub Updater here
Day 18, Nov 1, 2020 – Updated Gutenberg-nightly file. Consolidated my local environment and manage a gutenberg fork, to eventually release the nightly via GitHub and GitHub Updater.
Day 17, Oct 31, 2020 – Happy Halloween! 👻 🎃 💀👿
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Day 16, Oct, 30, 2020 – new build ran into quirks because just by uploading the new file, the site created a new file name, which makes it not update the yesterday’s Gutenberg Nightly, but creates a new Gutenberg plugin on your site. Had to delete the previous upload to replace with this. I am working on providing a proper update process for the gutenberg nightly version.
Day 15, Oct 29, 2020 – new build now with changed gutenberg.php which makes it a bit more obvious which version of the plugin you have installed. That’s after some testing that my changing the gutenberg.php files wouldn’t mess up the build.
Day 14, Oct. 28, 2020 – new build. 90 commits since the 9.2.2 release
Also, we had some discussion about this process on Slack in #fse-outreach-experiments, with some great ideas on make this more useable at scale.
Day 13, Oct 27, 2020 – new build after Isabel Brison “published some npm packages with bug fixes for 5.6 Beta 2″
First time for me to actually review a PR on Gutenberg repo. I followed these instructions.
Gutenberg plugin 9.2.2 was released earlier today, and there were already 58 commits since then…
WordPress 5.6 Beta 2 was released
Day 12 Oct 26, 2020 – built a new version around 11 am. I didn’t see that there was a 9.2.2 release earlier today… Duh. Also: nosolosw released this 3 hours ago · 58 commits to master since this release
Day 10/11 git pull showed a `Already up to date.` message both days (0ct. 24 + 25)
Day 9, October 23, 2020 – Didn’t get to create the build until after our recording of the Gutenberg Changelog #31, where I mentioned this page. Andy Fragen released Beta tester plugin version 3.0 today.
Day 8, October 22, 2020 — Gutenberg plugin 9.2.1 was released. You can download or update it.
- From the WordPress repository or
- From the GitHub repository
- Or wait until it shows up as an update on your plugins page.
Day 7, October 21, 2020 Gutenberg plugin 9.2 was released. –
Preparing the 227-item list for our Gutenberg Changelog episode #31 recording on October 23rd.
Day 6, October 20, 2020 For the next few days I’ll refer the visitors to the Release Candidate and the stable version of the Gutenberg plugin.
Day 5, October 19, 2020 After got the same message git status message earlier this morning, although there were 20+ more commits made, I went ahead and created a new build.
In #core-editor Isabel Brison announced she will create the Gutenberg RC 9.2 early evening my time.
Day 4, October 18, 2020. I didn’t run a new build as the git status gave me a
“Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/master” message.
Day 3, October 17, 2020 While I ran today’s build process, I listened to Helen Hou-Sandi on her Twitch channel getting frustrated that there wouldn’t be a download version to alpha-test Gutenberg and where she tried to find one. Glad I can help out.
On October 16, 2020 there was a testing sprint in core for the Widget Screen, and the scrub master added it to the instructions for the test users.
The first time, I posted the zip-from-master file on October 15, 2020. Very early in the Gutenberg development, I would test things, be very diligent with it to make sure I got the real problem isolated, then I would write up complete issues with steps to reproduce and all the pertinent information to find out that a developer has already fixed it and I should test it again in master to make sure. I wasn’t so keen anymore to do early feature testing.
Testing WordPress 5.5 betas and release candidate, and a conversation with the developer of the WordPress Beta Plugin got me thinking, again about that situation. I wrote up some ideas on how to provide a plugin zip file from gutenberg master branch and make it available for other testers.
Big Thanks to Andy Fragen and Anne McCarthy to be a sounding board for my “This should work like my car” idea.
Questions? Email me [email protected] or DM me on WordPress Slack – @bph or leave a comment.