Gutenberg

Description

“Gutenberg” is a codename for a whole new paradigm in WordPress site building and publishing, that aims to revolutionise 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, Customisation, 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 be 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 customising 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 centralised in the GitHub repository.

What’s Next for the Project?

The four phases of the project are Editing, Customisation, 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

8 September 2021
If you tried it before and found it too slow or limited, give it another chance, it has come a long and replaced site builders, endless widget areas, and a handful of plugins for me.
8 September 2021
Just awful. I already prevent WP updates on all my older WP sites so they never get updated to the awful mess that is Gutenberg, but of course I'm not able to do that with more recent post-Gutenberg builds. Instead, with each new build I install the Classic Editor to keep Gutenberg and its ridiculous blocks away from my content on all my websites, old and new. I realised today that the WP version on a recently-launched site has updated to 5.8, bringing with it (without warning) the equally terrible "Widgets block editor". My clients' beautiful new website was broken, with extra widgets scattered all over the sidebar and across the content area of all my pages too. What a nightmare. Error messages all over the widgets editor page, and a new interface which made precisely no sense at all on first glance. Thank goodness for managed hosting, backups and restores, my webhost's 24/7 helpdesk, and the Classic Widgets plugin. It took us an hour to figure out what the problem was, wind back to an earlier version and install the plugin - and we lost quite a bit of work as a result of having to roll back. All of which someone is going to have to pay for. What a waste of my time. Gutenberg is a horrible addition to WordPress. I will never use it - and if/when you make it compulsory by removing support for the classic plugins, you will lose me as a consumer of your product. I'm a web designer and front-end developer with 25 years' experience and a wide range of WP-based clients. You'll lose all of them too, because there's no way I would subject them to Gutenberg. IMO you should have made Gutenberg an option rather than the default. It should never have been included in the core build. It's not fit for purpose. If I could give this product review zero stars, I would.
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Contributors and 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.

Change Log

To read the change log for Gutenberg 11.4.1, please navigate to the release page.