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Gutenberg

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Description

“Gutenberg” is a codename for a whole new paradigm for creating with WordPress, that aims to revolutionize the entire publishing experience as much as Gutenberg did the printed word. The project is following a four-phase process that will touch major pieces of WordPress — Editing, Customization, Collaboration, and Multilingual.

The block editor introduces a modular approach to all parts of your site: 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 content in a visually intuitive way — and without work-arounds like shortcodes or custom HTML.

The block editor first became available in December 2018. We’re always hard at work refining the experience, creating more and better blocks, and laying the groundwork for the future phases of work. Each WordPress release comes ready to go with the stable features from multiple versions of the Gutenberg plugin, so you don’t need to use the plugin to benefit from the work being done here. However, if you’re more adventurous and tech-savvy, the Gutenberg plugin gives you the latest and greatest, 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: Review the WordPress Editor documentation for detailed instructions on using the editor as an author to create posts, pages, and more.

  • Developer Documentation: Explore the Developer Documentation for extensive tutorials, documentation, and API references 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 can be found at https://github.com/wordpress/gutenberg. Discussions for the project are on the Make Core Blog and in the #core-editor channel in Slack, including weekly meetings. If you don’t have a slack account, you can sign up here.

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.

Do I have to use the Gutenberg plugin to get access to these features?

It depends on the feature you want to use! Keep in mind that each version of WordPress after 5.0 comes with bundled versions of the Gutenberg plugin, automatically containing new features and changes. If you want the cutting edge features, including more experimental items, you will need to use the plugin. You can read more here about whether using the plugin is right for you.

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.

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 2020, 2019, and 2018. Additionally, you can follow the biweekly release notes and monthly project plan updates on the Make WordPress Core blog for more up to date information about what’s happening now.

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Reviews

Best Builder for WordPress

জানুৱাৰী 20, 2022
As a professional WordPress developer for the past 5 years I can say after trying out the Divi plugin, WP Bakery, Elementor this is by far the best site builder ever released for WordPress. On a technical side, Gutenberg is superior when it comes to speed. The fact that you can easily create new blocks with React is such a game-changer and makes the developer's job a lot easier and more enjoyable to create and expand Gutenbergs functionality. All the one-star reviews seem to be people are way too attached and are afraid of change. You will always have those. And since WordPress is a huge platform there a plenty of them. Don't let those reviews distract you from the fact that Gutenberg is still evolving and its already way better than any premium plugin out there. From a technical and aesthetic standpoint.

It’s like trying to build a site out of lego

জানুৱাৰী 17, 2022
Everything feels clunky and restrictive. You can't just drag in an image and sit it inline with your text (which has been a text editor standard since 2004). Instead you need to fiddle around with the 4 different image blocks, none of which do what you want. The drag and dropping feature almost never works. Basically if you ever want to do anything other than writing a basic text document, with no columns or formatted images, this might be fine. But the classic editor already does that, without having to fiddle around with blocks. What it was advertised as was modeling clay, endlessly versatile and easy to use. Instead we got lego, which is fine if you only need page full of identical bricks.

I love tinkering with it

জানুৱাৰী 15, 2022
I reckon most people who left 1 star did so because Gutenberg took post editing to the next level allowing design options that were simply not available in the old vanilla editor that was more of a plain text editor. I understand that writing simple posts is less intuitive than before, but boy, this plugin is amazing when it comes to editing posts that contain multimedia content. Coupled with the Editor Plus plugin library, you can basically design any page with animations and other advanced features without even knowing what a CSS class is. The only thing that I didn't really like about it was finding some "!important" properties in the CSS files. I had to modify a specific element and my personalized CSS code wouldn't work. Wondered why, then saw the "!important" plastered onto it in the main CSS block file. It was some time ago but I think it was targeting the wp-column class? That's a big no-no! Other than that, it's perfect.

Good New Editor

জানুৱাৰী 12, 2022
Compared to its very initial release a few years ago, the Gutenberg becomes a pretty usable post editor. I'm using it with a few 3rd parties Gutenberg blocks plugins, and writing a post is a joy now. I wish the editor's performance could be enhanced and more responsive (the drag-and-drop is sometimes laggy). Thank you, the team, for the hard work and effort to contribute to this editor!
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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 52 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

To read the changelog for Gutenberg 12.4.1, please navigate to the release page.

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Issues resolved in last two months:

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