Gutenberg

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 Johannes 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.

Following the introduction of post block editing in December 2018, Gutenberg later introduced full site editing (FSE) in 2021, which shipped with WordPress 5.9 in early 2022.

What Does Gutenberg Do?

Gutenberg is WordPress’s “block editor”, and introduces a modular approach to modifying your entire site. Edit individual content blocks on posts or pages. Add and adjust widgets. Even design your site headers, footers, and navigation with full site editing support.

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 users to create media-rich content and site layouts in a visually intuitive way — and without workarounds like shortcodes or custom HTML and PHP.

We’re always hard at work refining the experience, creating more and better blocks, and laying the groundwork for future phases of work. Each WordPress release includes stable features from the Gutenberg plugin, so you don’t need to install the plugin to benefit from the work being done here.

Early Access

Are you a tech-savvy early adopter who likes testing bleeding-edge and experimental features, and isn’t afraid to tinker with features that are still in active development? If so, this beta plugin gives you access to the latest Gutenberg features for block and full site editing, as well as a peek into what’s to come.

Contributors Wanted

For the adventurous and tech-savvy, the Gutenberg plugin gives you the latest and greatest feature set, so you can join us in testing and developing bleeding-edge features, playing around with blocks, and maybe get inspired to contribute or build your own blocks.

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?

The best place to report bugs, feature suggestions, or any other feedback is at the Gutenberg GitHub issues page. Before submitting a new issue, please search the existing issues to check if someone else has reported the same feedback.

While we try to triage issues reported here on the plugin forum, you’ll get a faster response (and reduce duplication of effort) by keeping feedback centralized in GitHub.

Where can I report security bugs?

The Gutenberg team and WordPress community take security bugs seriously. We appreciate your efforts to responsibly disclose your findings, and will make every effort to acknowledge your contributions.

To report a security issue, please visit the WordPress HackerOne program.

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

Not necessarily. Each version of WordPress after 5.0 has included features from the Gutenberg plugin, which are known collectively as the WordPress Editor. You are likely already benefiting from stable features!

But if you want cutting edge beta features, including more experimental items, you will need to use the plugin. You can read more here to help decide whether 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 2021, 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.

Where can I read more about Gutenberg?

Reviews

October 11, 2024
Here is my Reasons a 7 year full-stack and experianced wordpress and PHP developer:1- waek UI expreince (front or editor) 2- very Complicated to use it (even make a simple row !) 3- Not user friendly at-ALL 4- very very very very VERY Hard & Complicated to develope (even add a simple gutenberg block and use the wordpress translation system in it!! )! 5-Poor Community 6-Poor docs 7- I think the project must stop at all! Important-Note: One star is too much for this nonsense, if I could I would have given it half a star or more less!
October 9, 2024
This plugin is problematic. The developers update it several times a month and are unable to fix the bugs that always occur with each new update. Sometimes they make more than one update in the same day. Today, for example, my site went offline due to a “fatal error” after the Gutenberg update. I received numerous complaints from users of my site and had to revert the update. In fact, the recurring “errors” of this plugin even affect the layout options for the featured images in the posts. There are so many “errors” that I feel like deleting this crap. But unfortunately, I can’t because my site has over 20 thousand posts and if I change the editor now it will be a lot of work. I would like to understand why Wordpress chose this plugin as a partner………Esse plugin é problemático. Os desenvolvedores atualizam várias vezes no mês e não conseguem arrumar os bugs que sempre ocorrem a cada nova atualização. Tem vezes que fazem mais de uma atualização em um mesmo dia. Hoje, por exemplo, meu site saiu do ar por “erro fatal” após a atualização do Gutenberg. Recebi inúmeras reclamações de usuários do meu site e tive que reverter a atualização. Aliás, os “erros” recorrentes desse plugin prejudicam até as opções de layout das imagens em destaque nas postagens. São tantos “erros” que dá vontade de deletar essa porcaria. Mas, infelizmente, não posso porque meu site tem mais de 20 mil publicações e se eu mudar agora o editor vai dar muito trabalho. EU queria entender porque o Wordpress escolheu esse plugin como parceiro.
September 27, 2024
Gutenberg is a brilliant little tool for creating content all over the WP portfolio. In the Learn WP forum you see her in her simplest form, and else where she shows her power. I have never (4-5 years) had content posted cause any issue as it get’s tag’ed into html and other code. That means I have never had to fix anything in the code viewer, though it’s there for me. Trust me when I say: All the hate around Gutenberg comes old WP’ers struggling with comfort zone and what they are used to. So please ignore any review under ****. It’s just frustation. Gutenberg looks the part. Clean and minimalistic. Neat icons and easy access to any and all blocks. Gutenberg screams Apple while TinyMCE screams DOS. Seriously!!! A consistent implementation of Gutenberg across any and all WP is given. I cannot wait for it implemented in all plugins, but ofcourse the haters will do what they can to stall this. I am happy to see Woo almost being the first-mover and I cherish the day it comes out of their (Woo) beta state. Let’s see it happen and focus on the beauty of WP. Anyone below 60 years and new to WP will intuitively navigate Gutenberg within 10 minutes. And the best part. It matches anything…
September 19, 2024 1 reply
Instead of WordPress becoming a modern cms, integrating the best community plugins, modernizing the database, and fatcilitating headless solutions, we got this: ‘\n<div class=”wp-block-columns has-3-columns”>\n\n\n\n</div>\n’,
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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 55 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 the latest Gutenberg release, please navigate to the release page.