There has been a lot of excitement surrounding Gutenberg, the new block-based WordPress editing experience. One of its most compelling features is the ability for developers to create their own custom block types. This opens up an endless array of possibilities for customization. There’s just one little problem.

Last week the WordPress development team announced a tentative roadmap with real dates for the release of WordPress 5.0, which would include the merging of Gutenberg into Core. Here is the

The following is a guest post by Chris Van Patten who shares his experience learning and contributing to Gutenberg. There’s been a lot of talk of Gutenberg’s higher barrier to entry for…

WordPress 5.0 is quickly approaching, and the new Gutenberg editor is coming with it. There’s been a lot of discussion in the WordPress community over

Now that we have official support for nesting as of #3745, let's consider adding a Section block that can act as a generic block container. This block would have the following settings: Columns...

Right now there is a perception that Gutenberg is quite inaccessible, both in general and compared to the Classic Editor. Below is more/less a copy+pasted comment I made in a recent Make Post about...

Tiny, the company formerly known as Ephox has raised $4M in Series A funding from BlueRun Ventures. Tiny is the company behind TinyMCE, a popular text editor used in many opensource projects, inclu…

Usually during major releases of WordPress, the dedicated release lead chooses a few folks to help them through the time-consuming work of managing an excellent release cycle. We are blessed with s…

4.0 is at the release candidate stage, which can be grabbed here. Our 40th release is going to be a long one. Main changes are the introduction of a new data structure for RichText that will allow …

A pre-release of Gutenberg 4.0 RC 1 is now available for testing. During today’s core developer chat, Matias Ventura, the project’s technical lead, said he plans to post a full changelo…

This post documents how I setup WordPress Gutenberg for local development on Windows 7, using Laragon instead of Docker, and made my first pull request to the project. Most folks wanting to test an…

This 17-part video course from WordPress Educator, Joe Casabona, will introduce you to the all-new Gutenberg Editor in WordPress and show you how to use all of its exciting new features!

Jetpack 6.6 was released today with an update to the Site Verification tools that enables one-click verification and sitemap.xml registration with Google. This release also introduces the beta of J…

As activity ramps up to try to get WordPress 5.0 released in November, Matt Mullenweg has announced who will lead phase two of the Gutenberg project. Phase two focuses on Customization and entire s…

The new WordPress content editing system Gutenberg will be powering the WordPress post editor in WordPress 5.0. Gutenberg is a “block-based” editor. When creating content, everything is a block. If you have a post that is one paragraph, one header, and then two paragraphs, that’s four blocks. Gutenberg comes with a set of default “core” …

Description When you have an invalid block the result of the available actions can be unknown. This PR adds a 'compare conversion' option that shows the actual HTML difference when 'co...

The user should be able to align/convert a selection over multiple paragraph blocks. I guess this could be solved by having one text block for multiple paragraphs, but how do you then align/convert...

Gutenberg 3.9 was released last week with a new feature that allows users to group multiple blocks into reusable templates. The templates can also be exported and imported as a JSON file. The idea …

Custom Blocks for for Gutenberg to help extend the editing capablitlies.

A section block for Gutenberg. Contribute to marcusig/gutenberg-section-block development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this post I will explain how you can build a reusable Gutenberg block for a flexible-width section, including background image support.

WP Container Block editor. Contribute to MarieComet/WP-container-block development by creating an account on GitHub.

To better understand how we can integrate Gutenberg into WordPress, it’s crucial to know how the Gutenberg plugin is organized. JavaScript Packages The Gutenberg plugin is mostly a JavaScript…

Many WordPress theme shops started out with themes as their only products but over the years have moved into selling plugins that enhance their core products. This came about partially because them…

Yesterday, we started the WordPress 5.0 release cycle with an announcement post. Make WordPress It’s a very exciting time to be involved in WordPress, and if you want to help make it the best…

A comprehensive guide to customizing block font sizes. Learn more about styling themes for the new Gutenberg block editor in WordPress.

A tentative 5.0 release schedule was published during today’s core dev chat. The official release is targeted for November 19, 2018 with beta 1 expected October 19 and RC 1 released October 3…