Gutenberg Editor is the future of web publishing with WordPress. It will completely change the way you create content natively with WordPress now. You will be introduced to a new thing called “Blocks“. You will be able to create your content using different blocks, such as headline, paragraph, image, gallery, etc..
The project has been started in June 2017 and since then is being actively developed. Currently, it is available as a feature plugin and is in beta/testing phase. You can directly install it into your WordPress website and play around with it. Remember it’s not ready yet to run on a live/production website. But you should start exploring it and get used to of how it works and pass your feedback to the development team to help the project.
The official release date for WordPress 5.0 has been announced. Gutenberg will replace the current editor entirely (you may keep the classic editor active with this plugin).
Official Gutenberg Resources
- Gutenberg, or the Ship of Theseus, with examples of what Gutenberg might do in the future
- Editor Technical Overview
- Design Principles and block design best practices
- WP Post Grammar Parser
- Development updates on make.wordpress.org
- Documentation: Creating Blocks, Reference, and Guidelines
