Gutenberg is about to ship in WordPress 5.0 in Nov 2018 or Jan 2019 as per the official release dates announced. If you are a plugin developer or a theme developer, you need to start exploring Gutenberg and make your theme and/or plugin compatible with it. And of course, there are tons of new opportunities for “Gutenberg Blocks” out there. I have tried to curate the best resources out there to get you started on Gutenberg Development. And I will make sure to keep this Gutenberg developer guide updated in future as new resources come out.
Official Gutenberg Guides & Resources
- Gutenberg Handbook
- Gutenberg Plugin
- Gutenberg Theme
- Gutenberg Github Repo
- Editor Technical Overview
- Official WordPress Slack Channel ( follow channel -editor )
Gutenberg Development Tutorial Series & Courses
- Gutenberg Development Course by Zac Gordon. ( Paid Course )
- 7-part series of tutorials about Gutenberg development by Lara Schenk and Andy Bell at CSS Tricks. ( Free )
- WordPress VIP offers courses for Gutenberg.
- Gutenberg for Enterprises ( Free Course )
Converting Custom Content to Blocks
- Migrating from CMB2 to Blocks
- Migrating ACF to Blocks
- Managing ACF Content with Gutenberg
- Converting Shortcodes to Blocks
Access Control and User Permissions
- Controlling Access to Blocks
- Creating Block Templates
- Using Block Templates
- Controlling Access to Blocks Based on User Roles
- Gutenberg Development ( for WP VIP members ) In this course you will gain a solid foundation of how to start developing with the new WordPress editor.
- How Gutenberg works under the hood
- Important JavaScript libraries that ship with Gutenberg
- How to create custom blocks with and custom components
- Options for Theme Developers to extend and customize Gutenberg
- The Modern JS Approach of using ES6+, JSX, React, webpack and more
- Gutenberg for Enterprises ( Free Course )
Tools To Help with Gutenberg Development
- Official Example Gutenberg Plugin with custom Blocks.
- Generate Blocks with WP-CLI
- Boilerplate Demo Plugin by Zac Gordon
- WordPress Gutenberg Boilerplate by Ahmad Awais
- A zero-configuration toolkit for building Gutenberg block plugins by Ahmad Awais
More Gutenberg Tutorials for Develoeprs.
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Last Updated: 27 Aug, 2018.