Category: Gutenberg

TL;DR – WordPress committed to supporting the now superseded classic editor until December 2021. If you’re still running the classic editor, it’s probably sensible to start planning for your migration to the new block editor soon. Back in 2018, WordPress 5.0 was released. It featured a shiny new editor, codenamed Gutenberg, also known as the block editor. The old ‘classic’ editor continued to be bundled with WordPress, activated with the…

WordPress 5.0 finally saw daylight yesterday, which means the new content editing experience in WordPress is now live. Update: I just discovered that Morten Rand-Hendriksen has released a new LinkedIn Learning course on using the new editor. For the next three weeks it’s available to view for free here. Section 2 and onwards will be useful if you’re new to using Gutenberg. I’ve gone ahead and updated this site – so…

WordPress 4.9.8 is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and it contains a prompt to ‘Try Gutenberg’. The aim is to get as many people to test Gutenberg – the new content editing experience for WordPress – and provide their feedback, before it becomes part of the core WordPress system. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a video explaining a bit more about Gutenberg.   Should I try…

Big changes are afoot! For those of you who haven’t already heard – a new WordPress content editor and publishing experience is being built, due for initial release in WordPress 5.0 (apparently anytime from April onwards). The project has been named Gutenberg, after the man who introduced the printing press way back in the 1400’s. Why? The current WordPress content editor is a big blank box. It’s lovely for writing a…