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Gutenberg
Version: 21.7.0
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
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User Documentation: Review the WordPress Editor documentation for detailed instructions on using the editor as an author to create posts, pages, and more.
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Developer Documentation: Explore the Developer Documentation for extensive tutorials, documentation, and API references on how to extend the editor.
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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
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.
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.
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.
View the Versions in WordPress document to get a table showing which Gutenberg plugin version is included in each WordPress release.
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.
- 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
- Additional frequently asked questions
Reviews
better
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I use this editor plugin as my go-to on nearly every site I build. It performs exceptionally well on its own, though I’ve noticed minor compatibility quirks with Jetpack and some caching plugins. Nothing critical, though—the plugin remains stable, fast, and dependable. Kudos to the development team for a solid product!
saved me
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i used elementor but that makes website slow, but using it, actaully speed up my wesbite, good work!
So Much Better Now
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6 years after testing out the original Gutenberg block system, it is now a great deal better. There are add-ons which now make laying out a page a far better experience. Columns can be adjusted and the addition of the Document Overview sidebar means that moving elements around the page is far easier.
If works flawlessly till it's not.
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I rarely get any error with Gutenberg, but whenever I do, it is a painful process to point out the cause and it takes time. But It works better than it used to before. 🙂
Though I also like the idea of some used that says that there should be option for people to not use this instead of TinyMce
Good, but feels half-baked
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Gutenberg has potential, but it still feels a bit clunky. Some features are nice, yet the editor often gets in the way instead of making things easier. Not terrible, but not smooth either.
Good idea, poor execution
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At first, I thought Gutenberg would make editing easier, but the blocks feel heavy and not user-friendly. Needs a lot of improvement before I’d actually enjoy using it.
Bad.. just bad
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The worst developers experience i have ever had the displeasure of wasting my time on this mortal realm on. Why did they do this?
Worst thing that happened to WP
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over democratizing publishing is not working. 2025 and you still dont know what is happening when you edit a page.
client-side full-page navigation
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The client-side full-page navigation works perfectly. Great work! Thank you very much!
We do not want to be beta tester anymore
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It has been now "some time" since we use Gutenberg.
"We" as a company have the ressources to do workarounds, fixes, etc.
But our customers do not (especially the messed gallery issue caused a lot of frustration).
Therefore we always get asked to install Elementor, WPBakery or even more funny: we get a lot of requests to install the Classic editor (which is crazy btw.).
WHY did WordPress go this way?
Whom did you have to compete against?
Elementor and the other page builders?
Well, if this was the intention, Gutenberg should be better than worse.
Dear developers, yeah we know it is tough out there for you.
But for us users it is also tough to use your output.
Changelog
To read the changelog for the latest Gutenberg release, please navigate to the release page.