Getting Ready for Gutenberg

Gutenberg is the new WordPress content creation experience in development and to be released in 2018, probably the first half of the year. The team is rebuilding the edit post screen from the ground up, with the new user in mind.

The interface is much more intuitive and a writer or blogger doesn't need to know about all the concepts that confuse WordPress users today: No need to learn about widgets, shortcodes, custom post types, custom fields or any other kind of "Mystery Meat". With Gutenberg, it doesn't mean all these things will go away.  They just will work a little bit differently than before.  Everything that is part of a page and post will be available in Gutenberg as Blocks.

Gutenberg will also change how plugins and themes handle their interaction with post/page content. It will bring a major shift for all contributing to the WordPress ecosystem.  You can imagine there is a lot of discussion going on behind the scenes on different websites, on the WordPress slack, and on Twitter.  Since June 30, 2017, I have been curating a lot of the information, opinions, and resources about Gutenberg via a Storify space. Most of it is like inside baseball full of geek-speak and only interesting to other geeks and those of us suffering from somnia.

You can explore Gutenberg yourself on Frontenberg by Tom J Nowell

Much more important to you are our plans for the Gutenberg roll-out at the WP4Good Club.  What's in store for our members as well as other nonprofits. We haven't scheduled it all or prepared, so leave us your name and email address and we'll send you invitations to Webinars, and updates on our testing progress.

Gutenberg roll-out activities for WP4Good

• Webinar: Introduction to Gutenberg for nonprofits
• List of Gutenberg-ready plugins and themes.
• Micro-Lessons for members in Gutenberg Course. 
• Q & A in monthly calls for members
• Specific roll-out plans for each member organization's site
  • Making a decision on plugins not ready for Gutenberg
    • Testing Meta-Box issues
    • Maybe staying on 4.9 or use Classic Editor plugin

Let us know if you'd like an invitation to our Live Q & A for nonprofits.

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