This post is part of the series Keeping up with Gutenberg
Other posts in this series:
- Getting Ready for Gutenberg
- List of Gutenberg-ready WordPress plugins (Current)
- How to Test Your Theme for Gutenberg?
At WP4Good, I work with various organizations and sites. We handle quite the variety of set-ups and hosting situations.
In January 2018 we started testing the most used plugins and themes for Gutenberg readiness and keep a list here. It will help us assess which members sites need special assistance after the hosting partner rolls out the WordPress 5.0 release.
If you are a plugin developer or a site administrator, you might be interested in this discussion on Github: “Determine how plugin conflicts are handled and communicated” started by Kevin Hoffman
Daniel Bachhuber, working on an ecosystem-wide method to let users know which plugins are compatible with Gutenberg, has created a list of plugins on GitHub that are compatible as is, as they do not touch the editor. There is also the list of non-compatible plugins.
You can learn more about this eco-wide approach, by following the discussion on GitHub
Plugins, we tested
We did our own tests and post it here. Click on below links to jump to the short description of our test for the particular plugin.
- Caldera Forms
- Click-to-Tweet by Rick Tabor we tested on Gutenberg Times site
Blocks / Plugins in Progress
Proof of Concepts, plugins or Blocks first steps, or updates from plugins not yet released.
- GiveWP – is discussing how donations forms will be handled via Gutenberg Blocks, no version yet available for testing.
- CodePen Embed Block
- Team Page Block (using Blocks Boilerplate plugin)
- The Events Calendar started with Gutenberg explorations, too. Here is Part I
- Contact Form 7 already has a Gutenberg Block
- Gravity Form have free Gutenberg Add-on
- LearnDash is working on Gutenberg-
readness
Featured Image: Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash
Caldera Forms
Mid-December, a couple weeks after WordCamp US, Josh Pollock, lead developer at Caldera Labs announced that the form builder Caldera Forms is Gutenberg ready.
We tested it. It works.
To add a Caldera form to your page, select the Caldera Forms block from the “Inserter”. A select box offers you the list of available Caldera forms. When you select one, it will display on your page or post. Fairly easy.
The drop-down box looks a bit funny and would need a little more TLC and white space around it. For testing purposes, it works fine.
The form updates automatically when you change the settings in the Caldera Form admin screen. At the moment there are no additional settings available in Gutenberg for Caldera Forms.
See it in action on our “Getting Ready for Gutenberg” post.
Did you test any other plugins? Do you have different experiences? We want to hear about it! Please leave your thoughts in the comments or privately via below form.
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First, thanks for the post. Helpful info. I’m presenting on Gutenberg at a local meetup on Thurs. and did the same at a different one last Thurs. I’m curious if there’s any guidance or exploration into custom post types using Gutenberg? I haven’t seen anything myself. We’ve got a plugin that uses both a CPT and a shortcode. Converting the shortcode to a Gutenblock is a good step, and makes it technically “Gutenberg compatible,” but what about the CPT editor? For our plugin it’s just a set series of custom fields and settings. No need to add or remove blocks or the like. So what would/should that look like after being “converted” to Gutenberg? I guess I feel like that is true Gutenberg integration. But maybe we’re just not there yet? Maybe that’ll be addressed in the future. I’ve just been thinking about it a lot.
Hi there! You are welcome. Sorry for the late response. I need to review my notification settings for comments.
I am os glad that you take on presenting about Gutenberg at your local meetup and keep everyone informed.
In the last four weeks my attention was pointed at Gutenberg Times, where I started curating all information I can find on the Internet that helps people adopt to Gutenberg. Check it out. If almost daily news aren’t for you there is also a weekly newsletter with top links of the week.
To your question, I work on a few sites with CPT as well as ACF and I have yet to start testing it with Gutenberg. From my conversations with core developers and educators, I learned, that CPTs work with Gutenberg, as long as they are ‘show_in_rest’ => true. Gutenberg becomes the editor for those. You can also call in the classic Editor if you don’t need the full blown editor. The custom fields / meta boxes appear now below the Gutenberg Edit screens. You can read more about that in the Gutenberg handbook
Also Elliot Condon, author of ACF plugin, tweeted he has a Gutenberg ready version in the works.
I would also keep an eye on the merge proposal milestone on the github repository. Most backwards compatibility issues will be discussed there, when the time comes.
Not sure if my answer is indeed helpful. Let me know, if not and I take another swing at it:-)
Cool! Thanks. So it seems like we’ll be able to do a Gutenberg interface for CPT’s, but one that we can “lock down” and not allow people to add new fields, sections, etc, except where we want to allow them. That should be pretty cool.
Yes, that would be really cool to be able to give different users different permissions regarding managing CPTs. And I am sure each CPT plugin will implement it a little differently. That’s the beauty of WordPress: its extensibility.
Hello Birgit! Thank you for the useful post and the links for further reading. It’s a pity that i found your article only now.
But if Gutenberg is still of interest for you, it would be extremely helpful for me to hear your thoughts (and perhaps, some insights) on the Gutenberg blocks plugins (the ones adding custom extra blocks).
I’ve been closely working with one of them (called Getwid Gutenberg Blocks by MotoPress – https://wordpress.org/plugins/getwid/) because it has many blocks already (25 or so).
But generally, I would be grateful to hear your opinion perhaps not even on this particular plugin, but on the concept of extra blocks plugins as such (since, as far as i know, many WP users are still on the fence of using them and are not sure about relying on third-party plugins when creating content for their pages .)
Thanks in advance for any replies!
Hi Valerie! Thank you for cruising the Wp4Good site. I also run the much larger site Gutenberg Times. A couple month ago, I started a ‘running’ list of plugins that provide Blocks or tools for the Block editor. You might want to check them out. I also published a few thoughts on Block Collection vs. Single Block plugins. The development team is also pretty far in their design phase for a separate Block Library, practically a new repository for block that you can search and install from within the Block editor’s inserter window. You can find a project description is here.
Looking forward to seeing you on the Gutenberg Times site, too.
Thanks a lot for sharing your work. The Gutenberg Times project is really an all-around resource about the new block Editor that I’m sure will be of help for many users. (And, btw, the list of 97+ Gutenberg plugins is truly impressive. Keep up the great work!)
I’ll definitely be following the project and wishing you good luck with it!