This download page is for people who would like to alpha/beta test Gutenberg, but
- Don’t want to install NodeJS and npm ✅
- Don’t want to use the command line ✅
- Don’t want to download 2.7 Gigabytes in 232,740 files ✅
“It’s a really valuable service that not many people know about yet.”
Sarah Gooding, editor WPTavern
Every morning a new Gutenberg Nightly is created.
Heads-up (August 2026): if you haven’t seen a Gutenberg Nightly update recently
A regression in Git Updater 14.0.0 (released July 21) broke automatic update detection for plugins that use rolling nightly-tagged release assets — including this one. Andy Fragen shipped fixes in 14.2.3 and, together with a small adjustment I’ve just added to the plugin, updates should flow normally again from here on. But sites that were stuck during the outage need one nudge to pick up the new plugin file that contains the fix.
If your test site hasn’t updated Gutenberg Nightly since late July, do one of the following once:
- In WordPress admin, go to Git Updater → Settings → Refresh Cache, then check for plugin updates. If a new Gutenberg Nightly appears, install it.
- Or download the latest zip below and upload it via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
After that one-time step, every future daily nightly should install automatically the way it always did. Sorry for the trouble, and thank you to Andy for the quick fix. 🙏
Download Gutenberg Nightly
https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/playnightly.json
August 18, 2026
- 🙌 Latest Weekend Edition: WordPress 7.1 arrives at WordCamp US, Abilities API for developers, and a new theme for Gutenberg Times and more — Weekend Edition #373
- 🎙️ Latest podcast episode: Gutenberg Changelog #133 – Gutenberg 23.6 Release and WordPress 7.1
- 🧪 Gutenberg 23.8 RC 1 is available for testing.
v-23.9.20260818
Also available on GitHub
Blocks not yet in WordPress Core
5 blocks ship in the Gutenberg plugin but are not in WordPress Core trunk.
Plugin-only
core/table-of-contents— Table of Contents
On the Gutenberg Experiments page
To use any of these blocks, open Gutenberg → Experiments in wp-admin and turn on the matching toggle.
- Form and input blocks
core/form— Formcore/form-input— Input Fieldcore/form-submission-notification— Form Submission Notificationcore/form-submit-button— Form Submit Button
Note: The version tag of the Gutenberg Nightly will always be one decimal ahead of the stable. So version 10.3 is in the works, the nightly version will be 10.4. That way the Nightly stays in its lane and the bots working behind the scene are not confused by semantic versioning.
Questions? Email me at pauli@gutenbergtimes.com or DM me on WordPress Slack – @bph or leave a comment.