Matt Mullenweg announced the leadership team responsible for the Gutenberg merge into Core and become the default editor. Gary Pendergast updated the release schedule. The team aims for Nov 19, 2018. Riad Benguella posted a technical overview for the Gutenberg integration. Gutenberg adoption has grown to over 510K active sites using it. Enhanced reusable blocks are Gutenberg 3.9 killer feature: select multiple blocks and put them into one reusable block, then export and import. And 73 more change log items. Remaining task for Gutenberg developers before heading into the Core merge proposal. An comprehensive guide as an eBook, Blocks galore and more developer tips for building blocks. It’s a big round-up again. Enjoy the week!
Table of Contents
- Gutenberg Development News
- YouTube Live Shows
- Using Gutenberg
- Blocks Galore #280Blocks
- Building Blocks
- Photos from around the World
Gutenberg Development News
A Plan for 5.0
Proposed WordPress 5.0 Scope and Schedule
Technical overview of Gutenberg integration
Gutenberg for @WordPress now has 420k active sites and we've tracked 213k posts written with it the past few weeks, only counting @Jetpack sites. Will have some block stats here in future! The original before-5.0 goal was 100k sites and 250k posts: https://t.co/S5Oju7cMRP
— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) September 20, 2018
What’s new in Gutenberg?
An Update on Gutenberg Tasks
WPWeekly Episode 331 – Status Update on Gutenberg With Gary Pendergast
Gutenberg nightly build
If you care about #accessibility and #WordPress, hop on this #Gutenberg issue and let the #a11y lead know you support an independent audit of the new editor. Let's make it clear that WP is not truly democratizing publishing if its not accessible to all. https://t.co/RqoidzcWKZ
— Rachel Cherry 🍒 (@bamadesigner) October 4, 2018
YouTube Live Shows

Using Gutenberg
Should Gutenberg Replace Your #WordPress Page Builder? via @wpappstore_ https://t.co/5hcgdDjoIT
— Eric Karkovack (@karks88) October 2, 2018
Jen Roventine & the team at Modern Tribe published a comprehensive guide to the new block-based editor, with clear explanations of the major changes, and a step-by-step checklist to prepare your site for Gutenberg. 👏
I am very happy, we will have a Beta 1 of WordPress5.0 in a little of 2 weeks so we can stress test current site configurations cc. @PauliSystems @wp4good @wpswfl @ArtBloggers
— Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) October 4, 2018
Is #gutenberg going to replace #ACF when building custom @WordPress websites?. Maybe it already has…https://t.co/YZWBrpVBh0
— Black Tie Digital (@blacktiedigital) September 20, 2018
Creating custom, publishing experiences with Gutenberg in WordPress. Let Flickerbox show you WordPress like you’ve never experienced. #coding #Wordpress #gutenberg #marketing https://t.co/4UOwVYK74E
— Flickerbox, Inc. (@flickerbox) October 2, 2018
How to use WPForms with Gutenberg? https://t.co/ncL5gwDAtj pic.twitter.com/JdxaEtZ25T
— BlogHeist (@Blog_heist) September 29, 2018
Creating contact page never been easier, using the best Contact builder @calderaforms and #Gutenberg with #Risala theme: https://t.co/9Oz5v2XxoS pic.twitter.com/zJVN78WCqB
— PixelDima (@PixelDima) October 4, 2018
Great post by Jason Cohen https://t.co/SmoFyc3w5j "Gutenberg should not be used as an excuse to refrain from updating to WordPress 5.0 when it’s released. Quite the contrary—our hope is that Gutenberg will be the reason many people update to 5.0 once it’s made available. "
— Jeff (@jeffr0) October 2, 2018
Blocks Galore #280Blocks
WordPress Theme and Plugin Shops are Pioneering the First Layout Blocks for Gutenberg
Hey hey, my friends! I've made the new video presentation 🙂 At this time, let's see a simple and useful Team Block! 😁 #Gutenberg #Wordpress #UltraBlocks pic.twitter.com/JlpgPY2JaE
— UltraBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks (@ultrablocks) September 19, 2018
More Blocks: Blocks Kit https://t.co/Ird7sg0Zww by @miyanialkesh7 pic.twitter.com/nFHhRUSXlV
— Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) October 1, 2018
Building Blocks
Yup, a plugin I made that takes #Gutenberg data and stores the data elegantly into the DB which is accessible via REST API directly or via normal /posts/ endpoint.
— 🟣☮ Roy Sivan (@royboy789) October 3, 2018
Been coming in handy for this headless React App. https://t.co/16pAAZoM4g
Breaking blocks is not cool! We've got a handy tutorial showing you how to make changes to block after you've launched them. https://t.co/ihWZmwlo6O pic.twitter.com/f6oCTRkSGz
— Atomic Blocks (@AtomicBlocks) September 21, 2018
How to use the Gutenberg migration guide to deliver modern WordPress plugins. https://t.co/tXCGVSeyiF pic.twitter.com/fTWovFYYg4
— Torque (@TheTorqueMag) September 20, 2018
Learn JavaScript, ReactJS, Gutenberg Theme and Block development
Wes Bos, long time JavaScript educator
- React For Beginners
- Learn Redux – core concepts of Redux & React Router, also a free course
- a free JavaScript 30 course.
Zac Gordon, WordPress teacher par excellence
Photos from around the World
#Gutenberg en 10’ de charla con @DavidPeralvarez en el #ContributorDay de @WCBCN #WCBCN pic.twitter.com/PRFQgEgKKz
— Pablo Moratinos (@pablomoratinos) October 5, 2018
Two of my favorite topics, tech and nonprofits! So many takeaways from my first RMU @bayercenter #TechNow18 Conference. Re-energized about #WordPress after @bph’s preview of Gutenberg. pic.twitter.com/nCs5lIxPrz
— Janey⁷ (@JaneyCink) October 3, 2018

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