Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Howdy — lead of WordPress here. When the article was written in January of 2018, I would agree Gutenberg wasn&#x27;t ready for core. Ten months later, it&#x27;s come a long way. <i>There have been 41 public releases of Gutenberg, and close to 600,000 sites are using it already.</i> It&#x27;s the mostly widely tested (and adopted) new feature code we&#x27;ve had in any release of WordPress in my memory. It might not be for everyone, which is why we created the Classic Editor plugin which you can install today, and when 5.0 comes out in a few weeks your site will look and work pretty much exactly like it does today, and you can migrate to Gutenberg at your leisure, or perhaps not at all. (There are lots of ways to post and interact with WordPress, including the command line via wp-cli.)<p>A big advantage of blocks is they will allow us to simplify many of the different concepts and interfaces throughout WordPress, including our old WYSIWYG sorta-blocks, shortcodes, widgets, menus, and embeds of all types. It solves literally hundreds of interactions where people used to get stuck in our old WYSIWYG and either switch to code view to fix things, or just give up. Like all software, the 5.0 release of WordPress isn&#x27;t a finish line, it&#x27;s a starting one. We are already planning for 5.1 and beyond (including minimum PHP updates) and we look forward to bringing the fast, public iteration cycle that Gutenberg has demonstrated to more parts of core.