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This video from WordCamp Greenville (2018) goes into some nice details on how you can get started making blocks with the new WordPress 5.0 editor. The quality isn’t 100% (as with a lot of WordCamp videos) but give it a look anyway, it’s only just over 30mins long and pretty concise.

The Gutenberg Times has a great post covering some of the more advanced editorial options users will have when using the new editor in WordPress 5.0. From the post: I have found the new editing experience fairly intuitive and getting started with text shouldn’t be too hard. I might be wrong. Let me know if […]

This post by Jason Yingling look in detail the best practices for developing new blocks in the new WordPress editor and how to integrate these features into features into WordPress themes. One interesting part of this tutorial focuses on where to put your new blocks, in your theme OR in a plugin: The general rule of thumb […]

The team over at meks have done a great job of pulling together 31 beginner’s tips on Gutenberg Development. From the post: Both from developers and content side, this improvement will change the way we code and produce content in WordPress. Not to mention all the advantages that are coming with the blocks and the ways we […]

The path to WordPress 5.0 has been a rough one. With community feedback around the new editor generally split and fear about such a fundamental change generally worrying the WordPress-masses. The team behind TinyMCE looked to ease this tension with their excellent ‘Gutenberg myth-busting: 10 answers on the future of content creation in WordPress‘ post […]

The editor team have announced that the latest release of Gutenberg (2.6) now has support for drag-and-drop blocks, see a quick video demo here: This is a welcome (and much requested) change and you can try it out now with Frontenberg. Early tests are a tad ‘clunky’ but the implementation is very young so keep […]

WPTaven has a great article explaining the path that led to the decision have a simple option that will ‘restore’ the Old Editor when WordPress 5.0 is released. This seems like a good solution that will help ease the pain for a lot of users. The WordPress Accessibility Team were especially active in this debate when it […]

The WordPress Roadmap is a great tool to look back at previous WordPress releases and get a good idea about what’s coming up. WordPress version 5.0 will be included in this roadmap soon enough and at some point get ‘frozen’ and made ready for release: The month prior to a release new features are frozen […]

The Gutenberg Design Principles do a great job of explaining how the new WordPress editor has been designed to function. The basic ‘Goal of Gutenberg’ is mentioned here: The all-encompassing goal of Gutenberg is to create a post and page building experience that makes it easy to create rich post layouts. There is also a clear […]

The announcement that Matt Mullenweg laid out in his ‘Focus Tech and Design Leads‘ post in January 2017 is primarily responsible for the changes we are seeing to WordPress in version 5. This post laid out three main focuses for 2017: REST API, the editor (Gutenberg), and the customizer. The new editing experience (which became Gutenberg) […]

Frontenberg is a way to play around with the new WordPress ‘Gutenberg‘ editor which is coming in WordPress 5.0 without the need to mess around installing WordPress or adding the Gutenberg Plugin. It was released in December 2017 by Tom J Nowell who works as a VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic.  

The source for all technical project information can be found over on the Make WordPress Core site. This includes the Release Schedule, notes from regular meetings. There is also a direct link to the 5.0 Post Tag which will grow as more information is published.