WordPress—the leading blogging and content management system across the web—is releasing version 5.0 on Thursday [6 Dec]. This marks the first major update in a year, and the most substantive update to the platform in several years, bringing with it a variety of speed optimizations and new features intended to make it more flexible to fit an increasing number of use cases.
The largest change coming to WordPress 5.0 is the Gutenberg editor, which completely reimagines the way writers and other content creators interact with their website. In contrast to increasingly popular markup editors used in other blogging software, the Gutenberg editor is fundamentally WYSIWYG, though with a design flexibility that allows content to be easily reformatted across screen sizes and devices.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zemm on Friday December 07 2018, @03:59PM (4 children)
Most developers are enthusiastic about the future of Gutenberg. I think it's going to be great. However most also agree that it's being released a little too soon (bugs and accessibility issues are the main concerns) and also that the average non-technical person with a WordPress website is not being adequately educated (or perhaps warned) about the consequences of updating to 5.0. See many of the comments in Matt's announcement:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/04/new-5-0-target-date/ [wordpress.org]
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday December 07 2018, @04:38PM (2 children)
As long as one can get at the source, and as long as the WYSIWYG displays anything you add, including custom CSS and macro expansions, this is fine.
If, OTOH, it locks you into a limited-by-editor understanding of coding the page, it's garbage.
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I'd get my mind up from the gutter, but you know, I've never been up there, and it frightens me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @05:32AM (1 child)
You mean like what Atlassian did with changing from wiki markup [atlassian.com] to IDE only [atlassian.com]?
They screwed over the technical users of their product. As of today they still haven't resolved the issues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @05:01PM
that's what they get for using slaveware as a service
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Saturday December 08 2018, @01:35AM
How nicely will the Gutenberg editor play with distributed revision control? Most word processors do this abominably. Will merges all be pick one file or the other, with no actual merging of changes?