The Roadmap to 6.4 has been published and man is it full of features. There are plans for core font library functionality, new blocks, image lightbox, building out theme.json for spacing presets, a box shadow component, a new Twenty Twenty four theme, enhancements to the Query Loop Block, the Footnote Block, rollback option for theme and plugin automatic updates, foundational work on Phase 3, and more.

The Getwid Gutenberg block collection added a new AI writing block that is powered by OpenAI. The goal is to make it quicker to create content from within the Gutenberg editor.

When I saw the headline I thought that the message was going to be to tailor your tech stack to the type of site. I was wrong. This looks to be a sales piece for their potential customers to convince them to use Gutenberg and not a page builder. There are some inaccuracies, like about Beaver Builder, but also they totally gloss over the need for custom development, which a page builder might not require. In any event, WebDevStudios is a large agency, so it is interesting to see what they are doing.

We often hear about how many millions of WordPress posts are written using Gutenberg and I was curious about which block collections people are using the most. In this video I look at the top 20 most popular Gutenberg block collections by the number of active installs. I show all 20, and there is a table of contents in the video comments. There are some interesting trends found overall that are discussed in the conclusions section at the end.

Here is a brief tutorial on how to use the new Footnotes block that was included in WordPress 6.3.

Part of Gutenberg phase 3 is a redesign of the WordPress admin. Contributors are starting to propose designs.

For block developers – this is a nice resource with information about all of the core blocks.

Gutenberg 16.4 introduces auto-inserting blocks feature, and other enhancements.

The WordPress Gutenberg team is working on adding a new interactivity API so that developers can create blocks that support users content interactions. The project has progressed to the initial testing stage and those interested are invited to help.