Gutenberg 17.4 has been released. There are not as many new features or big features as in the past, but there seems to be attention being put on data views and style revisions. This version of Gutenberg is set to be included in core 6.5 in the March release.

Kevin Geary attempts to use Gutenberg to create a layout from the Frames framework.

This is a great interview of Matias Ventura by Jamie Marsland. It is a very in-depth on the history of Gutenberg, approach and philosophy, ecosystem, and direction. A must listen for those interested in Gutenberg.

On the follow up question and answer page Matt Mullenweg answered the question about the WordPress user experience being split between page builder users and Gutenberg users. Here is his answer.

A first, rough, version of collaborative editing is available in the Gutenberg plugin. This article provides a look at what is coming. (The admin list of “experiments” reminds me of Elementor).

On X Matt Mullenweg suggests that non-Gutenberg based site builders will have more user churn and have to raise prices more often. I’m guessing Matt was referring to Elementor’s recent price change in the tweet.

True or false — Gutenberg based site builders will have greater user retention?

Brian Gardner, who is a well known theme creator, has gone all in on block themes. In this video he shows how to create a home page using Gutenberg and the Site Editor. The video might be of interest to people who are not familiar with creating layouts with these tools.

Here is a plugin from Automattic’s VIP hosting for controlling what blocks and styling are available for clients.

WordPress is adding a Form Block! It is showing up first in Gutenberg 16.9.