Slides for a talk held at WordCamp Turku on September 28, 2018.

1. Have No Fear,
Gutenberg
Is Near
Toni Laakso
WordCamp Turku
Sept. 28, 2018

4. What do you do
when change is
imminent?

6. Prepare.

7. At Seravo we use
Gutenberg for all
of our own sites.

8. So how is it?

10. Gutenberg Design Principles
• The editor makes authoring rich posts effortless.
• The blocks aim to unify multiple different
interfaces under a single umbrella.
“You should only have to learn how the block works,
and then know how to do everything.”
• No more "mystery meat".

11. It’s clean.

14. It has blocks.

17. Metaboxes are
still there.

19. Advanced Custom
Fields still work.

21. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/the-state-
of-acf-in-a-gutenberg-world/
“While things aren’t exactly
perfect just yet, we’ll show you
that we are well on the way to
that glorious place.”

22. So, when is
it coming?

23. We’re currently
on version 4.9.8.

24. Next up is 4.9.9.

25. What comes
after that?

26. 4.9.10 –
possibly.

27. Gutenberg
ships with
WordPress 5.0.

28. 5.0 ships when
it’s ready.

29. What if I
don’t wanna
can’t use it ?

33. https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#clean
“If the next version of
WordPress comes with a
feature that the majority of
users immediately want to turn
off, or think they’ll never use,
then we’ve blown it.”

34. If you haven’t,
give it a try.

35. @tlxo