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Discover the new experience

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We want as much feedback and real-world testing of the experience as possible, so we’ve released it as a plugin for anyone to try. To experience this new way to work with WordPress, head to your site’s Dashboard and go to the Plugins menu item. Click on Add New, and type “Gutenberg” in the search box.

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What is a block?

One of the things you hear a lot about during discussions of Gutenberg are blocks. These blocks are a unified way to style content that currently requires shortcodes, embeds, widgets, post formats, custom post types, theme options, meta-boxes, and other formatting elements. By allowing rich customization without deep knowledge of code, blocks make good on the promise of WordPress: broad functionality with a clear, consistent user experience.

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The current WordPress editor is an open text window—it’s always been a wonderful blank canvas for writing, but when it comes to building posts and pages with images, multimedia, embedded content from social media, polls, and other elements, it required a mix of different approaches that were not always intuitive:

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• Media library/HTML for images, multimedia and approved files.
• Pasted links for embeds.
• Shortcodes for specialized assets from plugins.
• Featured images for the image at the top of a post or page.
• Excerpts for subheads.
• Widgets for content on the side of a page.

As we thought about these uses and how to make them obvious and consistent, we began to embrace the concept of “blocks.” All of the above items could be blocks: easy to search and understand, and easy to dynamically shift around the page. The block concept is very powerful, and if designed thoughtfully, can offer an outstanding editing and publishing experience.