Guten Ready – that’s what I want to be..
…what does that even mean?
That’s the question I asked my self when I first heard about the concept that WordPress was fronting. Gutenberg is the idea WordPress is currently without tiring investing to create a better publishing experience for its platform users and creators.
Beware of the dark forces…
As a developer, advocate and user of WordPress, I was scared and excited for the first time. Fear being the greatest; for I have developed hundreds of sites using this unique platform and little birds were speaking of a major breakdown.
A survey for all things.
As humans, we all have a dark side we want to hide. So I did a survey online to to find out what the rest of Africa was doing about this new trend.
“You must be nuts!” you say.
Yah! I couldn’t agree more. However, I was not ready to go down when my bread-winning platform was about to take a turn.
I hate being on the uninformed side. So what did I do about?
I bought a domain – omukiuy.com to experiment and also document for both non-developers (bloggers, clients, tech enthusiasts ) and developers.
My goal was to make access to the information from both angles that are both “techie” and “non-techie”… you get the drift…
How can you write about a experience if you have not dived into it?
I immediately install the default WordPress theme “twentyfifteen” (It looks neat but this might change someday) and I added Gutenberg to the plugins section.
Well, I just created the paragraph and quote above then dragged them up to position. So that is a +1 and +2 for not having to select the block of content to drag.
How am I doing so far?
Well, I have been using my tab button on the keyboard to create new paragraphs. That’s the freshness of Gutenberg to my publishing. There is more to come. I am sure once Gutenberg is complete. They will have a better documentation than I do. Well, keep your eyes peeled. I might be doing a YouTube channel soon for those who are visual.
What will I be doing in the near future?
Well, I am going to open a omukiguy.wordpress.com blog to see how WordPress is doing the release of this product to the easiest testing market they have and I will be back to write some more.
Cheers….
Photo credits: wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg
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Interesting read Omukiguy.
I love the fact that you took it down and experimented with this plugin.
I have always wondered what Gutenberg is all about. I just remember reading about this Johannes Gutenberg a great man revolutionalizing the printing world. But this is totally off. Gutenberg, welcome to the world of publishing.
Thank Omukiguy
Thanks for reading. I hope to add some meaningful content to help many people get to speed about the new phenomenon (demystify) that will be coming to WordPress this year. You can sign up for alerts to follow new articles. They will be for both techies and non-techies. Or simply follow @omukiguy via twitter.