{"id":9909,"date":"2018-06-18T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/?p=9909"},"modified":"2018-06-18T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T04:18:00","slug":"matt-mullenweg-at-wordcamp-europe-the-future-of-gutenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/matt-mullenweg-at-wordcamp-europe-the-future-of-gutenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Mullenweg: The Future of Gutenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that we are home and settling back into our time zone, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on WordCamp Europe<\/a><\/span> that took place in Belgrade last week. For those who don\u2019t know, this is the largest annual WordPress<\/a> community-lead conference in Europe. The event ran from June 14-16\u2014 just weeks after the 15th Anniversary of the first WordPress release<\/a><\/span>. Spirits were high and the Sava Center abuzz from developers, designers, bloggers, and more who were ready to soak up knowledge from industry leaders and influencers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of people travel from around the globe to be part of this event every year. The best of the best take the stage to discuss all things WordPress and the volunteers that make up WordPress.org also come together to work on projects to help maintain open source.<\/span>

Automattic CEO and Co-Founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg<\/a><\/span>, delivered his mid-year update on the status of Gutenberg and WordPress to a full audience on Day One of WordCamp. He also opened the floor for questions and the audience didn\u2019t disappoint. To keep things light hearted, Matt offered an attendee a cookie before answering a GDPR question. <\/span>
Matt spent the majority of his time reviewing his full Gutenberg roadmap, which announced the expected 5.0 release slated for August. News that sent anticipation and excitement rolling through the crowd like the storms just outside the center.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you aren\u2019t familiar with Gutenberg<\/a><\/span>, it is what Matt describes as more than an editor and the next phase of WordPress that will keep it thriving for the next 15 years. The block-based writing feature makes it easy for novice users to get online faster than ever before. Matt also mentioned his excitement surrounding the copy and paste feature which has not been easily accomplished in the past from places like Evernote or Microsoft Word.<\/span>

June will begin a push to invite agencies to opt websites into Gutenberg to gather the information needed for the next release in July. This should lead to a strong release of 5.0 in August\u2014although a confirmed date has not been announced. At that time, Matt plans to have over 100,000 sites and more than 250,000 posts using Gutenberg as it merges with core.<\/span>
For many\u2014 including developers and agencies\u2014 the clock is now ticking to get their companies ready for this release. <\/span>
Here is Matt\u2019s full roadmap for Gutenberg:<\/span>
June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n