Behind the scenes the WordPress team is working hard on an improved editor.<\/p>\n
With the current editor you can format messages or pages. It is displayed with icons at the top of your text and it is comparable with Microsoft Words word processing program.<\/p>\n
You can edit the font, add bold or italic words, a colour, etc. See the example below:<\/p>\n
![\"WordPress-editor-old\"](\"https:\/\/wpjournalist.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WordPress-editor-oud.jpg\")
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The editor is the most important part of WordPress, because with this you can make your articles public for your audience.<\/p>\n
Because of the advancing technology and the increase of mobiles, Automattic (the owner of WordPress) has decided to renew the editor.<\/p>\n
Editor advantages<\/h2>\n
According to Matt Mullenweg<\/a>, who developed WordPress, the WordPress Gutenberg editor will:<\/p>\n It comes down to that it will be easier for you, as a user, to display your content clearly. This will happen by creating blocks, filling it in and by displaying them.<\/p>\n Also adding social media posts and videos will become easier by using blocks.<\/p>\n This German worked on his most famous work, the Gutenberg Bible, in Strasbourg and Mainz which was finished in 1455.<\/p>\n Gutenberg also caused a revolution, because the printing press allowed mass distribution and made publication accessible for everyone.<\/p>\n Which is also WordPress\u2019s mission, democratize publication.<\/p>\n Back to the WordPress Gutenberg editor. It will be a while before the new editor is launched.<\/p>\n The expectation is that we will be working with it in the WordPress 5.0 version.<\/p>\n Until this time the people that are working on it have time to improve the editor.<\/p>\n Because like always with new developments, there is quite some criticism on the new editor.<\/p>\n But this is definitely heard by the WordPress team.<\/p>\n There have now already been various updates to finetune the editor.<\/p>\n You can already integrate the new Gutenberg plugin<\/a> into your website. For this you can download the plugin in the WordPress Catalogue, where you find all the plugins available to your website.<\/p>\n BEWARE<\/strong>: the plugin is still in BETA, which means the plugin has not yet been released by the developers. The plugin is still being tested, which means it can still contain bugs and errors.<\/p>\n But it doesn\u2019t need to hold you back to at least try out the plugin on a test website.<\/p>\n The editor works as follows: when you create a message now, you can format it by using blocks. With the right mouse click you can call the editor and format the message.<\/p>\n For example by adding a subheader, or changing a word to italics or bold.<\/p>\n Also the use of media will be easier. Now you are often messing around with the image measurements or with placing them. For this there have been made quite a few improvements within the editor.<\/p>\n You can for example sort every paragraph into headers, text, subheaders, a photo gallery, add quotes<\/a> and videos and social media.<\/p>\n Take a look at this video with the first impressions of how the new editor works. Here you can already get an idea of the possibilities:<\/p>\n\n
Johannes Gutenberg<\/h2>\n
![\"-Gutenberg\"](\"https:\/\/wpjournalist.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/256px-Gutenberg.jpg\")
In short, a small revolution is taking place in the publishing of articles. Which is why the editor is called Gutenberg<\/a>, named after the inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.<\/p>\nWordPress 5.0<\/h2>\n
![\"WordPress-gutenberg-editor\"](\"https:\/\/wpjournalist.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WordPress-gutenberg-editor.jpg\")
<\/p>\nHow does the WordPress Gutenberg editor work?<\/h2>\n