What is Gutenberg Editor?

In short Gutenberg is a new WordPress visual editor that is going to replace the old one, which did not have many changes over the years and for the most parts, has stayed mostly much the same. Now with WordPress version 5 release day approaching lets have a quick look at the editor that should change editing experience making it even easier to add media to pages and posts. In Gutenberg WordPress introduces a brand-new tool called “blocks”. Using them website authors can insert, rearrange, and style multimedia content with very little technical knowledge. Once the block has been created it could be used in many places and Instead of using custom code, just that block needs to be added. Gutenberg was developed on GitHub with us of the WordPress REST API, JavaScript, and React. It was build with future extension in mind and now it is a good time to start learning its functionality to be ready to upgrade your WordPress sites PHP version to 7, WordPress to 5 with new Gutenberg visual editor inside.