Title: A Plan for 5.0 Author: Matt Mullenweg Published: October 3, 2018 Last modified: October 10, 2018 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) [Matt Mullenweg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) 1:14 am _on_ October 3, 2018 Tags: [5.0 ( 36 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/5-0/) # A Plan for 5.0 Usually during major releases of WordPress, the dedicated release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. chooses a few folks to help them through the time-consuming work of managing an excellent release cycle. We are blessed with such a wide and talented team working on this release in the form of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/)( and 4.9.x) for so long I’m going to expand the team for this cycle. The adoption of the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party., [at 490 thousand active sites and counting](https://gutenstats.blog/), far exceeds pre-release testing of anything that has ever come into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. If we keep the 5.0 release to strictly 4.9.8 + Gutenberg, we will have a release that is both major and a non-event in terms of new code. It’s all battle- tested. In some ways 5.0 is already de facto out in the wild, with some forward- looking hosts already installing and activating Gutenberg for new installs. I have asked several members of the WordPress community to help lead the critical focuses required for a smooth and successful release. **Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.:** [@matveb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matveb/) has the most context, history, and technical acumen in the entire Gutenberg project and is best suited to help triage open and remaining issues. **Design:** While the majority of the design work in the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor is already complete, there will be many aspects of the merge that will require design decisions. [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) will continue her role as the design lead of the Gutenberg project. **Default Themes:** From Twenty Ten through to Twenty Seventeen, [@laurelfulford](https://profiles.wordpress.org/laurelfulford/) will lead updating all of the default themes to work seamlessly with Gutenberg. **Twenty Nineteen:** [@allancole](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allancole/) has already been involved with a number of beautiful Gutenberg themes and will be responsible for adapting the one we’ll dub Twenty Nineteen. **AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology( for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility):** [@lonelyvegan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lonelyvegan/) is a member of the Gutenberg core team and has worked on many of the accessibility improvements in the Gutenberg plugin. (We’ve gotten feedback it’s already surpassed the classic editor in many ways.)  **JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. [https://www.javascript.com](https://www.javascript.com/) Packages:** [@omarreiss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/omarreiss/) will be responsible for integrating the [packages published on NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/org/wordpress), a new approach Gutenberg has taken that ties us much more to the wider Javascript community and has even inspired other CMSes [such as Drupal to explore Gutenberg integration](https://drupalgutenberg.org/). **Media:** [@antpb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) will shift from 4.9.9 to focusing on all elements of the media component, including backwards compatibility. **Merge:** [@pento](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pento/), known for his care and discretion in making changes and a long history with core, will generally shepherd the merge. **Project Management:** [@chanthaboune](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chanthaboune/) has been a close collaborator on the WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally- organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. [Learn more](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/). and Foundation side and will be lending those talents here. **REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) [https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/](https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/):**@ danielbachhuber returns to a starring role with the REST API improvements we learned from building Gutenberg, and didn’t get into a 4.9.x release already, into core. **Upgrade Process:** @mcsf will lead the user experience of how the core upgrade will interact with the Gutenberg and Classic Editor plugins that will have over a million active sites by the time of release. With known knowns and known unknowns, I believe we will be at RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see [alpha (beta)](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?output_format=md#alpha-beta). in about a month. However, I’ll be keeping a close eye on feedback during the betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. process and adjust as needed and keep the community fully up-to-date with our best estimate. This post was written using Gutenberg, natch, and it was such a pleasure. I can’t wait for this to be in the hands of a wider audience of users and developers. See also: [Technical Oversight of the Gutenberg Integration](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/technical-overview-of-gutenberg-integration/). [#5-0](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/5-0/) ### Share this: * [ Threads ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?share=threads) * [ Mastodon ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?share=mastodon) * [ Bluesky ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?share=bluesky) * [ X ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?share=x) * [ Facebook ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?share=facebook) * [ LinkedIn ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?share=linkedin) 1. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3621c46ef536910def30bd4ab2a23ee4933f309907584c2e671bef8241b1e615? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 2. [Philip Arthur Moore](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philiparthurmoore/) 1:29 am _on_ October 3, 2018 3. [@allancole](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allancole/) Can’t wait to see what you come up with. Ready and willing to break and test whatever it is. 🙂 4. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/64b51769e7b80312023eb6c3f766cb512cf79adf7265812b15442f9573a9a056? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rilwis/) 2:57 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * Glad to see you here :). - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3621c46ef536910def30bd4ab2a23ee4933f309907584c2e671bef8241b1e615? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [Philip Arthur Moore](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philiparthurmoore/) 3:33 am _on_ October 3, 2018 - [@rilwis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rilwis/) Always here. 😉 5. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8845aff3f199163c862fab2df0749653d1becc94902764cbba85dc67bb2e6ae6? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 6. [Omaar Osmaan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/moonomo/) 1:30 am _on_ October 3, 2018 7. Eagerly looking ahead- 😀 8. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/505447d8ed71d87e74b811a395145244b41aef440f8fcd00e082f3b524f0405f? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 9. [jamesb101](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jamesb101/) 2:15 am _on_ October 3, 2018 10. Please keep and update the default operating system which the MAJORITY of us bloggers are now comfortable with and don’t want to move to a new system that we would have to learn ALL OVER again…… 11. Thank You……. 12. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34a473773a63fb84f9a425991b98e373b4deb93b82945a1656631b1505c6955d? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 13. [Per Søderlind](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pers/) 6:04 am _on_ October 3, 2018 14. What I would love is that you, maybe not for 5.0 but for 5.1, added support for multilingual posts. Many countries have more than one language, and existing plugins like WPML and Polylang doesn’t handle multilingual well (doesn’t support customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings., gutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) etc). I feel strongly that multilingual posts support, belongs in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. 15. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6f505c6be9a951929a99becb6b413dcfa583a5ca3dd0f7320766fee1481f0f82? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 7:44 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * Hello [@pers](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pers/), There is no plan to add multilingual support in WP coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. For now this is pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. territory 🙂 I believe your best bet should be to ask Polylang or WPML to support customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. or GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). As far as I know, Polylang works well with Gutenberg, though. - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1718b7c2f2afc31b4e94805b6f1f6ae2b802cc4c696f99b11fde2186006c82c9? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [Pascal Birchler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/) 8:06 am _on_ October 3, 2018 - Unfortunately Polylang doesn’t work well with GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) just yet. There’s work needed on both sides for this. But otherwise I agree that this is pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. territory. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6f505c6be9a951929a99becb6b413dcfa583a5ca3dd0f7320766fee1481f0f82? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 8:16 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * Ok thanks for the update [@swissspidy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/). Will get in touch with Frederic to see if any help is needed on his side, then 🙂 * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0cce76505484c6d8d6f109beda63cea0d0c8f58e1657bd24bc60febe74e83917? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Chouby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chouby/) 9:16 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * I confirm that there is work needed on both Polylang and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). We are working hard to support Gutenberg. But we also need the help from the Gutenberg project to fix some issues. Without them fixing open issues or accepting PR, we won’t be able to do miracles. Our project is public: [github.com/polylang/polylang-gutenberg ](https://github.com/polylang/polylang-gutenberg). Not ready for tests yet. - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d94bdc8e970ce9c05a299f54838f522dafcf3d9379cfbea2ca2c848497bb6732? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [leemon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leemon/) 10:08 am _on_ October 3, 2018 - Thanks for your hard work, Chouby. Many people depend on your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.. It’s a pity that the powers that be have never understood why many people need multiple languages in just one site and never have been eager to make life easier for multilingual plugins devs. - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/16b43937020e44059fb472b2e1f0b5bc19bb195123b9a303f7b1ed5abf2c35e5? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [Daniel Bachhuber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/) 11:12 am _on_ October 3, 2018 - [@chouby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chouby/) I opened a new issue in your Polylang GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) repository. Happy to help track down answers to your remaining questions. - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34a473773a63fb84f9a425991b98e373b4deb93b82945a1656631b1505c6955d? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [Per Søderlind](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pers/) 8:42 am _on_ October 3, 2018 - (also replied on slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)) - I don’t agree that support for multilingual posts is pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. territory. WordPress is about communicating and being able to communicate in more than one language should be at the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. - Working for the Norwegian government I’ve done a lot of multilingual sites and have used MultilingualPress, WMPL and Polylang. * MultilingualPress is nice when you run only one multilingual site. We run +80 sites for the Norwegian ministries. * WPML is bloated. * Polylang is ok, but it’s a one man show and hence not up to date. There’s an unsupported add-on for GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). At the moment I’m using my own hack (still fixing some bugs) to add multilingual support for customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.: [https://github.com/soderlind/customizer-polylang](https://github.com/soderlind/customizer-polylang) * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33252cd1f33526af53580fcb1736172f06e6716f32afdd1be19ec3096d15dea5? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Matt Mullenweg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) 5:55 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 * It’s on my mind for after Phase 4 of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34a473773a63fb84f9a425991b98e373b4deb93b82945a1656631b1505c6955d? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [Per Søderlind](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pers/) 6:22 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 - Thank you Matt 🙂 - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ce0b6535b657764bdba3be40bf9acf37705ae25f41c612d18e94f00c13570330? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [Carl Morris](https://profiles.wordpress.org/carlmorris/) 10:35 am _on_ October 5, 2018 - Multilingualism is often the default around the globe, and a key strength which distinguishes WordPress from the big proprietary competitors. - It might be worth looking at the work of [qTranslate-XT](https://github.com/qtranslate/qtranslate-xt) as well. - Thanks for an encouraging response! * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2f913d8c2a8f17030a4de932d3f52f81159548f5b05c1ce05ec1c14018cae86e? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Amir Helzer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amirhelzer/) 8:26 am _on_ December 11, 2018 * Of course WPML is compatible (today) with GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/). This is the announcement post: [https://wpml.org/2018/11/wpml-4-1-adds-gutenberg-compatibility/](https://wpml.org/2018/11/wpml-4-1-adds-gutenberg-compatibility/) * And this is the YouTube video that shows how it works: * Would be kinda nice to verify your claims before you post them. 16. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/db79d5416d942e5fd9415b136feefd2da7929cc39853b4c30bafff4ceb8ef219? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 17. [Daniele Scasciafratte](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90/) 8:08 am _on_ October 3, 2018 18. Just a question because there are no mention of all the rest of tickets marked for 5.0. IT is said that in a month ther ewill be a RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see [alpha (beta)](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/?output_format=md#alpha-beta). but all the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a **diff**. A patch can be _applied_ to a codebase for testing. and tickets that cover the rest of WordPress are not mentioned in that plan and this is very strange :-/ 19. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6f505c6be9a951929a99becb6b413dcfa583a5ca3dd0f7320766fee1481f0f82? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 8:14 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * +1, and we also discussed this in #accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility( commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team today. Sure, we will need to work on non-GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘ blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) related tickets too! 🙂 * Maybe I’m wrong but my guess/hope is that the lead team above is mostly focused on Gutenberg, but focus leads and component maintainers will still handle other coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. tickets as always 🙂 20. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f9c0b47ea524e59f657e43ae3072761646776db79f688de947778c355e9b7bae? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 21. [Justin Kopepasah](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kopepasah/) 8:59 am _on_ October 3, 2018 22. [@laurelfulford](https://profiles.wordpress.org/laurelfulford/) will these updates be made publicly and, if so, can you share that information to open up for outside contribution? For example, will this happen on [Trac](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/) or somewhere within GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/)? 23. [@allancole](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allancole/) same question, substituting theme updates to new theme. 24. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6f505c6be9a951929a99becb6b413dcfa583a5ca3dd0f7320766fee1481f0f82? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 9:03 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * [@kopepasah](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kopepasah/) bundled theme updates are addressed on core.tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. under Bundled Theme component. * Here you will find the currently opened tickets: [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=Bundled+Theme&order=priority](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=Bundled+Theme&order=priority) 25. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8a91304ba7ac2314539b508715d295730024507380a5c44e09b276334531b800? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 26. [Kevin Bazira](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevinbazira/) 9:05 am _on_ October 3, 2018 27. Very excited for 5.0 !!! 28. I can’t wait 😀 29. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/62725c55e65143bdbbc6e41a4e62e9f64392fc81cc600829715c3eb82f6d2cd2? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 30. [Evan Mattson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaemnnosttv/) 9:40 am _on_ October 3, 2018 31. I find it interesting to note that while active installs are much higher than expected (100k goal), the number of posts written is currently only 296k, which is less than one post per active site. I’m curious if the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team finds this concerning at all as the original numbers had a goal equivalent to 2.5 posts per active site. 32. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6f505c6be9a951929a99becb6b413dcfa583a5ca3dd0f7320766fee1481f0f82? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jb Audras](https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/) 9:43 am _on_ October 3, 2018 * Hello, the active installs of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. is based on w.org stats but the post written stat only take into account website that use JetPack, so that stat is missing a lot of posts 🙂 33. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3af53cc432ce4afbfba76fd721678a748d8e623e19d4f689f7ab2813b86b0886? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 34. [Mike Crantea](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mihai2u/) 11:25 am _on_ October 3, 2018 35. To 5.0 and beyond! 36. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/16649cf3436b9b4530573f53cd6e66019deb9d756925df51c011db2400a7d80d? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Tim Derouin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tderouindesign/) 2:29 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 * Reeeeach for the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editoooorrr 37. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5ef571b846fed8ac127cb8c9684746f968ac5ccfb0343ef4b1ae545d7691a129? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 38. [Peter La Fond](https://profiles.wordpress.org/myinternetscout/) 12:09 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 39. Is it official that 4.9.9 is scrapped? 40. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33252cd1f33526af53580fcb1736172f06e6716f32afdd1be19ec3096d15dea5? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Matt Mullenweg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) 5:56 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 * We’re not planning it, unless something urgent or security related comes up. 41. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0608b540c7da83b396fd9a453ad1ac0298152522bc3a06888d41649e4024a089? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 42. [Ahmad Awais](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrahmadawais/) 2:44 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 43. Finally, some good news. This entire year has been a bit of a flat for many — looking forward to know more about what did the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) timeline looked like. 44. [@allancole](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allancole/) super excited to see what you come up with. Waiting to contribute as well. 🙌 45. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9e62edf1610dcdf838d6f71c7bc6071f8bc31f39c93f68d48b9ec3a92581e86d? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 46. [Laken Hafner](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lakenh/) 2:45 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 47. I’m curious to hear where you’ve heard that accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility( commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)-wise, GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) has “surpassed the classic editor in many ways.” From all the people I’ve talked to, it’s been the opposite, and Gutenberg is a huge step backward from how close WordPress was to WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) [https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/). level AA. 48. [Here are the merge proposal a11y issues.](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/milestone/43) Unfortunately, more and more accessibility issues keep getting introduced, only to be discovered months later. This is due to the fact that a lot of the Gutenberg team seems to not be designing with accessibility first, and only as an afterthought, causing a lot of work after the fact to get it to work. The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology( for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team is quite small, and due to the fact that Gutenberg is being designed without a11y, gives an impossibly large workload on a11y team members. 49. If you read the recaps from the a11y team’s meetings over the past few months, you can see transcripts from tests with actual users of assistive technologies, and the results aren’t good. Even though by now most of the components are usable by screen-readers, it’s not ordered in a logical way if one does not have eyesight, and it’s overwhelmingly confusing, causing these people to have some anger towards WordPress. WordPress is one of the few blogging platforms whose editor was fully accessible, but not with Gutenberg. 50. I like Gutenberg, and I want to see it in WordPress, but I feel from an accessibility perspective alone, it’s not ready. I’d really like to see a large shift in focus of contributors to a11y issues, and for them to understand their importance. 51. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/de1f679d6b8785ef0ba4fa5d235c9e7fa3709da7707e731cc61e46645e48cecf? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 52. [Kim Gjerstad](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kgjerstad/) 3:06 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 53. May the force be with you on this last stretch. We’re looking forward! 54. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/03efd2c94d875c3bb3a5d51574346dc5031b393e6fc1929d0933e5db5755fdc2? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 55. [tofumatt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lonelyvegan/) 3:13 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 56. I’m not sure where that data is coming from either, though it should be pointed out that the existing editor doesn’t include many components for pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. developers extending the editor. The coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor in WordPress is accessible by virtue of being quite basic, but it’s also at the mercy of plugin developers to ensure their code is accessible. 57. Core GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) components and blocks _are_ built with accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility( commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) in mind, and blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. author will be able to use these components in their own blocks and get a lot of accessibility built-in to their blocks for free. This is a big win for accessibility of the editor after it’s been extended at all. 58. There are certainly aspects (often, you’ll note, third-party code like colour or date pickers) that are not accessible, though we’ve been working to improve those when there are better solutions. 59. The accessibility efforts can be focused a bit too narrowly as well: it’s about more than just screen readers or keyboard users, but also older users who have trouble using a mouse; dyslexic users who find wordy explanations distracting; etc. Accessibility of the product encompasses a lot, and I think it’s important that the accessibility efforts in the future look at accessibility as more than just how it works for disabled users or users with assistive technologyAssistive technology **Assistive technology** is an [umbrella term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_term) that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for [people with disabilities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability) and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the [technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology) needed to accomplish such tasks. 60. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology). 61. The Classic Editor and Gutenberg’s editor aren’t an apples-to-apples comparison; one is extremely basic and one is very full-featured. I expect the latter to require more work to make fully accessible, but as we work toward that (and identify bugs), we can provide all users with a better experience. 62. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5437f5b6124c08e8d9ab5f8a4b6a97cf3f6966aee694ef98417db8bdcc13b937? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 63. [Mel Choyce](https://profiles.wordpress.org/melchoyce/) 3:47 pm _on_ October 3, 2018 64. Congrats everyone!!! 65. I’m so excited to see what you’re going to do with Twenty Nineteen, [@allancole](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allancole/)— I love the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) themes you’ve already been exploring in the community! 66. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3c996bb3b3be33a72c23e87cc38809fb376fd9019e12cd217a656f3d5f9f99f9? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 67. [Amused](https://profiles.wordpress.org/randallcamacho/) 12:45 pm _on_ October 5, 2018 68. 2018 is almost gone though it has not arrived 🙂 no one finds that strange ? 69. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2e97f23c5a8de8c82d9416905d15057cddaa7057ea157abd7120e970788d7a44? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 70. [Samuel Lavoie](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samuel514/) 4:13 pm _on_ October 9, 2018 71. Excited for v5! That was a rocky road but happy this is finally happening. 🙂 72. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c34fdcf27d7eb37a1002890b04f4036ed5ea6b26c466b5d0bb7a7e2a16ca0e82? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 73. [thenerdic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thenerdic/) 5:10 am _on_ October 29, 2018 74. We’re excited too. Hi#5-0 to all involved especially the WordPress team! Comments are closed. # Post navigation [← Technical overview of Gutenberg integration](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/technical-overview-of-gutenberg-integration/) [Dev Chat Agenda: October 3rd (5.0 Week 1) →](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/dev-chat-agenda-october-3rd-5-0-week-1/)