Title: How to get involved in Gutenberg Phase 2 Author: Riad Benguella Published: January 11, 2019 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/) [Riad Benguella](https://profiles.wordpress.org/youknowriad/) 7:09 pm _on_ January 11, 2019 Tags: [core-editor ( 761 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core-editor/), [gutenberg ( 553 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/gutenberg/)    # How to get involved in Gutenberg Phase 2 Having trouble figuring out how to get involved in 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/) Phase 2 effort? Understandable! There are a lot of teams (and channels and blogs) to keep up with. This post will help you find the posts that are helping to define upcoming work as well as identify the places you can follow the conversation. ## Development Information Now that the 5.0 ship is sailing, it’s time to start looking at the second phase of Gutenberg. [The 9 projects for 2019](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/9-priorities-for-2019/) include a few items we’ll be working on in Phase 2: * Creating a 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. for navigation menus. * Porting all existing widgets to blocks. * Upgrading the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget- ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.-editing areas in wp-adminadmin (and super admin)/widgets.php and the 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. to support blocks. * Providing a way for themes to visually register content areas, and exposing that in Gutenberg. Work on these projects will continue throughout the year. An overview of tasks included in the current scope and features is outlined in [this Github issue](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/13113). It is a living document that evolves as progress is made toward achieving these goals. ## Design Information The second phase of Gutenberg required a lot of initial user research. Synthesizing this research is [happening now](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2019/01/05/sitebuilding-research-whats-next/). Details about how to get involved with this effort are outlined in [this post](https://make.wordpress.org/design/2018/12/21/iterating-on-the-gutenberg-design-flow/). Work on the research and subsequent design will also continue throughout the year. Regular updates will be shared on the [Design P2](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/gutenberg-weekly/). ## Getting involved While user research is in progress, there are a lot of development tasks that we can work on without additional design information. This includes improvements for phase 1 features, porting widgets to blocks and a lot more, as outlined in the “ Actionable items” section of the 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/) issue linked above. The main place to get involved is [the Github repository](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg). The [#core-editor](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core-editor/) 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/) channel is where developer coordination and live day-to-day discussions happen. The weekly developer meetings are held Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC. Each meeting will have an agenda posted beforehand, so you can see if the topics up for discussion are relevant to your interests. Once completed, meetings will be summarized in a post, so that people who can’t participate synchronously, can catch up and comment asynchronously. _If you want to contribute to Phase 2 and still have questions about how to do that, please ask your questions in a comment on this post so we can make this resource even more useful!_ [#gutenberg](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/gutenberg/) ### Share this: * [ Threads ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/how-to-get-involved-in-gutenberg-phase-2/?share=threads) * [ Mastodon ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/how-to-get-involved-in-gutenberg-phase-2/?share=mastodon) * [ Bluesky ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/how-to-get-involved-in-gutenberg-phase-2/?share=bluesky) * [ X ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/how-to-get-involved-in-gutenberg-phase-2/?share=x) * [ Facebook ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/how-to-get-involved-in-gutenberg-phase-2/?share=facebook) * [ LinkedIn ](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/how-to-get-involved-in-gutenberg-phase-2/?share=linkedin) # Post navigation [← New REST API Notice in 5.1](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/11/new-rest-api-notice-in-5-1/) [New Styling for Admin Table Pagination Links in WordPress 5.1 →](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/01/14/new-styling-for-admin-table-pagination-links-in-wordpress-5-1/)