What You Need to Know About PublishPress and Gutenberg
WordPress 5 is now available.
Version 5 brings the new Gutenberg editor to WordPress. If you’re unfamiliar with the new editor, the official launch post is a good place to start.
The Gutenberg editor is really cool and it is the future of WordPress. But, Gutenberg is a big change from the old editor and it does remove some features that WordPress users have relied on.
Gutenberg and PublishPress
For PublishPress users, the big missing feature in Gutenberg was custom statuses.
Fortunately, with the release of PublishPress 1.19, a workaround is in place for custom statuses.
At the moment, the worst thing you will see in Gutenberg is a duplicated UI.
- There is the “Custom Statuses” box from PublishPress, plus the default “Pending Review” box.
- If you're using the “Mutiple Authors” extension, then you'll see the authors box for that extension, plus the default “Author” area.
We are working to improve both of those UI elements.
Jon Brown
Thanks for the update, Steve. Sounds like a good plan and looking forward to PublishPress and Gutenberg working even better together as Gutenberg hopefully restores those hookos.
Steve Burge
Great, thanks Jon. The Gutenberg team are promising new versions every 2 weeks, so we’ll work towards getting the custom statuses added back quickly.
Anuj
If editorial comments could be made inline, that would be the coolest thing ever. Something like google docs.
Thanks for the update ☺️
Steve Burge
Thanks Anuj. This weekend, at WordCamp US, Matt Mullenweg said this Google-Docs style inline editing might become a core feature in WordPress. The current aim is for that to be Phase 3 of Gutenberg in 2020 (or later).