Gary Pendergast

Thank you for the bug report, @marius84!

I’ve created a PR to fix this, it should land before the next Gutenberg release.

Hey @oakhillman!

There are a few different aspects to this question, depending on exactly what you want to do.

If you want to place an image beside some text, insert the image, then in the Image Block toolbar, click the “Align Left” or “Align Right” button. subsequent paragraphs will wrap around the image. Depending on your theme, you might also need to adjust the image size (check the Size setting in the Image Block sidebar).

For text blocks, there’s a Text Column Block that might fit your requirements.

For a more generic solution, allowing any blocks to sit beside each other, that’s currently in progress. The basic idea is looking pretty good, but it’s still going to need some work. Keep an eye on that PR for updates, it should hopefully be in a Gutenberg release soon!

Thank you for checking it out, @prasidhda!

Documentation efforts are underway, you should expect to see a lot more information in the coming weeks. 🙂

Hi @guido07111975!

The plan is for most meta boxes to continue to work in WordPress 5.0 – if your meta box works in the Gutenberg plugin now, it’ll work in 5.0.

That said, because meta boxes are generated in PHP, it’s unlikely that they’ll be able to take advantage of the more advanced features in the block editor, and the user experience may not be quite as polished as it would be as a native block. Naturally the choice is up to you, whether you want to recreate your meta box as a block, but I’d certainly encourage you to experiment with building blocks in Gutenberg, and see how it works for you!

Thank you for the feedback, @nuithon!

There’s been some experimental work on adding footnote support to Gutenberg, but it still has some ways to go before it’s in a usable state. Following this issue will give you updates on the state of native footnote support in Gutenberg.

If you haven’t already seen it, the Academic Blogger’s Toolkit plugin is working on adding Gutenberg support, including footnotes. I don’t know where they’re currently at, but I’d recommend you check that plugin out, I’m sure they’d appreciate any feedback you have.

Thank you for the kind words, @zaanmedia!

Testing is always greatly appreciated – if you run into any problems, you’re always welcome to report them over on the Gutenberg issue tracker, we’ll get them fixed up. 🙂

Thank you for providing feedback, @nick3129!

While the Gutenberg project is currently focused on the editing experience, the scope of the project is much larger than that. We’re fundamentally re-thinking how data is treated inside WordPress, transforming everything into discrete chunks of data, or “blocks”.

At the moment, this is primarily being built as the editing experience. Posts are broken down into blocks that can be moved, manipulated, and edited individually. In the coming months, however, the focus on the site customisation experience will start to ramp up. This will look at how the entire site can be built as a series of blocks – headers, widgets, content, and layout, for example.

This fundamental change ultimately needs to be happen across all WordPress sites, so that plugin and theme developers can build amazing new experiences.

We do understand that there will be a transition period for many sites, however. The Classic Editor plugin helps you during that transition – you can continue using the old editing experience while you prepare to move to the Gutenberg experience.