7Blocks and Gutenberg
WordPress is known for being the best software for publishing to the web, and a major reason for that is its inclusion of an absolutely brilliant visual editor, known as TinyMCE. TinyMCE is without a doubt the world's most popular open source, web‐based, what‐you‐see‐is‐what‐you‐get (WYSIWYG) editor. It has been the paper on which millions of authors have inked their online publications since the earliest versions of WordPress, and many people have switched to WordPress over the years because of it.
WHAT IS GUTENBERG?
While WordPress and TinyMCE were gaining in popularity, several smaller, competing editors were developed and found much success, even surpassing TinyMCE's abilities. These other editors provided web tools to empower authors to simultaneously write great content and make it look like something that had been handcrafted by artisans. WordPress could not do that on its own. It required shortcodes, widgets, and themes—sometimes several of them together or combined—to accomplish what services like Squarespace and Wix were doing without any additional configuration or complexity.
So, the WordPress project decided it was time for a change to its tried and trusty publishing experience—a change that would blur the lines between ...
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