Gutenberg
“Gutenberg” is a codename for a whole new paradigm for creating with WordPress, that aims to revolutionize the entire publishing experience as much as Johannes Gutenberg did the printed word. The project is following a four-phase process that will touch major pieces of WordPress — Editing, Customization, Collaboration, and Multilingual. Following the introduction of post block editing in December 2018, Gutenberg later introduced full site editing (FSE) in 2021, which shipped with WordPress 5.9 in early 2022. What Does Gutenberg Do? Gutenberg is WordPress’s “block editor”, and introduces a modular approach to modifying your entire site. Edit individual content blocks on posts or pages. Add and adjust widgets. Even design your site headers, footers, and navigation with full site editing support. Each piece of content in the editor, from a paragraph to an image gallery to a headline, is its own block. And just like physical blocks, WordPress blocks can be added, arranged, and rearranged, allowing users to create media-rich content and site layouts in a visually intuitive way — and without workarounds like shortcodes or custom HTML and PHP. We’re always hard at work refining the experience, creating more and better blocks, and laying the groundwork for future phases of work. Each WordPress release includes stable features from the Gutenberg plugin, so you don’t need to install the plugin to benefit from the work being done here. Early Access Are you a tech-savvy early adopter who likes testing bleeding-edge and experimental features, and isn’t afraid to tinker with features that are still in active development? If so, this beta plugin gives you access to the latest Gutenberg features for block and full site editing, as well as a peek into what’s to come. Contributors Wanted For the adventurous and tech-savvy, the Gutenberg plugin gives you the latest and greatest feature set, so you can join us in testing and developing bleeding-edge features, playing around with blocks, and maybe get inspired to contribute or build your own blocks. Discover More User Documentation: Review the WordPress Editor documentation for detailed instructions on using the editor as an author to create posts, pages, and more. Developer Documentation: Explore the Developer Documentation for extensive tutorials, documentation, and API references on how to extend the editor. Contributors: Gutenberg is an open-source project and welcomes all contributors from code to design, from documentation to triage. See the Contributor’s Handbook for all the details on how you can help. The development hub for the Gutenberg project can be found at https://github.com/wordpress/gutenberg. Discussions for the project are on the Make Core Blog and in the #core-editor channel in Slack, including weekly meetings. If you don’t have a Slack account, you can sign up here.
Shortcoder
Shortcoder plugin allows to create a custom shortcodes for HTML, JavaScript, CSS and other code snippets. Now the shortcodes can be used in posts/pages and the snippet will be replaced in place. ✍ Create shortcodes easily Give a name for the shortcode Paste the HTML/JavaScript/CSS as shortcode content Save ! Now insert the shortcode [sc name="my_shortcode"] in your post/page. Voila ! You got the HTML/Javascript/CSS in your post. ✨ Features Create custom shortcodes easily and use them in any place where shortcode is supported. Have any HTML, Javascript, CSS as Shortcode content. Insert: Custom parameters in shortcode Insert: WordPress parameters in shortcode Multiple editors: Code, Visual and text modes. Globally disable the shortcode when not needed. Disable shortcode on desktop, mobile devices. A button in post editor to pick the shortcodes to insert. Execute blocks HTML in shortcode content. Insert shortcodes in Gutenberg/block editor. 🎲 An example usage Create a shortcode named “adsenseAd” in the Shortcoder admin page. Paste the adsense code in the box given and save it. Use [sc name="adsenseAd"] in your posts and pages. Tada !!! the ad code is replaced and it appears in the post. Now you can edit the ad code at one place and the code is updated in all the locations where the shortcode is used. Similarly shortcodes can be created for frequently used snippets. You can also add custom parameters (like %%id%%) inside the snippets, and change it’s value like [sc name="youtube" id="GrlRADfvjII"] when using them. 🧱 Using in block editor Though shortcodes can be used in any place manually, Shortcoder provides below options to select and insert the shortcodes created easily when working with the block editor. Shortcoder block Toolbar button to select and insert shortcodes inline (under “more”) 💎 Upgrade to PRO Shortcoder also provides a PRO version which has additional features to further enhance the experience. Below features are offered in the PRO version. Custom editor – Edit Shortcode content using block editor or page builder plugins like Elementor and WPBakery. (New) Translation with WPML – Translate Shortcode content with WPML. Revisions – Revisions support for Shortcode content. Locate shortcode – Search posts and pages where a shortcode is used. Extra code – Include extra code to the footer when a shortcode is used in a page. Get started with Shortcoder – PRO Links Documentation FAQs Support forum/Report bugs PRO features
