> We're now seeing over 235k posts a day made using the Gutenberg editor
Just curious how you know this number. Is this on Wordpress.com or on self-hosted Wordpress sites too?
> Co-founder of WordPress; founder of Automattic
If you've worked on any sort of editor, block system, page builder, etc Automattic are hiring very aggressively for senior JS positions. [2] It's a fun and fast-moving project to work on, with a huge impact. Many others are hiring for Gutenberg skills as well, so it's a high-demand competency.
[1] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg [2] https://automattic.com/work-with-us/javascript-engineer/
It would be nice to have the classic editor plugin directly within core. I end up installing it on every site, and baking that option into core would save a step.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this!
I guess the obvious answer is, "You should've self-hosted if you want control over the editor." Still: I didn't imagine wordpress.com moving to create a much harder-to-use default.
We're now seeing over 235k posts a day made using the Gutenberg editor. The iOS and Android versions support the majority of the blocks now, and are being re-licensed using the MPL so they can be easily embedded and used by other apps. There's a public release of the Gutenberg plugin every other week and we're relentlessly working on making it faster, easier to use, and more flexible. People are creating things they could never have done using the Classic editor, and that's really exciting.
And of course the beautiful thing about open source is you can customize it and use whatever editor you want, as someone else mentioned, and given WP's very open APIs you don't even need to ever touch any of our editors, you can post using wp-cli, Git, Emacs, third-party desktop clients, sending an email...