Introducing Gutenberg Ramp, a plugin to help you complete your testing plans ahead of time and transition smoothly to the new editor in WordPress 5.0 at your chosen pace. You can use Ramp to enable Gutenberg selectively by post ID (load only for specified posts) and post type (load only for specified post types.) And most importantly for planning a smooth transition, Ramp works on both the plugin version of Gutenberg, which you’ll be using today, and the version that will be merged in to core as part of WordPress 5.0. As a reminder, the new editor will be opt-in on VIP Go, so if you do nothing, you will continue to see the current editor when 5.0 rolls out.
Starting now, the Gutenberg plugin and Ramp are available to all VIP Go users as well as our agency partners. For the next week Ramp will still be in a testing phase, so we ask that you share your testing notes and any proposed contributions at Ramp’s now public GitHub repository.
To use Ramp to selectively load Gutenberg, we recommend the following next steps:
- Watch the videos available at VIPgutenberg.com and use TestGutenberg.com to take a closer look at Gutenberg if you haven’t already.
- Read this new documentation post describing how to use Ramp to load Gutenberg selectively.
- Load it up and try it out in your VIP Go development environment. You’re off to the races.
*If you don’t have a development environment on which to test, now’s a great time to get one set up. Just open up a ticket with our Support team and we can get a development site set up for you. Unless otherwise requested, we’ll sync the content from your live site so you can get a true sense of how Gutenberg will work for you. If you already have a development environment and would prefer not to disturb that, we can create an additional Gutenberg testing environment instead. Not to worry, in either case content changes here will not affect the content on your live site.
Also, please note that there are a couple of small differences between the version of Ramp on VIP and the version that will soon be released for community use: (1)the name of the loading function in the plugin on Go differs slightly from the public version, and (2)the UI is intentionally switched off on the VIP version so that developers maintain control, rather than wp-admin users.
We’ll share more details on the WordPress 5.0 deployment as it gets closer to release. Until then, as always you can find this and all of our previous Gutenberg news and updates at the Gutenberg at VIP doc.
Loading Gutenberg Ramp on VIP Go
Gutenberg Ramp GitHub Repository
Gutenberg at VIP documentation
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