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people who coded WP as it behaves until now simply do not have the slightest idea which features news organisations NEED

The WordPress core development team won’t be working on this, which is why this is an Automattic-led project.

As I understand it, this isn’t going to be a new release of core WordPress with all these features, but a standard build with plugins, themes, etc, that will provide all of this functionality. Most of those features are available right now, and these will be further improved as part of this, along with new features that many journalism sites find they have to add themselves.

However, I’m not involved with this project so all of this is based on what I’ve read elsewhere.

Does GB help there? I think not.

Certainly, larger scale journalism/media sites think otherwise, and many are moving their workflow to Gutenberg. Until GB came along, most of their editor screens would be unrecognisable to us as they’re so customised, but essentially with meta boxes, etc, for a customised flow. Gutenberg improves this process further and Phase 2 of GB is only going to improve this further.

It’s a misnomer to believe that businesses are not embracing Gutenberg and seeing the benefits of it.

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people who coded WP as it behaves until now simply do not have the slightest idea which features news organisations NEED

The WordPress core development team won't be working on this, which is why this is an Automattic-led project.

As I understand it, this isn't going to be a new release of core WordPress with all these features, but a standard build with plugins, themes, etc, that will provide all of this functionality. Most of those features are available right now, and these will be further improved as part of this, along with new features that many journalism sites find they have to add themselves.

However, I'm not involved with this project so all of this is based on what I've read elsewhere.

Does GB help there? I think not.

Certainly, larger scale journalism/media sites think otherwise, and many are moving their workflow to Gutenberg. Until GB came along, most of their editor screens would be unrecognisable to us as they're so customised, but essentially with meta boxes, etc, for a customised flow. Gutenberg improves this process further and Phase 2 of GB is only going to improve this further.

It's a misnomer to believe that businesses are not embracing Gutenberg and seeing the benefits of it.

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