“ ” The editor will endeavour to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTML, or “mystery meat” embed discovery. MATT MULLENWEG make.wordpress.org/core/2017/01/04/focus-tech-and-design-leads/
The vision… • Everything is a block • All blocks are created equal • Drag and drop is additive • Placeholders are key • Direct manipulation • Customisation
“ ” Ultimately, the vision for Gutenberg is to make it much easier to author rich content. Through ensuring good defaults, wrapping and bundling advanced layout options blocks, and making the most important actions immediately available, authoring content with WordPress should be accessible to anyone. GUTENBERG-DEVDOC.SURGE.SH/REFERENCE/DESIGN-PRINCIPLES
What would an ideal theme be for Gutenberg? • Single unlimited width column. • Styles are IF want a true experience - ‘near’ frontend editing. • Simpler THE better. • Best is just CSS themes. • Page templating… think placeholders • Customisation is up to user NOT theme