Before WordPress 5.0 arrived I came across a few premium WordPress themes already advertising that they were ‘Gutenberg-ready’ or ‘Gutenberg-compatible’. Huh. But how could a theme not be compatible with the new block editor (formerly known as Gutenberg)? Surely themes just render whatever is in the post content with the theme’s own styling? Turns out there’s a bit more to it than that. In this post I’ll walk through what is necessary to make existing themes or create new themes that fully support the block editor.
Gutenberg is the new snake oil. There should be no reason why any existing WordPress theme won’t work with Gutenberg.
Gutenberg compatibility should not be a selling point for a premium theme
— Iain Poulson (@polevaultweb) December 2, 2018
After venting on Twitter about theme shops using Gutenberg compatibility as a marketing tactic (pro tip: don’t tweet hangry), I was kindly educated by Rich Tabor about the extra layers of support themes can add to make the experience of the block editor even better.
Admittedly I’ve been in the plugin development world for so long (I even wrote about making plugins ready for Gutenberg),
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/18339/hey-wordpress-theme-developers-are-your-themes-ready-for-the-gutenberg-block-editor
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2019/01/29/hey-wordpress-theme-developers-are-your-themes-ready-for-the-gutenberg-block-editor/
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