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The Gutenberg Migration Guide is a crowdsourcing project to document WordPress Classic Editor customization points and their Gutenberg equivalents (if such exist). media_buttons is the quintessential example; whereas you might’ve used this action previously in the Classic Editor to register a button, it no longer exists in Gutenberg and the block inserter is its direct equivalent.
We want the migration guide to be as comprehensive as it can be. This is defined as:
- Identifying as many integration points as we can find. For instance, there are already 14 actions / filters listed. Some are commonly used, while others are not. As long as we have a good example for how the integration point is used, it makes sense to include in the guide.
- Whenever possible, documenting how feature parity can be achieved with Gutenberg. Some integration points do already have Gutenberg equivalents. Others don’t yet, and that’s alright.
You can help make the migration guide more comprehensive. If you don’t have any examples of your own to include, here are a couple of places you can start looking:
- Our plugin compatibility database has a good number of plugins marked incompatible. Some even have descriptions of the problems!
- The [Type] Plugin / Theme Interoperability and Backwards Compatibility labels in the Gutenberg GitHub repository have some number of reasonably documented conflicts.
Everyone can contribute to the migration guide, regardless of skill set. All you need to do is open a new GitHub issue and report the incompatibility you’ve found. Screenshots and GIFs are tremendously helpful. If you know the underlying problem, then please include that too. If all you know is that a given plugin’s feature doesn’t work in Gutenberg, no worries; simply open an issue and we can help track down the cause. Identifying examples of breakage are what we need help with most.
Feel free to join #hosting-community in the WordPress.org Slack if you have any questions, etc. Thanks for your help!