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Summary of Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Database results to date

A quick run-through of where we’re currently at with the Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Database.

Since announcing the database on March 1st, 70 people have been granted testing status. However, of 5000 total plugins, we’re still at 4139 untested plugins. No companies have stepped up to contribute a significant amount of person-hours.

Of the 861 tested plugins:

  • 219 (25.44%) are compatible.
  • 518 (60.16%) are likely compatible.
  • 25 (2.9%) are likely not compatible.
  • 39 (4.53%) are not compatible.
  • 60 (6.97%) are in “testing”, which means someone started test and abandoned the process.

Notably, this data is largely biased by the “likely compatible” results. For the most part, these are plugins I pre-screened (e.g. caching plugins) prior to March.

In the original data set, 18 (28.125%) of the 64 incompatible and likely incompatible plugins were updated in the four weeks prior to March 1st. This means the majority are on slower development cycles.

Of the 64 incompatible and likely incompatible plugins, the reasons include:

  • Missing Add Media and TinyMCE buttons (NextGen, WPForms, Formidable, FooGallery, Page Scroll to ID and others).
  • Missing QuickTag buttons (Quick AdSense).
  • Meta box doesn’t display at all (Page Links To, Revision Control).
  • Semi-live preview of SEO title doesn’t work in Gutenberg (All In One SEO).
  • Custom Short or Long Product Description fields don’t appear at all (WooCommerce).
  • Featured thumbnail previews aren’t being generated (Auto Post Thumbnail).Whitescreen of death (qTranslate X, CKEditor).
  • Registers a CPT with editor support that doesn’t include show_in_rest=>true (Portfolio Post Type)
  • Adds section to Media Library that isn’t displayed in Gutenberg (Add From Server).
  • Access restriction from plugin not applied in Gutenberg (Advanced Access Manager).
  • Specifying custom gallery image links isn’t applied in Gutenberg (WP Gallery Custom Links).
  • Doesn’t log changes made in Gutenberg (WP Security Audit Log).

Next steps are to be determined. “Try Gutenberg” represents an opportunity to generate more data (out of support forum requests). However, we need a workflow for capturing that data.

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New project: Bylines

I’m working on a new project (the kind you wake up at 3 am to hack on). It’s called Bylines, a modern multi-author publishing plugin for WordPress.

MVP is a reincarnation of Co-Authors Plus. From there, I plan to iterate on a feature set relevant to the multi-author publishing workflow.

If this sounds useful to you, sign up to be notified when Bylines is ready for early-access users.