Beta, Dev, Nightly

> Why don’t you offer a plugin to enable installation of beta, dev and nightly versions for Gutenberg?

Hi @slkfsdf8y34ljhsfsdfkuhfkl84hj!

To create such a plugin, we’d first have to make a system that creates nightly builds. This would be nice to have, but has not yet happened.

Development happens on Github, though, and it comes with a local development environment that you can install yourself and try it out in. There are instructions here:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/docs/contributors/getting-started.md

It requires being a little bit adventurous, but it does allow you to test features the moment they land.

Alternately, the Gutenberg project does aim to release on a weekly cadence as far as is humanly possible, so with every new release you do get the latest and greatest simply by running the plugin.

Glad to hear you’re excited to test out!

I do internet marketing and my general understanding of coding is not that great, but I do get management and UX. I was thinking if there is some reason to help WordPress other than coding. I guess some of the tickets I can create myself without being a coder or I would also have to provide a coding solution for the problem? I am quite technical, but not a coder. I am still seeing very irritating glitchy and bad UX across the board, despite the huge progress being made so far.

I am seeing piling up for WordPress tickets, some even 10+ year old etc. Yet, Gutenburg is great. I guess we need more developers?

I just want to see the full WYSIWYG faster as I am not happy with the cluttered and slow page builders so far, and in the same time Gutenberg make things significantly slower in comparison to Classic Editors in many scenarios like writing long form content.

So to clarify I would like to know if there is a way a technical, but non-coder to help with improving the project – primarily Gutenberg.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by anonymized-14934761.

There’s absolutely a place for contributing in a manner that isn’t coding, and your help is much appreciated. There are some guidelines in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/docs/contributors/readme.md#sections, for documentation, triage and localization also!