Introducing Write: a brand new solution to put up, constructed for writers

One web page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you wish to have and not anything you don’t. That’s Write: a brand new, centered writing floor constructed into WordPress.com. In closing yr’s Creators survey, “simplify the editor” used to be the one most-requested growth from the folk already publishing on WordPress.com. So we constructed it.

Write began as a plugin via Jamie Marsland, who requested a deceptively easy query: what would WordPress seem like if it have been designed purely for writers? We liked the solution sufficient that we introduced the plugin into WordPress.com and constructed on it.

The interface is deliberately minimum: a blank web page, a chronic most sensible toolbar with the necessities, and formatting that looks when you wish to have it and will get out of the way in which whilst you don’t.

Your Write posts are actual WordPress posts. They are living along your different posts, paintings along with your theme, and you’ll open them within the block editor.

Write is in beta and in a position to check out (see our enhance article for setup main points). The core writing revel in is forged, however we’re nonetheless construction, and we’d love your enter on what so as to add subsequent.

In a position to write down? Head to wordpress.com/write-editor, pick out a website online, and get started. Let us know what you assume within the feedback.

Co-authored via Kim Brown.