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Experimental APIs in WordPress Core have largely been tamed

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Last year’s proposal to stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core is now mostly implemented.

To recap: Due to JavaScript technical limitations, the recurring merge of the Gutenberg plugin to WordPress core led to a premature release of many experimental APIs.

After a long discussion and discovery process, Gutenberg introduced a distinction between Plugin-only APIs and Private APIs.

Plugin-only APIs 

Plugin-only APIs are like early access feature previews that require community feedback to mature. They are only released as a part of the Gutenberg plugin and not merged into WordPress core. It’s implemented as follows:

// Using IS_GUTENBERG_PLUGIN

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Experimental APIs in WordPress Core have largely been tamed

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