It Will Take Some Getting-Used-To

  • Gutenberg hasn’t broken anything that I know of on the 2 sites on which I have the plugin installed. I have massively re-coded the Twenty Fifteen theme by the WordPress Team almost beyond recognition, and I’m using the result of my work as the theme on my main site. I’m using a slightly-re-coded version of Twenty Seventeen on the other one of the two. I have three more sites using WordPress self-hosted, but haven’t installed on those yet.

    I’m actually rather surprised to be hearing so many reports of the plugin breaking sites: My main site is a one-of-a-kind, and I’d have expected something to break on it if the GB plugin was in some way dodgy. The recent update of the plugin in the last few hours might improve the situation for some users. – Remember it is still early days.

    As for my opinion of the function of the Gutenberg plugin: In some ways it’s a good idea, and I could get used to it – which I hope to do. The plugin doesn’t alter the look or layout of any of my articles or theme features that I know of up to this point in time… But it does break some people’s sites, and some people hate it. – I think that it might be a better idea to keep it as a plugin rather than forcing it upon users – at least for the foreseeable future.

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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    Thanks for testing the new editing. It’s great to hear you aren’t experiencing any issues so far. I would love to find out more what changes you have made to your theme as that could indicate where people can do changes and perhaps where things need better fallbacks.

    Thread Starter Shazzalive

    (@shazzalive)

    I’d give you a list; but it’s difficult to know where to start, and compiling it would take me a long time.

    I’ve changed a few of the things that the WordPress Team included; such as making a few changes to the structure of most of the original templates, as well as additions to the stylesheet in terms of mainly classes; to add a few colours/styles.

    I’ve also done a few minor changes to the functions.php file, the 404.php file, and I’ve also written a few extra templates: Some custom header files for instance, plus some custom content files, a few custom footers, and a couple of custom sidebars.

    I’ve also written some special files such as the page deleted template – which I switch to when I want to remove a page from viewing but I don’t want to get shit from Google & the like for pages literally disappearing.

    There are other unique template files; such as the noticeboard template, the index template, the squeeze-page template – to give you three examples: Some of these have their own integrated header and/or footer. Some call a sidebar; others don’t. (Syncing that with the css was a pain lol.)

    I’ve also written a non-plugin sitemap, which I refer to as the inventory-listing, as a unique template which acts as an html sitemap but works as an integrated part of the theme.

    It’s not all plain sailing though; the site has been undergoing continued development for years, and it has crashed more than once in times gone by for one reason or another. – All this happened well before the Gutenberg plugin was available.

    I hope this is at least a partial reply to your reply to my post, above.

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