Not ready! Not fully tested!

I can’t even move taxonomy blocks above and below to other blocks…

@tradernet it has been tested! Is there something I can help you with?

@dydyt are you talking about custom taxonomies in the sidebar on the right or the built in Categories and Tags panels in the same spot?

@designsimply, Who are you exactly and in what capacity do you serve the project? I would be happy to direct my comments to someone that could legitimately act upon them.

I work on testing for Gutenberg. You can direct your comments to me! I cannot promise an action without knowing more detail, but I can certainly take a look and help with communication.

And I can help test!

@designsimply, thanks for being willing to listen to our plight!

I, like so many others, have lots of sites with various plugins, custom widgets and premium themes. In one particular case, The Divi theme from Elegant Themes would not allow any posts to be created and edited. This was caused, as mentioned in a support question, by the Gutenberg editor not having the depth and breadth of testing with all the themes and plugins.

As a result I had to revert back to the working classic editor and the deadlines of my customer’s writers were saved. Could have been catastrophic had no reversion been available.

From the 1000 other 1 star reviews is seems that the decisive majority agrees that this “feature” is not ready and not welcome; especially in a forced acceptance scenario by including it as a core component.

Hopefully, you will understand my frustration and understand why so many are caught off guard and angry with a feature not ready for prime time.

Knowing you’re having trouble with the Divi theme helps me. I will add it to a list of external plugins I am also working to get additional testing for. Thank you.

I do understand the frustration! I hope my work can help improve the situation for you and others. My main goal right now is to document specifics so that I can report back on the top complaints. In order to do that, I’m trying to get more people to explain their reviews in more detail when possible—some people just mention not liking the plugin, which is valid but talking specifically about why and what went wrong and your own goals for your sites as well as the type of content you’re working with are things that can be worked as whereas the reviews without information don’t have any actionable items for me. Thanks for being willing to have a discussion about your review!

Hey Design, you’ve made over 900 thoughtful, polite, professional replies in the last several weeks. How? Are you human or AI? Simply awesome! Maybe I’ll try Gutenberg on a new site that doesn’t have as many legacy dependencies. Thanks!