General Questions

Hi @giorgosm it’s good that you are using Gutenberg for your projects, this is a community plugin so l think having a pro-version would be difficult to implement. Additionally, the recent default themes such ad TT3 and TT2 are block-based themes that allow you to design the entire site including the header, footer, and everything in between, with blocks hence the difference in file structure from the previous themes.

I will try and provide some answers to some of the questions you asked above.

To use a background image i have to use a cover block. Why we dont have basic background image to every block? Like Group or Row or even Columns?

This would be great to have, I did a quick search and it looks like there is a request on GitHub to have this feature implemented on blocks. I would encourage you to comment there, this might help push this forward.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/49106

Basic controls are missing also, like margins from Group block.

Dimension settings and other related design settings are some of the cool new things developers have been working on, so it is possible for now to see some blocks missing certain settings others have but they’re being added with each update. You can go over this article to get a better glimpse of these.

However, the Group Block allows you to change the margin among other things. If the option to change the margin isn’t displayed on the blocks sidebar you can add them as per this screenshot. You can read more about dimension settings in this article.

Mobile controls! We have to use a lot of?@media?queries cause there is no mobile settings in the builder

There have been some discussions about having a built-in Intrinstic web design where content on the theme is adjusted depending on the screen size by default. You can witness the recent fluid typography option that was implemented – font size reduces depending on your screen size. Of course, this isn’t exactly what you are referring to about having the option to add mobile controls so I would also suggest adding a note of what you see as the best option on the GitHub issue below.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/34641

HTML block is not highlighting the code.

I’m not sure I am following what you mean here, are you able to provide more information or screenshots of what you are referring to?

You removed the customizer and the theme editor from the options. Where we supposed to write custom CSS and custom PHP functions? We need additional plugin for that now

Custom CSS can now be added when you are working on your templates in the site editor. You can open the tab as shown in this screenshot.

The file structure of the TT3 theme is different and it doesn’t come with the functions.php file using a plugin to add custom PHP code would be the best option.

The FSE menu is not ideal. You need a lot of CSS and JS to make it look decent.

Are you able to advise what you are trying to achieve with the navigation block, maybe there is another way of achieving that?

There is some kind of bug when we save a block as reusable and we try to insert it again in Editor through navigation panel. The whole website crashes.

Does the issue persist when you temporarily deactivate all plugins on the site?
What kind of content did you add to the reusable block, I would also like to check this on my test site.

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• This reply was modified 2 years ago by thelmachido a11n.

Thanks a lot for the answer!

As of the code hightlighting i mean this.

The CSS option that you mention is not existing in my installations with all plugins removed. (The plugins are kept to the bare minimum anyway, they should not conflict with anything).

As of the bug, i cannot replicate since it happens once in a while. If i manage to capture a specific behavior i ll report it.

It would be nice to see the rest of the options implemented to Gutenberg cause for now, using it in a commercial project seems impossible!

Thanks a lot!

Are you wanting the Custom HTML block to show syntax highlighting? This is not currently a feature. However, there is a ticket for it: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/5614

Just to clarify this point:

The CSS option that you mention is not existing in my installations with all plugins removed. (The plugins are kept to the bare minimum anyway, they should not conflict with anything).

Sorry for the confusion – the new CSS editor built into the Site Editor is available as of WordPress 6.2, which was just released today, so if you upgrade you’ll see it. You can learn more about it here.