Gutenber editor (or Elementor)

Hi @wangwangkatt

Firstly, thanks for giving a try to our plugin and for your feedback. ??

To answer your query, I would first like to explain my team’s thought process in making this plugin. Well, the idea always was and is to keep everything simple. So, with this idea we have tried our best to give the best user experience while creating courses and have just given the fields/options that is needed, without confusing users with tons of options.

Our Masteriyo plugin’s backend is built all on React JS to give the Single Page Application experience, thus we also built our own course creation simple minimal User Interface instead of using default WordPress editor or system to create course (similar to creation of post).

Now, coming to your question, I personally love Gutenberg and Elementor as well. ?? I do get your point of why not using these page builders. Let me explain in the points below.

1. To create courses list or course categories list, we do have Gutenberg blocks within the Masteriyo plugin. We will be making more Gutenberg blocks as needed in coming days and we will also be shifting in making similar widgets via Elementor in near future. So, we are using these for some part. ??

2. Rather than above I think your question specifically is: why not make use of Gutenberg editor or Elementor to create course’s content or lesson’s content within the course. As mentioned in our team’s thought process above, the idea is to keep it simple for now. Having said that, we have kept these things in mind and made our plugin’s architecture as such that if needed we can certainly add the compatibility with Gutenberg & Elementor to create course’s content but for now we will be keeping it as it is.

If more users suggest the same on this matter, we will be taking steps to enhance our plugin to add compatibility with Gutenberg and other page builders as we believe that plugin can only be successful if we work in the best interest of majority of our users. ??

One more thing: In the current version as well, you can shift to WordPress Editor of any course. To do so, in the dashboard, please go to Masteriyo -> Courses. Click on the three dots of any course row in the courses table. And then click on the WordPress editor option.
The content area of WordPress editor will not work completely as expected if you try editing course’s content from there. But say, if you have installed Yoast plugin for SEO setup, then you can setup all SEO related fields by switching to WordPress editor for any course.

I may have over explained things here as I am little excited with our plugin Masteriyo and users feedback, I hope I haven’t confused you with my explanation. ??

If you have any more feedback, we would like to happily hear those and use it in improving our plugin.

Thanks.
Sanjip S.

Marking as resolved, you can always create a new support thread of you need to.

Thanks.
Sanjip S.

Thank you very much for your response. I indeed see the option for using wordpress editor for the courses but sadly not for the lessons. Maybe I can hack in the option somehow myself… (:

We will take it as suggestion, we will see if we can add Gutenberg editor for courses and lessons description in near future.

Thanks.
Sanjip S.