How does Gutenberg work with “static” layouts?

  • I’ve looked into Gutenberg and searched extensively for articles describing how it works but none of them could really answer this question I’m having:

    How does Gutenberg work with websites where people aren’t supposed to be able to randomly put/change things, but rather just enter content into fields, and it should show up in a specific way (determined by the developer/admin)?

    All articles and documentation I found always described how awesome it is that you can select whether images should be left-aligned, right-aligned, or full width, or how you can insert whatever multimedia anywhere with blocks, but none of them showed how it works with “classic” CMS-type functionality where an editor is just creating a new post with specific fields to enter specific content, and that content then shows up on the page where/how the developer has defined that it should show up (like with Advanced Custom Fields).

    I know I can just revert to the classic editor experience for now but that functionality will be discontinued at some point in future anyway. And ACF blocks don’t really solve this question either because they are still blocks that can be added and removed fairly randomly. I need a fixed UI.

    Any ideas? Any sources?

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    ACF and the Classic Editor are the way to go for this. I haven’t yet tested what happens if you use the settings in ACF’s field group definition to hide “the editor”. If that works to hide the new Block Editor, so much the better!

    Thread Starter VIPStephan

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    Thanks for your reply. Classic editor and ACF is what I’m currently going with. But how would that work in future when the classic editor isn’t maintained and supported anymore? So far, Gutenberg seems to try to replicate page builders like Wix or whatever, to cater for amateurs and occasional bloggers. But how would that be useful in corporate websites, for example?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Good question. But ACF is evolving to work with the block editor and, I expect, will work in away that makes sense in that scenario. (Note to self: install the 5.8 beta!)

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