Getting more frustrating every day

  • The reason WordPress grew beyond a blog-only platform is because it was so amazingly flexible that designers could find ways to do literally anything with it. Even the most wild, unusual designs could be done with the help of metaboxes, widget areas, custom Walker classes, hooks/filters, etc. Gutenberg seems to be not-so-slowly trying to shove everyone back into a rigid paradigm of what the WordPress teams think webdesign should be.

    The number one complaint I get from new clients is that “WordPress” (by which they actually mean Gutenberg) is confusing and not intuitive. I’ve never gotten those comments before, so I’d generally say that the Gutenberg team needs to dramatically re-think the UX for this thing, not to mention re-incorporating actual word processing features. Literally no one thinks “I want to change the color of this one word in the paragraph, so I’ll just switch the block from a paragraph to a classic.” I won’t even get started on the accessibility issues.

    I do think it has great potential and the developers have done a wonderful job stabilizing it, but every time I turn around it gets harder and harder to feel good about not just installing the Classic Editor plugin.

    • This topic was modified 6 years ago by Head Goldfish. Reason: Opinion has changed. Hopefully it will again in the future
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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    As you rightly pointed out, the plugin is a work in progress at this point, so some features are not fully functional or present. Coincidently, there is some lively discussion going on regarding meta boxes, right here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/952. It’s a long thread but worth diving into.

    Once it gets refined a bit it seems like it has the potential help designers and developers compete with drag-n-drop builders like Wix and Squarespace, from a customer perspective, especially given the millions of WordPress websites that are not blogs.

    Actual page building is a really exciting future. It’s one that the Customization focus will look at going forward after the editor.

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