Promising but currently not a good editing experience

The key features of this block plugin appear to work satisfactorily; some recent reviews said it was broken, but I think things must have been fixed.

There are some fundamental flaws, however:

– The amount of whitespace shown in the editor interface above/below each slides is massive, and it’s extremely hard to figure out where to select each ‘slide’ to customise it. It could be that the “Min Height” control is meant to control this, but if so, it doesn’t work.

– Selecting the slider block and pressing “add slide” adds a slide, but if you have a smaller monitor or many slider blocks, it’s added off-screen, and you have no idea if the button worked.

– Unless a tabbed interface is added to control content entry into each slide, the “quick preview” mode should be the default state on page load (as opposed to the editing), because of the vast amount of whitespace and vertical area this block takes up, it currently seriously impacts the usability of managing content elsewhere on your page/post.

– A feature enhancement would be to opt-out of the left/right carousel arrows/buttons. I’m having to hide these with CSS.

– The integration with Gutenberg Hub (and associated upsell features in the interface) leaves a bad taste in my mouth; if this was just a slider block plugin, then why do I want it to pull in templates from Gutenberg Hub? I don’t.

– The admin interface for the plugin is unfinished and looks amateurish; one of the screens have placeholder text, and the other screens seem to iframe content in from another site (the styling is off, and there are security concerns with iframing unknown sites in). I’ve decided to hide this entire screen on my client sites.