Will Break Themes and Plugins

  • I’m in agreement with all the other posters; Gutenberg is not user-friendly or should it become part of the core of WordPress. I thought I would give this a try, to see how well it would perform. The problem, it broke 90% of the built-in features of my themes. I currently use Michael Hyatt’s Get Noticed Theme – with some child customizations and it broke the features of the theme. When I had the plugin activated I no longer could access the theme’s features.

    If I want to use a page builder I use both Elementor and Divi. Gutenberg should ONLY be an option, if people want to use it – not forced. TinyMCE should remain at the core of WordPress 5.0 when released. But changing only to Gutenberg will alienate a lot of people and break customized sites.

    I do thank you for including a link to download the current TinyMCE (now: classic editor). With a 2.4 rating, you’d be remiss to ignore a growing concern and issue that a lot of users are experiencing. Keep what your ideal customer wants. Let it either be toggled option or an extra button to enter the page builder for added functionality for a particular page or post. That way, you get the best of both worlds – TinyMCE and Gutenberg.

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by jbsisam.
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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    First, thanks for testing and reviewing the new editor. Knowing what themes are breaking is also incredibly helpful information. Can I ask what customizations you added to that as a child theme? It would be great to also know what options stopped working.

    Thread Starter jbsisam

    (@jbsisam)

    Hi Tammie,

    Most of the customizations I added were cosmetic – ie, css for custom bullet points, tweaking some of the PHP code for the header. Nothing that should interfere with Gutenberg.

    But I noticed that several of my plugins no longer showed up in the editor to add their shortcodes or functions to my text. Also, the theme comes baked with several shortcodes and those where nowhere to be found or their options to add.

    I also have Divi Builder added to my site and the option to use that to customize a post was no longer functioning.

    The other thing that bothered me, the theme has several publishing customizations:
    – dropcap
    – toggle on/off header/footer
    – toggle on/off social sharebar
    – FTC disclosure
    – where I want my featured image to appear

    All of these options and more were under the “Publish” box. With Gutenberg enabled, those options disappeared and I could no longer customize each post as I saw fit.

    I hope that helps.

    Personally, I would like to see Gutenberg as an editing option, not the main editing option. Buy incorporating both classic and gutenberg as editing options will make WordPress stronger.

    That would give users the ability to choose which editor they would like.

    For page building, I think Gutenberg is a better choice, but for blogging, the classic editor is where it makes the most sense.

    People want to simply copy and paste their post without having to figure out which Gutenberg option to use.

    Please keep both and let the end user decide which editor they want to use.

    From my perspective, this editor has potential, but I don’t think you’re there yet.

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