Michael Sutter

Hi hugrat

I am using Gutenberg intensively since a couple months now and I did not attend a special university for that.

For sure I had to figure out a few things at the beginning but as of now, it is just nice to work with it.
Maybe you give it another chance. In my opinion, most things can be realised easily with Gutenberg.

Thanks
Michael

Hi lentil1016

Could you please provide an example of what makes Gutenberg not handy in your opinion?

Thanks a lot
Michael

Hi nbelyh

Could you please describe what makes Gutenberg frustrating for you to use?

Thanks a lot
Michael

Hi rdelia

Can you please describe what you can’t do with Gutenberg and what bothers you?

Thanks a lot
Michael

Hi kantze

You can’t compare Gutenberg with Elementor or other page builders (as Gutenberg is a page builder light).

Please bear in mind that page builders generate a lot of shortcodes in order to make content look pretty. Gutenberg just uses a different approach.

What exactly bothers you about Gutenberg? Is there anything specific you cannot do with Gutenberg but you can with Classic Editor?

Cheers
Michael

I see. In this case you could update your custom plugins for Gutenberg, or is that not possible?

Hi DFJ3

With Gutenberg you can.
Just use the HTML block, insert your text there and style the word in a different color. This is the same that happens with the classic editor, but is also not a very common use case in my opinion.

Change always leads to: think more about stuff which used to work differently. An important thing is to be open to it and to actually figure out how it works. Without this will it is difficult.

I am sure that Gutenberg will be successful on the long term. I had doubts as well about one year ago, but they faded as I saw how it improved a lot.

Cheers
Michael

Hi kelleychambers

Simply because a lot of people around the world are working hard on making Gutenberg better with each release.
I recently did a redesign from my website where I used a page builder before. Now I am using 100% of Gutenberg and I love it. In my opinion, the design looks pretty neat as well.

The GUI of Gutenberg is nice in my opinion. It makes it very easy to edit content, don’t you think?
What exactly is horrific about it in your opinion and what do you need help with?

Thanks and have a great day
Michael

Hi Andrea

Would you mind to share what you cannot do with Gutenberg but with Classic Editor?

Thanks a lot
Michael

For me Gutenberg is far more close to what the website looks like in the frontend than any other editor or page builder.

What exactly bothers you about Gutenberg? Is there anything specific you cannot do with it?

Hi davequail

I wonder why you end up with either Elementor or Classic Editor.
What exactly is it that you cannot achieve by using Gutenberg?

Best,
Michael

Hi jmpoulhes

If you use a h1 title and insert a h2 title block afterwards, they always have a different font size by default.

What exactly do you try to achieve?

Cheers
Michael

Updated status to “not resolved”.
Check my last comment above please.

Hey Tammie

Glad you like it – here is the feature request I just opened:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/18645

Thanks a lot
Michael

@karmatosed I think it would be great to have a button called “Export blog posts (from classic editor)” or something like that at /wp-admin/edit.php.

If you click on it, a separate view in the backend opens. It contains an option for the admin to select either some or all (1-n) blog posts to export. This file then contains the content of the selected blog posts done with the classic editor including all meta data such as title, date published, author, etc.

Afterwards, I imagine to have another button at /wp-admin/edit.php named “Import blog posts (for the block editor)” which makes it possible to import the same file again and the magic (migration process from classic to block) happens in the background.

This could be one approach.
Or a different approach (maybe “easier”) without the need of an export: Just have a button for blog posts saying “Migrate content from classic to block editor”.
The same for wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page.

In my opinion, the lack of having such an option is a big obstacle for people getting familiar easily with the new editor.

Thirdly, instead of putting that into core, it might be a good idea to have a separate plugin for that process.

What do you think?