Never so awful as this

  • matssparky

    (@matssparky)


    3 years ago

    I have been managing multiple different style wp-sites and what the h*ll has last 2 years been because of Gutenberg.
    – Cannot rearrange metaboxes
    – Metaboxes for every default element (button, p, image, heading..) changes in every update
    – Cannot adjust what kind of options the elements show. And they keep growing! I don’t need border radius for the site, can i just hide it with php… uuggh no!
    – Broken functions and deprecated all the time in php, just because u like to rename things
    – javascript panes just does not work
    – console gives out tons of react errors after every update
    – did I already said that all of the gutenberg blocks and the awful new frontend css and theme options that keeps adding breaks the sites in every update
    – What if you want to hide H5 and H6 from the header and make #2222ff as default color with H3… uups, cannot do it

    this is not how to develop system that is used by ten millions

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  • Hi @matssparky
    Sorry for your adoption pain with the block editor. You are right, it has changed very often, and there has been revisions to the styling.

    There are two developments, I wanted you to be aware off:
    Now that the full-site editing experience is at least in it foundation released, there are a few initiatives on revamping the styling especially for theme developers. Mark Root-Wiley published a proposal that could use your consideration and input “Proposal: Standardized block markup, theme.json design tokens, and CSS classes to improve interoperability”

    The other is a feature that has been newly released with version 1 in 5.8 and version 2 in 5.9 and that is using theme.json to control the block editor. The documentation page is available in the handbook: Global Settings & Styles (theme.json).

    It is now much easier to switch off pieces of the block settings and controls, with just as few lines.

    Hope this gives you a little hope of things to get settled soon later this year when all the site editor and theme changes are more refined.

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