Did not like it

  • If the idea is to make it easy for newcomers to WP then it looks like a fail as the editor is far from intuitive. I have several years of experience and quite a few sites running on WP and it just did not feel right. The fact that creating columns is still in beta shows how much work there is still to be done for this plugin.

    I tried with a site that uses the Themefusion editor and that completely vanished when when Gutenberg was activated.

    I understand that WP is worried about other services that provide a quick and easy way to build a site but the way this is implemented and forced on most of us is simply wrong.

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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    @francoisthai thanks for testing the new editing experience. Could I dig a little more into what didn’t feel right for you?

    Thread Starter FrancoisThai

    (@francoisthai)

    Hi Tammie, for the most part I did not like having to hover so that I could discover what I needed. I like things to be laid out in front of me. In the front end on the blocks, there are not enough of the tools I need and use. That small + icon at the bottom has everything (almost) but it takes time to sort out what I need. It took a while to find it. Because if I do not hover in the right area, it simply does not show up.

    Also, it would be great to no only be able to duplicate a block but save it so that it can be used on other pages. Ok, it looks like the “shared blocks” feature is intended for this but it did not work very well for me: I don’t want to see “Untitled shared block” on the front end. Or maybe I did not understand.

    As I mentioned, I use paid plugins and themes. And I did not appreciate that when I enabled Gutenberg on my test site, the editor I use simply vanished. Gone. This is a huge problem for me. I do not appreciate something being forced on me that way and removing what I already use. This is what is going to happen in the next update? Please, don’t mess with my investments.

    There should always be an option such as with the latest update to allow users to either activate Gutenberg or use their prefered editor. WP is about having options.

    As a reference: I use WP for more than 10 years and manage about 30 WP sites for clients and myself.

    So these are some of the issues I had with it.

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