Gutenberg Editor is not user friendly

@ken01102018

If you detail your struggles, I (and others) may be able to help you.

Orlando: The reason I reverted to the classic editor, this morning is stated in my original complaint. I found no way to attach a hyperlink to a photo. I had done this in previous post, in which I was using Guttenberg; but I could not do so today. Maybe the most recent automatic update (yesterday or so) to WP broke this? Anyway, the classic editor is so much more intuitive than the Gutenberg editor. Why make an advanced editor that is less intuitive to use?

@ken01102018

Ok. In case you want to know how to add a link to an image, it’s pretty easy: click on the image, and in block settings find the Link Settings section, change the “Link to” dropdown to “Custom URL”, then set you link below on the “Link URL” field.

Orlando, That is one of the things that I tried and failed at before I went back to the classic editor, so it is not as transparently easy as you suggest. The classic editor method of adding a link to a photo is transparent and intuitive. That is one can easily poke around and figure it out easily without instructions. Where as my poking around and trying what seemed to be the way to insert a link with Gutenberg is not so obvious and did not work, even after I found the Custom URL field and pasted a link into it. I even tried this multiple times to ensure that I did not have a typo or incomplete link. An editor targeted at users such as I and many others should not be this difficult to utilize.

I even tried this multiple times to ensure that I did not have a typo or incomplete link.

Well, that is weird…I just checked again to be sure it is working, and it is working on my side, so maybe other plugin or maybe a browser extension could be causing this. But I totally understand your frustration with WP5.0/GB.

Orlando, thanks for taking time to give feedback. I’m sure that as time goes by, I will revert to Gutenberg, either by necessity or voluntarily, as I try to keep up with the evolution in the WP software. For now, to very loosely paraphrase a former Jets football team owner “I’m old, I need to do this now, I don’t have time to waste”.

Don’t have time to waste, and here is the crux of the problem so many fail to see.
Users log on to quickly change, or add, to their website. In what has become a quick thing to do, they pull it up, make the change and go. The users do not wish, nor do many have the time, to waste a lot of time to figure out where Gutenberg hid things. If the user had to spend 30 minutes to find and do something which took them 5 minutes, that’s a failure.
And if things are not quicker for the average user to do in Gutenberg than classic, that’s another failure.
I’ve used it this week, honestly, it feels unfinished. That’s another problem, it doesn’t feel polished. It wasn’t ready to rolled out as part of the core of WP, but it appears WP pushed it and don’t care about what people think.
Leads to a final problem here, a lack of understanding what the customer wants and uses. When businesses do this, they usually don’t last.

What is most interesting is that the WordPress platform, being famous for the user-friendliness goes against its own principles and against the whole WordPress community.