The categories, featured image, tags, etc. must be manually clicked open to reveal the input interface, instead of it intuitively, by default, remaining open. Again, it’s too many clicks. Over a lifetime of clicks, hours are wasted on clicks.

The + sign is located awkwardly on the upper left side of the interface, where it should be in the center because a majority of the workflow is taking place in the center.

The blocks are yet another click necessary to insert a paragraph, heading, image, etc.; it’s just not intuitive and disrupts the workflow.

It is nowhere near as intuitive as the current interface.

This cumbersome and unintuitive change should absolutely not be a core code in WordPress, but rather, it should remain a plugin, giving the millions of WP users an opportunity to use it, or not use it, if they so choose.

The current user interface works great and is intuitive. There is no need to ‘fix’ something that isn’t broken and is hands-down the best writing experience of any platform I’ve used in the last decade.

I can only imagine the millions of people switching over to another platform should Gutenberg be made into a core feature. I for one will switch over to another platform should this disaster be implemented into WordPress.

Currently, they are only offering a plugin for the classic editor. That is supposed to keep things like TinyMCE intact as well.

Problem is they consider this only a temporary measure, so those whose sites Gutenberg breaks can stick with the Tinymce editor a little longer.

Why should we have to install a plugin anyway? Why not install Gutenberg if you actually want it? :-(.

As far as relocating the + symbol, I would suggest placing that and all other functionality in the top center position.

But as far as making Gutenberg a core permanent feature, it needs quite a bit more work to make the workflow considerably more intuitive, and the many items I’ve outlined may help to do that, in no way should anyone be forced to use this on WP when what we have currently works much better.

@matt I appreciate the developers trying to revamp the editor, but again, if what works now isn’t broken and is working great, there’s no need for a replacement, especially in light of the hundreds, and potentially thousands of WP user not wanting this forced upon us.

@jamieedwards the TinyMCE would be great if it were included, but everything else would require a revamp to make the editor streamlined like it is now.

Why they did this with columns in beta is beyond me – but that was an epic fail to get work properly at all. Constantly adding new blocks to add content is NOT a good use of time or resources either. I also had trouble dragging and dropping things because of so many things overlapping others — the whole thing just frustrated me, so I can only imagine how my customers will feel.

The learning curve on this is way too large for existing WordPress users. I have over 100 clients on WordPress — that are now expected to learn a new editor that they do not even want?

As a developer who primarily uses ACF Pro to create administrative areas that are easy for my clients to update – this is a huge step backwards both for my team who is supposed to learn how to make Gutenberg work — as well as clients who now have to waste their time learning something new when what they have already works beautifully.

I am open to change — but this is just not a positive one.

We will only be using the Classic Editor – and are not adding Gutenberg to any of our client websites.

Time-consuming: a click for each block instead of just writing. More clicks equal wasted time.

I totally agree with this.

I personally always use the WordPress Classic Editor in Text mode – nobody wants to waste time inserting paragraphs or creating <p> tags.

Getting down to specifics, one thing you guys may be able to fix is that the + sign above the blocks is obscured when you edit that block. If you want to add a block above that block you first have to click elsewhere, and only then on the +. Rather get the + to float to the right.

The other thing that really has to be fixed is having text divided up into separate blocks. This is no good for writing but having a text block with the full Tiny MC editor would be better, perhaps with an option to split text blocks at the cursor so you can insert blocks with other content if you want to.

In general, I don’t understand the motivation behind Gutenberg. It’s pretty crude when compared to the free versions of page builders such as Elementor and Beaver Builder. You would think it would need to be at least as capable and usable to win converts but it isn’t.

I’ll leave it open for now, as I want to give the original poster a chance to respond, but any more replies and it will be closed.