And I should point out that some of may post were coming out of frustration and probably sounded rude too. So everyone has an off day. I just hope we can get a thread going that has information other can find when hit with this issue.
1) The work around is to install the classic editor plugin.
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/classic-editor/
2) You can update your theme, evidently using code here.
“https://www.ads-software.com/gutenberg/handbook/designers-developers/developers/tutorials/block-tutorial/applying-styles-with-stylesheets/”
Any other advice admins have can be posted in this thread. And any explanations about why the default width of the Block Editor has to be so narrow might be nice too.
]]>First, look how Twenty Seventeen adds support for block styles:
function twentyseventeen_block_editor_styles() {
// Block styles.
wp_enqueue_style( ‘twentyseventeen-block-editor-style’, get_theme_file_uri( ‘/assets/css/editor-blocks.css’ ) );
// Add custom fonts.
wp_enqueue_style( ‘twentyseventeen-fonts’, twentyseventeen_fonts_url(), array(), null );
}
add_action( ‘enqueue_block_editor_assets’, ‘twentyseventeen_block_editor_styles’ );
All the styles and fonts and such are defined there, to let the editor match the look of the site.
Over in that editor-blocks.css file, scroll down until you find this:
.wp-block {
max-width: 674px; /* Based on one-column post width; 644px + 30px to account for padding. */
}
Change the max-width to none and voila. Now your editor is full width on the page. Minus a bit of padding.
As a user experience designer, I can confirm that, especially for novice users (both new to WP or who have only used it a little), but also for experienced but non-technical users, the default edit behaviour when the current theme isn’t Gutenberg-friendly is both disconcerting and frustrating. It is quite unrealistic for any application developer to simply expect every technical administrator of existing sites to change their site’s theme – after all not all 3rd party themes will be updated to work with Gutenberg and even those with a site that uses a custom-built theme may not have a WP theme developer available to update it. Similarly, expecting those with old themes will install a 3rd party workaround plugin is very un-friendly – especially considering that plugin might be discontinued in the future and then they’ll just be right back where they started.
While knowing what workarounds are available is great, it would be so much better if the default behaviour was to set the editor to full width instead of being fixed to an arbitrarily narrow view.
]]>2. The editor is half the width now.
3. There is some code that can be added that might make it like a normal screen editor.
4. See how much better it all is ?
5. Oh and you can expect the original editor which worked perfectly well to degrade slowly over time.
My web site and the ability to edit it is unuseable currently.
Thankyou whoever “thought this through”.
]]>At the top of this mess there are buttons to click with words on them which do everything but what you intuitively expect with an existing page you are trying to upgrade. Convert to Blocks makes it look like a table with completely inappropriately sized objects in it. Add block adds a block at the end of the page not where the cursor is. Unbelievable.
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