No where near release ready. Update Dec 2020

  • This gutenber has potential. But it can not be released to milions of n00b-editors.

    My usual training for clients was: this is the editor.
    Now they are baffled and call me to ask for directions.

    It is not yet intuitive. It’s to big of a step for current users. This should not have made it to core yet.

    Update Wp 5.2.
    Still not ready. Still bad. Still takes more time to edit a page. Still takes more time to teach others how to use.

    Update dec 2020..
    I’m using WordPress so much so I see Gutenberg every now and then. Time to update my review. It is still extremely far from finished. I can not believe this is still the default editor?!

    Please do some usability research. Look at the way why users like the old editorscreen so much and translate that to Gutenberg.
    This has to do with coloring important parts. Creating links so people can fast click to Viewing this page in a new window.
    Showing more options when people have big screens instead of defaultly hiding them and using an extra click/onhover to uncover those extra options.

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  • Sorry to hear that you and your clients had a rough couple of rounds with Gutenberg. Aside from the extra time to teach others how to use it are there some specific examples of what doesn’t work for you and your clients that you can share? You can share those here or log an issue on the GitHub repo here:?https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues.

    If you’re absolutely not comfortable with the Gutenberg experience, you can always opt for the classic editor with this:?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/classic-editor/

    Thread Starter Pixelbits

    (@pixelbits)

    Ok tried again with the new 5.3 release – but Gutenberg still is the WORST. You can not get a quick post done.

    I miss the button-bar of TinyMCE so I don’t have to click so much before the (minimized version) buttons show up. I need to know beforehand where to move my mouse and what y options are. *That* is intuitive. Not this.

    Editing of a whole page in HTML with search and replace advantages are gone because everything is in separate blocks. I need to be able to have control over all parts of a page. All parts at once. Like a bulk edit (Change all H2 to H3’s).

    Duplicating parts of a post to another post takes way more clicks when compared to classic editor.

    It doesn’t work well with some of my themes. (I know that is a problem of my Themes(lack of Gutenberg support), but I have them; it works and Gutenberg makes it not work).

    It takes SO many more clicks to just copy/paste something from MS Word to Gutenberg before the post is publishable ??

    I still can’t believe this is the standard of WordPress. And judging from the amount of people installing the Classic Editor Plugin, I’m not the only one.

    When I forget to disable Gutenberg my clients all call, without exception, that “it’s not working”. Or that they don’t know how to publish. A sign that it is not release ready for a larger n00b-audience. And that is the biggest part of your audience. People that just want to publish a news item quickly.

    A wise man once said “Kill it before it lays eggs”. Please do ?? If you really need something like this that *does* work: install Enfold Avia Editor. Or Elementor.

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