Too limited compared to other editors

  • I always stayed away from Gutenberg, decided to give it a go with a friends website. The design was not super straight forward, but i was 100% sure it could be done on one of the multiple competitors (Elementor, for example).
    It was totally awful. A lot of options are scattered in multiple places. There are a lot of missing features, especially on the mobile/sizes management of content. And please, don’t bring out intrinsic design, not everything can be “intrinsic”.
    Two examples.
    – I wanted a 5/2/1 column layout from desktop to mobile. Nope, can’t do that. All you can have is 5/1.
    – Sometimes you just need an image in the background, with some background-size/position/cover. Nope, can’t do that, you need to navigate up and down in the dashboard, all the way to the theme editor, to find the custom CSS part, and add what you need.
    Also, a lot of time Gutenberg does stuff that i literally never asked. With some container blocks (I think it was Group/Column/Row) there are !important styles coming from the editor.
    Then again, for some reason, if i use a “column” and i add a padding, the padding is added to the column width. So a 25% column suddenly becames 25% + whatever padding I added. I ended up nesting everything like a Matryoshka doll.
    I could go on and on for ages, I literally don’t understand how they can think it could be used for FSE, compared to other WYSIWYG editors / WYSIWYG SaaS solutions.

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  • Moderator jordesign

    (@jordesign)

    Hey @flero8770 – thanks for taking the time to write this feedback. Especially with such specific examples. We are always seeking to make Gutenberg better -so this kind of feedback is excellent.

    I do hear what you’re saying about better control over breakpoint adjustments for columns – it’s definitely something under discussion.

    In terms of background images – I’m a little unsure about what you mean – but it’s also the case that a review isn’t the best place for support.

    If you’re willing to start a new support thread with some more information on the background images – I’d love to take a look.

    Thread Starter flero8770

    (@flero8770)

    Hello @jordesign, you can find a bit more info in this support thread.

    Hope it helps a bit more.

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