Totally a lousy experience. Don’t install this… thing!

  • First of all: dear Gutenberg project managers, directors and coders: if you decide to change a standard, ensure you know what you are doing.
    The world is full of wysiwyg editors working far better than Gutenberg.
    WP Bakery, for example is millions of times better working. (By the way: Gutenberg prevents “Backend Edit” wp bakery button from appearing on backend, compelling the user to switch to classic editor thus losing some formatting).
    More than this, Gutenberg is something that is born already obsolete: images positioning and layout in text is a complete mess,
    text formatting needs an engineering degree to be used,
    module fields are far too short in comparison with any modern design, so you don’t have the least idea of what you are doing, unless you continously shift from writing to preview.
    Changing permalink is a heartbreaking experience…
    Do I have to say more? Here it is:
    There are lot of errors jumping out on backend here and there at every change in options.
    Module multiple blocks are simply a nightmare to position and format, due to the small width of viewport.
    Inserting a video needs at list three or four clicks and 5 minutes to understand where it will be placed on final version.

    I think the starting idea was good but got completely messed up during development.

    I Tried it and, after three post and four pages written with it, simply deactivated completely.

    The only perfect thing of this editor is the name: Gutenberg, exactly what you call an editor that seems directly coming from the 14th century.

    I strongly advice to install classic editor and make it the default before wordpress development makes it the default editor (I really hope they will think about it and stop).

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by franzblog.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by franzblog.
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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    Thanks @franzblog for taking the time to leaving the review and considered feedback. Regarding the WP Bakery issue that sounds like firstly something to explore in a bug report. Would you be able to create an issue here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/new/choose?

    It would be great to also explore more what you really think could be learnt from WP Bakery as a product.

    You shouldn’t be experiencing errors either, this again sounds like something to explore in an issue, however I am happy to create one for you if that is preferred? I would love to know more about them though.

    Thread Starter franzblog

    (@franzblog)

    Well… I am not a developer for wordpress. I am a wordpress user. My time is not devoted to WP development, but to my business development. I think I already spent enough of my time in pointing out the issues I wrote about.
    Dont’t play with user desires. After all, it’s thanks to us if WP is what it is today.
    At this moment there are more than twice users that gave 1 star against users who gave 5. This should be all you need to hear.
    Unless you consider it from an egoic point of view. In this case, again, my time is for my life and for my business, not WP’s.

    I agree with FranzBlog Gluttenberg does cause problems with wpbakery and still does as of today! 3 different websites same thing wpbakery back-end editor buttons disappeared and was a little difficult to get them back. I realize I shouldn’t have even reinstalled classic editor but just deactivate Guttenberg cuz doing it the other way cause problems even more! Even installing the classic editor WPBakery was not working until I deactivated it.

    Here is a Screencast I did with fresh install of WordPress. I do think the after panicking right away that the WP Bakery is fine to a point. Just select it as the editor when you got to edit or even classic which now has the WP Bakery Back-end / Front-End editor buttons. But I am running into some other problems which I am going to make bug report for. Same bug since Sept 2017 (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/2565) anyhow here is a link to that Screencast. (https://youtu.be/yVWYDcWXsfA?hd=1)

    I think Gutenberg would be great if it worked a little more smoother. I think it blocks the WP Bakery button for a distraction free editing environment that I over looked or didn’t think of when I panicked to see them gone. You will see in video that I was able to us WPBakery just not from the Gutenberg Editor.

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