Matias Ventura

Thanks for sharing this feedback.

The post edit sidebar on the right hand side is so cluttered

Agreed. There’s ongoing work to improve the design there.

There’s huge unnecessary white space left and right in the main body content of the post edit screen.

The editing area depends on the content width the theme chooses to use. Generally it aims at having a readable line length.

So a user gets this jarring experience between one editing screen and another.

The classic interface is meant to handle post type that don’t support REST or don’t support “content” fields. The latter is generally indicative of more data driven contexts for which a visual editor is not the best UI.

Another bug, eh?

They sneak everywhere! If there’s a persistent “this post is not saved” it might be coming from a plugin interaction or a meta-box.

Hmmm – that’s a nice naming convention.

It’s not esoteric nor a naming convention. The block editor works by communicating through the REST API. For different historical reasons, post types are not exposed by default through REST, so it needs to be enabled when they are registered, otherwise they are invisible for the client side.

I kinda can cope, but you try explaining that to a customer!

I hear you, modernizing the rest of the dashboard is something we hope to do as we move further away from the current Gutenberg phases.

As though at some point the core team are just gonna sack them off completely, hoping no one notices.

Blocks support custom fields as attributes, which is generally the better way to support them. Custom fields is also an aspect that cannot be enabled by default in the native interface because it needs REST support.

Creating Gutenberg blocks is very cumbersome

What do you find most cumbersome?

Tanks again for taking the time to share this feedback.

All the way to negative! ?? What do you like the most about the classic editor?

Hi there, thanks for the feedback and for giving it a try!

Have you tried some of the distraction free options to see if it suits your style better? Like “top toolbar” or “spotlight mode”: https://cloudup.com/cOGQAp_ZZtJ

There’s also an option to “reduce the interface” if you’d like to try it: https://cloudup.com/c-LcyBEDRHy

Sorry to hear that. We were thinking of making a much better editing experience! Where does it fall short if you’d like to expand?

Thanks for the feedback and chiming in. There are millions and millions of people using the block editor and a tiny fraction find their way to these forums. If you’d like to share what are the parts you or your customers hate the most perhaps they can be improved!

Sorry about that, the support forums are driven by volunteers and given the Gutenberg plugin is used as a development board for beta features it can get less attention.

Is there anything you need help with? Thanks for the feedback.

There’s a lot of continuos work going into it but perhaps it’s happening in the areas you’d like to see improved? If you can share what those might be it can be helpful.

Hi there. What existing problems would you like to see addressed first? There’s a new proposal for improving the way the table block operates if you want to check it out: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32394

Sorry to hear that, Jessica. Would you mind sharing an example of how it broke your homepage? Updates should not be breaking content.

Sorry you run into an issue. Did it go away?

Thanks for the feedback. You point at the heart of the challenge, hopefully things continue to get better both for writing and building designs.

What is the top thing you’d like to see for a nicer writing experience?

Hello there. Would you be able to upload a screenshot showing what you cannot achieve with titles? There are a lot of additions week-by-week to the typography tools of many blocks, but many depend on theme integration as well.

Hi there and sorry for the hiccup. Sometimes mistakes slip through releases, but they should be fixed pretty quickly in the plugin. As Jamie mentions, if you’d like a more stable environment you can just use vanilla WordPress which bundles stable releases of Gutenberg.

Hi there. What did you find most simple about the older editor?

Thanks for the feedback. What are the most incomprehensible aspects from your point of view?