starcrescendo

@sadesades Unfortunately, no. My “workaround” was as @richtabor mentioned, I downloaded a block plugin. I didn’t see his full message so I never tried his CoBlocks plugin, but I downloaded a plugin called “Kadence Blocks”. With it, you can specify all the classes that you need.

The only problem is this plugin also adds its own stylings so you end up having to undo their styling so the UiKit styles take affect.

For an example, you end up having to explicitly set margins to 0 using the options the Kadence Blocks plugin supplies so that the default UIkit margins take effect. Or for buttons, you have to explicitly set the background to “none” using the plugin so the default uikit background color will be used.

Its clunky, but it does work perfectly. It’s just not super user-friendly to hand over to a client when they are then like “well why does my button look different?”.

I’m going to try this CoBlocks plugin but I don’t like having to subscribe to do so and it explicitly blocks mailinator email addresses which is kind of shady. I worry about adding plugins that do too much, and some of them seem to give you a billion options when really I just integration points for UIKit.

This really should be something WordPress considers for the core. I never liked how it included its own code for aligning images to left and right and this is a major extension of that to all aspects of content.

EDIT: I would not recommend CoBlocks as it just took my email address and does not redirect to a download of the file. Super shady. It explicitly says “Download” so I expected to be given a download file.

EDIT2: Go here https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/coblocks/ instead of their website to download the plugin.

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by starcrescendo.
• This reply was modified 6 years ago by starcrescendo.

Hi Tammie,

I personally don’t use any of those page-builder things because they usually end up making messy code for me and my clients that just leads to headaches down the road when a div gets broken, or an ending div tag gets invalidly nested and then the client doesn’t know how to fix it.

I have found the biggest benefit of WordPress has always been that it was so clean and focused on content without any of the hassle of other things getting in the way. It was literally choose ‘Add’ a content type, type a title and message, and hit publish.

With the building blocks system, it is a great way to allow users to add columns and such which are tasks usually above their understanding, but it should be much less intrusive and more intuitive than this Gutenberg plugin was.

I personally use Yootheme’s “UIKIT” (not the Yootheme PRO template builder) to power my own client sites.

I honestly don’t know how to make the current system more intuitive but it just wasn’t. I gave it a few hours, a fair bit of playing around with it, and as a developer looking at it through a client’s eyes, it was confusing and finnicky, and as mentioned it also hides the publish button which is a big no-no as far as ease of use goes.