Comments on: Will Gutenberg Replace Page Builders Like Elementor, Divi or Beaver Builder?

By: Kevin Schmidt

Kevin Schmidt — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:09:28 +0000

Form fields rule!
That’s because clients and users respond with content, not with markup.

By: Phillip Charles

Phillip Charles — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 01:02:22 +0000

Gutenberg is terrible, and it’s not remotely close in comparison to Elementor, Divi or Beaver Builder. Also, the Gutenberg authors keep responding to user-reviewers in the WordPress Gutenberg plugin review section, and they are stating that Gutenberg is a “Post Editor,” NOT a “Page Builder.” I posted a link below of a Gutenberg author stating this. There are tons of 1-star reviews (one of my own included below in a link), and the WP moderators & Gutenberg authors try to justify people’s 1-star review by stating that Gutenberg is technically not a page builder, and it’s not meant to replace the 3 main page builders listed in this article.

As a WordPress theme and plugin developer, I utterly despise Gutenberg. It’s not a matter of “if” Gutenberg not being compatible with some themes and plugins, it’s just a matter of how many themes and plugins won’t be compatible with Gutenberg. The GitHub Gutenberg project has over 4,000 closed issues & over 1,200 opens issues. Soo many bugs and errors. Gutenberg should remain as a plugin, NOT part of the WordPress core.

LINK #1 (GitHub Gutenberg issues)
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues

LINK # 2 (Gutenberg author, Tammie, stating, “It’s important to note that Gutenberg isn’t a page builder, which may be where some of the confusion is coming from.”)
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vastly-inferior-to-almost-any-page-builder/

LINK # 3 (My review of Gutenberg)
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gutenberg-is-an-abomination-to-wordpress/

By: hafnerdesigns

hafnerdesigns — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:45:18 +0000

I’ve heard mixed feelings on Gutenberg. What concerns me, as a web designer, is what will I have to teach my clients about Gutenberg? It has taken some effort to teach some just the simple editor for blog posting.

By: Patty Ayers

Patty Ayers — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:29:25 +0000

Thanks for breaking this down. I can promise you that I’ll keep building those “tens of thousands*” of client websites using my favorite page-builder, until/unless Gutenberg can even begin to approach how excellent and useful it is.

* There must actually be tens of millions of that type of client website.

By: Luke Cavanagh

Luke Cavanagh — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:58:41 +0000

Gutenberg UI and UX is still dire.