Comments on: Gutenberg, One Year In: A Fresh Look at the Pros and Cons of Gutenberg

By: Eric Karkovack

Eric Karkovack — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 15:33:44 +0000

In reply to Trishan Mehta. Thanks, Trishan! It definitely feels like Gutenberg is in no man's land at the moment. It has a lot of positives, but not necessarily enough to dump your page builder.

By: Trishan Mehta

Trishan Mehta — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 04:25:27 +0000

This is a very balanced take on Gutenberg. I agree with you that is not a full fledged page builder right now and what’s stopping me from uninstalling my page builder since I cannot create a post template with Gutenberg and also some other stuff like opt-in forms.

But it has definitely improved the content creation process and I don’t have to use my page builder to create nice looking posts.

Warm regards,

Trishan

By: Eric Karkovack

Eric Karkovack — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:37:01 +0000

In reply to Derek Smith. You make a good point regarding the problems/confusion with the Classic Editor. A lot of users want to do more than just write text and upload images in a straight line. Anything more complicated than this could lead to confusion for users. At the very least, Gutenberg makes some of this a bit more intuitive. No hacks required.

By: thebgt

thebgt — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:47:01 +0000

They should have introduced this as something completely new, like “New WordPress” or something. But they didn’t dare…
Change is fine, as long as it makes your life better.
And Gutenberg makes nothing better, only unnecessary complicated.
Wordpress TPTB act like if they had never realized who are the users of the platform or like if they do not care and want a completely new target audience. So they screw their users to try something new.
In any case Gutenberg does not improve anything in WP.

By: Thebgt

Thebgt — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:40:51 +0000

AMEN!
Change is not always good per se.

By: Eric Karkovack

Eric Karkovack — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:10:33 +0000

In reply to Tim. I'm glad to hear it's working for you! It sounds like you have built a great workflow that lets you use the editor to the max.

By: Eric Karkovack

Eric Karkovack — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:08:12 +0000

They’d never do it, but Gutenberg should have stayed a plugin until it was more mature. I think if the product we see today was the first core release, it would have made a much better impression.

By: Derek Smith

Derek Smith — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:18:06 +0000

I run two WordPress sites: my own, on which I use Elementor in the main, and a club on, on which I run with the various incarnations of Gutenburg.

I get on well with Elementor, and experiment a bit with it for fun.

I am required to update the club website four or five times a week, so use it a great deal. It has grown on me. More than that, the club members whom I allow their own pages love it. Instead of getting phone calls a couple of times a month to the effect that ‘It’s gone wrong. I didn’t do anything abnormal’ that could often take half an hour to resolve, they now not only do it without problem, I get no requests of ‘Could you just explain that bit again.’

I change the appearance every year (or so) and it gone through smoothly.

I’ve had only two occasions when things went a bit wrong, both when adding plugins. One took a fair bit of solving, but the other was simple enough. Given the problems I occasionally had with pre Gutenburg WP, I reckon it’s pretty good.

It doesn’t beat Elementor, although with the increasing number of blocks available via plugins and updates, it’s improving no end. I can’t see me moving away from Elementor for the foreseeable, but there’s no way I’ll say never.

It’s improving no end. It looks good. It’s free. I can’t complain.