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I appear to be a dissenting voice on this, but I think Gutenberg is a remarkable accomplishment and a great editor. (I say this as someone who is actively devel
by nickelcitymario 6y ago
I appear to be a dissenting voice on this, but I think Gutenberg is a remarkable accomplishment and a great editor. (I say this as someone who is actively developing an editor for my own app.)
It's a drastic shift from how Wordpress has traditionally worked, but that doesn't make it bad.
Most WP visual editors / page builders are terrible. They produce bloated code, huge page sizes, poor SEO. Gutenberg does all this stuff right. But it doesn't try to be a full-fledged design environment either.
The shift is painful, of course. It's incompatible with many existing sites. But I compare this to Apple's shift to OS X, or Microsoft's move away from Windows XP, or any major tech company that has had to shift away from a wildly successful product lest they become irrelevant. The transition sucks at the time, but looking back it always becomes obvious how necessary the shift was.
- interestica 6y agoI agree. I think the one problem is still in the long-form writing that is analogue to writing in a text document. Breaking text into discrete paragraph blocks is awkward.
- nickelcitymario 6y agoThat's a good point. Treating every chunk of text as a block does feel like overkill when writing long-form.
- josefresco 6y ago>Most WP visual editors / page builders are terrible. They produce bloated code, huge page sizes, poor SEO. I sling WordPress code daily, and do a fair amount of WCAG and speed optimization work - this statement is not true of all builders. I routinely build fast, fully compliant websites using visual builders.
- mmmateo 6y agoWhich do you use most often?
- nickelcitymario 6y agoI did qualify my statement with "most", but what builder do you use that produces good, semantic, and lean code?
- jseliger 6y agoIt's a drastic shift from how Wordpress has traditionally worked, but that doesn't make it bad. It's a huge irritation to me because I'm very accustomed to the user interface of the "classic" editor, and the Gutenberg interface is a tremendous regression for my use case. It may be wonderful for other purposes, but I hate it as a composer and editor.
- nickelcitymario 6y agoProfessional point of curiosity: What do you hate about it? ?The app I'm building requires that I create my own editor, so I'd love to avoid their mistakes.
- randoramax 6y agoGutenberg is great for website development. It's overkill for editors writing blog posts.