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I would like to get Matt Mullenweg thoughts on this subject, because it's a real problem with what WordPress is doing and the direction it is trying to take. F
by skilled 3y ago
I would like to get Matt Mullenweg thoughts on this subject, because it's a real problem with what WordPress is doing and the direction it is trying to take.
For the last couple of years, the development of the Block Editor and the Block Theme experience has seriously stagnated. ThemeForest, a popular WordPress theme marketplace, literally has less than 0.01% of Block Themes published on it.
Because if you want to use a theme based on Blocks, it means that you have to change your entire website's theme and its structure. You basically have to start from zero. It's almost as if there are two versions of WordPress being run at the moment (Classic and Block), and while everyone remains on Classic, the developers keep pushing for Blocks.
Blocks and Block Themes might be easier to work with for a modern developer, but the Editor is far from being "stable" and very few theme developers/designers are even interested in publishing themes for it. After this long of a period (WordPress 5.0 with Gutenberg merged into it was launched in early December 2018), WordPress is still failing to capture the attention of its users.
The Gutenberg Editor experience is alright, I guess. It still has its quirks and performance problems, but for designing individual blog posts it's not terrible. It's the whole "everything needs to be blocks, but only if you start from scratch" approach that is damaging the community.