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I spend way too much time in the insanity that is Gutenberg and I absolutely hate it. They are basically build a weird word processor where everything is const
by stefanfisk 2y ago
I spend way too much time in the insanity that is Gutenberg and I absolutely hate it.
They are basically build a weird word processor where everything is constantly broken and in flux.
If you want to do something as basic as update the DOM structure of a block you have to manually update every page that uses it since they serialize it rendered. It’s technically possible to render your blocks in PHP but then you still have to implement it in React as well for it to work fully in the editor.
- brnt 2y agoCan you still write/use old style themes? It's been more than a decade for me, and although there where some WP-isms you had to know about ('the loop'), it was otherwise pretty straightforward using php as the templating language and (obviously) rendering html and styling through css. Standard stuff, that would let you dive in quickly. I'm sad to see that has changed.
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- stellar_shell 2y agoYes you can. I've been working with WP inhouse for a long time and I had no idea it had gotten as bad as in the OP article. I stay away from the gutenberg stuff and continue on with the "oldschool" stuff.
- thisislife2 2y agoCheckout https://textpattern.com/ https://textpattern.com/ - its development started around the same time as WordPress, and still continues. Even though it didn't reach Wordpress' success, I've always felt that TextPattern is better coded than WordPress.
- jlahijani 2y agoThrowing my recommendation for ProcessWire CMS. I switched to it 10 years ago and made a YouTube series around that time that compares it to WordPress. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrdUWNK38ibz8U_5Vq4zSPZfvFKzUuiT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOrdUWNK38ibz8U_5Vq4z...
- mikae1 2y agoThanks for the reminder! I loved Textpattern. Should check it out again.