Hello there,
WordPress webdesigner here, designed over 200 websites on WordPress using various pagebuilders.
For quite some time i’ve been using Elementor as it is for me the far superior pagebuilder plugin when it comes to doing exactly what you want and not be too limited.
When Gutenberg came out, like a lot of people I was really disapointed, it looked and felt like something that came out 10 years before Elementor.
I think that the Gutenberg editor is a huge fail, and I must not be the only one because the most downloaded plugin on WordPress is the Classic Editor that disables Gutenberg.
Apart from venting, I wanted to know if there are webdesigners here using Gutenberg on their projects and what is for them the pros/cons ?
I’m wondering if WP is going to keep going in that direction and eventually get to something usable, or they’re just going to keep updating a dead project, maybe i’m not aware and it’s way better now than it used to be ?
Cheers 🙂
M
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Gutenberg is never meant to be visual page builder like Elementro.. IT is content editing tool that does job awesome. You can code your own blocks to do whatever you want with them..
For developers but actuall ones that write code, custom themes or plugins Gutenberg is an awesome tool, if you are webdesigner just stay on Elementor
As someone who started making sites long ago on the good old notepad, I’ve been using Gutenberg for a while now. I don’t see what’s the problem with it (then again, I never used elementor) and apparently wordpress will keep going deeper on this path.
I’ve been learning how to create Gutenberg Blocks for the past 2 weeks and so far it’s been amazing.
I’ve been using WordPress for years and the Gutenberg Project is what I always wanted.
I mostly have affiliate websites, and I recently created a custom block that’s making my life 100 times easier.
As someone else said here in the comments, the gutenberg project was something made for WordPress users who know how to code. I don’t think it’s meant to compete with Elementor, which I dislike.
There are many businesses creating custom blocks because they understand their value, take a look at Spectra by Astra, and Kadence Blocks by Kadence.
Gutenberg is a block editor. As TTuserr stated, it’s not a page builder as per Elementor, WP Bakery, Divi, etc.
The power of Gutenberg lay within it’s native integration into WordPress and it’s extensibility where you can build custom blocks, either natively with JS or using ACF, which has shifted it’s integration to match with native blocks.
From blocks, you can create “patterns.” Patterns allow you to build pre-defined layouts comprised of blocks.
With all of that we now have FSE, which allows you to build your own block theme templates.
May I ask, are you a developer? Or more aptly, do you know WordPress Architecture, the Core, how to dive in and build templates or blocks?
I can see how Elementor is your go-to. I like it for some solutions, ones where I need to get something out fast. It can be performant with some overall optimizations. However, it’s still a page builder with a ton of technical overhead.
Gutenberg and FSE are the future of WordPress. You will always be able to build a templated site, integrate some blocks into loop, etc. I do see page builders leaning out in the future. But Gutenberg blocks are destined to be portable. One day, you could build a block in WordPress and be able to extend it to Drupal, Tumblr, etc. At least, that is Matt Mullenweg’s vision of it.
The other thing I should point out regarding ACF blocks, we now have InnerBlocks which allow us to templatize Core or other custom blocks into a custom block!
For example, say I have a pretty difficult layout to build and I want to have total control over the HTML, CSS framework integration, etc. vs trying to tweak core block only layouts to my design. I can do that easily.
Say the design has lots of layered and positioned elements or, pretty major shifts between viewports, etc. Instead of having to create only ACF groups and “fields,” for each content element; I can say I want to have a core/heading block and a core/paragraph block with a core/image block pre-populate and be ready for content creation once it’s dropped.
I can say, “I want these options available but not these other ones” that would allow the end-user to blow up my layout.
It’s powerful and integrates custom with core. And you don’t have to deal with poorly optimized output from page builders.