Looking for advice from WordPress devs experienced with classic/hybrid themes and block themes.
I’m building out a new site for my company and want to use the Gutenberg block editor for landing pages, blog posts, etc. to make it really easy to build and style pages. I like FSE’s pattern system, as I think this would be very helpful for creating landing pages (and its nice to have this functionality built in WP core), but I don’t have enough experience working with a full-fledged block theme to know if its the right move long-term.
I’ve looked at building a hybrid theme, using Gutenburg only for the physical page content (not for the navigation, footer, etc.), but realize this is still a classic theme by definition and is not within Automattic’s vision for the “future” of WordPress. Are there any disadvantages to this route and would I still be able to use block patterns with a hybrid theme? Are post types handled as they would be in a classic theme (e.g. I would enter unstyled content in Gutenberg and let the CMS handle the styling when the content is published to the front end?)
This site will have **a lot** of content published to it, so of course scalability and performance are very important.
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From time to time, I look into their new Gutenberg block editor to learn about their progress. I hope that others correct me if I am way off here but to me, it looks as if they are a year or two away from gaining a wider uptake. I find it too tedious to recreate a similar layout as I often use with the Blocksy theme.
FSE is ready for prime time. Anyone speaking to it otherwise, hasn’t learned FSE.