I know I’m not the target market for Gutenberg. Automattic is likely trying to appeal to the Squarespace crowd. Which is honestly a good business move. I applaud them for that, especially since it will increase the longevity of our favorite platform, WordPress.
Though, I’m still frustrated at Gutenberg, so I’ll rant below.
I seriously hate the gutenberg editor. I’m working as a contractor for a web agency, and they are insisting on using the Astra theme with the Gutenberg block editor. I’ve invested in the Oxygen Builder with Oxymade and Recoda Workspace. I know there’s quick, clean, workflows available.
Using Gutenberg is like having to build a professional website with Duplo Brick blocks for toddlers. I can’t edit the div’s directly. I have to go to edit the CSS file outside of the editor. I can’t make the website look or work the way it needs to. It’s so limiting.
Who decided Gutenberg was a good idea? u/spez? Honestly, I’d believe it.
I want to ban it. Ban it in its entirety.
Does anybody use the Gutenberg editor for professional web development… and enjoy it?
God, ClickFunnels and Go High Level’s website builder is nicer than this! There’s so many different pages I’m having to jump hoops through, Astra Theme Options, Appearance, Customizer, Pages Themselves.
Who. Decided. Gutenberg. Was. Good?!
🙄 This is a job. Maybe it’s not meant to be enjoyed.
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I almost wrote this exact post today, except with much more rage. The impetuous was that WooCommerce has announced they’re adopting the block editor on the back-end as the new product editing screen, and I am super pissed about it.
Having a block-based *front*-end interface for non-coders would be totally fine. I completely understand the basis for making something like that. But forcing a totally different, not 1-to-1 block editor on the back-end that does not match what the actual page will look like and is, just, very poorly designed, is a fucking nightmare. I can’t for the life of me figure out why Automattic decided to just go all-in on this terrible UI and experience, effectively alienating a huge base of their users.
I’ve been developing WordPress themes and plugins for 15 years, and I feel like I can barely use the platform “properly” at this point.