What is Gutenberg?
Gutenberg is the new WordPress post and page editor, due to the rolled into WordPress 5.0 in April 2018. Unlike previously known editors Gutenberg uses the idea of blocks, blocks you configure independently of the page theme. Obviously very powerful, though we wonder if adding design tools to what is a content creator is excessive for the average writer.
Unfortunately Gutenberg (at least the blocks element code) seems to clash, or overwrite, custom forms and custom page design, extremely important features allowing powerful design features and extensions such as Woocommerce. Having a new project in the pipeline that relies on these features, it worries us. Testing continues, so we shall see.
Gutenberg is currently available as a plugin for testing but expected to be soon part of core functionality – probably without an OFF switch! Lets see what people think of the plugin.
Reviews:
I like it..it is indeed a way forward
5/5 December 12, 2017
I really like the plugin it is intuitive and really fast. i am no coder & developer but only know to blog. I think it is way forward. Everything is included all post editing options are in blocks. I own divi lifetime subscription but hardly used them as when used frequently website speed suffers and on shared hosting it was nightmare. Now i regret my decision to purchase. I have many times asked for improvement on Many things but they always in a way ignored. I think these pagebuilder companies have become arrogant in a way and has taken over wordpress culture of freedom for bloggers(i don’t care for developers if their sole aim is to only earn money but not to help.) i have some suggestions though 1.please include several widgets like you have included latest posts where we can query posts basis on categories or tags so that it will decrease dependency for related posts plugins and also include default subscription widget. inbuilt other options like click to tweet. please in-built these small post editing options so that our dependency on infinite plugins should decrease. 2. release some gutenberg based themes at earliset, invite good theme developers. 3. Want to know how it would affect my website speed if i have most of my pages and posts built with it. How will you deal with it.
I dont think so
2/5 December 11, 2017
We rely heavily on page templates and custom fields. We work with a lot of small business who have lower budgets and thus use other page builders to make it work for their needs, without that page builder option or a custom fields option (we use ACF) then there becomes a point where we need to source out another solution. I know its still early, but I would like to know how you will handle other page builders, custom fields, ability to edit the url, page templates and so on. For our clients that use blogging this is promising, but for core pages and pages with custom post types it won’t work, or I cant see this working. …
Testing not go so good!
1/5 December 12, 2017
I will change ratings if testing gets better. Why not make this a plugin? WP has so many great coders, designers that work off of WP. Why scare them away? Now saying that the editor looks ok, I still have to test that more. Gutenburg did work on my local environment. I wanted to test it “as is” in a similar environment that I use. Lets just say nothing played well together!
Genesis
Dynamik
BB
UABB
Free theme/child upgrading to new popular one for more testing…
Why not just make this a plugin rather than drive so many nuts 🙂 I understand this is a wheel in motion but wouldn’t a plugin be much easier for the 1000’s that use WP…Everything seemed to work fine when using classical Editor as an off switch. Going to test this more because I have a feeling I will need that off switch 🙂
It is good
4/5 December 11, 2017
I think it is a good move, but there is also few problems with current version. Main is, you can’t choose size of images in gallery, so page is loading full-size images – which is not great. But rest of it is really good. It is great for many sites, cause it simplicity. Of course it would be nice to have ACF any many others, working fully great with Gutenberg, but I think, there will be plugins – that will add new blocs and other functionality.
Still a lot of unanswered questions
2/5 December 11, 2017
At this stage of development (1.8.1), I cannot see how this is a warranted change to the WordPress core. The sheer volume of comments/issues on Github clearly demonstrates that this is not just a cosmetic change with a few added WYSIWYG features; it could mean rebuilding entire WP sites due to framework and tech stack changes. As a developer who relies heavily on ACF and who builds custom themes from the ground up, I am concerned about metaboxes being treated as legacy, therefore I’ll be following the discussion carefully. From a UX/Accessibility point of view, it is disappointing to see the block options hidden under a plus icon, instead of utilising the available space (given there is not an extensive number of blocks) and creating a visually beautiful toolbar akin to successful word processing apps.
Dread
1/5 December 9, 2017
Please do not force this into core. It seems like a huge betrayal to the many developers around the world who have created the rich ecosystem of plugin functionality that has helped make WordPress the successful CMS that it is today. I can also imagine a lot of freaked out website owners when this shows up unexpectedly. This really seems like a big mistake for WordPress. At least please consider making this an opt-in option. Gutenberg is obviously polarizing the community, and many people simply do not want it.
Original editor?
1/5 December 8, 2017
A couple of questions about the plugin for retaining the original editor you’ve mentioned before… (this assumes that you do get Gutenberg into core on 5.0, or some future edition)… 1. IF I install the plugin to revert to the original editor after the version update of WP with Gutenbereg in core, will I then be forced to re-install that plugin each time WP updates? 2. Will the original editor continue to have development assets allocated to it, or will all development stop as of the WP update with Gutenberg in core?
Interesting – a start
5/5 December 8, 2017
This was interesting to look through, even if I had no intention (or project) to use it on. It will be more interesting to see which direction it heads in. It seems that a lot of the anti-comments seem to relate to premium products such as themes and other plugins. I can’t say I have a huge amount of sympathy for the envato crowd, frankly. The world can’t stay still to ensure commercial theme writers and their middlemen (envato) continue to make money. I don’t like the removal of choice or people being forced to do or use stuff against their will so I hope this stays as a plugin until it has been properly thought through, developed and enhanced. But if this is progress, it’s progress. WordPress don’t need to build their product so that it doesn’t conflict with premium products – it’s down to theme and plugin authors to get over it and adapt.
A little bit awesome!
4/5 December 8, 2017
He grew up quickly this little Gutenberg, soon the end of puberty?
Too many plugin & themes conflicts to use Gutenberg …
1/5 December 7, 2017
I was actually exited to start testing and getting to know Gutenberg … But I had to deactivate it cos there are three theme/plugin conflicts that make using Gutenberg impossible for me at this point: – Divi (Elegant Themes) – can’t access post settings – Caldera Forms – can’t select form – WP Product Review Lite – settings are shown in the block where Divi settings should be These 3 settings are presented in a block floating right in the middle of my post screen, and I can’t close it nor select anything: http://oi63.tinypic.com/qyhco1.jpg