Forcing Gutenberg on users? Bad idea.

  • Yuxuri

    (@yuxuri)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    A visual editor could’ve been a good thing if the intention was to ship it alongside the classic editor.
    But gutenberg is invasive, and the talk of removing key features that made WordPress powerful is shameful.

    Key aspects of WordPress success are backwards compatibility and the fact that it’s extremely simple so a solution to most content problem can be built upon it easily.

    Instead gutenberg forces a specific workflow on the users, a specific way of treating content, and it basically destroys a good deal of good plugins and features.

    I have 10 websites made in wp right now, and none of them will benefit from gutenberg. In fact if this get integrated into the core, it will be a source of problems, despite the fact that I always followed good development practices and not never did any non-standard thing, nor I ever used a plugin that pollutes content with non-stardard things.

    Well, I know this is not a situation where users are listened, so I’ll just voice my discontent and wait. If I’m wrong, I’ll get a new powerful editor. If I’m right, I can say “I told you so”. Feels good not having to decide the destiny of the most used tool for creating websites.

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  • Plugin Author Tammie Lister

    (@karmatosed)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Firstly, thanks for leaving a review. One important part to say is that Gutenberg isn’t shipped yet, how it will appear and what fallbacks happen is what will be worked through in merge proposal.

    I wanted to ensure you that users are listened to by the core team, we all care about the experience for all users of all types. That said, Gutenberg is being still worked on which is important to note when considering fallbacks.

    As far as plugins go, a lot of those will over time be upgrade and adjusted to work with Gutenberg. In the meantime things like fallbacks should kick in, if they aren’t please let us know. It’s by knowing things like this where the experience breaks, we improve and catch the issues.

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