Thank you

  • Daniel Fuchs

    (@dfuchs72)


    1 day, 8 hours ago

    I’m very grateful for this plugin. I feel that all those full-site-editing and page-builder concepts are built on the flawed assumption that a maximum of choices is what people need. But the more options you have, the more complicated it gets, and with full-site editing and a lot of people playing around with it on a website, every page and post will look different – or you need a LOT of self-discipline. And if you have the technical understanding and patience to master those systems to good effect, you may as well learn PHP and CSS to program your own shortcodes which will do exactly what you want.

    I for one tried the block editor and found it much more fun to write my own classic theme with a sophisticated design but a minimum of options for the non-technical people who write posts for our website, so it’s all of one piece.

    And no, old Gutenberg is not to blame. He started his own media revolution, that’s true, and Neil Postman wrote critically about him, but he didn’t invent the block editor. Thank him for that. His full name, by the way, was Johannes Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg, which translates as “John Goose-Meat of the Good Mountain”.

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  • Plugin Author Fernando Tellado

    (@fernandot)

    1 day, 6 hours ago

    Hi @dfuchs72 🙂

    I love your argument, and I would agree with every point except for one thing you didn’t mention—which I also believe to be true—and that is that, given the reality that most users HAD ALREADY DECIDED they wanted page builders, Gutenberg seized the opportunity to offer a native “design” and “layout” experience that was lightweight and stripped down to the essentials.

    But someone chose to complicate things and offer features that no one had asked for, and above all, they decided to reinvent the wheel. To mess things up even more, they extended it beyond its natural place—pages—to where a layout tool should never have gone: the post editor. And that’s what I’ve criticized the most: forgetting about content creators and thinking only of visual designers.

    That said, let’s see how this plays out, because it’s been MANY years since WordPress 5.0, and blocks still haven’t gained significant adoption; people still prefer Elementor or Divi to design, and no one creates simple pages with blocks anymore—they can create them without limits using HTML+CSS+JS with the help of AI—so the future is uncertain.

    Thanks for your review and for sharing your thoughts 😉

    Fernando

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