If this goes to core, I’ll switch back to Joomla

WordPress was and is technically inferior compared to Joomla with
– spaghetti codes
– no multilingual option out of the box
– nor access levels and control
– nor proper menu management (for those with portals to manage 50+ menu items)
– no template, plugin, and language overrides (always creating a child theme is really something that shouldn’t exist in the first place)
– nor user groups and a lot of other noes…

The reason WP is still better in many scenarios is thanks to the amazing 3rd party plugin developers like Yoast, Woocommerce, and myriads of others and the fast and easy “ajaxified” interface.

To put something in a core that at least 10 theme/template “frameworks” doing way better AND still OPTIONAL is absurd.

The funniest that some of the people think it’s the future. The future would be to improve the core functionalities (because there’s a lot to improve) and leave to the user to choose the editor.

In Joomla world, for example, EasyBlog is doing the block editing interface for years (and it’s executed way better compared to Guttenberg) but – for example – for a news portal it apparently slows down the editors work (yes we tested it). Unfortunately, it slows down the work in many other areas and time and effectiveness nowadays is almost everything.

As an option? Sure.

At the core? Why would I choose this when there are better ones out there if a blogger needs it?

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8 months later:

We tested 8 months later at several of our clients. Same results.

Our clients range from complete newbies to seasoned blog and news portal publishers from 20 to 76 years old women and men (although most of them are not English speakers).

I wonder how the Gutenberg team executes UX tests comparing the current and the Gutenberg editor?
It’s hard to imagine having so fundamentally different results for our teams.

What are your key comparison points when comparing the two editors?

• This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by josephsimony. Reason: Another look after 8 months