Lets you spare your clients from Gutenberg

  • elaborate

    (@azinfiro)


    9 months ago

    I was hoping someone else had thought about forwarding classic menus into the Navigation Gutenberg block, and sure enough, there’s a plugin for that.

    I have a pretty fragile Gutenberg/block editor-based site that both my client and I would prefer I’m the only one who touches. At the same time, my client needs to add/remove menu items without involving me, and the classic menu editor is the perfect solution for that. With this plugin, everyone’s happy.

    The plugin’s ergonimics are little awkward. I think a better design would’ve been to add an option near the existing “import classic menu” option in the Navigation block, but as long as it works, I’m satisfied.

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  • Plugin Author WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas

    (@webmandesign)

    9 months ago

    Hi @azinfiro,

    Thank you for your review and for your feedback 🙂

    Indeed, the interface is not as user friendly as originally intended. This is due to limitations of current WordPress block interface – it is simply not as flexible as the classic WordPress interface was. As far as I’m currently aware.

    The only workaround to make the menu assignment more user friendly would currently be to create a custom navigation block, which is actually exactly what I wanted to avoid in this plugin.

    This plugin was purely created to make classic menus available for native WordPress Navigation block. So the user does not depend on any plugin for their website, as this solution falls back gracefully and does not break the website once the plugin is deactivated.

    Hopefully, I can make the menu assignment more user friendly in the near future.

    Best regards,

    Oliver

    Thread Starter elaborate

    (@azinfiro)

    9 months ago

    Thank you for the response.

    I’m not surprised to hear the placement decision came down to a Gutenberg limitation. I didn’t realize the menus continue to work after you deactivate the plugin, though. It sounds like you’re importing the classic menus into the Navigation blocks when tbe menus are updated? Anyway, that’s a neat feature. I’ll definitely keep it in mind.

    Thanks for making your plugin available. It’s made my life easier 🤙

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