Hey,
This isn’t actually to do with this plugin. Themes define if they are going to support fullwidth options in Gutenberg. You can see with a core image block that the fullwidth option wouldn’t be there either if you’re not seeing it in the row.
See here: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/handbook/designers-developers/developers/themes/theme-support/#wide-alignment
You just need a theme that adds Gutenberg fullwidth support. Or add the support yourself through the child theme.
Does that make sense?
Ben
yes, thank you much!
If I may broach a different subject – is it conceivably possible to change the Gutenberg behavior of hiding all controls? I am so very thankful that your plugin corrects the pain point of Gutenberg’s absurdly narrow workspace, but I still dislike the process of hovering my mouse all over the place to hopefully find the control I want to activate. I would very much prefer well placed (color-coded?), always-visible controls over having the editor look closer to the front-end.
Hey,
By Controls do you mean blocks? Like each block has an outline that you can see and select?
Ben
yes. To my thinking, every editing option should be always visible: add block, move block/row up/down … including your own new options that have padding adjustments and such. Even if it might make sense to hide some details, there should be a visual cue regarding where you will find options. The hidden controls thing will just never be accepted by too many of my clients. I’m getting used to it through perseverance, and still find myself hovering the mouse over different sections way too often. Gutenberg is unfortunately just not approachable.
Well its more a topic for Gutenberg itself (things like add block, move block and block outlines).
But I could look at adding some extension to change the way things work as an experiment.
Ben
oh definitely, this issue properly belongs to WordPress, but they don’t seem to be listening to criticism – I am relying on your work already to make using Gutenberg just barely tolerable 🙂 It’d be great if you could augment it further.
If you read the negative reviews developers and end users give to Gutenberg, it’s a horror-show. People don’t even know what they hate so much. It reminds me for all the world of the rollout of Windows 8. It was essentially the same thing there. The system was basically sound, and powerful, and if learned, had a lot to offer. But it hid a lot of its functionality. And it was just aesthetically so different it freaked everyone out. MS had to do a major turnaround with Win10 and find a much more familiar OS style. If a multi-billion dollar corp like MS couldn’t weather such blow back, I don’t know why WordPress org thinks they can make such a similarly drastic change to the way people work in one of their most crucial pieces of software. It’s not like there aren’t alternatives! People will be moving over to Wix or Squarespace in droves soon.
Simply making editing functions non-hidden would go a long way, I think, to mitigating the confusion and frustration of learning such a new and challenging way of working.
Thanks for this follow-up!
Were you using a page builder before that you liked the interface for? Would love to hear your thoughts on what you liked.
Ben
I guess a decent example would be WP Bakery’s Page Builder. Here is what the editor looks:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnjSeriOvNFDlpAtW_rsYCzIBJn8_Q
For this page of a site I designed and manage:
https://morphictx.com/our-technology/
It does still hide some controls, for instance to edit a paragraph block, but it’s a lot more approachable in how it makes plain how blocks are broken up, with essential editing options easily seen for each row/block at a glance.
Making Gutenberg behave in any way closer to that would be an improvement, IMO.
