Title: Terrible Block Editor integration!
Last modified: July 9, 2026

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# Terrible Block Editor integration!

 *  [Alexandre Buffet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexandrebuffet/)
 * (@alexandrebuffet)
 * [2 days, 11 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-block-editor-integration/)
 * It had been years since I last used this plugin, so I decided to give it another
   try. I was genuinely hoping things had improved, but I came away quite **disappointed**.
 * As a WordPress developer, I found the latest version **unnecessarily complex**
   and **frustrating** to work with. Simply activating it produced numerous PHP 
   warnings in my development environment, which immediately raised concerns about
   code quality and attention to WordPress best practices.
 * The **biggest disappointment**, however, is the _Block Editor_ integration. Astonishingly,
   it’s **not even enabled by default**, you first have to find and enable an option
   to use it. In 2026, that’s hard to understand!
 * Unfortunately, enabling it doesn’t improve the experience much. **It doesn’t 
   feel like a native WordPress experience at all.** Event metadata is tightly coupled
   to the plugin’s blocks, so if you remove those blocks from a Single Event template,
   you also lose the ability to properly edit the event’s metadata. Rather than 
   integrating with the Block Editor, **the plugin forces you into its own awful
   editing model**.
 * The blocks themselves don’t behave like native, composable WordPress blocks. 
   Their UI feels **inconsistent** with the rest of the editor, **the icons are 
   oversized** and visually out of place, and the overall **editing experience feels
   clunky** rather than seamless.
 * Overall, this plugin feels more like a large **legacy framework layered on top
   of WordPress** than a plugin that embraces Gutenberg conventions and philosophy.
   It offers many features, but at the cost of simplicity, consistency, and developer
   experience.
 * **I can’t recommend this plugin** in its current state. I hope the team behind
   it takes this feedback seriously and rethinks its approach to WordPress integration.

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