bonbontom

The strange thing is, the quicktags and add media button in the code editor were there in early versions of Gutenberg. Then they got removed in February, because according to the developers only very few people use them.

They back this up by linking to a survey in which 52% of those who use the text editor say they use the buttons. So that’s 52% of the 35% who always use the text editor, which then makes 18% of all people in the survey. I suppose the developers do not belong to this 18%. Link and discussion can be found in issue #569 on the Gutenberg Github page.

I find this mind boggling. They intentionally remove functionality from the code editor, just to force people to use the visual editor of Gutenberg and all the clunkiness that comes with it. According to one of the developers in another (#9593) of about a dozen issues discussing this:

My understanding is we won’t be providing that functionality in the code/text editor of Gutenberg. There are blocks for those controls though.

For my part they add blocks with purple flying dinosaurs, but why not just leave some basic functionality for people who enjoy using the code editor? That way both sides will be happy.

My apologies if this sounds more like a rant or discussion than a review of Gutenberg. I know this might not be the place for that. Tickets on Github addressing this get closed though, so it’s a frustrating experience.