I decided to give Gutenberg a try after reading pieces where folks were having their underwear catapult across the room because the editor was that good. <\/p>\n
I put Gutenberg on my sandbox and immediately, I did not like what I saw. All I do is simple blogging with embedded images in the piece. Gutenberg throws all of this away in favor of “blocks” because what the hell do I know about what I want to do? The result was just awful. Apparently, every paragraph I write is supposed to be a segregated block and images segregated as well. Oh, but there’s an “image and text” block, but it looked awful as well.<\/p>\n
After nearly shattering every bone in my hands in rage after pounding the desk in rage, I decided to pull up an old post in the sandbox. I was able to find that Gutenberg treats the old blog posts as a “classic” block. WP claims it is the same as the current WP editor, but it isn’t. It isn’t as good. <\/p>\n
It makes the text size appear very large, but since I’m embedding images, it makes it worse for me when I attempt to do this. So if I’m inserting left-justified images into my posts, I now am forced to keep a preview window open just to make sure my images are find compared to the normal paragraph.<\/p>\n
The HTML editor is hidden. WP seriously does not want you tweaking HTML on your own ’cause “reasons.” Yes, once you know where it is hidden at, you can bring it up. However, I miss the simple tab approach that let me quickly switch from WYSIWYG to the raw text editor for HTML. <\/p>\n
It took me multiple attempts before Gutenberg would allow me to upload multiple images at once. I think the stupid interface was trying to do some image block instead of what I wanted to do ’cause again, WP knows better what to do than I. <\/p>\n
When it came to inserting images into the classic block, 90% of the time, Gutenberg wouldn’t insert the image where I wanted it. It didn’t matter if it was an embedded image to a paragraph, or an image between paragraphs. Whenever I would attempt to insert the image where I wanted, Gutenberg would instead throw the image to the top of the block ’cause “reasons.” That induced more rage.<\/p>\n
Adding new elements to WP is fine. However, Gutenberg makes my blogging life MUCH more difficult with its non-intuitive interface and the developers clear attempts to be hip at the cost of decent functionality. I will be putting off converting my sites to this travesty of an editor until it is rammed down my throat. Then I’ll have to decide what to do next, including stopping blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-10817699","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/10817699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/10817699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10817703,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/10817699\/revisions\/10817703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}