Gutenberg (nothing but problems with it)

And another thing it’s doing is breaking the <p></p> paragraph tag every time I perform an edit and bunching all the text into continually string with no spacing between paragraphs.   appears to work, although I’ve found myself having to reset and entire page using that code as well each time I try and edit anything. Doing this also seems to damage the Yoast SEO too.

I honestly haven’t seen a single redeeming feature in Gutenburg yet

It doesn’t work either. If I try and change a background colour it simply rejects the code in the HTML editor. I did make some sort of progress using the visual editor and succeeded in creating a background block colour which is automatically inserted at the foot of the page rather than as an edit. This in itself generates some convoluted HTML which obviously drives its display which only becomes apparent when you switch editor. It automatically centres text rather than aligning left though (despite inserting an instruction to align left). It also wipes out the paragraph tag. It also changes the font size and font style, and simply removes the instruction to use Verdana.

All I need I think is a useable string of code to change a background colour by way of block (the very thing that Gutenberg is supposed to good at!) and some indication as to where to put the text, a colour and style that I also have to change each paragraph as it over-writing what already exists with some style that it’s pulling through, rather than carrying the existing HTML preferences it into the edit.

At least if I had that I could indulge in some massive copy and paste exercise which given that we’re talking about 200 pages, and probably 20 paragraphs means I’m going to have perform about 4000 separate edits. It’ll probably take a month, but I can’t even get past the very basics.