Hey @link-design, how are you feeling about Gutenberg these days? Any other feedback I can communicate back to the editor team?
I might chime in here. It’s the worst user experience I’ve had with WordPress.
Since WordPress uses this editor I’m looking for a good alternative for WP.
I’m a developer and working with WordPress for about 10 years now.
Since Gutenberg is a thing it’s just a struggle to get anything to look the ways you want.
Everything the editor does (not the author) is not communicated well in the design. There are a few very bad visual queues like a plus button appearing when you hover over a section that is visually not distinguishable from the background.
The “blocks” are just the biggest mistake WP has ever done.
It’s complicated to simply write an article. Suddenly another block gets added when you want a line break. You need to constantly grab the mouse and click through messy menus of blocks, subblocks, deviders and whatnot.
It’s not content-focused, but editor-focused now.
Using WordPress now is not writing an article anymore, but operate Gutenberg.
Sorry for not having concrete examples, but it simply feels a hassle now.
I’m currently trying to add two images next to each other within text.
Without adding width-attributes, without percentages, without gallery, simply as they are. Now one is on the left and one on the right side. I don’t know why, I didn’t tell Gutenberg to do any floating or so.
Gutenberg may work well for a few themes by WordPress themselves. But definitely not a general use CMS that WordPress was evolving into.
Maybe it’s fun for blogs that use one of the full-blown themes but I definitely would never recommend WordPress for a custom design anymore.
Then I rather write static pages again
