justmicros

Be cautious with absolutes like “Everybody”. I committed to giving Gutenberg a chance starting on Jan, 1 2020 and it has become my favorite web development tool of all time.

It works superbly in most areas and not so well in a few. I use the features that work well and ignore the ones that have problems. On occasion I go back and check the problem areas to see if they’ve been fixed yet. Little by little they’re all getting fixed.

Gutenberg is one of the “Best” things to happen to WordPress… for this creator anyways.

You can add these to your global Custom CSS so the font size is automatic for all paragraphs.

The first is for your paragraphs and then second two do widget area paragraphs and list items to keep your page fonts consistent:

p {
font-size: 16px;
}

.widget-area p {
font-size: 16px;
}

ul li {
font-size: 16px;
}

I would suggest 19.2px for all of these though, great size for phones and laptops.

Similar story for me, it was a bit clumsy for me at the start but now I’m completely hooked on Gutenberg. It’s fast, stable and so easy to maneuver around in.

I like Gutenberg a lot. Not only is it simple to use it’s a lot faster than trying to use the native content editor in the flatsome theme I use for sites. The flatsome authors followed the release of Gutenberg and prepared the theme for the first Gutenberg release, so it works seamlessly in the theme. I still use the them for all page building but use Gutenberg to write content and enjoy it.

Yes, I had a learning curve where at times I said “What the $%^$# is going on with this stupid thing?” or “Dang, how the heck to I insert a _____ it the fricken post?”.

I went to youtube and searched for “gutenberg tutorial” and watched a few of them and then was able to say “Oh, that’s what’s going on.” and “Oh, that’s how I insert that.” and have never looked back. Gutenberg is the future of WordPress and I’m happy about that the way it’s been working so far.

Yes, I’ve been burned a couple of times by whole sections of a post vanishing while I’m editing it for unknown reasons. So until the bugs are worked out I now keep notepad opened on my desktop and when I’ve finished a section of a post and the preview looks good, I switch to [Document > Code View] and copy and paste the HTML into notepad for safe keeping… “just in case”. This has save me rework a couple of times, but not very often.