Matthew Zalewski

Just installed the plugin – overall, happy with the direction of the UI. I know clients/users get confused with the classic WP post editing interface, so the distraction-free editor is a step in the right direction (no reason metaboxes can’t be hidden on a separate tab).

One thing that I didn’t like – to insert a new block, I have to click the “+” at the bottom and then re-order the blocks. It’d be great if I could press enter to create a new line, then insert from there (similar to how Medium works).

I’m not a fan of the way it stores data/blocks, but I guess as long as there’s a standard parsing library then it’s still a huge step up from shortcodes.

In any case, I’d definitely suggest getting feedback from developers in the WP community about the serialization of these blocks. I get that the idea is to keep post_content as the single source of truth + render anywhere, but it’s a bit like a square peg in a round hole IMO.

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