pavelgrachev

We constantly read enthusiastic opinions about Gutenberg by developers who use ready themes and base their “opinions” on that experience, which is absolutely unreliable. Theme selling companies employ TEAMS of people specialized in various issues so they can keep their products up to date, Gutenberg included. No wonder it works!

I’ve been using WordPress for web development for 5 years and never used a pre-made theme. I was always able to style it and make it look consistent, both on front and in the editor. With Gutenberg it’s gone. I can no longer do it on my own. The theming section in the handbook is laughable and other materials available online are based on that. Every theme I look up styles blocks in a different way – it seems there is no standard. Because the editor is not sitting in an iframe (totally unjustified JS fanboy one page app fetish) I have to provide a separate stylesheet for the editor with inconsistent wrappers for Gutenberg (I used to use a ‘common.css’ file that had selected elements working both on front and in the editor. Now it’s impossible)

So again, sorry clicker-developers – your opinion is invalid. If you had to code a theme from the beginning and get 1:1 experience on front and in the editor, you’d probably cry.

Let alone the fact that Joe Customer will practically bury GB anyway, sooner or later. He doesn’t care about absence of iframes, one page apps, what the future is and what “is to stay”.

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