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Stephen Vaughan As I commented on a previous post, a lost oppertunity pushing aside the Olie onboarding experience. Perhaps there is some rational, as many mention, if these exceptonal features are picked up and incorportaed into core quickly, therefore benefiting everybody, but I fear that the monotheistic movement surrounding the core team, enforcing the rigid gospel of blocks for blogs with messianic theme, prevents these bursts of ingenuity from been seen. And this is the problem. I disagree with those that say that Gutenburg isn’t intuitive. The core concept od the block editor is very good, a big improvement over the classic editor in many ways. I’d counter the argument that WordPress never was intuitive and probably never will be. You can’t keep boiling something down to pure simplicity when inherintly webdesign and development is complex. The problem with the block editor and FSE is that it misses a few tricks. From inception the block editor should have allowed for some extensibilty on the each of the main default blocks. This would alllowed third parties to get on board, without having to reinvent the wheel with every new concievable block that one might need. This way all the page builders could have conformed to this new approach, composing modules with the base default blocks, adding their own interfaces, bells and whistles. Turn off any of these third party solutions or change to another, and at least the sites content and layout would remain to some degree intact. This would have been the correct carrot and stick approach. Your builder not up to scratch, conforming with the new block concept? You snooze, you loose! Wedded to the abov, a proper 3 to 5 breakpoint responsive layout system, not one that is tacked on in a non consitant manner by different 3rd party solutions. On FSE, its nearly there, just needs a bit work on things like navigating from templates to frontend and vice versa. Lastly is the assumption that we must use the block eidtor. Give me my page builder any day, Different strokes for differtn folks.
Stephen Vaughan
As I commented on a previous post, a lost oppertunity pushing aside the Olie onboarding experience. Perhaps there is some rational, as many mention, if these exceptonal features are picked up and incorportaed into core quickly, therefore benefiting everybody, but I fear that the monotheistic movement surrounding the core team, enforcing the rigid gospel of blocks for blogs with messianic theme, prevents these bursts of ingenuity from been seen.
And this is the problem. I disagree with those that say that Gutenburg isn’t intuitive. The core concept od the block editor is very good, a big improvement over the classic editor in many ways. I’d counter the argument that WordPress never was intuitive and probably never will be. You can’t keep boiling something down to pure simplicity when inherintly webdesign and development is complex.
The problem with the block editor and FSE is that it misses a few tricks.
From inception the block editor should have allowed for some extensibilty on the each of the main default blocks. This would alllowed third parties to get on board, without having to reinvent the wheel with every new concievable block that one might need. This way all the page builders could have conformed to this new approach, composing modules with the base default blocks, adding their own interfaces, bells and whistles. Turn off any of these third party solutions or change to another, and at least the sites content and layout would remain to some degree intact. This would have been the correct carrot and stick approach. Your builder not up to scratch, conforming with the new block concept? You snooze, you loose!
Wedded to the abov, a proper 3 to 5 breakpoint responsive layout system, not one that is tacked on in a non consitant manner by different 3rd party solutions.
On FSE, its nearly there, just needs a bit work on things like navigating from templates to frontend and vice versa.
Lastly is the assumption that we must use the block eidtor. Give me my page builder any day, Different strokes for differtn folks.
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