In reply to Matt Mullenweg.

Matt,

You said something about phase 2 that is not clear - you said that widgets will be replaced by blocks. Are you referring to the built in widgets or all widgets will disappear?

P.S. For anyone who has any doubts about Gutenberg, and prefers shortcodes, because they are very easy to create, head on the wordpress.org, and find and download the "Lazy Blocks - Gutenberg Blocks Constructor Plugin". Thanks to this plugin, I went from absolutely hating Gutenberg, to (and I'm ashamed of being a traitor !!!), to absolutely loving Gutenberg, and seeing it's potential.

There are a few things that I don't get with Gutnberg, and I fixed 2 out of the 3 biggest issues that I have. The editor's 635px width (why???), adding space between the columns in the columns block, and making the blocks responsive (it's 2018 - right?), but something that I can't figure out is how to select multiple HORIZONTALLY laid blocks (using the columns block), so I can transform them in to a reusable block. Selecting multiple blocks that are vertically one under the other is not an issue, but horizontally laid blocks is a mission impossible.

Thanks,
Nick.