FSE is an unholy mess. Every time I try and do something with it I end up confused, and that’s me a WordPress developer for 17 years now! It’s also still buggy as hell, I must encounter an issue almost 50% of the time. It can’t be trusted.

I build sites that are as easy and un-scary for users to maintain content on as possible but I just can’t release FSE on many of them as it would just put them off ever updating the site.

My current solution is to use ACF for everything, switch back to the classic editor and do ever more deeper integration with Divi, which comes with its own downside of then having 2 entirely separate editing experiences on the same site which also isn’t a good look. Just feels like I’m making compromises to work around FSE & gutenberg.

It is all a bit of a mess right now and we need to find a way through it, and fast.