Gutenberg

Who the h... puts a confirmation notice on a save button that looks exactly like the button you just pressed? there is no indication whatsoever that there is an notice telling you to check your changes before saving, so now you have to press publish twice to get your page or post published, guess who lost a full nigth of work because of that? seriously thanks Guttemberg thanks.

Loving it so far but it still needs some work. Hope that it better with time.

The negative reviews on here are enough to make one's head spin. Before giving into the temptation to add another one to the pile, please consider the following: First of all, this is a plugin to test the development version of the block editor, not the official space to vent your feelings about the direction of the development of WordPress. Secondly, consider how unfair it is that when a group of people invest countless amounts of time, effort, and intelligence in making a whole slew of new capabilities freely available to the world at large, while leaving existing capabilities available, that others find it needful to go out of their way to complain about it. Thirdly, there's an element of human phycology that should be factored into your feelings about Gutenberg... people, in general, are more motivated by the prospect of loss than the prospect of gain. There seems to be a frenzied fear in the Wordpress community that we're "loosing" the classic experience and being "forced" into a new one. So much so that people are now forking WordPress because of it, and egging each other on to throw mud "on the way out". This assumption of "loss" is not only untrue because of the official "Classic Editor" experience is still available, but because WordPress continues to be committed to being an extensible platform that will have almost any kind of editing experience available in the plugin ecosystem indefinitely, even long after any official support for the "Classic Editor" plugin may possibly be removed. Finally, and regardless, anything that wants to remain relevant over the long term needs to be willing to make constant disruptive changes. Smart brands like Apple, Google, and Microsoft realize this, and we generally applaud them for it. The leadership of WordPress obviously understands this as well. Wordpress would certainly become irrelevant in the fast-paced world of the Internet without this leadership. Let's not use their generosity to make conversations like this possible as an opportunity to undermine their foresight. If you want to contribute in meaningful ways to the conversations surrounding outstanding issues in the state of Gutenberg development, please start or join a ticket on Github. If you want to use the classic editor or some other Wordpress builder, please do...indefinitely. If you left a negative review here simply because you hate the fact that WordPress incorporated an official block-based editor, please consider removing or revising it. If you want to leave a meaningful review on this particular development plugin, feel free. Here's mine: I really enjoy testing out the future development features of the Wordpress block builder with this plugin. Thanks so much to everyone who is working so hard on this. toodle-oo

Please Automattic team go back to the classic editor by default. Most Gutenberg reviews are 1 star. It is unusable for the vast majority of users.

As a professional WordPress developer for the past 5 years I can say after trying out the Divi plugin, WP Bakery, Elementor this is by far the best site builder ever released for WordPress. On a technical side, Gutenberg is superior when it comes to speed. The fact that you can easily create new blocks with React is such a game-changer and makes the developer's job a lot easier and more enjoyable to create and expand Gutenbergs functionality. All the one-star reviews seem to be people are way too attached and are afraid of change. You will always have those. And since WordPress is a huge platform there a plenty of them. Don't let those reviews distract you from the fact that Gutenberg is still evolving and its already way better than any premium plugin out there. From a technical and aesthetic standpoint.

Everything feels clunky and restrictive. You can't just drag in an image and sit it inline with your text (which has been a text editor standard since 2004). Instead you need to fiddle around with the 4 different image blocks, none of which do what you want. The drag and dropping feature almost never works. Basically if you ever want to do anything other than writing a basic text document, with no columns or formatted images, this might be fine. But the classic editor already does that, without having to fiddle around with blocks. What it was advertised as was modeling clay, endlessly versatile and easy to use. Instead we got lego, which is fine if you only need page full of identical bricks.