Comments on: How Existing Content Will Be Affected by Gutenberg WordPress Editor

By: Sebastopolys

Sebastopolys — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:33:45 +0000

Very good post, Thanks, I enjoy the reading

Personally, I am still thinking that all this is about fighting page builders and WP competition like WIXX and so more..

I’ve done a deep test to Gutenberg and I don’t like it. but as you’ve said: “The Gutenberg WordPress editor is a big change. And, most people fear change. ”
I guess we all have to get used to it , and it may be a good change —
hoping this big shift will result a better experience for all

Great post.
thanks

By: Susanne

Susanne — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:42:01 +0000

I work with a business website partially built with Visual composer (but a modified version of it) and some pages are hard coded with HTML/Bootstrap. It’s also dependent on shortcodes for other plugins (The ‘include pages’ plugin is the most important one) How will this sort of setup be affected? Does anybody know? Shortcodes will still be there? (I read elsewhere that they won’t) What about HTML written in the editor?

By: Mahen

Mahen — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:55:05 +0000

Thank you for the nice write up. I was planning to move my site to a different platform.
But after reading this article, I may wait and see..

By: Carlos Araya

Carlos Araya — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:57:46 +0000

In reply to Lucas. In early phases of Gutenberg, there will be a plugin to disable it altogether. From what I understand at some point in the post 5.0 future there will be no way to disable it...

By: John Hawkins

John Hawkins — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:06:18 +0000

In reply to Victor Marsala. I totally agree. I think people are starting to warm to it now that there's something tangible to put their hands on rather than just hearing the idea that there's a big change coming. And I'm sure there are still plenty of rough edges to deal with. We're still months away from a release, so there's time.

By: Victor Marsala

Victor Marsala — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 05:40:23 +0000

I like the general idea, and am open to new things. The mood doesn’t seem as reactionary as it did even six months ago (“WordPress will have a major fork!” and such).

But four times now I’ve tried to install the plugin on an empty site and it didn’t crash anything but couldn’t load, no matter where I was setting it up. I just hope they can get things stapled together in time before it gets pushed out to everyone. Or at least make its potentially breaking changes optional.

By: John Hawkins

John Hawkins — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:07:29 +0000

In reply to WPPoland. I've already started looking at how they play together, and I'll be doing another post soon that talks about my early findings. I'm sure the VisualComposer team will be working on making sure things work smoothly together.

By: WPPoland

WPPoland — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 10:21:16 +0000

I’m still wondering how it will work with Visual Composer on any other drag and drop tool. I hope to see the back-compatibility. Otherwise, WordPress developers will have a lot of work to do when WP 5.0 will be released.

By: John Hawkins

John Hawkins — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:10:30 +0000

In reply to Adam.

Any sort of big change is going to require some time investment, and Gutenberg is definitely that. I don’t think that a site has to be centered around a blog to feel the benefits of Gutenberg. There is still plenty to be worked out with it and it’s still months away from being released. If you’re running into issues with it, the best thing you can do is document and report your findings here: https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/call-for-testing/gutenberg-testing/

By: John Hawkins

John Hawkins — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:05:32 +0000

In reply to Daniel Schutzsmith. I'd love to hear more about your microsites once you're ready to show it off. Please come back and share the link.