Why does this have to be so NOT intuitive! I want to edit an old post and add an image in the middle of the post – can’t do it with Gutenberg. I had to go to the Library and grab the image url and then add the image with code. It’s going to take me HOURS to do anything in this. Not to mention that it is jumpy. Like as I move my mouse around on the screen, it is all jumpy and twitchy. Now my eye is twitchy.

My entire workflow is going to have to change. I write, then I add all the images. Now I have to write one paragraph at a time and add the image between each paragraph? This sounds like it is MORE clunky that before.

I’m sure some things are better but I have not found those traits yet.

Here’s what sucks:
– screen twitches when you move the mouse
– no way to add a photo in the middle of a paragraph (stop making basic stuff hard!)
– if you mouse the cursor too far to the left by accident and click, it takes you to the top of the post. Then you gotta scrollllllll all the way back
– it’s hella narrow … I have a wide screen so I can write a lot and see it all at once. Gutenberg only takes up 1/4 of my screen width so I feel like I can see nothing.
– It adds in span and other crap code when I am in the visual editor then I have to go back into the code editor and remove that stuff so I can put H2 etc. Why?!
– you can’t highlight in visual and then see that highlighted in the code editor – so now I have to cherrypick through 2000 word articles to find links that need to be marked no follow?! ARGHHH!!

Why would you do this?

In the WordPress visual editor, when you highlight some text and click the hyperlink icon (to turn it into a hyperlink), a list of all your pages and stuff used to appear so you could just click on it and that would become the destination URL.

Now, I have to go and get the page url manually, which isn’t ideal as you have to Update the page you are working on, go to Pages/All Pages, then copy the URL you want and go back to the page you were working on.

Surely an easy fix. Tx.

Installed, tried and deactivated. Do not go forward with this. Horrible to use.

I like the “newish” editor. I do *not* like Gutenberg. I tried to. It was an interesting attempt to look like a few WP themes that use “blocks” for placement of sections like titles, images, videos, and text.

But. When I tried to insert a video or a featured image, the video url kept reverting to text and the featured image wouldn’t take.

Please, WordPress, don’t “fix” what isn’t broken. I understand this need to stay on the cutting edge of blogging, but this Gutenberg idea isn’t for bloggers and website owners. It’s for people on the back end who like messing about while creating themes. Please Start Over.

If the focus of this development is moving to page layout or design, why not just make this a forward thinking no-backward compatibility ‘fork’ of WordPress and call it ‘DESIGN’Press 1.0?

WordPress to me isn’t in any competition with other solutions out there. I became comfortable with building websites thanks to WordPress about ten years ago, otherwise I’d be in a totally different line of business. And I’m not even a full-fledged developer, yet so comfortable.
I gladly and effortlessly dropped other options I used to try out and am not even following up on other solutions… that might change if this becomes a core thingy.
I assure that I will always have it disabled anyways.

I’ve worked in media houses which I championed their migration to WordPress. I now freelance and use nothing but WordPress. My clients are getting the hang of it pretty well.
But with this???

With the size and dominance of WordPress today, it wouldn’t be hard to offer a fork called something like DESIGN-Press targeted specifically to a section of her already existing audience whose focus is on page design.

I wonder if there’s any other plugin with as many passionately negative reviews. I see there are people who hardly make reviews coming out just to express their grievances with this.
Those giving positive reviews can gladly be served with your DESIGNPress or whatever it might’ve been called. IF.
And in that case, I’d even make some sites specifically with DESIGNPress. THEN it would be fun.

This won’t be a nice change for me. Sigh!

I liked the concept, but the editor needs lots of improvements. Adding a link to a text adds the link to all the text in all of the blocks. Selecting text sometimes select all the blocks. There are other problems which should be fixed.