Type simply / to see your personalised list of the blocks you commonly use.Type / gallery to create a gallery, / quote to add a quote or \i to select a block that begins with the letter i.Type in / image then press Return and the paragraph block will become an image block.Type a forward slash and a letter to change the block type.The new block will be a paragraph block by default.Press the Enter key to start a new block.Gutenberg authorship is less stop-start because of these shortcuts. Gutenberg has keystroke shortcuts that promote a fluid transition between different block types. The motion back and forth between mouse and keyboard made authorship clunky and slow. The need to reach for the mouse to configure a block. The need to reach for the mouse to add a video block. The need to reach for the mouse to add an heading block. The need to reach for the mouse to add an image block. Initially I felt Gutenberg got in the way of a fluid writing process. Hated it in the beginning but I like it now. Gutenberg has matured into a smooth and flowing page editor over the last few months. That is the question WordPress developers have been wrestling with for many months.
Is there a real need to use a page builder like Gutenberg for every page, inclusive of regular posts? They are handy tools to use to build home pages, landing pages, contact pages and about pages, and to use to create complex precise content layouts. But the biggest issue of all was that nobody saw the sense of replacing TinyMCE - that’s the name of the current word processor style editor used by WordPress - with a page-builder-by-default content editor.ĭevelopers, marketers and authors love page builders. Themes needed to be tweaked to make them Gutenberg ready. Many plugins alive in the WordPress world were (and still are) incompatible with Gutenberg. Authors were unfamiliar with the stop-start nature of using blocks to build content in regular posts. That hatred is no surpriseĮarly Gutenberg was awkward to use. If your regular WordPress developer has looked sad, depressed, lost and defeated the last 18 months, now you know why. All early reviews of Gutenberg and all discussions around Gutenberg show clearly how hated that cumbersome early Gutenberg experience was. Those were the cries of WordPress developers and Gutenberg testers around the world last year and for much of 2018.ĭevelopers and authors hated Gutenberg when it was first released for testing last year. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Why break it!! ? Modern development practices are, a’hem, built around the use of page builders within a minimalist theme framework.īut Gutenberg! Why? Oh dear, no, not a page builder by default. Page builders are a familiar sight in WordPress sites.
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