Not a nightmare anymore but almost

Although Gutenberg improved and It surely doesn’t deserve a star the experience is still bad.

First problem Is the editor loading. It has a lot of layout shift untill everything loads but since it happens at the editor level – as it should be – not as a page reloads in the browser you don’t really know when it finished. You try to edit a paragraph and layout shift happens and the cursor moves to something else wich you notice editing but you knew you we’re in a different block.

Second is the spotlight mode. Although it improves things a bit is mostly cosmetic. The mouse cursor isn’t locked to the focused block as in other editors – that rely on whole different architectures, but still… – and you try to select the text in a paragraph, as I did, and it jumps to select all the surrounding blocks and the parent block alltogether. And you click backspace and, gone. And you revert the change and try again squinting more. And the time you would think you would need to do something doubles.

Some options are burried in the editor in unknown places. Someone completelly unfamilliar with Gutenberg, wouldn’t find the option to add custom CSSin the first hour of interacting with the editor, at least. Although WP team tries to convince us it’s not needed anymore, it is!

• This topic was modified 3 weeks ago by ckubs.