Spent a wee bit of time today with gutenberg the upcoming WordPress editor. Interesting, although I am probably not the target audience. We will need to do a lot of testing for #glowblogs.
@kulturnation at first look I think some, site makers and medium writers, will like Gutenberg better than ‘bloggers’. My main interest, blogging in schools, might not be well served unless ther is a simplified editor option. Not designed for microblogging either.
@johnjohnston @kulturnation Having worked with a number of page builder plugins and knowing how awkward they can be it’ll be nice to have a standard, native option but I agree there needs to be option to switch to simple input when you don’t need the fancy stuff.
@johnjohnston I’ve seen mention of a plugin to turn Gutenberg off for posts/pages so hopefully that will come through or actually be in core. I’m worried a couple of my plugins won’t work because of the issues with meta boxes.
@colinwalker @kulturnation I am hoping that for the Glow Blogs project I am involved in (huge multi-site) we will have to option to have it off by default (and toggle on) if the break with the old editor is too sharp.
@colinwalker @johnjohnston I remember when Squarespace went to version 6 (IIRC) and introduced the content block feature.
I went front advocate to meh overnight.
Guess it's good for sites, but not so much for blogs.
