mdrockwell
mdrockwell

If anyone has any comments on the WordPress block editor, good or bad, I’m all ears.

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gdp
gdp

@mdrockwell It's fine, helpful even, if you don't want to mess with HTML. I have it turned off because it adds a lot of HTML comments that slow down the pageload. This guy hates the block editor (but he also has a very longrunning and well-documented beef with WordPress and Automattic).

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@mdrockwell the transition from the classic editor was a bit uneasy… eventually it grew on me and now I'm all in. Easier to use on the web than in the Wordpress.app, though.

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mdrockwell
mdrockwell

@numericcitizen I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on the mobile app editor.

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@mdrockwell let me test beta release 17.0 before, will ya?

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@mdrockwell works well. Besides what “block-based” may sound, doesn’t break thre editing flow in any way. The quote block should support the Tab to switch to the author field and to the quote text alternatively to offer a better keyboard-only experience. Oh, in the block type selector, the window should support elastic bouncing. My three cents.

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mdrockwell
mdrockwell

@numericcitizen I think 17.0 is in the public TestFlight, isn't it?

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@mdrockwell yep!

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@wearsmanyhats writing in the block editor is nearly as fluid as writing in a free format editor. Very close.

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Cheri
Cheri

@mdrockwell I disliked the UI enough that I migrated my site to Hugo.

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mdrockwell
mdrockwell

@Cheri anything specific about the UI that you disliked? Anything that could be changed?

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kjz
kjz

@mdrockwell I set up websites for colleagues at work and generally use Wordpress.com. They find the block editor difficult; they’re not interested in the appearance of pages, just the content. It’s easier for them to type into a box rather than figure out the block editor UI.

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mdrockwell
mdrockwell

@leonp I'm going to try not to defend it, I'm just trying to gather as many opinions/thoughts as I can. In the block editor, you should be able to just click into the body section and start typing. Is there anything about that workflow that gets in their way or is there something I'm missing?

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kjz
kjz

@mdrockwell clicking into a form field and typing content is a lot simpler than navigating round blocks, right clicking to get options etc. For people needing to create pages from components I get the block editor, but my users don’t need that.

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kjz
kjz

@mdrockwell I posted www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/cms... about this (I’ve been thinking about CMS editing recently anyway). To be clear, I actually quite like the block editor myself, not least because of the huge number of options it offers.

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mdrockwell
mdrockwell

@leonp cool! I'll give it a read when I have a chance!

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kjz
kjz

@mdrockwell Don’t feel you have to :-) I had it as a subject on my to-post list before you asked for some feedback on the block editor.

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