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Why Gutenberg is killing Wordpress

Adam Mateusz Brożyński on January 27, 2022

most formatting is based on style attribute which destroys website presentation style consistency there is no easy way to customize editor toolbar...
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alfiks

True, Gutenberg has its flaws, but still it is better than Theme builders. With right setup Gutenberg can be a really useful for designing simple websites.

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Adam Mateusz Brożyński

It is impossible to achieve what is critical: a proper HTML code without hardcoded styles and possibility to define custom elements with multiple classes. This makes it completely unusable for anyone who cares about coding standards. Gutenberg is like page builder from 90' – if it won't be redesigned it will die like those builders, because it's not generating simple pages, but just simple-looking pages with messed up code.

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Ravavyr

It's not gonna die. The WP community apparently loves it.
Personally, i stick with Advanced Custom Fields and create my own custom components. It's more restrictive on the user, but still has a Wysiwyg component they can use if i add it to a block for them.
Restricting your clients from screwing up a nice design is the hardest thing to do.

As far as accessibility and "coding standards", that's up to you since ACF means you can build a custom theme any way you want to.

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Jeff Foster

Dude you are clueless. ACF is not a builder per se, and has nothing to do with this article. ACF is for building custom fields, and now in 2013 they have been bought and sold again, but now ACF finally supports building custom post types. Gutenberg is and will continue to be overshadowed by the current page builder market which continues to advance at a much more rapid pace and has a far larger community of programmers , website developers and content writers behind them. Gutenberg is written in very poor and bulky code. And it generates even worse code. It will have to change drastically or it will fade away eventually, and if you look at the history of the WP dev team, they will only take it so far then forget about it.

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Jeff Foster

Could not agree more. but its clear your readers dont understand the importance of correct semantic html or styling things with CSS and the difference between Id and level elements etc. Gutenberg is pure garbage.