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Been using it now for 1.5 years – Very Poor

  • stuartmorley

    (@stuartmorley)


    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    After wasting so much time with the new editor and coming from WPBakery I have wasted hours trying to do basic things that would have taken seconds in WPBakery.

    Sure it does so fantastic sexy things but at what cost? Re-usuable blocks don’t work properly, it’s so slow editing pages with some pages taking 30 seconds to load or telling you that a block has had an error.

    Lot’s of plugins with extra blocks which are just repeated or don’t do what they should or missing vital parts.

    A page in WPBakery takes a few mins, the same one in Gutenberg takes 10 times longer. Now half my website is with WPBakery and the other half is with Gutenberg.

    There’s now ANOTHER plugin to show you your page layout. Something that is obvious in WPBakery.

    Wished I’d never set eyes on this. The fact that many many months in the users still think it’s rubbish says it all.

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  • pherojoe

    (@pherojoe)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    I feel your pain. This absolute trash has ruined the wordpress experience.

    If anything, they could have just added ways to improve the original edit, so quick and easy to to write long posts without mucking around with blocks and other useless “features”.

    The re-usable blocks are driving me insane too. If you add one, then remove it, it seems to remove them from all of them. Can’t believe simple shit like this is still a problem 1 year + down the road.

    annezazu

    (@annezazu)

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    @stuartmorley @pherojoe thanks for your honest thoughts. In terms of the performance issues, I’d highly recommend auditing your various plugins as it’s likely there’s a conflict there causing the slow down. You can do this by deactivating all of them and enabling one by one to find the culprit. As for the reusable blocks, here’s a WordPress support doc that might help clear up the experience:

    Reusable Blocks

    I wrote this doc so am very open to feedback around how to make it more useful. In particular, it’s important folks convert to blocks in order to make local changes after adding in a reusable block. Otherwise, this does impact everywhere the block is used.

    If you’re open to it, I’d love to hear more about the simple things you’re able to do in WPBakery that feels easy there but very cumbersome with Gutenberg. These sort of use cases are very helpful for the designers and developers working on the project to keep in mind.

    Thread Starter stuartmorley

    (@stuartmorley)

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Thanks for your reply. Plugins are the bain of my life, you need plugins to do basic things and then end up with loads which get updated all the time and then cause compatibility issues. Disabling one by one to find a problem is painful and time consuming.

    As for the WPBakery vs blocks I was editing an old website at the weekend and it uses only WpBakery. The easy of dealing with the layout was superb and very fast. In contrast you need another plugin (Editor Block Outline) in Gutenberg just to see the proper layout. I was going to do a video to show the difference. I find gutenberg pages takes 2-3 longer than WPBakery ones.

    Whenever you want to do something that WPBakery did you need another plugin with extra blocks in it. Then you have to many block and you need another plugin to manager these “Find my blocks” and then you need to manage your reusuable blocks so you need a plugin called “Reusable Blocks Extended”

    annezazu

    (@annezazu)

    4 weeks, 1 day ago

    @stuartmorley Thank you for following up. These specific examples really help me understand what you’re describing.

    The easy of dealing with the layout was superb and very fast.

    This is very much something Gutenberg is working to improve in a Core first way: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/08/13/preliminary-road-to-5-9/ It’s definitely not there yet though and only stable features are being incorporated into Core to make release as easy to maintain and backwards compatible as possible.

    I find gutenberg pages takes 2-3 longer than WPBakery ones.

    If you’re able to test with various plugins disabled or on a test site, that would be extremely helpful. I totally understand that this is cumbersome. On my end, I tried testing this locally with a few test pages but wasn’t able to replicate performance differences.

    Regardless, the feedback I’m hearing is that it still feels as though using the block editor requires too many additional plugins. If you have any current favorite features from page builders like WP Bakery, do let me know. I’ll see if there are any open requests for the same ones and ensure your feedback is shared there.

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