Not For Writers Or Creatives
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I have had WordPress sites since they began and used to love them. Being able to write and publish on WordPress was joyous. Gutenberg is not designed for writers – it is literally impossible to be creative with it and just let your words flow. Now I have to either stick with my cumbersome array of workarounds and plugins to avoid Gutenberg or get rid of them and cut/paste my words in. It’s occurring to me that it’s time to leave WordPress, which is sad as I was a huge fan and this is my business. Please don’t ask me for the specific thing that’s wrong with it which your developers can fix – It’s the composing/editing window itself. I have never met a single writer or creative who can work with it. For instance: you cannot see the whole text at once as you write – this is vital. On Gutenberg, you can only see the current paragraph that you’re writing – it makes it impossible to think/create/focus. Did whomever designed this want to remove words? Is WordPress evolving into something more like Tumblr? Anyway, I’m off to research alternatives and somehow allocate time to move decades of content away from WordPress and Gutenberg.
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Hi @mysticmedusa! Thank you for taking the time to write a review.
For instance: you cannot see the whole text at once as you write – this is vital. On Gutenberg, you can only see the current paragraph that you’re writing – it makes it impossible to think/create/focus.
It looks like you might have the
Spotlight modeturned on. You can disable it in the ‘meatball menu’ in the top right corner of the editor. The following screenshot shows where to find the option.
In addition to this, you can always insert a Classic block, and continue writing your content in that one block, which behaves just like the old editor.
Please feel free to open a support request if you have any other specific issues.
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