Gutenberg will change the way we use WordPress
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:03 am
You may have noticed that in the WordPress admin panel there is an invitation to use Gutemberg, the platform's new visual editor. We evaluated the new tool to help you decide whether or not to use it. But do you know what a visual editor is ?
What's wrong with the classic WordPress editor?
A visual editor is an essential tool for publishing articles, as it does not require advanced knowledge of HTML to format text and add features to the digital environment. WordPress has a classic editor that many are already familiar with.default editor
(WordPress Classic Editor)
When WordPress was created, it sought to bring the same norway number dataset of editing documents in newspapers and magazines to the WEB, taking advantage of many of the UX concepts from desktop applications. However, the Internet has evolved, and new platforms and ways of generating and managing content have emerged, so the editor has naturally become obsolete. Among the many problems that the classic editor has, the most obvious ones can be listed :
1. Lack of integration with the themes
When you edit an article, you don’t really know how it will look on the front-end until you preview or publish it. This is a serious UX problem because it leaves the user out of the formatting of the text, requiring them to go back and forth to the admin panel to edit and test the content.
Furthermore, in order to deliver the various features that themes bring - in order to make your website more attractive - it was necessary to use certain "tricks". The use of the well-known shortcodes that added another layer of complexity, which literally inserted a code into the content of your article, further distancing the user from the rendering of that content.
Some themes have evolved to the point of creating their own editors, the famous builders that incorporate certain features and some type of visualization of the content structure while editing the article.visual editor
(Visual Composer Plugin)
However, the use of builders brings other problems, such as making the website slower and reducing SEO performance because they are not very error-tolerant, as a simple syntax error can break the rendering of an entire page.
What's wrong with the classic WordPress editor?
A visual editor is an essential tool for publishing articles, as it does not require advanced knowledge of HTML to format text and add features to the digital environment. WordPress has a classic editor that many are already familiar with.default editor
(WordPress Classic Editor)
When WordPress was created, it sought to bring the same norway number dataset of editing documents in newspapers and magazines to the WEB, taking advantage of many of the UX concepts from desktop applications. However, the Internet has evolved, and new platforms and ways of generating and managing content have emerged, so the editor has naturally become obsolete. Among the many problems that the classic editor has, the most obvious ones can be listed :
1. Lack of integration with the themes
When you edit an article, you don’t really know how it will look on the front-end until you preview or publish it. This is a serious UX problem because it leaves the user out of the formatting of the text, requiring them to go back and forth to the admin panel to edit and test the content.
Furthermore, in order to deliver the various features that themes bring - in order to make your website more attractive - it was necessary to use certain "tricks". The use of the well-known shortcodes that added another layer of complexity, which literally inserted a code into the content of your article, further distancing the user from the rendering of that content.
Some themes have evolved to the point of creating their own editors, the famous builders that incorporate certain features and some type of visualization of the content structure while editing the article.visual editor
(Visual Composer Plugin)
However, the use of builders brings other problems, such as making the website slower and reducing SEO performance because they are not very error-tolerant, as a simple syntax error can break the rendering of an entire page.