Amazing Plugin for Modern Web Design!
Gutenberg is an excellent plugin for modern web designing. It introduces some wonderful features and keeps getting better with continuous updates. I really appreciate how it evolves with every release, adding more powerful and creative tools for WordPress users.
I get it now – Best building and editing experience for WordPress
When I originally reviewed this editor I gave it 1 star. Months later I changed my review to 3 stars, then later 4. And now, I’m updating this review to 5 stars. I think this is a fair review considering all of the work put into this and the fact that the editor has significantly improved over the years. Overall, once you learn where everything is, it’s powerful. If someone asks me: Elementor/Other or WP Block Editor (Gutenberg)? I’m going with the block editor every time. It’s much simpler and cleaner, yet still powerful.Also, creating block themes is easy and fun (check out the block editor theme creating plugin)! As it continues to improve, WordPress will continue to grow. Simple as that.
Billy Wilcosky
October 13, 2025
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Not a nightmare anymore but almost
Although Gutenberg improved and It surely doesn’t deserve a star the experience is still bad. First problem Is the editor loading. It has a lot of layout shift untill everything loads but since it happens at the editor level – as it should be – not as a page reloads in the browser you don’t really know when it finished. You try to edit a paragraph and layout shift happens and the cursor moves to something else wich you notice editing but you knew you we’re in a different block.Second is the spotlight mode. Although it improves things a bit is mostly cosmetic. The mouse cursor isn’t locked to the focused block as in other editors – that rely on whole different architectures, but still… – and you try to select the text in a paragraph, as I did, and it jumps to select all the surrounding blocks and the parent block alltogether. And you click backspace and, gone. And you revert the change and try again squinting more. And the time you would think you would need to do something doubles.Some options are burried in the editor in unknown places. Someone completelly unfamilliar with Gutenberg, wouldn’t find the option to add custom CSSin the first hour of interacting with the editor, at least. Although WP team tries to convince us it’s not needed anymore, it is!
Overall terrible plugin
overall this plugin is nothing but terrible design.
This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress
Hi there, I has been a while since the update but it seems that this plugin has not been tested with the latest version of WordPress (v6.9). This notification keep appearing on the plugin’s detail page: Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress. Is it safe or not to update this plugin?
Not a nightmare anymore but almost
Although Gutenberg improved and It surely doesn’t deserve a star the experience is still bad. First problem Is the editor loading. It has a lot of layout shift untill everything loads but since it happens at the editor level – as it should be – not as a page reloads in the browser you don’t really know when it finished. You try to edit a paragraph and layout shift happens and the cursor moves to something else wich you notice editing but you knew you we’re in a different block.Second is the spotlight mode. Although it improves things a bit is mostly cosmetic. The mouse cursor isn’t locked to the focused block as in other editors – that rely on whole different architectures, but still… – and you try to select the text in a paragraph, as I did, and it jumps to select all the surrounding blocks and the parent block alltogether. And you click backspace and, gone. And you revert the change and try again squinting more. And the time you would think you would need to do something doubles.Some options are burried in the editor in unknown places. Someone completelly unfamilliar with Gutenberg, wouldn’t find the option to add custom CSSin the first hour of interacting with the editor, at least. Although WP team tries to convince us it’s not needed anymore, it is!
This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress
Hi there, I has been a while since the update but it seems that this plugin has not been tested with the latest version of WordPress (v6.9). This notification keep appearing on the plugin’s detail page: Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress. Is it safe or not to update this plugin?
I didn’t like it at first, but it turned out pretty good in the end
it’s improving, and clearly deserves more stars.
We love it
At our agency we love Gutenberg and our clients love using it too.
Overall terrible plugin
overall this plugin is nothing but terrible design.
drawbacks of a page builder without their benefits
who want its beloved WordPress site posts to last as long as possible without recreating all ? Be as close as possible to HTML … avoid Gutenberg – not only is the principle arguable on the long run (see above) – but its ergonomics is miserable (as if trying not to copy page builders that works … “success”, not a copy = it has their inconvenient, without their benefits)After years, it would be wise for WP to recognize and step back (know the dead-horse analogy ?). Their are other areas for innovation in WP.
why is this sooo unfriendly?
UX/UI is terrible — no options to customize modules… How can it be this bad?Please rethink your entire approach and make it simple and logical. Oh dear…
