[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50691: Possible Gutenberg Improvements

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#50691: Possible Gutenberg Improvements
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 Reporter:  snippet24    |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 Do note I’m not the most expert WordPress user but I love it, and I wish
 the best for it, hence I decided to put into words how Gutenberg could
 improve, based on my experience with drag and drop builders.

 1. Usual problem with Visual builders is performance, but if Gutenberg
 works maybe as Mailchimp builder in this regard, which is the best
 performing of all the DDB I used with 100 of 100 score in Pagespeed, would
 have overcomed the main reason to avoid Drag and drop builders.

 2. Another important aspect to improve as well: is to have perhaps a
 "Bootstrap for WordPress" like builder in the like of
 https://www.layoutit.com/build which has a grid system used by drag and
 drop and the components. Currently Gutenberg doesn't have rows, columns
 aren’t as visible as in Layoutit, and It would be great it could do drag
 and drop of a column to another row or layout as is posible in Layoutit,
 which is pretty neat.

 3. What Layoutit doesn’t have though and would be very useful is a support
 for different behaviors on different screen sizes, which could be tweaked
 intuitively by non devs. But by all means don’t go the Wix Builder route
 for responsive, which is a basically a trimmed down mobile version based
 on the desktop version, you can only use the same content for mobile based
 on the desktop and only changing their order, hide blocks, can’t change
 styles for a given element only in mobile, and it gets messy and worst for
 tablets, quoting an email:
 “Wix sites are compatible for viewing on iPads and tablets. On Android
 tablets, visitors see the mobile-friendly version of your site. On iPads,
 visitors see the desktop version of your site.”

 4. Maybe Instead of blocks for everything, use blocks per type of content
 perhaps. One block for WYSIWYG Editor maybe for “text”, which is more or
 less the approach used for Mailchimp builder.

 5. Also it would be very useful to always allow to switch to code for each
 block (which seems to be already so please don’t take it away!) and
 ability to export to code/import code directly for the whole page or a
 part of it.

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