WordPress is one of the fascinating content management system CMS platforms, which is proudly powering 32% of the web, as per their official website.This simply means there is a huge community affiliated with the platform busy in coding, designing, publishing, and doing business on WordPress.
Since its inception, it has a classic editor for creating and formatting content for a blog or website. Itis liked by a great majority of its community, whereas, the platform has recently introduced an innovative editor that is termed as Gutenberg after the inventor of the printing press.
In this post, we will briefly highlight its differences in comparison to the classic editor so that you find which one is better.
What is Gutenberg Editor?
Gutenberg editor is an innovative solution that aims to revitalize the writing and publishing experience of the WordPress community. It is an impressive solution for writers or webmasters to step ahead in their content publishing game by trying different blocks.
One of the astonishing features of Gutenberg editor includes the creation of content in blocks. This removes the need for coding for going with a different page design or layout.
The bloggers and online store marketers often pursue distinct but a uniform structure of the layout to make sure a post or product description is captivating and easy to read. They can tweak the eCommerce website design for putting various functions and options that ease the users in browsing the website. However, when it comes to writing web pages or posts, they need additional tools to enrich the content for better readability and presentation. Gutenberg aims to address this with the latest version of WordPress.
What Makes the Gutenberg Different?
The WordPress classic editor has seen little to no modification since its inception, whereas the changing internet scenario and consumer behavior demands an innovative layout for publishing content for the web and screens.
The Gutenberg is a way forward in making the content presentable, user-friendly, and mobile responsive. The features that make it stand out from the conventional editor are discussed below.
Content Unification with Gutenberg
Gutenberg introduces the utilization of blocks for content. This helps the publishers and webmasters to create, format, and wonderfully assemble the content of a web page or post.
According to the team that developed the Gutenberg editor, the blocks are equal in size and shape so it will not be difficult for anyone to work with it. Once you get to know how a block works, you will master the art of using the rest of the blocks as well.
It is that easy. Contrary to the classic editor, this makes the content creation and publishing like a charm.
Easy to Create Media Rich Posts
It is a step ahead of the HTML and visual view of the classical editor. You add rich media in a Gutenberg editor with a few clicks and no longer need to understand complex coding languages like HTML or CSS. For example, the conventional editor still requires an additional code if you want to add a border to the images you upload.
Using already customized blocks
The businesses or blogs often want to keep a consistent layout, design, and format for the content. With the help of blocks, they can save a lot of their time, as they are required to customize the blocks for once and reuse them every time they have to create a web page or blog post.
On the other hand, if you are using the classical editor in WordPress, you will have to start with the customization from scratch for every post.
Reduced Use of Plug-ins
Gutenberg editor is equipped with most of the features that a writer or publisher may need for creating interactive and engaging content. With the help of seven core categories in blocks, you can figure out various formatting and layout settings of the content.
It is also easy to utilize the widgets, layout elements, embed, or making the block reusable. In the classic editor, you may need to install additional plug-ins or extensions for easing content creation and publication.
Some of the minor changes that I have observed in Gutenberg include:
- Added Tables and Buttons
- Modified forms of visual and HTML editor
- Easy to link blocks with HTML Anchors
- Be default ‘Table of Content’
- Simple options to embed and align content
Conclusion
Most of the community members, who have been using WordPress since long, are accustomed to its classic editor. They still decide to stay with the existing editor rather than moving to Gutenberg. On the other hand, the reformers and change makers have given Gutenberg a try and are quite satisfied with the innovation it bears.
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