Top Reasons to Encourage People to Try Gutenberg

[mrfoxtalbot]

I am preparing a short WordCamp talk with the topic "Reasons why you should try Gutenberg in 2023" and I would like to see what things stand out for you. If this is not the right place to bring up this type of conversation, I apologize in advance :)

Here are the reasons I was planning to list:

1. It is part of core. It is literally the future of WordPress. Third party builders can be discontinued or have some of their features be made premium overnight.
2. Blocks are used both to create content and to build sites.
3. Phases 3 & 4 ahead will be built on the work that is being done now. The sooner one gets involved with it, the more advantage one can take of this knowledge.
4. Performance: The code output is clean & lightweight.
5. Data integrity: Content is stored as HTML and HTML comments.
6. Compatibility: There are hundreds of third party blocks that can be combined. And they can be searched and installed on the fly!
7. Extendability: Aside from third party blocks, there are plugins that extend & modify the editor's base functionalities.
8. Community-Driven: Development is done collaboratively and in an open/transparent way.

That is very rough list... can you think of something important I might be missing?

Thank you!

[bph]

Hi @mrfoxtalbot, thank you for kicking off the discussion.
A point that was made recently by 3rd party plugin developers, is:

• The standardized component library makes interfaces used in the Block or Site editor also available to non-block editor plugin developers. There is an army of contributors, maintaining part of the plugins code, too.

[mrfoxtalbot]

Ah, that's a great point too, thank you @bph!

[juanmaguitar]

I think this is a good topic for a post in the Developer Blog.
What do you think @mrfoxtalbot @bph ?

[mrfoxtalbot]

I always write my talks as posts before moving the to slides, so I could certainly try this.

The only drawback is that the talk will be short, so I do not anticipate going into s lot of details. Would a short-ish post still be useful?

Also, how "opinionated" can these posts be? Is it ok to express personal opinions?

Thank you @juanmaguitar !

[altafhpatel]

According to me the Writing any kind of layout in gutenberg is the best thing i have ever seen like custom html