People crack me up.
I remember when I first showed my mom a smartphone. “What the hell do I need THAT for?” You should see her now. Getting her off Facebook is like trying to get a politician to quit lying.
I remember when Twitter came out.
“This is so stupid. Why would anyone care what I’m doing?”
We see where that went.
And yes, yes… I even remember when the internet came out.
(Old jokes will get you BLOCKED! :D)
There were people who said it’d never be a “thing”.
People are so often horribly, awfully, terribly wrong about technology and what they will and won’t use. Like really, really bad.
Enter WordPress Gutenberg.
People HATE this thing.
Just check out some of these “reviews” on the repository:
“The update NOBODY wanted.”
“This is like hell in WordPress.”
“Please let us keep using Classic Editor!”
You’ve got articles speculating that Gutenberg will be the “death” of WordPress.
Gimme a break.
Funny thing is…
Before Gutenberg, if you ASKED people about the classic editor and TinyMCE… they’d have ranted and raved at you for an hour about how awful it was.
Now, it’s this amazing thing we shouldn’t DARE change.
In any case, my challenge for you and all these people is simple. Use Gutenberg for a week to create all your content in WordPress. Then, switch back to the Classic Editor.
I guarantee you you’ll go, “Eh. This sucks.”
It’s not even close.
So, no.
Gutenberg won’t be the death of WordPress.
In fact, I predict that a few years from now, WordPress will be stronger than ever… in part thanks to Gutenberg. And, we’ll look back at this and wonder why we fought it at all.
But hey… I’m sometimes wrong.
So, we’ll see.
In any case, if you’re ready to just dive in and learn this thing and want a no-look pass, I just launched a new course on Gutenberg. And, you can get access to it for the big double zero over on SkillShare.
All deetsies on that are here: https://skl.sh/2AQpjNj
Later,
Johannes “Gutenberg Ain’t S!@#” Morris
