Last Updated on January 11, 2018 by Neil Murray
I found this article on The cost of the Gutenberg transition for small WordPress businesses and independent developers an interesting read – though I disagree with muchof their analysis.
I found it gave me a good insight into the perspective of someone very concerned by how Gutenberg will affect their individual business.
A few points that stuck with me where:
- This is an unavoidable change to their business which is being imposed on them by others ( and they don't like it )
- They feel the cost of change imposed by Gutenberg is real but the cost of not changing WordPress is not – ( at least not yet )
I'm sure they're wrong about the cost. The long term the cost to their business is likely to be much greater.
What you you think? Please add your Comments to this post.
Donna Cavalier: This is exactly what I believe as well. And it’s not just the many, many small businesses and one-person companies in the WP ecoystem that will suffer, but also the huge number of WP users who no longer have a developer looking after their sites. They wake up one morning to discover everything is different, possibly broken.
Combine the two…all the freelancers and small businesses who make possibly meager livings off of WP, combined with all the WP users who maintain their own sites, but aren’t involved in the day-to-day WP world, who will be surprised when 5.0 hits….that’s a lot of people who may be instantly hurt by such a change. Some will persevere. Some will bounce back.
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Frits Mulder @Donna Really? I have to meet the first (non-techie, non-WP, non-website-expert) able to handle the simple WP-editor as we have now. Without breaking the layout or the website load speed or whatever.
It may be news to you but most people outside the web sphere don’t even know how to style a Word document, let alone a text editor as we have now in WordPress. And let’s not even talk about Gutenberg. They simply have no clue and, when trying, just ruin their website. THAT is the ‘future’ of Gutenberg.