{"id":2368,"date":"2024-05-28T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:39:33","slug":"modern-wordpress-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/modern-wordpress-yikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern WordPress\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbushell.com\/2024\/05\/07\/modern-wordpress-themes-yikes\/\">David Bushell has some choice words<\/a> about modern WordPress development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I loathe what WordPress development has become. If you haven\u2019t kept up with&nbsp;Gutenberg&nbsp;and full-site editing (FSE) you may be surprised at how radically different modern WordPress themes are \u2014 and not in a good way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m torn on all this. I actually think the block editor is great.  (I don&#8217;t think we call it Gutenberg anymore? That&#8217;s just the bleeding edge plugin?) There are serious rough edges, but it&#8217;s big improvement on building content. But FSE somehow feels a step too far to me. Where I think the way blocks are stored as content as HTML comments is clever, actually <em>writing<\/em> them to set up a theme seems gross. How it pushes how your theme <em>actually<\/em> works into the database, is even grosser. That&#8217;s not version controlled and requires an exotic syncing process and such. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d say &#8220;you don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to do it that way&#8221; (I don&#8217;t), except that&#8217;s what some people did with the block editor by using the &#8220;classic editor&#8221; plugin, and if you&#8217;re still doing that you&#8217;re really swimming upstream these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bushell has some choice words about modern WordPress development. I loathe what WordPress development has become. If you haven\u2019t kept up with&nbsp;Gutenberg&nbsp;and full-site editing (FSE) you may be surprised at how radically different modern WordPress themes are \u2014 and not in a good way. I&#8217;m torn on all this. I actually think the block [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-wordpress"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/339651cfd7abc2d12.31440219-2048x1536-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}