How Will BBE Handle Native Adoption of Features?

  • Resolved Eric Michel

    (@ytfeldrawkcab)


    8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Really enjoying the plugin so far! It adds some critical features to the block editor and does so in such a thoughtful and performant way.

    Having said that, some of the features offered by BBE are under active development (or are being heavily considered) as native features to the block editor. If, for instance, native button hover colors become a supported feature within the block editor, will BBE release a plugin update that performs some kind of setting conversion to migrate BBE button hover settings to native button hover settings? I realize that may be quite difficult depending on the implementation…

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  • Plugin Support Miroslav.V

    (@dasmir)

    8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi,
    Miroslav here. I’m the product designer behind BBE.
    Glad to hear you enjoy the plugin!

    The short answer to your question is: yes, we are going to migrate settings from BBE to core features as soon as they are released. BBE’s architecture was developed with that in mind.

    The longread (if you’re interested):

    We are a digital agency.
    Better Block Editor was born out of our growing frustrations with… let’s say “some popular page builder.” As developers, we became less and less comfortable recommending to our clients something that was slowly turning into bloatware. And required a subscription on top of that!
    I mean, why should people pay just to edit a header, a footer, or an archive page, when those features are already implemented in WordPress core and are free?

    At that point, Gutenberg was already mature enough. But it lacked a few small yet key features that prevented us from switching right away. So BBE is exactly that – a set of missing tools that allows designers and developers to use Gutenberg as a true full site builder.

    The key idea is not to replace core blocks, but to enhance them with surgical precision. And only where/when needed.
    Everything else can be added by other plugins. Which is kind of the whole point of the WordPress ecosystem, if you think about it 🙂

    We’ve been using BBE for over a year on our commercial projects with great success before releasing it as free software. So it’s well tested, including migration mechanisms.
    And given that BBE is an essential tool for our commercial work, it’s very much in our own interest to keep it aligned with and up to date with WordPress core.

    Thread Starter Eric Michel

    (@ytfeldrawkcab)

    8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks for your response! That’s outstanding!

    I also work for an agency and we have been all-in on the block editor for a few years now. But we’ve been really frustrated with the lack of responsive controls in the block editor, especially for the Columns block (and with no real movement in sight, if the 5 year old github issues are any indication). So this plugin has been a breath of fresh air. Thank you for sharing it!

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