Gutenberg page builder, block add-ons and Essential Plugin Bundle

Overview:

Gutenberg is a user-friendly builder that enables you to design your posts and pages more easily. It has replaced the WordPress Classic Editor to offer a more intuitive web-building experience.

But Gutenberg having some limitation and Essential plugin bundle overcome that limitation.

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at Gutenberg and Essential plugin bundle . The full breakdown is below. Feel free to read everything or jump to any section.

• Gutenberg pros and cons.
• What is an Essential plugin bundle?
• How does Essential plugin bundle overcome the limitation of Gutenberg.
• Available content with Gutenberg VS content with Essential plugin bundle.
• Conclusion

1.Gutenberg pros and cons

Pros:

1. Makes the content creation process more intuitive and easier for beginners to pick up.
2. Helps you see your content in a format closer to how it will look on the front end.
3. Provides more options for customizing your content through a variety of discrete elements.
4. Eliminates the need to install a separate page builder plugin.

Cons:

1. Design customization limit: You can not customize any page-builder/ theme design. Even if you use any add-ons.
2. Limited designs and layout: As these page-builders and themes are only created for fast website development, they have a limited number of layout and designs.
3. Switching: If you’re switching from the Classic to the Block editor, it may break your site. You might have to go through every single post and page and redesign them with Gutenberg.

2.What is an Essential plugin bundle?

Fastest, Lightweight & Highly Customizable – 35+ plugins, 10 sliders, Best in class – Marketing Popup plugin with 2000+ pre-built templates. Compatible with leading page builders/themes saving your time for addons and searching plugins on wordpress.org

3.How does an Essential plugin bundle overcome the limitation of Gutenberg?

Designs:

You can use all these layouts  and designs with Gutenberg. 

For example if you are creating a blog website with Gutenberg , Gutenberg gives you 1 or 2 designs but blog designer in Essential Plugin gives you 8 layouts and 50+ designs

Same like you will get in Sliders, Portfolio, Marketing popup etc

Design Customization: 

As i said before you can not customize Gutenberg blocks layout and designs as per your need but if you use  Essential Plugin, you can customize any design with template overriding method.

Save your time and money

You can save your time by searching multiple Gutenberg block add-ons on WordPress.org or at any marketplace. You will also get the benefit to get support for multiple plugins from a single author.

Free to change the page builder

If you are using any page builder then you can not change the page builder because each page builder has their own structure. But if you design the module with  Essential Plugin you are free to change to any theme or page builder.

4.Available content with Gutenberg VS content with Essential plugin bundle

Available content/block with Gutenberg

The available content block include headlines, images, text paragraphs, videos, buttons, dividers, spacers, icons, image galleries, social media icons, shortcodes, and a lot more. Also, you get to use whatever widgets you already have on your WordPress site.

Available content with Essential Plugin Bundle

Here is essential plugin bundle all plugin list and their layout and designs:

Conclusion

Putting it all together, the main benefit of using Gutenberg is that you can create simple page layouts/designs, even if you’re not a professional nor have any experience with site building.

This is especially important if you’re on a tight budget and don’t want to hire anyone to help you with the site.

So, what can you do exactly? First, Gutenberg allows you to take advantage of many block, which you can place anywhere on the page PLUS you can use Essential Plugin Bundle to take advantage of more layout and designs.

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