What exactly’s a block editor?
WordPress is the most powerful tool for designing websites currently in the market. The flexibility provided by web design work with WordPress is concrete, among many benefits, how to simply maintain or change the content of the web in a few minutes and without any advanced knowledge about web programming. The task gets complicated if we are to change the graphic design of the web. Later we will see the differences between a custom web or a preset template web, but the answer to the question as to whether we can change the look of our web without being web engineers, is that so. We can do this using a block editor. A block of contents is associated with a type of item to be shown on the website. For example: a block manages text, other images, a third video or sound, and we can add or remove these blocks with just one click. The key is that the professional who has produced our website have taken this functionality into account, otherwise we run the risk of destroying our web and with just one click.
What are the most popular visual publishers in WordPress?
A block editor remains a new functionality, that we can add to WordPress as a plugin, and that will allow us to generate content zones and integrate them into the original web design. That’s where the big doubt comes up, what plugin’s best? There are many on the market with ELEMENTOR being one of the best known but SEEDPROD, DIVI, VISUAL COMPOSER or BAKERY are also very popular. They all have very economic licenses, about 50 €on average, and they all work similarly. There are differences in performance that they offer, such as the type of content blocks they generate and that are substantially different from them. It’s a matter of matching before passing VISA. There’s an editor that doesn’t appear on the above list, it’s about GUTENBERG, the native visual editor of WordPress.
Better Gutenberg or Elementor?
Let us take ELEMENTOR as the reference of the outside publishers developed by private companies, let us remember that the WordPress community is nonprofit and Open Source as opposed to the private plugins that have an interest for gain, and let us compare them with GUTENBERG. Both visual composers allow to add or remove blocks on any web, whether custom or based on a WordPress web template. Their functionality and ease of use are also quite similar, but there’s a key factor: that GUTENBERG already comes preset into the WordPress code as its official editor and have the support of the whole community of developers that constantly improve the WordPress engine. That’s not a minor detail. Any block editor has many functionalities that “overlap” with the system, and many of these functionalities are never going to be used and end up slowing down the load time of the web. GUTENBERG, as incorporated by default in WordPress, is already optimized with the performance of our entire web system, speaks the same “language” and with the same source code. GUTENBERG as an example does not overwrite the graphic styles of the web as ELEMENTOR does in most cases. Using GUTENBERG guarantees that your code updates will be made with new versions of WordPress. If we use ELEMENTOR we will have to be up to date with an update of broken system to avoid security problems and run the risk that different separate versions or synchronization over time will damage our web.
With or without web templates?
To all of the variables discussed above, we have to add the component of dedicated basic programming for our web. That is, if our web starts from a template bought from third parties or we have scheduled our web without a prefabricated external code. That point’s quite similar to the previous one, if we buy a template we have to personalize and, during the customization process, there will be parts of it that we do not use, leaving source code inactive on our web; a source code that, however, remains there and can cause conflicts with other plugins or as we update the template or plugin of the WordPress Composer block editor we have chosen. That’s why if we don’t care about risks and we have to be clear about whether our web will be up and up to date or that maintenance of private plugins and so forth will have to be clear about a custom-made web design.
Conclusion
Online content management and web-page design increasingly appear to tend to be simplified, but it’s just an appearance. The logic tells us that how many more actors there are in a more complex play will be his direction and his stage, however simple his stage. Before we choose a type of web program in WordPress or another, we have to get good information about pros and cons as this will depend not only on technical maintenance of the web but also on search engines and return of the investment. That said, we should always read the package leaflet carefully, however small the letter should be.