Feature Request: Enable Gutenberg Block Editor for Course Lessons
Most existing course platforms fall short especially on one thing: They're good for video-only content but only allow very minimal formatting for text based lessons.
The Gutenberg editor has all this out of the box:
- plenty of blocks with lot's of formatting options to make a lesson also "look good"
- time-saving features like block templates, patterns, synced blocks, copy & paste blocks
For students nicely formatted content (like tutorials with lot's of screenshots, colored infoboxes and other kind of nicely formatted content) feels much cleaner and easier to implement than a boring wall of text.
But the current lesson editor only seems to enable some basic Gutenberg features. As a result it's on a similar level than the other platforms out there.
Please enable the full Gutenberg experience in the lesson editor to create visually appealing lesson content.
+1 I wish we could have Kadence blocks availabe too - it would be awesome experiance. I can imagine that I could have an instruction divided into a modules and student can complete all steps to configure something (instead of reading one document end-to-end).
+1 Gutenberg seems like a minimum requirement, Elementor would also be nice
I just checked the current release but the lesson editor is still only a stripped down version of the WordPress Block editor:
- for the existing blocks all settings from the Gutenberg sidebar are not accessible
- list block looses formatting after saving a lesson
- columns block looses it's columns after saving a lesson
- no shortcode (tested with Fluent Forms) is executed on frontend
- block pattern library not accessible
- all other native WordPress blocks are missing
If you ask me, I don't need any extra pagebuilder like Elementor on top.
But I need full features of the native WordPress block editor. I think it doesn't make much sense to reinvent the wheel with this minimal block editor we have right now.
As I understand the WordPress block editor only loads additional assets for the blocks being used. So there shouldn't be a performance hit either.