Another Gutenberg ‘improvement’

I am sorry to keep on banging on about WordPress, but I have another complaint about Gutenberg.

Elon Musk decided that I cannot now reproduce my tweets on CabbieBlog’s sidebar (see 20th July Whinge), and in the course of rectifying this, I had to reorder those sidebar items (called widgets). After doing so I noticed that I’d ‘lost’ 1,000 followers in my sign-up widget, also the message thanking followers had changed. Contacting WordPress I received these words of advice:
Clear your cache
Wait and refresh
Check the widget

This last piece of advice showed I was using a ‘legacy widget’, so you might have thought with all the effort put in by Automattic the widget’s sign-up successor would be an improvement. Not so the new version, it only gives you a sign-in box. The old version changed the text depending upon if you’d sign up or not and was polite in doing so.

3 thoughts on “Another Gutenberg ‘improvement’”

      1. That may be the case, but it hasn’t changed anything from how I had the sidebar arranged previously. Perhaps it will if I ever decide to change the layout, which I am unlikely to do voluntarily.
        Cheers, Pete.

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