Since September, when I have written about the Gutenberg 1.1 version, this plugin soon to be part of the WordPress core, has come a long way and it has reached version 2.4. A lot has changed with Gutenberg since my first article, and it is not really possible to list all the changes, I will try in this article to revisit the problems discussed in the previous article, talk about the editing workflow, metaboxes support and the state of the Gutenberg for the merge into the WordPress.
Metaboxes
For the most part, metaboxes do work. But, I am sure that a lot of plugins will still get broken because they might be doing something with the metaboxes that simply can’t work with Gutenberg. Here is the overview of issues and problems I have noticed:
Styling for the form elements on in the Gutenberg editor is quite different from the Classic editor, so most of the metabox forms that depend on this styling will look bad. This is an easy fix for plugin authors to add more styling to own plugins to make metaboxes look nice.
Metaboxes are not full width, no matter how big screen you have. Metaboxes are the same width as the editor area, and this will also be a problem for some metaboxes that
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17257/gutenberg-the-current-2-4-state
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/gutenberg-the-current-2-4-state/
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