The editor for V2 has been significantly updated. This is good and bad. The good - Markdown still works by default.
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As the old saw goes, for everything there is a season. After helping out a friend with learning the current Squarespace editor, all I can say is that if the current state of Gutenberg is the best we can do after a year and a half, I have no desire to fuck with it. Squarespace has it’s own quirks, but if one of the templates is remotely close to how you want to set up your site (remember, graphics and colors are editable) you can whip something up and start on getting content in play, with a high…
Looking at my options for migration – and yes, I’m aware that I can still use the old editor for a while but I’d rather bite the bullet given the issues the new and “improved” editor presents for basic writing that they’re just unresponsive about fixing such as still not allowing block elements like lists to be nested inside of blockquotes despite it being explicitly allowed, or making it obnoxious to run together multi-paragraph formatting – it’s a no contest for exportation. Ghost. That is sti…
I still am debating the if/when of keeping comments going forward (sorry about the old ones in either case, they won’t import/export), but I’ve got the import / export chain for ghost working. The only part I haven’t proofed is copying images across the interwebz and then running a grep-style find/replace on the exported JSON file to update all the image link URLs for the new file root path, but that’s just copying, and a find/replace. Hell, I haven’t even picked a theme out yet, and would be c…
As I recently detailed [https://thelastredoubt.com/2018/08/so-much-for-wordpress.html], I’ve pretty much gotten over WordPress because they made the most important part of a blog – the writing editor – far more difficult to use, this on top of making editing the theme and layout itself more difficult for educated amateurs or those who no longer consider it a hobby to learn a whole new platform just because. Incidentally, when I look back at the time I spent on CMS back-end and CSS coding, I thi…