Nexter Bundle

I have a lot of WordPress plugins. I've been building WordPress sites on all levels since 2016. Sitebuild, plug-in development, theme development, ‘access to’ themes, etc. I started in the Classic Editor era. I loved the classic editor. When Gutenberg came out, the first thing I did was ban it. I didn't like it, I didn't like it. He was such a stranger and he looked like bullshit. But if you don't adapt, you're extinct. So I gained strength and started to build this side consciously with Gutenberg. Even more so because the WordPress community has moved in this direction.

Stackable

I tried using Gutenberg blocks, but it's still in its infancy. There are a lot of things missing at the time of writing my article. Ordinary Margin and Padding, Global classes and a bunch of tiny tweaks, which for me is a no-go state. It's a red-flag. But then I came across the software of the Stackable team, which offers a bunch of Gutenberg blocks. I got my license, and to my relief, it was good to work with it. Global color palette, tweaks on batteries, etc. So it's great stuff. I also started using the Blocksy theme to create a frame for the site.

It worked perfectly, but something was missing. This is the Native Gutenberg experience. I tried WordPress's own FSE themes, but I also ran into a lot of Bugs that took me away from the default themes after one night. Blocksy is great, but there's also a "theme" that you're limited by.

Nexter

That's when I met Nexter Bundle, which fascinated me. I invested in it with a bit of fear, but I managed to get it at a reasonable price, so it was no-brainer after all. Now, here we go... It was all... There's a bunch of gutenberg blocks with the right tweaks. But more importantly, it has its own template builder (which belongs to its own theme), the essence of which is that you can assemble both the header and the footer (for example) from Gutenberg elements.

I love it. Fully native and fast as lightning. If you run this page with PageSpeed insights, then (not perfect, but) it does not produce a bad result. So there's no server-side cache and nothing like that. It's so fast on its own. And in fact, everything can be customized with Gutenberg elements.

But why this Gutenberg addiction?

I want to emphasize that I still hate it. But he does a lot of things right, and let's face it, it's not always what we want. The community and the ecosystem are heading this way. So I wanted to secure myself for the future, because if everything was built around Gutenberg, I would have liked to have a Swiss knife to keep up with if the Customer had any requests in this direction.

Besides, I've used Gutenberg batteries in hybrid mode before. Because the client was the type who wanted to put his pages together. That's why the solution was to put the frame together in Bricks, but let him have his own hands and complete control over the other arrangements.

So Nexter now seems to me to be the new bright star in the sky, and with it in my toolset, I'm more confident because it provides a passage between worlds. So for the first blink, it's great stuff. I worked with him through time on the entire page you're reading now, and I haven't regretted it yet.