What happens when you give Gutenberg and Elementor to complete Beginners? In this challenge, Meg and Lily (two of my daughters) are tasked with re-creating a webpage. They’ve never used Elementor or Gutenberg before, and I only gave them 30 minutes each.
This is the page they were tasked with designing.
Meg uses Elementor and Lily uses Gutenberg.
To make things interesting I set a £20 prize for the best design.
To vote for your favourite design, visit the YouTube video and write either Meg or Lily in the comments to the YouTube video 😀
Lily and Megs finished pages
Lily’s page
Meg’s page
Comments
12 responses to “Gutenberg versus Elementor – the beginners challenge”
Go, Lily (aka Gutenberg)!
Nice attempt, Meg.
Sorry Meg, but I’d have to go with Lily. Congratulations to both, I’m just an amateur website manager and I find both Gutenburg and page builders far from intuitive – to achieve that ‘cold’ in 30 minutes is pretty good!
Lily all the way sorry Meg
Sorry Meg, but Lily all the way. This was a very interesting experiment. Thank you.
Quite a demanding task so both of you great for not being phased by it.
Looks like Lily was onto a less steep hill to climb with Gutenberg!
Great job both of you, with no prior knowledge to get any result I think. But I vote for Lily
Good effort by both girls, especially after only 30 minutes tuition. As the challenge was to see who could recreate the example then I feel that Lily was the clear winner. However, in fairness to Meg, is it possible that Gutenberg is more intuitive?
Anyway good idea Jamie; a canny dad would give them a tenner each!
Firstly well done to both the girls – they both stayed calm under pressure and did so well to build their page in 30 minutes! Secondly this was a really interesting and engaging video. I was glued!
I would say that Lily’s page has won for me. Meg basically replayed a painful day I had spent trying to use Elementor to edit our website – before I joined your WordPress course and learnt to use Gutenberg:-D
Going with Lily’s effort, but they each did remarkably well. Twenty quid to Meg also does not seem an unreasonable marketing expense Jamie! 🙂 Thanks for the video tutorials on Gutenberg; they are the best I have found. Your explanation of the navigation block was especially appreciated. The nav’ block is possibly the most intimidating learning curve in the editor. Made sense in the end, but a challenge! People should stick with the FSE though, it is the way of the future for WP.
Lily without a doubt.
What a great experiment! I enjoyed every second of it.
I must say Lily won this round but kudos to both of them for going with a strategic approach and doing their best in 30 mins. 🙂
Jamie, how about doing another video where Lily will use the Elementor Page Builder and Meg will use the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor to create a similar design? It can be an interesting follow-up to this video with their roles reversed.
Thanks!
Hi Yashwardhan, yes we are setting up a rematch 🙏