You Don't Have To Use Gutenberg If You Don't Want To
I've see in chat and on posts a lot of people getting anxious about the upcoming wordpress update to Gutenberg and how it's going to impact things because it's a new editor.
Well there is no need to be anxious.
You don't have to use gutenberg if you're not ready. You can still use the Classic Editor.
Personally after playing around with it for some time I find gutenberg slow and clunky, and some basic functions are not available in the core, which I find odd.
Now this update has no affect for me because I use Thrive Architect which is far superior to gutenberg on so many levels. But I'm also going to keep the classic editor in play as well.
So to keep using the classic editor, once wordpress updates at the end of the month (27th) in your dashboard you'll see the button to switch to the classic editor. Click it and you're good to go.
Here's my reply to another post done here regarding the classic editor:
Also it nice to know that Matt Mullenweg has confirmed that support for the Classic Editor will be available for a very, very long time. Good news for people not ready to use Gutengurg or don't use an alternative editor such as Thrive.
Here's what he said:
“I love that people are using the Classic Editor plugin!” Mullenweg said in comment on a recent post. “There is an infinite number of ways that WP can be used and not all will be ready for Gutenberg when 5.0 is released, Classic allows people to still be able to update core and stay current with releases, and with the click of a button try out Gutenberg again in the future if they want to. It’s also trivial to maintain because Gutenberg also uses TinyMCE, so Classic Editor users will still get improvements and updates to TinyMCE — I won’t say ‘forever’ but I don’t see any reason why we can’t maintain classic for the edit screen for many years to come.”
https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/04/matt-mullenweg-state-of-the-...
Here's another great read about Gutenburg and here they talk about the possibility of supporting both editors.
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-to-support-classic-editor-for...
Hope this helps
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Thanks Leo.
This time of the year is very busy leading up to Black Friday and Christmas.
One less worry not having to update to Gutenberg and resolving any idiosyncracies which may fall out from the update.
Yeah I think a lot of people were stressing out - can't blame them. But as I said no need to worry, it's all good.
A bit like the GDPR rollout.
There were so many posts concerning it... I know a lot of people were stressed about the whole thing.
No kidding, when that was happening you thought the sky was falling. And more often then not it's just mis-information freaking everyone out.
Best course of action don't listen to the noise, go to the source.
Love that! 'Don't listen to the noise, go to the source.
Me ... I'm easy like Sunday morning 😉
Thank you for sharing this information with us now to stay with the classic editor is that a plugin that we have to get or how do we do again because this is a little confusing for me.
I am sorry but since my stroke, my brain is not really functioning like it used to so I have a problem remembering what to do next. I have my note but it doesn't have this information in it.
Thank you in advance for helping me out I really appreciate that so very much.
Mary
You'll find the button to activate the classic plugin already there in your dashboard, you just have to click the button.
You can go to your wordpress dashboard right now and you'll see the classic button.
Thank you so much for letting me know about the classic button I really appreciate that.
Mary
"you'll see the button to switch to the classic editor."
So no need for the plugin? But you mentioned the plugin as well. Confused.
No there is no need for a plugin, I never called it a plugin Matt calls it a plugin which is probably causing the confusing.
You can go to your wordpress dashboard right now and you'll see the classic editor button
OK, thanks. Have seen several blogs/trainings here recently about some plugin.
In any case, plan to stay with the classic option as long as possible.
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Good to know we have choice!
Thank you for telling us
You're welcome