{"id":11149,"date":"2021-08-25T16:51:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:51:41","slug":"an-update-on-the-classic-editor-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2021\/08\/an-update-on-the-classic-editor-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on the Classic Editor Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before the release of WordPress 5.0 in 2018, the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/classic-editor\/\">Classic Editor plugin<\/a> was published to help ease the transition to the new block editor. At the time, we promised to support the plugin through 2021 and adjust if needed as the deadline got closer. After discussing this with Matt, it&#8217;s clear that continuing to support the plugin through 2022 is the right call for the project as well as the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, if you\u2019ve been putting off using the block editor,\u00a0this is an excellent time to give it another shot. Since it first appeared in 2018, hundreds of WordPress contributors have made a lot of updates based on user feedback. You will be pleasantly surprised at how far it\u2019s come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big thanks to everyone who has been working on WordPress, Gutenberg, and the Classic Editor plugin. And thank you to every WordPress user and tester who has provided the feedback we need to make the software even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~ Josepha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Returning to the block editor for the first time in a long time? You can give feedback early in the process by <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/test\/handbook\/full-site-editing-outreach-experiment\/\">joining the outreach program<\/a>! Looking at it for the first time ever? <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.wordpress.org\/workshops\/?series=24&amp;topic=&amp;language=&amp;captions=\">Get your bearings with some workshops<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/wordpress-editor\/#how-does-the-block-editor-work\">check out this demo<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the release of WordPress 5.0 in 2018, the Classic Editor plugin was published to help ease the transition to the new block editor. At the time, we promised to support the plugin through 2021 and adjust if needed as the deadline got closer. After discussing this with Matt, it&#8217;s clear that continuing to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10573955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2TP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10573955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}