No Gutenberg – Disable Gutenberg Blocks Editor and FSE Global Styles

Description

WordPress 5.x bundled a new block editor called Gutenberg. With 5.9 version were added the called global styles for Full Site Editing (FSE) that load a lot of inline styles in every page. Despite his benefits, mainly for compatibility reasons with other plugins and previous contents, there are a lot of users that don’t want to activate it yet. If you don’t want the Gutenberg Block Editor and FSE Global Styles in your WordPress install right now, simply install this plugin, activate it and … That’s all!

What does this plugin does?:

• Disables totally the Gutenberg Block Editor
• Disables totally the Full Site Editing (FSE) Global Styles added inline to every page
• Shows and use by default the cool and compatible with everything WordPress Classic Editor
• Plus: Disables the WP 4.9.8 “Try Gutenberg” callout Dashboard widget

No options. Just install & activate the plugin prior to update to WordPress 5.x and you that’s all. You’ll get WordPress 5.x but without the Gutenberg Block Editor.

Plugin Requirements

• This plugin requires WordPress 4.9 or greater with the Gutenberg Plugin installed and activated (for testing purposes) or WordPress 5.0 or greater
• This plugin requires PHP 5.6 or greater

Screenshots

Installation

1. Go to your WP Dashboard > Plugins and search for ‘no gutenberg’ or…
2. Download the plugin from WP repository.
3. Upload the ‘no-gutenberg’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

Do you hate the Gutenberg Editor?

No, I don’t. I think that is more important to decide what you want in your WordPress and what not. If you don’t want to make this huge step to the new Gutenberg Editor with this plugin you’ll have de decision in your hands.

What happens if I decide to deactivate the plugin?

• You’ll recover the brand new Gutenberg Editor
• Your life will be a little more difficult from that moment ??

Something went wrong after activation

This plugin is compatible with all WordPress JavaScript functions (wp_localize_script(), js in header, in footer…) and works with all well coded plugins and themes. If a plugin or a theme is not properly enqueuing scripts, your site may not work. If your host doesn’t support any of the tweaks, usually due to security restrictions, is possible that something fails. If anything fails please access to your /wp-content/plugins/no-gutenberg/ directory via your favourite FTP client or hosting panel (cPanel, Plesk, etc.) and rename the plugin folder to deactivate it.

What’s next?

Nope. I’ll expect Matt and all the rest of this beauty guys to abandon the idea that a blocks editor is a good idea for post editing.

Reviews

Of the best

cf12 February 21, 2023

Thank you so much for this plugin!

Gracias!

Alain Aubry October 29, 2020

Gracias Fernando por esta iniciativa, la verdad uso otro plugin para esta funcionalidad, pero otro más siempre es útil. Espero que un dia abandonen la idea de que un editor de bloques es una buena idea … BRAVO !!!

A very good plugin

elkanah2222 November 17, 2019

I’ve never had any problems with this plugin. I loved the other one with the same name but when it did not work for me once, I started working with this one and it’s pretty cool. Love it big time.

Simple but useful

pulsme September 6, 2019

I like that dropdown option, nice ??

Genial

Marketing March 26, 2019

Sencillo y práctico

Does what it says on the tin – gets rid of the ghastly block editor

paulman February 6, 2019

Hooray for this plugin!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0.8

• Tested up to WordPress 6.6.2

1.0.7

• Tested up to WordPress 6.4

1.0.6

• Tested up to WordPress 6.2

1.0.5

• Tested up to WordPress 6.1

1.0.4

• Tested up to WordPress 6.0.2

1.0.3

• Tested up to WordPress 6.0

1.0.2

• Added the action to remove the FSE Global Styles

1.0.12

• Tested up to WordPress 5.9

1.0.11

• Tested up to WordPress 5.8

1.0.10

• Tested up to WordPress 5.6

1.0.9

• Tested up to WordPress 5.5.1

1.0.8

• Tested up to WordPress 5.5

1.0.7

• Tested up to WordPress 5.4.1

1.0.6

• Tested up to WordPress 5.4

1.0.5

• Tested up to WordPress 5.3.2

1.0.5

• Tested up to WordPress 5.3 (And it works!)

1.0.4

• Tested up to WordPress 5.2.2

1.0.3

• Tested up to WordPress 5.2

1.0.2

• Tested up to WordPress 5.1

1.0.1

• Better and simply readme file

1.0.0

• Now it works great with all Gutenberg Block Editor versions (plugin and core)
• New conditional filters added to check Gutenberg version before apply the proper function to disable the Block Editor.

0.9.2

• Tested up to WordPress 5.0 tag added

0.9.1

• Function added to disable the “Try Gutenberg” callout Dashboard widget introduced in WP 4.9.8

0.9

• Initial release, and hopefully latest