I’ve had to disable it on 90% of my 60+ clients’ sites

  • I’ve had nothing but complaints from clients since updating to 5.0 last week. Everyone from older sites running on shared servers getting 500s and fatal out of memory errors, to larger clients running brand new themes like X on expensive VPS hosts, and having nothing but problems trying to edit their content.

    I updated i think 63 clients in the last few days and in pretty much every case i’ve had to install the classic editor in response to a variety of complaints ranging from, ‘it broke my site’ to ‘i don’t need all this extra junk just to post blogs, what is this block nonsense?” It really has been a mess.

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  • I’m sorry to hear about this. I can’t tell what might be going wrong with the setups in your case without more information and some troubleshooting. Please consider posting some extra detail about that specifically in the forums at https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/ if you haven’t already.

    For the clients who mentioned block nonsense, and if you’re willing to try the suggestion, please consider asking them to try out the Top Toolbar mode. You can find in the More menu at the top right.

    The problem is the Gutenberg plugin. It’s just a really bad plugin and was built poorly. You can tell it’s a bad plugin because there’s so many people describing the problems it has, and how it messed up their sites, and the developers are blaming the users for not being willing to change to a worse system.

    I know the developers don’t care what we have to say at all, but if they did, they would have simply added Gutenberg as a Tab on the classic editor. Do you want straight up HTML, WSIWIG, or Blocks? You just get a tab for each, easy simple done without breaking existing sites.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by psychronic.

    Do you want straight up HTML, WSIWIG, or Blocks? You just get a tab for each, easy simple done without breaking existing sites.

    The Classic Editor plugin now lets you do that via a Quick Edit option on each page/post.

    Had to disable on 12, almost destroyed my business. WTF were they thinking releasing this.

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