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That’s a shame – as an agency we find it a game changer and super intuitive for our users.

Our clients effing HATE it. Literally each and every one of them.

Cool story bro.

Gutenberg = future. Classic Editor = good for 2 years. Neat.

You do realize your options that are still php-based in 2 years that are enterprise-level is either Drupal or Joomla. Drupal8 is a rebuild from D7 and prior – so at least you can get it in now while everyone is still helping everyone, and Joomla? Um. Ok.

Or maybe your agency would be happy with Wix? Weebly? Ghost? Sure yeah, you end up paying more in the long run, but again, that’s your agency’s call.

Recognize that what WP has done is open themselves up to an entire new class of developers – JavaScript devs. And as I am one, and all my core dev friends are also JS centric, I guarantee you there will be fast movement in the WP community when it comes to integrating future-facing sites and applications.

I hope you’re able to update and integrate sooner than later, because frankly, ll of my dev friends will be able to offer services just fine that will fill the gaps agencies such as yours will leave, when you refuse to update.

Good luck.

ps all our clients are moving to Gutenberg. We’re already building custom blocks and plugins for our framework. It works. We get paid. Clients are happy.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by weo3dev. Reason: last note

There is at least one other option not discussed above, called Classic Press. It is on our radar for future use if/when WordPress stops being usable for our company.

Also, right now we use Disable Gutenberg and our website works just like it used to before Gutenberg came along. We are trying not to invest in a new website, but if we do, it will either be on Classic Press or some other platform–not WordPress.

@mononox @garrettzucker – you guys are so overly dramatic. I’ve been building sites in wordpress for 10 years, and I had no idea anybody still used the classic editor.

It was so limited for anything other than a blog of text. There is a reason why plugins like Divi, Elementor, Beaver Builder etc are used by a combined 10’s of millions of websites… TinyMCE wasn’t cutting it for people who want to build interesting websites.

If you want blog of text, just start typing in the gutenberg editor, it’s not that complicated.

… but don’t worry, I’m sure TinyMCE or a drop in replacement will be available for decades to come.