Disable Gutenberg

  • Since Gutenberg was forced on WP users a few years ago, 90% of the outdoor/fishing/hunting blogs I followed have stopped blogging or let their sites die.

    All of them said it’s because they didn’t like Gutenberg, had a theme and writing process that was quick and easy for them to use for posts and they had no interest in learning anything new, especially since it was difficult for them to use. I tried to tell them there was a way to disable GB, but they weren’t interested in messing around with it.

    In a recent interview with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, he specifially says “I think that everyone should blog more”.

    And yet, WordPress is single handedly destroying people’s interest in blogging by forcing Gutenberg down their throats. On my own site, Waterdog Journal, I have been using the Twenty Twelve Theme for years and it does everything I need to make posts with lots of photography.

    I have no interest in redesigning my site, which GB seems more geared toward, and it’s quick and easy to do what I need to do with the Twenty Twelve Theme.

    I played with GB for about an hour when it first came out and quickly decided it was not something I was interested in and only made blogging more difficult. I searched for ways to disable GB and briefly used the Classic Editor, but it still had remnants of GB. Then I found Disable Gutenberg and it does a great job of basically making WordPress work like GB doesn’t exist.

    The day Disable Gutenberg stops working is the day I give up on WP altogether.

    Based on the volume of 1 star ratings GB has, I don’t know why WP doesn’t take the suggestion so many have made. Leave WP the way it’s always been and make GB a plugin people can install if they think it works for them.

    Instead, all that’s being done is the destruction of sites that once had great blogs. You would think WP would take Matt Mullenwegs’ comment to “blog more” a little more seriously and help rather than hinder the process.

    Funny to me, even this comment section is using blocks, which I found really annoying.

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  • Agreed. Gutenberg is pretty much Billie Eilish of WordPress. It is Greta Thundenborg of web design. It is the Last of Us of CMS.

    Thread Starter kengortowski

    (@kengortowski)

    That’s pretty funny and I agree.

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Folks, please feel free to add your own reviews if you have thoughts to share about the Gutenberg plugin. Thanks!

    @kengortowski –

    Funny to me, even this comment section is using blocks, which I found really annoying.

    Feel free to deactivate the use of the block editor in the forum in your profile here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/users/kengortowski/edit/

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the block editor. While many users do enjoy the block editor – I’ve worked with thousands of them – I’m glad you found a plugin that makes your blogging experience more enjoyable. It’s that flexibility and openness that makes WordPress special, I think. Cheers!

    @zoonini THANK YOU! Now I can properly write here again

    This is whats wrong with this Plugin:

    You want: Write Text
    You get: Something unnecessary complex and sluggish for just writing text

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