Disaster

  • I wonder just how much beta testing was really carried out. All the fanfare, Gutenberg and WP 5.0 or 5.0.1 is an unmitigated disaster. So many plugins are rendered inoperative. The flow looks good but is really clunky.

    Poor Joannes Gutenberg would be ashamed.

    I wish there was simply a way of reversing or uninstalling version 5.0 What we have are more patches.

    I wish I could give this zero stars

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by bodywise. Reason: revise star rating
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  • Thread Starter bodywise

    (@bodywise)

    Thank you. I repeat, who beta tested this? 2 or 3 days beta testing would have been sufficient to tell you this is not ready for prime time.

    And everyone should be warned. Turn off “automatic updating” for new WP versions.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by bodywise.

    * …Which pretty much puts us into anarchy…with millions of websites falling behind security upgrades. Not sure why Wordfence, Google and lawyers haven’t weighed-in yet, but tomorrow is Monday…so I wouldn’t be surprised. Even with Open Source, there comes responsibility when it was sold to end-users as a way to manage their own sites (which was the first sign of lack of concern for developers.) WP knows better than to play cards with the business owners relying on their prior good work–they already went through one huge mistake in underestimating those who take advantage of risky coding (although it was too early in the evolution for them to understand.)

    We need security updates without core; and we need Gutenberg to be optional. (Also remembering that Johannes loved books, his namesake project should not be all about idiot blocks–the antitheses to literacy.)

    Any news on an easy migration to the latest and greatest simple CMS? We’re going to Joomla with the larger sites, immediately. But need something for small business owners who are panicking during the important holiday season.

    It just does not appear Automattic cares about more then WordPress.com. No media, no response, no decision to default Gutenberg, nothing. I even tried sending a note to Matt’s blog, and it was rejected as irrelevant–with a comment that there is NO plan to revert. Classic plugin zoomed from 100,000 to over a Million+ overnight–maybe those heroes will get on-board this and make it right.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by siriusmw. Reason: spelling
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