Gutenberg!

  • Maybe I’m not understanding something. So hopefully someone can help me.

    I’m a developer who generally approaches websites by having only text/images in the editor and have the layout controlled by CSS.

    Often I use custom fields to dictate what shows on a page, or to introduce a layout element that I’ve created in the functions file.

    What am I supposed to do if I want to continue this way? How do I stop my clients from editing layouts when editing a post? What if I want them to ONLY enter text/images? What if a good portion of my customers have come to me after a mailing I sent out and said “we do not want this new editor”? Why must I have to install a plugin on 96+ websites?

    Do I tell my clients to fornicate themselves? Do I find another CMS?

    Why can’t Gutenberg have stayed as a plugin? If it was so revolutionary why couldn’t Mullenweg have given users the option of using it instead of forcing it on people? Surely if it was so amazing millions would be installing the plugin right?

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by OthelloBloke.
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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Install the plugin “Classic Editor” and make sure it’s set to be the default editor and users do not have a choice to chose the block editor.

    [Moved to “Fixing WordPress”.

    Well, how I see it,

    Theme Developer are now supposed to care about the Theme, and a Theme for the unfinished Editor and unfinished way to make Custom Blocks instead of custom fields.

    Wich in theory, would be a true WYSIWYG. If it was finished.

    Thread Starter OthelloBloke

    (@othellobloke)

    The Classic Editor plugin isn’t going to be maintained indefinitely so that doesn’t really help me at all.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Classic Editor will be maintained to at least 2022, by which time you might like the improvements made to the Block Editor, and the plugin will probably be forked by then anyway.

    You could also keep the sites on 4.9.x while you look for a different CMS (or a fork).
    There are plugins to downgrade, and plugins to help manage multiple sites at a time.

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