Nice idea, bad bad BAD way of doing things

I’m just a writer/hobbyist who blogs. I just spent hours after the update finding out that the tools I had been using with the classic editor not only no longer worked, but fubared several pages/posts of my site.

Even worse, for me, one of the plugins I’ve been using and happy with, “Siteorigins Pagebuilder” pretty much requires the classic editor, and although it SAYS it’s compatible with 5.x, in reality, nopers.

In order to recover, I had to remove 5 different plugins and do a reinstall of the WP 5 update with the classic plugin. (Fortunately, that resolved my major problems.)

The only thing that saved even more headaches was the classic plugin.

An editor should BE A CHOICE. I can use LibreOffice, or MS Office, LyX or some other solution. Having a specific editor stuffed in an upgrade…especially one that can cause a major mess…smacks of hubris or at the very least an echo chamber within the company that isn’t hearing the community.

I’d expect a “wall garden” with ‘dot COM’…but ‘dot ORG’ should be wide open and all about choices.

To be honest, I’ve never been a fan of classic, but add-ons such as TinyMCE Advanced made it bearable…and plugins such as page builder opened up the creative juices for making interesting stuff.

I LIKE the idea of Gutenberg, but the way this was implemented…rancid.

C