Is “Disable Gutenberg” plugin a permanent One?

  • Resolved mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    WordPress currently provides a plugin to restore the Classic Editor, placing it along side the Gutenberg Editor. This Classic Editor plugin has surpassed 4 million users in less than 6 months. This goes to show the Gutenberg Editor is not wanted and not accepted, apart from it being badly designed.

    The downside, is the Classic Editor is only with us for about 2-3 more years and it will be pulled, according to WordPress.

    Initially, the Gutenberg editor is a good idea, but it is a nightmare in design and operation, forcing everyone to lose their content layouts if people use it to edit their content that was previously designed in the Classic Editor. There is already a warning WordPress shows when shifting between editors.

    With the stubborn mindset of WordPress to keep pushing Gutenberg and eventually removing all traces of the classic editor by 2022, I come here to ask you what are your plans with this plugin “Disable Gutenberg”?

    Do you plan to support and keep this plugin going past 2022, because your plugin will become very popluar, especially after 2022?

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    I get this question a lot and have added the following response in the plugin FAQs:

    I can’t make any promises, but I intend to develop with WordPress for the long-haul. Who knows what the future holds, but the plan is to keep Disable Gutenberg going for many years to come. Why? Because the original RTE/Visual Editor is awesome. I strongly feel it’s one of the many reasons why WordPress has enjoyed its great success. I’ve been using the original/classic editor for over 10 years now and it’s always been 100% smooth experience. I’ve tried Gutenberg, and yes it is much better now than in previous versions, but for me it’s just not as comfortable or streamlined as the classic editor. So yeah, will do everything possible to keep Disable Gutenberg (and the Classic Editor) going well beyond 2022.

    Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    Thanks for the reply.

    Well, have to say, your statement about the Gutenberg editor, as a developer yourself, confirms my own position about it and I am not a developer of WordPress things.

    If you are not in the group that develops the Gutenberg editor, you should be.

    Glad to hear your with us for the long haul and ya, who knows the future. Aliens could come down, like in the Movies, and take over WordPress, then we would have to learn a new language, Gutenberg would be changed and renamed to “O9&^bv@=” (no keyboard yet for Alien characters)… but that’s for the Future. ??

    …and I am not surprised you were asked this a lot, so getting your answer here would help along with the FAQ’s.

    Thanks

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