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WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg and the Classic Editor – what did you expect?

Well that was a fuck up! 

I’ve heard reports that the Classic Editor plugin was updated just a few hours before WordPress 5.0 was released and now there’s a completely different user experience. 

The ability to easily choose the editor to create your content has disappeared.  For me, that was the whole reason for having the plugin. Some things don’t work in Gutenberg / 5.0 so I need the ability to use both.  

I don’t think the use cases for the Classic Editor and Gutenberg and WordPress version combinations have been thought through.   I know that I am going to continue to want to use both Gutenberg and the Classic editor under WordPress 5.0. And I need the ability to easily select my preferred editor.  That’s how it was with 0.5. It’s how I tested my sites’ compatibility. 

You don’t bugger about with something hours before a release. You give people a chance to test it.

Lessons need to be learned. WordPress 5.0 release should have been delayed until:

  • v1.0 of the Classic Editor had been tested with Gutenberg 4.6.1 and WordPress 4.9.8 & 5.0-RC3.
  • User documentation was ready.
  • The host of issues starting with #4855 had been addressed.

Fortunately, I haven’t yet upgraded anything yet. I will be testing Classic Editor v1.1 very carefully.

Categories: Gutenberg, WordPressTags: Classic, Gutenberg, WordPress 5.0

Published: December 7, 2018 | Last updated: December 7, 2018

Gut feeling – estimating the cost of migrating to Gutenberg

In my first post about the new block editor for WordPress, code named Gutenberg, I commented on the apparent absence of an implementation plan. I was also acutely aware that I didn’t have a plan either. So, since then I’ve been attempting to:

  1. Evaluate Gutenberg’s compatibility with my sites.
  2. Estimate effort to develop solutions for my plugin customers.
  3. Estimate effort to ensure peaceful coexistence.
  4. Estimate effort to migrate each site to WordPress 5.0.

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Categories: WordPressTags: Gutenberg

Published: April 6, 2018 | Last updated: November 26, 2018

Gutenberg – the new dictator of democratic publishing?

Should Gutenberg be allowed into WordPress core?

At the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup, 22nd February 2018, I gave a short talk and demonstration of the Gutenberg plugin which is being proposed as the new block editor for WordPress. In the deck are three slides entitled Road map, Current landscape and Projection. In this post I want to air my concerns about the part of the project that nobody appears to be thinking about… implementation.

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Categories: WordPressTags: Gutenberg, Roadmap, WordPress 5.0

Published: February 23, 2018 | Last updated: March 2, 2018

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