Classic Editor & Plugins made only for it!!!

  • Unknown's avatar
    dsivaramanan · Member ·

    I came to know that Classic Editor will be supported till 2022. There are people using using classic editor for a long period with popular plugin which is not supported for block Editor.

    I am using crayon for 100 posts so for. This plugin perform syntax highlighting for program code. When classic editor is plugged away down the line, how do I edit the program code. If I install a new plugin and activate it, syntax highlighting done by Crayon breaks. The Questions are:
    1) I am not able to launch Crayon from Block Editor. What happens to my posts? I am having only 100. There are people with 1000 of posts with 10000 Program code snippets.
    2) If I was asked to convert each code snippet, do I need to do that for almost 700-1000 snippets and manually provide settings from new Syntax Highlight plugin? Remember, I am having only 100 post with approximately 500 code snippets. There are WP Bloggers with more than 10000 thousand code snippets.
    3) If I use new plugin, what is the grantee that WP won’t create next generation of Editor and announcing Block Editor plugin are not supported, ask the plugin vendor to provide support!!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar
    halilac · Member ·

    I came to know that Classic Editor will be supported till 2022.

    We have been assured by the forum staff that the classic editor ‘will not be removed in the forseeable future’.
    Who mentioned 2022? Either you have made a mistake, or this is serious.

  • Unknown's avatar
    dsivaramanan · Member ·

    The below search confirms this:
    Search Google with this keyword: “Classic Editor will be supported till 2022”
    The very first result shows:

    This means that all plugin authors, theme authors, third parties, and the WordPress Core team will no longer feel obligated to support two editors. So, from 2022 henceforth, not only will this plugin become incompatible, but everything else in WordPress too.

    Link

  • Unknown's avatar
    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, you’re posting in the forums for users with free websites hosted on the WPcom platform. As your site is on the WPcom Business plan, you have access to direct support by LiveChat and email when you post your question at https://wordpress.com/help/contact

    Also, as your site is on the WP.com Business plan, you can install plugins like Crayon as well as the Classic Editor plugin. If you have questions about how a plugin (Crayon) will behave with the Classic Editor plugin, I believe the better place to get answers about this would be with the Crayon plugin author. https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crayon-syntax-highlighter/

    Regardless, I’ve also gone ahead and flagged this thread for Staff attention and input. Thanks for your patience.

  • Unknown's avatar
    halilac · Member ·

    @dsivaramanan
    Thank you for your reply — it is serious, and in all the 380 plus comments on the block editor this never came up. Justjennifer has not answered, I am glad you put this on a thread and not a chat or email, so that everyone can see it, even those without plugins.. I await with great interest the reply from staff.
    See also my thread — click on my icon here and then on ‘topics started’, then on ‘a contradiction’.

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    If you’re having an issue with Crayon Syntax Highlighter, I recommend reporting the issue at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crayon-syntax-highlighter/ so the plugin’s developers and support community can help you with this.

  • Unknown's avatar
    halilac · Member ·

    Moghrey mie staff-blorbo
    You have carefully avoided the remark quoted from google and its implications. Obviously I have embarrassed you. According to google, searching with the keyword given by DS above, in less than 2 years all will pack up, and I have seen no denial.
    It seems that something is going on behind the scenes regarding the classic editor ‘and everything else in WP’ (quote from google) that WP does not want us to know about, and the assurance regarding ‘the foreseeable future’ was at very least misleading.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi @halilac, I personally read that as “at least until 2022” meaning it will be there for those who want it until at least that point. If there’s still a demand I’m sure there will be options. It’s open source software, after all.

    My guess is that a lot of other things will have changed by then, too, though, as that’s a pretty long time in tech years.

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Also, to be clear, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

    We have no control over what WordPress.org chooses to do.

  • The topic ‘Classic Editor & Plugins made only for it!!!’ is closed to new replies.