In June 2020, how do I revert to Classic Editor without paying for a business account?
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While I understand that our coders like to force people from very intuitive editors to a completely different ecosystem that makes no sense to a non-techno-weenie, it is frustrating to be tricked into switching using click bait.
I have a legacy WP site that I am developing again this week as a bit of a hobby. I can rip through the WP classic editor environment (WP Admin) intuitively and build pages without thinking.
Sadly I just hit the button to check out the Gutenberg block editor and cannot return to the ecosystem that I can work naturally in … without purchasing a business account.
Is there any other options to reverse this terrible mistake that may force me to stop fixing my parked website.
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Hi there, if this is on a legacy WPcom site where you clicked to try the Block Editor, after clicking on the three dots at the top right of the sidebar in the Editor, at the bottom of the menu that opens you should see the option to Switch to Classic Editor.
Post back here if you don’t see that.
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So my site allows me to go into two different editors:
Presumably, the block editor is now the home page when logging in.
Presumably, the classic editor is WP Admin site that I typically use and know.
I cannot find the three dots on either top right of the side bar – they may have either removed the option or hidden it well. This is a legacy site started in 2013.
If you were able to give me a more step by step or a screen shot of the area on the editor, that would be helpful.
Many thanks for replying so quickly to my original post.
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I cannot find the three dots on either top right of the side bar – they may have either removed the option or hidden it well. This is a legacy site started in 2013
Hello again, What’s the address of the site you’re working on?
You mentioned in your first post that you switched to the Gutenberg Block Editor. If that is the case on a WordPress.com site, you’ll find the three dots when in the MySite’s Block Editor interface. https://a.cl.ly/jkuKbvW1
After clicking the three dots at the top right in the Editor, at the bottom of the menu that opens you should see the Switch to Classic Editor. Clicking that should bring you back to the Classic Editor in the New Dashboard.
Let us know if you don’t see that. Even better, please share a screenshot with us of what you do see. https://wordpress.com/support/make-a-screenshot/
Keep in mind that switching back to the Classic Editor in the MySite dashboard is rather moot at this point since the entire WordPress.com site is to be switched over to the the Block Editor by default in the near future. https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/05/18/say-hello-to-the-wordpress-block-editor/
If you are accustomed to writing in the WP Admin Classic Editor, that’s where you’ll need to go to create or edit new posts in the Classic Editor interface.
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Thanks. I found it – you have to go to a page to edit rather than in the dashboard, then three buttons – followed your screen shot.
I agree that the block editor is the next step after the Gutenberg people have had to make significant improvements. It is just that I need to fix the site in the next month and don’t have time to learn a whole new approach until later.
I can see some advantages of the block editor including the proposed ability to change the theme in the future.
Thanks.
Take care.
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