Installing classic Classic plugin
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My WordPress Com switched me to Gutenberg without my permission. I want to switch back to Classic. But when I click on Plugins I get this message: ‘To install plugins you will need to upgrade to a business plan.’ I do not want to upgrade. So how do I switch to Classic without upgrading to a business plan?
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There is a very stubborn product manager/designer/architect at WordPress who has been so intent on rolling out this collossal UI/UX failure of an editor that they have either forgotten to test it with content creators OR simply don’t care. Either way it’s very telling.
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Following up on my initial question above, since I can’t switch back to Classic as a WordPress com user, is there any person or office at WordPress that I can contact to DEMAND that my WordPress.com be restored to Classic?
I have been using Classic for 10 years and it meets my simple requirement as a writer. I’m not a business person and have no interest or need for a complex block interface for the design of slick product-promotion pages.
I have more than 2660 posts on my blog created with the Classic interface and just 1 — the one I added yesterday — that to my great surprise was created using the very user-unfriendly Gutenberg.
Moreover, what’s the point of my paying a monthly fee for an upgrade to WordPress.org just so I can switch back to Classic when WordPress is going to pull the plug on Classic in 2022?
If WordPress can’t or won’t restore my Classic, I will have little choice other than to move to another self-publishing platform designed for writers and not for-profit businesses.
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I’m watching this one closely. I fully sympathize with you and can relate, as I am investing a lot of time and resources into building two content channels with WordPress at the center of it all. This move has greatly shook my confidence in my assumptions about WordPress being the right place to host my content.
They have a week to remedy the situation OR I’m moving on. I would hate to be in your position years from now with a ton of content an a streamlined workflow, only to wake up one morning to have it all broken because somebody at WordPress couldn’t care less.
It’ll be a hassle to move, but a one-time hassle and I will have full control of my platform, workflow and content.
All they have to do is allow everyone to install the classic plug-in for free. Stupid doesn’t begin to describe it.
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I agree with fjwhite. I’ve been posting every day for 12 years using the classic editor. And until today I’ve been able to load classic for my new posts. But today WordPress decided to take that away. Now I really don’t know if I can post at all. This is really outrageous!
Bring back the classic editor as an option, which is what it’s been for quite some time. Do it now!
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Hi there,
Please see @supernovia’s reply at https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/i-dont-want-a-brand-new-format/page/4/#post-3571484
If you have specific feedback about something that doesn’t work, or that you think can work better in the block editor, please add it to that thread.
However, the block editor is here to stay. It has been the default editor in the free, open source WordPress software since December 2018, and is now the default editor on WordPress.com as well, as it’s no longer feasible for us to continue maintaining our own in-house version of the classic editor in parallel to the WordPress editor.
If you prefer the editing experience you had in the classic editor, you can still get a similar experience by using the classic block:
I am closing this thread to further replies, so we can keep all feedback in the thread I linked to above.
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