Request to Keep the Classic Editor as an Option
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The Classic Editor should be retained as an option. It is an option now (at least in my WordPress account, which I opened nine years ago), but the management of WordPress has indicated that they will commit to this only until December 31, 2021, which is only about 14 months from now.
I have spent many hours trying to learn the new Block Editor. I find it counterintuitive, difficult to use, and with far more options (and hence complexity) than I need or want. WordPress promotion for it proclaims that with it one can create “media rich pages and posts” and “modern, multimedia-heavy, layouts”, and I suspect it can. But I do not want that for my blog. I want a simple presentation so that readers focus on the content of what I write and not on some multi-media razzle-dazzle show.
With the time I have now spent trying to learn the new Block Editor, I think I can re-create the simple presentation of my blog. But each new post with the new editor will require more time and more effort, and will act as a distraction from what I want to focus on – the writing.
I would therefore appreciate instructions on how I (and it appears many others, based on what we see in various WordPress user fora) can convey these concerns to the management at WordPress that decide such things. Specifically:
1) WordPress.com should retain the Classic Editor as an option for the indefinite future, as long as there are millions of bloggers choosing to use that editor and by such choice show that they prefer it.
2) One should be able to designate in Settings which editor (the Classic Editor, or the new Block Editor) would be called up as the default editor in that account. It appears that certain versions of the WordPress software in fact has this (or had it in the past), and it should be trivial to include.
I recognize that retaining the Classic Editor will require some resources. But since it is an existing, fully developed and robust, editor – not a new one – those resource requirements should be relatively minor. Those resources should indeed be trivial compared to what was required to develop the complex new Block Editor, where (as of yesterday) WordPress has already written the software for 127 different types of blocks.
Forcing WordPress users to switch to this complex new editor is a betrayal to the millions in the WordPress community who have no need and no desire for this complex new system, with its multitude of irrelevant options. I chose to start my blog with WordPress in part because the basic software was held by a non-profit foundation, which said it would operate in the interests of the blogging community. Many of us (and I would venture to say most of us) want a simple, easy-to-use, system, that allows us to focus on the content of our blogs, not on the software. Forcing us to switch to this new system is a betrayal of the original WordPress commitments.
Once again, please advise on how I can convey these concerns to those in WordPress management who will decide on whether the Classic Editor will be retained as an option.
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I AGREE 100%. The classic option needs to stay and it needs to go back to the old Classic option. Even the new classic option has issues.
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WordPress management is probably aware of how many of us still use the Classic editor. And they know that many of us — probably most of us — will bail out of here if the Classic editor is eliminated as an option. If they don’t care, then that’s the deal. We’ll find out soon enough.
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