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Jonathan Desrosiers

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Mel Choyce-Dwan

Gary Pendergast

Riad Benguella

Brian Alexander

Josepha

Alexis Lloyd

Classic Editor is an official plugin maintained by the WordPress team that restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. It makes it possible to use plugins that extend that screen, add old-style meta boxes, or otherwise depend on the previous editor.
Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until 2024, or as long as is necessary.
At a glance, this plugin adds the following:
<ul>
<li>Administrators can select the default editor for all users.</li>
<li>Administrators can allow users to change their default editor.</li>
<li>When allowed, the users can choose which editor to use for each post.</li>
<li>Each post opens in the last editor used regardless of who edited it last. This is important for maintaining a consistent experience when editing content.</li>
</ul>
In addition, the Classic Editor plugin includes several filters that let other plugins control the settings, and the editor choice per post and per post type.
By default, this plugin hides all functionality available in the new block editor (“Gutenberg”).

Classic Editor

Great plugin

This is the first plugin I install on any new website. I wish this was an option built into WordPress, as I feel like it's essential to be able to manage content using a WYSIWYG editor. 

My top plugin

This plugin is not compatible with the latest releases of WordPress. I really liked the feature for being able to switch between classic and gutenberg editing - it was perfect for migrating sites to gutenberg.

Not compatible with WP6


I wish this was installed automatically instead of hello dolly!


I wish this was standard

No comments


I know the block editor is a major effort, but I still find it gets in my way more than it helps. For me, enabling the Classic Editor is a necessity.


One of my must-have plugins


Thanks for this!!! This makes my life easier!


LOVE IT

My favorite Editor.


I really thankful wordpress team for their work but gutenberg is a wrong turn in wordpress history.


Best plugin ever


Must have plugin. Simple, fast and easy to use.


no block no pain :)


Simple understandable and really better than blocks at this time, maybe in the future I move to blocks but currently I'm using classic mode. 


Good

Love it


Classic Editor is simple, fast, and reliable. It keeps the editing experience clean without unnecessary distractions. I appreciate how stable it is even with the latest WordPress versions. A must-have plugin for those who prefer the traditional way of editing content.


Still the Most Reliable Editor

Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.

unCommons

Gutenberg is a great editor but sometime you could want to disable it for Pages, Posts or other post types. Gutenberg Manager allow you to enable/disable the editor where you want. Why would you want to disable the editor on pages? Maybe you would like to use a page builder like Visual Composer or Elementor instead!
Gutenberg Editor will be probably included in the next great release of WordPress (5.0) so Gutenberg Manager will be really useful. With the Manager you can also decide to disable specific blocks in the editor if you don’t need them.
If you are developing or editing a theme/plugin all features are also available via Hooks so you can include Gutenberg Manager plugin inside your theme and use it without the Option Panel.
If you like this plugin, please give us 5 star to encourage for future improvement.
<h3>How to use</h3>
Under “Gutenberg” menu in your dashboard you’ll find a new button “Gutenberg Manager”. This is the Option Panel of our plugin. For now it includes 4 options areas:
<ol>
<li>Settings</li>
<li>Default Blocks</li>
<li>Additional Blocks</li>
<li>API/Hooks</li>
</ol>
SETTINGS 
Here you can globally disable Gutenberg Editor or manage the visibility of editor in the different post types.
DEFAULT BLOCKS 
Here you can disable the default blocks in the Editor.
ADDITIONAL BLOCKS 
Here you can enable our additional blocks in the Editor. 
This section is under construction
API/HOOKS 
Here you find a list of Hooks to use in your custom Theme/Plugin! 
Note: there is an action to disable the Option Panel of Gutenberg Manager so our plugin will be hidden for the final user but the theme/plugin developer can use all the plugin’s features.

Gutenberg Manager

Gutenberg comnpletely mangles custom handmade HTML, which depends on being treated as raw HTML. If hand-coding or the classic TinyMCE editor is not enough or not right for a client, then I pep things up with a shortcodes plugin like shortcodes ultimate or even WP Bakery Pagebuilder. Gutenberg will basically trash all my strategies and I can't rewrite all my client websites when 5.0 comes out. There is another plugin "Disable Gutenberg" but this one offers many more options. Sadly, neither of them offers to turn off Gutenberg on a per-page basis, which would be really nifty.

Great job, I'll really need this for WP 5.0

A simple and easy way to manage Gutenberg editor. You can disable/enable it for every post types and restore the Classic Editor.

Classic Editor vs Gutenberg Manager