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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.

Ankit Panchal

wptoolsdev

Tired of the WordPress Block Editor launching in fullscreen every time? This plugin automatically disables the default fullscreen mode in the Gutenberg editor for WordPress 5.4 and above. No configuration required — simply install, activate, and get straight to editing without the distraction.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatically disables Block Editor fullscreen mode on load</li>
<li>Zero configuration — works out of the box</li>
<li>Lightweight with no impact on performance</li>
<li>Compatible with the latest WordPress version</li>
</ul>
<h3>More Plugins by the Author</h3>
If you find this plugin useful, you may also like these free plugins by the same author:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimakit-for-wp/" rel="ugc">UltimaKit For WP</a> — Essential WordPress toolkit</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/like-dislike-for-wp/" rel="ugc">Like Dislike For WP</a> — Add like/dislike voting to posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar-based-on-user-roles/" rel="ugc">Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles</a> — Control admin bar visibility by role</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-visit-counter-analytics/" rel="ugc">Page Visit Counter Analytics</a> — Simple page view tracking</li>
</ul>

Disable Block Editor FullScreen mode

While it's insane that this would need a plugin, thank you for making one!

Thanks!


First off, the plugin technically works and up to recently I had no issues with it. However, it recently started displaying a giant ad for another of it's plugins on all of my site dashboards when I logged in. The problem is the ad doesn't even let you know that it's associated with this plugin. I had to do a bunch of Googling to figure it out. I thought my sites had been hacked. There is a "Never Show This Again" link in the ad. This was supposed to be a simple plugin. Essentially it was 4 lines of code to disable the fullscreen editor (83 if you count all the boilerplate WordPress plugin registration and comments). Now it's bloated up to 280 lines with all the WP UltimaKit ad nonsense.


Technically works but now with ads


I and all my clients were lost with this new full editing experience.
They didn't know, where to click to get back to the dashboard, thanks to this plugin, they can manage their website again in a logical way.

Ciao!



I edited this to 2 star rating (just works) because it now shows a big unnecessary sales notice on the whole WordPress Dashboard to upsell his other works. Just don't do this mate, don't... and the guidelines also say, don't do it... https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/#11-plugins-should-not-hijack-the-admin-dashboard So a 2 star rating is generous.


Lost without it

Disable the Block Editor fullscreen mode by default in WordPress 5.4+. Lightweight, no settings needed — just activate and it works.

Gutenberg Manager vs Disable Block Editor FullScreen mode