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Love WordPress but hate themes? Want granular control over every single element of your sites, without moving to a proprietary site builder platform to get it? Refoundry is for you.
Refoundry is a low-code, theme-free visual site builder that enhances Gutenberg. Get faster page speeds, responsive blocks, and total creative control.
Try it now for free! Or unlock Refoundry’s most exciting features, engineered for agencies, with <a href="https://refoundry.io/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Refoundry Pro</a>.
<h3>Build High-Performing Custom Websites, Faster</h3>
Your clients want control over every little detail of their new sites without having to hire a developer. You want to increase profitability. Refoundry is a win/win.
<ul>
<li>Save 70-80% on development time by building the majority of your sites with Refoundry’s responsive <a href="https://refoundry.io/support/the-blocks/" rel="nofollow ugc">blocks</a></li>
<li>Only 10-20% of the build requires coding, leaving your developers more time for fun stuff like interactions and customizations with CSS, JavaScript, JSON API integrations, or functions.php</li>
<li>Refoundry drastically reduces or even eliminates the hours wasted on bug fixes</li>
<li>Anyone on the team can make edits to content, layouts, and styling – no waiting in a queue for developers</li>
<li>Pro users can combine <a href="https://refoundry.io/the-blocks/reusable-component-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reusable Component Blocks</a> and the <a href="https://refoundry.io/features/component-library/" rel="nofollow ugc">Component Library</a> of responsive layouts to build new pages in record time</li>
</ul>
Need to know more? <a href="https://refoundry.io/compare/" rel="nofollow ugc">Compare Refoundry</a> to other site builders, and learn more about the <a href="https://refoundry.io/agencies/" rel="nofollow ugc">benefits to agencies</a> already using Refoundry. Or check the FAQs on this page!
<h3>The Blocks</h3>
All Refoundry users get access to the entire library of responsive blocks. These are like the default WordPress blocks, except better – and you have total control over style and layout settings in the visual editor.
<ul>
<li>Accordion</li>
<li>Advanced Filters</li>
<li>Archive List</li>
<li>Button</li>
<li>Column</li>
<li>Container</li>
<li>Featured Image</li>
<li>Filter Dropdown</li>
<li>Filter Search Bar</li>
<li>Filters (parent)</li>
<li>Google Maps</li>
<li>Grid</li>
<li>Heading</li>
<li>Image</li>
<li>List</li>
<li>Logo Grid</li>
<li>Navigation</li>
<li>Next Page</li>
<li>No Results</li>
<li>Page Numbers</li>
<li>Pagination</li>
<li>Paragraph</li>
<li>Post Author</li>
<li>Post Date</li>
<li>Post Excerpt</li>
<li>Post Terms</li>
<li>Post Title</li>
<li>Previous Page</li>
<li>Query Block</li>
<li>Query Post Template</li>
<li>Related Posts</li>
<li>Reusable Component Block</li>
<li>Row</li>
<li>Slideout</li>
<li>Slider (carousel)</li>
<li>Social Icons</li>
<li>Tabs (navigation)</li>
<li>Video Popup</li>
</ul>
<h3>The Settings</h3>
We keep talking about how you can control all of the settings in the editor, and they’re not locked into the theme or hard-coded into the page template. These are Refoundry’s settings and features.
<ul>
<li>Adobe Font Kits</li>
<li>Borders & Radius</li>
<li>Box Shadow</li>
<li>Button & Link Styles</li>
<li>Color Codes</li>
<li>Colors</li>
<li>Custom Fields</li>
<li>Display Settings</li>
<li>Font Awesome Shortcodes</li>
<li>Global Styles</li>
<li>Google Fonts</li>
<li>Google Maps</li>
<li>Gradient Backgrounds</li>
<li>Gutter</li>
<li>HTML Anchor</li>
<li>Image Background</li>
<li>Parallax</li>
<li>Positioning</li>
<li>Responsive Block Settings</li>
<li>Spacing</li>
<li>Sticky Header</li>
<li>Theme Customizations</li>
<li>Typography</li>
<li>Utility Classes</li>
<li>Widths</li>
</ul>
Refoundry enhances the Gutenberg editor, so all of the regular WordPress settings and features you’d expect are also present, like the list view, user roles, toolbar menus, templates, template parts, patterns, and responsive previews.
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://refoundry.io/the-blocks/reusable-component-block/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reusable Component Blocks:</a> Save any group of Refoundry blocks – even whole page layouts – as reusable components. Add them anywhere in a couple of clicks. Edit globally or edit local instances.</li>
<li>Custom Fields: Add extra custom data to your posts or pages, beyond the standard fields for content that you can build with regular Refoundry blocks (or with the Component Library sections that are also available to Pro users).</li>
<li><a href="https://refoundry.io/features/component-library/" rel="nofollow ugc">Component Library</a>: A library of 72+ professionally designed, fully responsive component layouts that you can drop into your pages, or fetch with ScoutAI. They include banners, text sections, callouts, grids, and post loops.</li>
<li>Animations and Parallax: Add movement and drive engagement with scroll parallax effects, smooth scrolling, in-page scroll, sticky elements, head’s up, hover styles, and support for animate file formats.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
Refoundry has a team of real humans with decades of agency experience (including product engineering to design, development, SEO, content, project management, and digital strategy) working behind the scenes. We want Refoundry to be the solution that makes your builds better, faster, and more successful.
We deliver quick turnarounds on support requests. Pro users get priority email support. We also have a thorough (and free) <a href="https://refoundry.io/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support Library</a> that includes detailed documentation on every single <a href="https://refoundry.io/support/the-blocks/" rel="nofollow ugc">block</a>, <a href="https://refoundry.io/support/settings-features/" rel="nofollow ugc">settings and features</a>, and <a href="https://refoundry.io/support/how-to-tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">video tutorials</a>.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to Typekit (typekit.com) if provided a valid project ID and api key. An API key and Project ID are transmitted, receiving data from Typekit in the form of fonts to use. Fonts are used in the display of text on the site, if configured to do so. 
This plugin connects to Google Maps API (maps.googleapis.com) if provided a valid API key. Only an API key is transmitted. This service is provided by Google.

Refoundry Blocks

A low-code, themeless visual site builder that enhances Gutenberg. Get faster page speeds, responsive blocks, and total creative control. Try it now!

Jeff Starr

This plugin disables the new Gutenberg Editor (aka Block Editor) and replaces it with the Classic Editor. You can disable Gutenberg completely, or selectively disable for posts, pages, roles, post types, and theme templates. Plus you can hide the Gutenberg nag, menu item, and more!
<blockquote>
♠ The all-in-one, COMPLETE solution for handling Gutenberg. 
 ♠ Hide ALL traces of Gutenberg and replace with Classic Editor. 
 ♠ Restores original Edit Post screen (TinyMCE, meta boxes, etc.).
</blockquote>
The Disable Gutenberg plugin restores the classic (original) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. So you can continue using plugins and theme functions that extend the Classic Editor. Supports awesome features like Meta Boxes, Quicktags, Custom Fields, and everything else the Classic Editor can do.
Easy to Use
Just activate and done! The default plugin settings are configured to hide all traces of the Gutenberg Block Editor, and fully restore the original Classic Editor. Further options for customizing when/where Gutenberg is enabled are available in the plugin settings.
<blockquote>
♠ Disable Block Widgets and restore Classic Widgets 🙂
</blockquote>
Options
<ul>
<li>Disable Gutenberg completely (all post types)</li>
<li>Disable Gutenberg for any post type</li>
<li>Disable Gutenberg for any user role</li>
<li>Disable Gutenberg for any theme template</li>
<li>Disable Gutenberg for any post/page IDs</li>
<li>Disable Gutenberg admin notice (nag)</li>
<li>Option to restore Classic Widgets</li>
<li>Option to hide the plugin menu item</li>
<li>Option to hide the Gutenberg plugin menu item (settings link)</li>
<li>Adds “Classic Editor” link to each post on the Posts screen</li>
<li>Adds item to the WP sidebar menu: “Add New (Classic)”</li>
<li>Option to enable Custom Fields Meta Box for ACF</li>
<li>Choose which editor to use for each post</li>
<li>Whitelist any post title, slug, or ID</li>
<li>Option to enable/disable frontend Gutenberg stylesheet</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
♠ Works same as Classic Editor plugin, but can do a LOT more! 
 ♠ Lightweight and super fast, built with WP APIs 🙂
</blockquote>
Fully configurable, enable or disable Gutenberg and restore the Classic Editor wherever is necessary.
Automatically replaces Gutenberg with the Classic Editor.
Features
<ul>
<li>Super simple</li>
<li>Clean, secure code</li>
<li>Built with the WordPress API</li>
<li>Lightweight, fast and flexible</li>
<li>Regularly updated and “future proof”</li>
<li>Works great with other WordPress plugins</li>
<li>Plugin options configurable via settings screen</li>
<li>Focused on flexibility, performance, and security</li>
<li>One-click restore plugin default options</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
♠ Works great with Google AMP and the WordPress <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/" rel="ugc">AMP plugin</a>.
</blockquote>
Disable Gutenberg is developed and maintained by <a href="https://x.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Starr</a>, 15-year <a href="https://plugin-planet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress developer</a> and <a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">book author</a>.
Super light & fast plugin, super easy on server resources!
Why?
Gutenberg is a useful editor but sometimes you want to disable it for specific posts, pages, user roles, post types, and/or theme templates. This plugin enables you to disable Gutenberg and replace it with the Classic Editor wherever you want. For example, lots of WordPress users already enjoy robust page-building functionality via one of the many great plugins like Composer or Elementor. So many options, no need to feel “locked in” to using Gutenberg!
If you like Disable Gutenberg, please give it a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-gutenberg/reviews/?rate=5#new-post" rel="ugc">5-star rating</a>, thank you!
Privacy
This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.
Support development
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can <a href="https://monzillamedia.com/donate.html" rel="nofollow ugc">make a donation</a> or purchase one of my books:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Tao of WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Digging into WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://htaccessbook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">.htaccess made easy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wp-tao.com/wordpress-themes-book/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Themes In Depth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.perishablepress.com/downloads/wizards-collection-sql-recipes-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress</a></li>
</ul>
And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/bbq-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">BBQ Pro</a> – Blazing fast WordPress firewall</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/blackhole-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blackhole Pro</a> – Automatically block bad bots</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/banhammer-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Banhammer Pro</a> – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/ga-google-analytics-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">GA Google Analytics Pro</a> – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/head-meta-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Head Meta Pro</a> – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress</li>
<li><a href="https://plugin-planet.com/simple-ajax-chat-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Ajax Chat Pro</a> – Unlimited chat rooms</li>
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</ul>
Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂

Disable Gutenberg

Excellent plugin

Awsome


Thank you! I like using the plugin on my personal site.


Thanks


Very useful--restores Wordpress to the way I need it--clean and, easy-to-edit.


Very useful--restores Wordpress to the way I need it


I can't really imagine Wordpress without this plugin. The nonsense called Gutenberg reliably eliminates and nothing else is needed.


The most important plugin the wordpress world needs


Sometimes the block editor is fine to use, but glad this plugin was made. 



Cheers.


Annoying that this is still required in 2025

Disable Gutenberg Block Editor and restore the Classic Editor and original Edit Post screen (TinyMCE, meta boxes, etc.).

Refoundry Blocks vs Disable Gutenberg