Love or hate, you don’t have to be stuck with Gutenberg

Jean M. Cogdell's avatarJean's Writing

That’s the name of the WordPress new block editor, Gutenberg.

Here is what happened to me.

I was writing a new post and noticed at the top of the page was this…

Unfortunately, I clicked.

I think I’ve mentioned before how click-happy I get at the sight of a button. I’ve set off alarms and disabled gadgets just because I couldn’t resist a button. Just ask my daughters. LOL

But, back to this mess.I spent an entire day researching how to get back to the Classic Editor. Plugins are not an option because my blog is not self-hosted. Using the Gutenberg Block Editor made me feel as if I’d stepped back in time, not moved forward. WordPress really needs to rethink this option.

After wasting hours, I finally went to the Chat feature. Yay! Success. Within seconds,  customer service reverted my blog editor back to Classic. A friend did show me…

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  1. Widdershins Avatar

    Don’t do it don’t do it … she did it. :)

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      I suppose I will have to try it, we only have a choice for two more years!

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  2. allysnotebook Avatar

    Good post. I am reluctant to push buttons .

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