{"id":226,"date":"2018-12-10T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2018-12-10T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:07:20","slug":"how-to-disable-the-new-wordpress-page-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/how-to-disable-the-new-wordpress-page-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to disable the new WordPress Page Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is a time for many things &#8211; presents, family, friends, food and&#8230;&#8230;.a new WordPress page editor?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, this festive season WordPress is spreading Christmas cheer by releasing WordPress 5.0 to the masses and there&#8217;s one thing that you will notice right away.<\/p>\n<p>GUTENBERG!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wordpress_5.jpg\" alt=\"Wordpress 5.0\" width=\"750\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wordpress_5.jpg 750w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wordpress_5-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wordpress_5-478x270.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For many WordPress users, Gutenberg is about as welcome as a Vegan around a Christmas table (sorry Vegans!).<\/p>\n<p>When you first try and create a new post or page after upgrading to WordPress 5.0, you will be hit straight away with the new page editor and your reaction will almost certainly be&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the heck is this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/guternberg_editor.jpg\" alt=\"The Guternberg Page Editor\" width=\"750\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/guternberg_editor.jpg 750w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/guternberg_editor-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/guternberg_editor-604x260.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This my friends, is Gutenberg. A block based page builder that now ships as the default page editor in WordPress and love it or hate it, it&#8217;s here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you really, really don&#8217;t like the new page editor, is there anything you can do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>YES!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those of you that don&#8217;t like change (or new WYSIWYG page builders!) then fear not, you can go back to the classic WordPress page builder in just a few clicks by installing the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/classic-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classic Editor<\/a>&#8221; plugin.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, log into your WordPress dashboard and click on Plugins &gt; Add New.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227\" src=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/add_new_plugin.jpg\" alt=\"Add new plugin\" width=\"337\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/add_new_plugin.jpg 337w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/add_new_plugin-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the search box at the top right of the page, enter the search term &#8220;Classic Editor&#8221; and you should see the following plugin come up in the search results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229\" src=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/classic_editor_plugin.jpg\" alt=\"Hello my old friend\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/classic_editor_plugin.jpg 500w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/classic_editor_plugin-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/classic_editor_plugin-438x270.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the &#8220;Install Now&#8221; button and in a few short seconds you will be able to breathe a big sigh of relief as your WordPress world returns to normal!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/back_to_normal.jpg\" alt=\"The classic editor is back!\" width=\"750\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/back_to_normal.jpg 750w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/back_to_normal-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/back_to_normal-604x229.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is a time for many things &#8211; presents, family, friends, food and&#8230;&#8230;.a new WordPress page editor? That&#8217;s right, this festive season WordPress is spreading Christmas cheer by releasing WordPress 5.0 to the masses and there&#8217;s one thing that you will notice right away. GUTENBERG! For many WordPress users, Gutenberg is about as welcome as a Vegan around a Christmas table (sorry Vegans!). When you first try and create a new post or page after upgrading to WordPress 5.0, you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/how-to-disable-the-new-wordpress-page-editor\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d9.hosting\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}