Comments on: WordPress 5 – 2019 and Beyond https://web242.com/2019-and-beyond/ Vancouver Web Design and Web Hosting Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: Zaffy https://web242.com/2019-and-beyond/#comment-33 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:06:58 +0000 https://web242.com/?p=6502#comment-33 In reply to Avrom.

740?? wow!!
So we have a bunch of developers who basically ignore what their actions will do to 740millions of site owners.
Reading their arrogant “deal with it” answers in the wordpress forums is so frustrating.
They are in a power trip while million of people’s businesses are harmed.

Once thing is for sure, they do not trust their own project, that is why they imposed it.
Thanks for the links! 🙂

]]> By: Avrom https://web242.com/2019-and-beyond/#comment-32 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:06:23 +0000 https://web242.com/?p=6502#comment-32 In reply to Zaffy.

Zaffy,
Most of use cannot wrap our heads around Gutenberg either! It could have just been an option in the current TinyMCE editor, and people would have been fine with that approach. No.1 rule in business is not to change a winning product.

It’s actaully around 740 million sites world-wide.

The Classic Editor will likely be supported for some time, but there is the Disable Gutenberg plugin as well, which looks like it will be supported indefinitely. See my other post on how to disable Gutenberg:
https://web242.com/wordpress-5-how-to-disable-gutenberg/

There is also ClassicPress. But it’s relatively new and I need to see more of the established plugins and page-builders onboard with them, before I would consider switching:
https://www.classicpress.net/

Cheers
Avrom

]]> By: Zaffy https://web242.com/2019-and-beyond/#comment-31 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 20:21:52 +0000 https://web242.com/?p=6502#comment-31 Hello and happy new year.
I am trying to understand the logic behind Gutenberg and I fail to do so.
There is a reason that 1/3 of the sites globally are made with WordPress, it was user friendly. And Cheap.
Why oh why to ignore 70millions of sites just to be “innovative” ?
Why to introduce something like Gutenberg which is not compatible with the simplicity the average non-tech-savvy user needs?
Why to impose it ? Why to force millions of site owners into costs ? Why they do not care?
Do these people feel any kind of responsibility towards the millions of users?
This is not a social platform like Facebook, where you change the interface but people will finally adjust.
We are talking about businesses, mostly small businesses, that are affected with a cost.
Why they are so arrogant? “we will move on like or not” is their answer in the thousands of negatives reviews.
What were/are they thinking?

I only used WP for small sites, I never trusted free-source for serious sites and it seems I was right.
Now I will have to find something similar for those clients of mine who cannot afford expensive solutions.
Cause, let’s not forget the Classic Editor will be alive till 2021.

All empires fall from within, and it seems WordPress is no exception. Oh well… nothing is irreplaceable.

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