Don’t Push This On Users

I am not a web site designer, an application developer, nor a software engineer. I am a simple IT infrastructure managed service provider who is assisting a 501c non-profit in maintaining an already existing site. My HTML knowledge is from my college days and early work experience in the late 1990’s.

The previous Word Press editor was easy enough for someone like me to learn and maintain. In the editor screen, the tool bars on top (Add Media, link, etc) were VERY handy for someone like me. Where the heck did they all go in Gutenberg??

Block editor, I’m sure, is fantastic for a site that was created in that editor. However, when I open up one my pages, it’s unrecognizable, unmanageable, and forces me to go to code editor just to see the HTML to know what the heck is happening. Even then, it’s extremely difficult without the previous toolbar up there to add media, links, etc.

That block editor screen is completely worthless, and looks NOTHING like the page really looks in the Preview screen. Why even bother with it? Again, this might be my blazing ignorance talking, but I am absolutely unable to figure out how to do simple things with this new interface.

Thank God I have access to the Classic Editor plugin, or I would be completely unable to manage my site. Gutenberg is that bad IMO!! I dread the day that plugin stops working, as I will then be forced to pay someone else to do something that I used to do on my own.