Title: WordPress 5 editor breaks
Last modified: December 6, 2018

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# WordPress 5 editor breaks

 *  Resolved [Photogent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photogent/)
 * (@photogent)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/)
 * Here is the rundown:
 * I have been using Gutenberg as a separate plugin for a few months now. As flawed
   and temperamental as it can be, it helps me organize my pages.
 * Just now, I received the notification that wordpress 5 was available, so I installed.
 * Page editing ceased to work. clicking “edit page” either from the dashboard or
   the page toolbar pulled up a blank white page.
 * I dug around and found that wordpress 5 deactivated the standalone Gutenburg 
   plugin. I expected this, as Gutenberg is now built in to the core, right? On 
   a hunch, I reactivated the old plugin, and now I can edit pages again.
 * My hunch is that if you are already using Gutenberg, you are going to have some
   conflicts between the new wordpress and the old gutenburg plugin.
 * Edit: Additional information
 * On some of my pages I had a large image at the top of the page as kind of a header
   for the page, just under the title. After upgrading to WordPress 5 some of these
   images disappeared. After re-activating the old Gutenberg plugin, those images
   came BACK.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [Photogent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photogent/).
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [Photogent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photogent/).

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/#post-10955154)
 * Please review this post and attempt the basic troubleshooting suggested therein:
   
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-5-0-master-list/?view=all](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-5-0-master-list/?view=all)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/#post-10955163)
 * [@photogent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photogent/) The Gutenberg plugin
   is no longer needed, if you’re on 5.0. However based on your description, I suspect
   you have some code written that relies on some Gutenberg specific functions, 
   instead of the ones in 5.0.
 *  Thread Starter [Photogent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photogent/)
 * (@photogent)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/#post-10955176)
 * So don’t know why it happened, but just in a matter of troubleshooting and finding
   additional information, I deactivated the original Gutenberg plugin. Editing 
   still works, so whatever was temporarily out of wack, activating and deactivating
   the old plugin seemed to clear the issue.
 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/#post-10955202)
 * Maybe a caching issue.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/#post-10955796)
 * Side note to [@iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/)
 * If you noticed, this topic is marked as “resolved”!
 * Please do not jump into other topics. If the troubleshooting already posted made
   no difference for you, then, as per the [Forum Welcome](https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/forum-welcome/),
   please [post your own topic](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform).
   A lot more people will see your post this way. That way you stand a good chance
   of getting the assistance you want. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your 
   issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in
   physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus 
   one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability
   of an application as a whole.
 * Your reply is archived.

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 * [editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editor/)
 * [failure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/failure/)
 * [Gutenburg](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gutenburg/)

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-5-editor-breaks/#post-10955796)
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