#wordpress 2021-03-23
2021-03-23 UTC
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jeremycherfas I have now installed the Velox theme on my local WP, with a view to resurrecting an old niche site that I have neglected for years, and I am completely befuddled by the block editor. I'm really not sure I want to learn how it works. But then again, is the classic editor going to be around forever?
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bradenslen I have the same concerns about the classic editor being around in WP.
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[tw2113_Slack_] i doubt they want to keep it around forever, but at the same time they still have blogroll/links functionality in core 8 some years later
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petermolnar it will not be around forever, no. The block editor has it's benefits for doing fancy pages; for writers... well, yes. It's not for writers.
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# jeremycherfas Yeah. I think I'm going to use grav for this one too. I can indiewebify it relatively easily, having done it once.
# [tw2113_Slack_] the tin foil in me says it’s a longstanding kneejerk reaction to page builders
# [tw2113_Slack_] but as what will resinate in a lot of us, it’s leaving the idea of a blog behind and potentially pushing those people who still just want a blog, away from the platform
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[grantcodes] I don't really get the hate, gutenberg has a lot of really nice features for writing simple blog posts that make it a lot more useful than the classic editor - especially for non technical folk.
# [grantcodes] Only technical people care about that.
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# [tw2113_Slack_] a pet peeve of mine is sometimes i just want to paste a bloody link, not try to auto-embed everything
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# bradenslen The block editor is for commercial layout not writing.
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# [grantcodes] Yeah there's a bunch of junk in there but I find it pretty easy to ignore.
# [tw2113_Slack_] eh, paragraph blocks are rather straightforward even for writing
# [tw2113_Slack_] probably 90% of the blocks aren’t for the topic
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# [jeremycherfas] All I know is that the theme was displaying something I would have called a byline or author strap and there didn’t seem any obvious way to edit it.
# petermolnar > The block editor is for commercial layout not writing. - this!!!
# petermolnar bradenslen++
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