WordPress—the leading blogging and content management system across the web—is releasing version 5.0 on Thursday [6 Dec]. This marks the first major update in a year, and the most substantive update to the platform in several years, bringing with it a variety of speed optimizations and new features intended to make it more flexible to fit an increasing number of use cases.
The largest change coming to WordPress 5.0 is the Gutenberg editor, which completely reimagines the way writers and other content creators interact with their website. In contrast to increasingly popular markup editors used in other blogging software, the Gutenberg editor is fundamentally WYSIWYG, though with a design flexibility that allows content to be easily reformatted across screen sizes and devices.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday December 07 2018, @05:40PM (3 children)
... Do I get to use the old editor as an option? Or are they going full Microsoft - you'll grow to love it, we're sure, and it doesn't matter if learning a new interface is something you can't afford the time for right now.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @07:40PM (1 child)
They're making the old editor available as a plug-in, but they'll be taking the plug-in away in 2022.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Monday December 10 2018, @12:29PM
I thought you were joking, but this is exactly what's happening. What's more, the plug-in is not installed by default, and you have to install it by hand.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday December 07 2018, @08:46PM
Unlikely. Wordpress is GPL.