Introduction
Unlike New Coke, New WordPress, specifically the change from the “Classic Editor” to Gutenberg blocks is not as bad as some would argue. And argue they do. Let’s see if we can understand what all the fuss is about.
They have to go and change everything!
Full Disclosure: For the longest time I was among the anti-Gutenberg crowd. I did give it a try in the early days and that may have been why I didn’t move over to it immediately. Early Gutenberg was a challenge.
A Leap of Faith
Yet more disclosure: WordPress Classic or WordPress Gutenberg – neither is 100% to my liking. This explains some other websites I have that use a static site generator, specifically HUGO. I briefly considered 100% handed coded HTML and CSS but I believe I was under the influence of alcohol at the time.
From Classic to Elementor to Gutenberg. Yes