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I'm trying to dust off my ancient #wordpress #blog, and I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that wordpress and the wordpress community don't care about blogs anymore.
All the themes look like ecommerce sites. I don't want that.
It's bad enough the editor is now the visual editor that is *really* pushing a bunch of post types that never made any sense to me, let alone "boxes" or whatever the editor calls them seem to do their damnedest to not let anyone see any html ever.
Want to paste in an embed? Why would you do that? Pick one of these 15 embed buttons. Bruh? Like wha?
it doesn't help that it appears that widgets are constantly breaking the themes now. Breaking them hard enough that the site crashes.
FML.
Maybe I should just delete the whole thing and reinstall.
@jonathankoren There is a wonderful plugin called disable gutenberg which is a must! More powerful & flexible than the clasic editor plugin. Also the whole principle of backward compatibility & no breaking changes doesn't seem to apply to Gutenberg
@dalereardon I ended up breaking my site for the first time ever when I switched themes last night.
Something went wrong with the widgets. I ended up hacking the code so it wouldn’t load them, and had to delete them all. For some reason I had like eight version of each widget. No idea how.
Once I deleted everything, I could put the code back and everything worked again.
Scared me though. First time I was ever scared using Wordpress and the standard components.