Tag: WordPress

This site runs ClassicPress, the fork of WordPress that does not include the Block Editor crap. I also have been running a clone of site for my full-time job that I converted to ClassicPress. We make use of GravityForms and several 3rd party add-ons for GravityForms for many, many online forms there. Recently an update to GravityForms broke the ClassicPress Dashboard on my clone site. That pretty much seals its fate for use where I work full-time. If ClassicPress doesn’t get a majority of these big-name plugin and theme developers on board supporting their platform instead of or as well as WordPress, ClassicPress is doomed to wither on the vine.

The “block editor” in WordPress leaves a lot to be desired, IMO.  The WordPress people are also pushing the concept into layout, which me and a lot of other folks aren’t happy about.  There’s a project out there called ClassicPress that is a fork of the last WordPress code that did NOT contain the block editor.  I definitely noticed that it responds faster to hits than the current getting-bloated WordPress.

Anyway, I switched this site to ClassicPress to see how it goes.  So far the only problem I’ve hit is that it doesn’t seem to acknowledge the static home page setting. It goes straight to the blog roll page always. I suspect a couple possibilities that I could maybe work around.