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Comment by josefresco | Hacker News Reader

As someone who hosts over 150 WordPress websites for small businesses ... I'm not thrilled about this release and the work it will entail given the editor overhaul.

Another user posted this: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/06/5-0-gutenberg-sta...

Also this posted by the author of Advanced Custom Fields, a very popular plugin: https://twitter.com/wp_acf/status/1070089217479307264

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Supposedly, you just install this and you're good to go: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

I just tried updating to 5 on a test copy, as far as I can tell it didn't break anything.

The drop in boxes on 5 were too small on my system to edit (looked like it had a max width of 600px. This essentially forced my hand for the classic-editor because I couldn't drop in images and what not. Really strange error to have on the first day.

The boxes for editing should be based on percent (I shouldn't have to edit them).

For as long as that plugin is supported..

2022 at the earliest.

I manage a fair amount of WordPress sites. You need to add all your websites to a WordPress manager like ManageWP. Install the classic editor. That will give you time. We will not use Gutenberg for now. I'm creating a training to help everybody use it.

Have you tried managing it using https://managewp.com? I was in your shoes and it saved me a lot of headache

So you allow managewp to login to your sites?

ManageWP uses the WordPress api to update plugins and themes

It uses official WordPress Rest API: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/

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