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You want to look into the Classic Editor, that was default up to WP 4.9: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

I despise the Gutenberg Editor, if only for reasons that it is not how people write. I don't want to interrupt my thinking by clicking to add blocks, I just want one big white sheet of virtual paper, to start writing untill the end.

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> I don't want to interrupt my thinking by clicking to add blocks, I just want one big white sheet of virtual paper, to start writing untill the end.

There's a lot to criticize Gutenberg for, but this is not one of them. It's a big white sheet of virtual paper, and you can write your paragraphs without any clicking. Pressing enter opens a new paragraph, you can make it a heading by starting with (part of) "/heading" and pressing enter once more. It's easy to add more complicated blocks, but you don't have to.

And that's one of the things that is great about Gutenberg, being able to search for and activate different content types without touching a mouse is the last thing I thought I'd find in a blog/cms editor but there it is, and it's great.

Unfortunately, I'm using Wordpress.com, which only allows plugins if you pay. I haven't looked at porting over to wordpress.org, but perhaps I should. I do agree Gutenberg is absolutely awful. Why they ever thought it was a good idea, and why they keep doubling down on it, I'll never understand.

I find this whole discussion a bit off but if you don't have a stake in the WordPress ecosystem and don't want to self host why not try Ghost, substack, weebly, wix and others ?

Part of the issue is I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with this project, so I'd rather not pay for it quite yet (especially as money is much tighter now that our third roommate moved out). WordPress I knew had a free plan without needing to host anything. I was hoping I'd like it/stick with the project and eventually pay and host it either through them or via a self-hosted instance. It was simply to get the project off the ground and started, but I wasn't willing to do that all yet.

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