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Good morning,
I am using for various sites that I manage the SiteOrigin plugin and I need to understand if there will be problems with future WordPress updates related to the introduction of Gutenberg.
Unfortunately at the moment I can’t find sure information about it and … I am terrified of having to rebuild all the sites all over again!!
Can you please help me?
Thank you very much, regards,
Sara
Hi Sara
Thanks for reaching out.
There isn’t anything to worry about, Existing Page Builder pages will remain in the Classic Editor. If you’d like to keep working in the Classic Editor, it’s easiest to install the Classic Editor plugin. If you’d like to work in the Block Editor you can use the SiteOrigin Layout and or SiteOrigin Widget Blocks.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your feedback.
We found out that the Classic Editor plugin will be dismissed in 2022, so now our question is: when that will happen, will we have problems? Should we anyway re-make all our websites (we are talking about 15/20 websites, some of them with many pages) by that date?
Thanks again, regards,
Sara
At the moment, we’re able to maintain Page Builder pages within the Classic Editor format without the Classic Editor plugin. Adding the Classic Editor plugin just makes things a little simpler as new posts or pages will automatically be in the classic format even without Page Builder content. The information on the Classic Editor plugin page is a little more nuanced than a hard 2022 deadline:
Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until at least 2022, or as long as is necessary.
Even if updates had to stop for the plugin in 2022, the plugin would still be usable and will certainly be forked and supported by another group of developers.
In summary, it isn’t necessary to convert classic to block editor pages unless you specifically want to make use of the block editor.