Hi all!
I work in an organization that has had its WP site made by a 3rd party company. We have now received a message from the provider that the EOL deadline of WP's Classic Editor will be 31 Dec this year.
As the migration to Gutenberg is extremely pricy for our budget at this current moment, do you think it is possible to keep going with the Classic Editor until at least the end of 2025?
It would be really extremely helpful if it was possible due to budget constraints right now that could get better at the end of 2025.
Thanks in advance!
I’m writing this from WordCampUS at the moment, so I’ll ask the folks at the Automattic booth about this. But here’s the official rundown from the plugin description
> Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until 2024, or as long as is necessary.
Since there are still tens of millions of sites using the Classic Editor it seems extremely unlikely that Automattic will end support. And even if they did there’s enough resistance to the Block Editor that one of the other alternative “classic editor” plugins would pick up the slack.
I can appreciate that your vendor might want to (cough) upsell you to blocks. But if you can’t afford it I wouldn’t worry about it until you can.
It’s important that you don’t confuse Classic Editor with Classic Editor *plugin*. All the Classic Editor plugin does is disable gutenberg – the classic editor UI is intrinsically built into WP Core – it’s not something that needs to be added.
Classic editor is a core part of WP. It isn’t going to go away any time soon, if ever. As u/realbasics says, there are literally 10’s of millions of site, (I think it’s 100’s of millions, based on various sources saying that less than 50% of WP sites are using Gutenberg/block editor) – it’s literally not possible for classic to be removed, without affecting a sizeable portion of the internet.
Whilst Automattic have said in the past that the **plugin** will be EOL’d at some point, I doubt they will. And even if it it was deprecated, there are dozens of alternatives [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/classic+editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/classic+editor/)