WordPress was developed as a pure blogging tool, like MovableType and other self-hosted alternatives to Blogger, etc.
The Classic Editor was optimized for blogging. Other, later features like pages, menus, plugins, etc. were added that made WordPress more of a website builder. But it kept that classic editor interface, which pretty much everyone agrees was and is a pretty terrible page layout tool. It’s why we got an eruption of page builders as early as 2010 and why we eventually got Gutenberg.
Doesn’t change the fact that the original (aka “Classic”) editor was and is still optimized for blogging. In particular it exposes interfaces like categories, tags, featured images, and publication dates that are useless for page creation… but are essential to regular blogging.
I’ll also point out that while Google, a lot of oAuth apps, and RSS can at least partially decrypt more complex content, they all know and understand core WP posts inside and out and always can display than perfectly.
So I always invite clients to use core blogging with the Classic Editor plugin even if the rest of the site is built with blocks or one of the other builders.
WordPress was developed as a pure blogging tool, like MovableType and other self-hosted alternatives to Blogger, etc.
The Classic Editor was optimized for blogging. Other, later features like pages, menus, plugins, etc. were added that made WordPress more of a website builder. But it kept that classic editor interface, which pretty much everyone agrees was and is a pretty terrible page layout tool. It’s why we got an eruption of page builders as early as 2010 and why we eventually got Gutenberg.
Doesn’t change the fact that the original (aka “Classic”) editor was and is still optimized for blogging. In particular it exposes interfaces like categories, tags, featured images, and publication dates that are useless for page creation… but are essential to regular blogging.
I’ll also point out that while Google, a lot of oAuth apps, and RSS can at least partially decrypt more complex content, they all know and understand core WP posts inside and out and always can display than perfectly.
So I always invite clients to use core blogging with the Classic Editor plugin even if the rest of the site is built with blocks or one of the other builders.
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