Would like clarification on this as well. We have been advising clients to install Classic Editor before upgrading. Now they see that it is unsupported in 4.9.8.
Classic Editor can be installed on WordPress 4.9 in preparation for upgrading it to 5.0.
In that case it will only show the admin settings (so they can be pre-set). Once you upgrade to 5.0 it will start working with the new “Block Editor” there.
@azaozz The issue seems to be that Classic Editor 1.0 plugin lost compatibility for WordPress 4.9.8 somehow and people of course are unsure about clearly marked as incompatible updates.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/pSYBanO
Yes, Classic Editor 1.0 is intended for WordPress 5.0. It configures the new “Block Editor” there. The confusion comes from people trying to run it on 4.9.8, it has only limited functionality there. I’m working on a fix at the moment as it seems a lot of people still want to run 4.9.8 + Gutenberg instead of 5.0 that includes the new Block Editor. When running WP 5.0, Classic Editor 1.0 works fine.
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Right, exactly what @herbie888 said. It’s not installable from the 4.9.8 panel. Whatever the case is, it’s confusing as we can’t upgrade certain sites without the Classic Editor in place first.
Right. There would be few min between the upgrade to WP 5.0 and installing Classic Editor 1.0. Working on a fix at the moment to make Classic Editor backwards compatible with WP 4.9 again. Hope it will be out tomorrow around noon.
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@azaozz Thank you. Will look forward to the fix.
Best thing would be to delete the plugin and use “disable Gutenburg plugin” instead.
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@azaozz What’s the update with the fix you mentioned yesterday for WordPress 4.9.8 so we can add this before updating to WP 5.0? This is what I’m seeing across every website still have running on WordPress 4.9.8 https://ibb.co/qjg4c1H
Could you test the dev. version? Uninstall the current plugin then install from the zip. Can be downloaded at the bottom here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/advanced/. Should be working in 4.9 again.
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I don’t actually have this plugin installed on any sites except for one that I did about about 10 days ago when it was working. This message is actually coming up in the “Add New” area where you may automatically install plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory. It still shows as incompatible. I’ll download the version you’ve included here but just wanting to let you know it is still mislabeled.
It still shows as incompatible.
@kaotik right, it looks at the release version for that message. Once 1.2 is released, it will disappear.
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Great! It’s working now. Thank you.
Thanks for letting me know 🙂
