Title: Charlie Merland's Replies | WordPress.org --- # Charlie Merland [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 98 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/page/3/?output_format=md)… [5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/page/5/?output_format=md) [6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/page/6/?output_format=md) [7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/page/7/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor] Critical error on this website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-error-on-this-website-39/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-error-on-this-website-39/#post-17735613) * To whom it may concern, [this is a core issue](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61151), not an issue with Kadence 🙂 * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/page/2/#post-11633114) * [@iamhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamhere/) See what I wrote 6 months ago: * > The Classic Editor plugin won’t stop existing after Dec. 31, 2021, it will > stop being supported officially by the WP.org team. To my understanding the > community will continue to offer support if need be. Gutenberg is the official > editor now and three years of official support for the Classic Editor plugin > should be enough for Gutenberg to become massively adopted and supported by > themes and plugins. * I’ll add this: Gutenberg is not meant to remain at the editor stage. Next phases includes support for Widget, Menus, and ultimately all parts of a WordPress sites. * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[Gutenberg] “What were they thinking”?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-were-they-thinking-3/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-were-they-thinking-3/#post-11233669) * Gutenberg has been announced for years before 5.0 release. That left plenty of time to alert customers about the incoming change, offer trials and support and mention the Classic Editor solution. My clients were informed about this almost two years ago and I’ve been offering Gutenberg test trials since mid-2018. As a result WordPress 5.0 release went as smoothly as can be. * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[Gutenberg] Serves no useful purpose…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serves-no-useful-purpose/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serves-no-useful-purpose/#post-11233663) * Actually Gutenberg is groundwork for composer, widgets and menu editor updates. [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/gutenberg-phase-2/](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/gutenberg-phase-2/) * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/#post-10968215) * > My customers voted on a complete file and db restore of their 4.x after 48 > hours of WordPress 5.0 with Gutenberg. * None of my customers asked to stay with 4.9. Maybe it’s because I informed them 18 months ago about the incoming change and they’ve been testing and learning Gutenberg for the past 6 months or so. It was clear from the beginning that Gutenberg would eventually become part of the core. That left us with two years to handle clients’ reactionsm. People will obviously reject such a brutal, unprepared change; I consider it my job to explain the reasons of that change to my customers and to prepare them to make the transition as smooth as possible. * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/#post-10959031) * Could you detail what in WP5.0 would require you to redesign your sites? I’m currently supporting about two dozen WP sites, none which broke due to version 5.0. Only a few will need the Classic Editor to accommodate users. * It’s been clear for the past two years that WordPress 5.0 would be a tremendous change to the edit process, that should have left plenty of time to inform clients and estimate the costs of updating the most sensitive sites. * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/#post-10957540) * Depends on how Gutenberg evolves and how it gets extended by plugins. * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-life-for-the-classic-editor-two-years/#post-10957277) * The Classic Editor plugin won’t stop existing after Dec. 31, 2021, it will stop being supported officially by the WP.org team. To my understanding the community will continue to offer support if need be. Gutenberg is the official editor now and three years of official support for the Classic Editor plugin should be enough for Gutenberg to become massively adopted and supported by themes and plugins. * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[Contact Form 7 styler for Elementor Page Builder] Does exactly what it says.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-exactly-what-it-says-176/) * Thread Starter [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-exactly-what-it-says-176/#post-10859655) * Hi [@re_enter_rupok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/re_enter_rupok/), * Actually I’m using this plugin instead of Essential Addons on KISS principle, because I only need a simple Contact Form 7 integration and have no use for the 26 others widgets included. * Thanks for the advise though! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WPMovieLibrary] Plugin crashes menus on my site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-crashes-my-site-4/) * Plugin Author [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-crashes-my-site-4/#post-10738165) * Hi [@martincid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martincid/), * Glad to see you find a solution! I’ll take a look at the issue though as it may happen to others; you’re using Newspaper theme, right? Are you using any plugins to manage menus? * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[Gutenberg] if this goes live I’m leaving wp for good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-this-goes-live-im-leaving-wp-for-good/) * [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-this-goes-live-im-leaving-wp-for-good/#post-10497889) * > My clients don’t want to drag and drop and move things around. They don’t need > a page builder. * Mine neither. So what I’ll be doing is disabling Gutenberg on my clients’ sites. Takes about 10 seconds per site. I can live with that. * I virtually don’t understand all the fuss with this thing. Really. Don’t like Gutenberg? Disable it. Why all the complains and drama for something you won’t be using anyway, furthermore if you can trash it with a couple clicks? * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[WPMovieLibrary] good plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-9/) * Plugin Author [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-9/#post-10270838) * Edit: issue solved. - This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/). * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[WPMovieLibrary] good plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-9/) * Plugin Author [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-9/#post-10270745) * Hi [@majana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/majana/), * I’m truly sorry to hear that. Can you open a ticket so we can find out how to fix your problem? * Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/) In reply to: [[WPMovieLibrary] Davvero notevole!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/davvero-notevole/) * Plugin Author [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/davvero-notevole/#post-9987040) * Thank you [@psike64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psike64/)! TV shows support is one of my priorities for 2018 🙂 * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WPMovieLibrary] Error WPMOLY_Module](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-wpmoly_module/) * Plugin Author [Charlie Merland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caercam/) * (@caercam) * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-wpmoly_module/#post-9802709) * Hi [@earl_d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earl_d/), * Was there any changes to your site that could have triggered this? Any plugin installed, theme updated? 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