WordPress 5.0 was released on Thursday, and many people (those who are self-hosting, for example) were in for a nasty surprise: their entire way of adding a new post will have changed dramatically. The new release replaces TinyMCE with Gutenberg; a completely new way of adding content to your blog or website. In case you’re unfamiliar with the lingo, here is what TinyMCE looks like:
A Block, but not the Writer’s Kind
Gutenberg introduces a so-called Block Editor. Users of Elegant Themes’ Divi’s Visual Editor or even MailPoet or MailChimp will be familiar with the concept of composing posts through blocks. Basically, you build the page by selecting among a collection of premade kinds of content like Images, Text etc:
Still confused? Perhaps the following video will shed some light:
Thanks But No Thanks
If you are not ready to use the new WordPress 5.0 post editor, that’s ok. You can…
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Agreed, found it so frustrating.
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No matter where I look I can’t see how to read the last 118 words-the most important part!
I want to get rid of WordPress 5 and Gutenberg!
Why do they keep screwing around with things that work?
And why can I never read the rest of these posts, the parts that are not shown? The /View Original’ never works!
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Click the words See Original Post, Bruce – bottom left under where the reblog ends with …
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Hi Bruce, just follow this link: http://nicholasrossis.me/2018/12/09/hello-gutenberg-how-can-we-get-rid-of-you/
Many thanks for sharing, Chris 🙂
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