How to use Gutenberg similar to Classic Editor?

Do you still prefer to work with the Classic Editor (TinyMCE editor)? Have you disabled the Gutenberg editor or thinking to do so?

Wait, I got a better option for you. 😇

Why not use Gutenberg as your new and improved classic editor?

Sounds good? It’s even very easy to do it. Let’s find out how.

Video Tutorial

Lock WordPress Posts or Pages to Classic Block

So the trick is to simply lock your posts, pages or any CPT to only use the ‘Classic Block’. This way when you create a new post you will get a classic block added by default and you simply work inside it like you have been working with the classic editor. You won’t be able to add, remove, move blocks in Gutenberg.

To do this, you simply need to copy and paste this code into your WordPress website. You can either paste it in your child theme’s functions.php file or the recommended way is to use the code snippet plugin.

Code Snippets

Code Snippet to Lock Posts for Classic Block

function lock_post_for_classic_block() {
	
	//Define your post types to lock for classic editor block. Default CPTs are 'post', 'page'
  $post_type_object = get_post_type_object( 'post' );
    
	//Define what blocks you want to lock it for.
	$post_type_object->template = array(
        array( 'core/freeform'),
    );
	//Possible Lock Options: all, insert
  $post_type_object->template_lock = 'all';
}
add_action( 'init', 'lock_post_for_classic_block' );

The code above simply lock ‘post’ for the classic blocks ( ‘core/freeform’ ). You can replace ‘post’ with any CPT.