PG apologizes for the lack of posts today.
He’s been trying to install the WordPress 5.0 update on TPV and keeps getting a strange error message.
He’s turned the problem over to the ace support team at HostingMatters and is hoping for a fix.
To the best of his knowledge, the update errors haven’t done anything nasty to the website.
And people wonder why I hate ‘upgrading’ something that was working well enough as it was. 😉
Good luck PG, at least it’s not the latest ‘what can we get away with breaking this time’ windows .10 …
MYMV – oops, sounds like it already is!
Let me know if you need some help. I’ll take care of it gratis.
Thanks for the offer, Nate. Let me see how my webhost’s customer support respond.
Upgrading to 5.0 did seem to cause any problems, although I took care to install the “Classic Editor” plugin so I would have to deal with Gutenberg.
I tried it on one of my sites, and it’s terrible for blogging. Great for laying out pages, perhaps, but a time-waster for blog posts.
I definitely agree. HORRIBLE for blogging. I write both a daily Journal and a weekly Pro Writers blog, and it takes twice as long (and is a lot more hassle) to use their suppository of “blocks.”
agreed
I also took care to install the Classic Editor plug-in. The new “block editor” looked all too similar to the software at my newsletter host. I can use that interface, but it’s a lot more clumsy than the old WordPress interface.
Clumsy for a newsletter mailing that occurs perhaps once a month is one thing. For a blog that I might post on twice a week? No.
I am so relieved that they did provide that Classic Editor.
Wishing you luck, PG. I *hate* upgrades!
I upgraded 17 sites when 5.0 came out, and had no problems with any of them, but then they’re rather simple bloggy sites.
I’ve used block editors before for specialty stuff… If all you’re doing is blogging it makes very little difference, except that you can control the word-wrap problem in an article around a half-width image more directly, something I’ve always found irritating.
You can still use the HTML editor within the blocks for fine control, if you need to.
Don’t know how buggy it may be for more technically ambitious site upgrades, but I’m happy enough. And the “Classic” plugin is available for anyone who doesn’t want to try out the Gutenberg editor now.
You don’t want to just ignore the release altogether for a year or two — any other updates, such as security features, are going to go into the new release. Better to pick up the plugin so you can ignore the Gutenberg editor and to accept the WordPress 5.0 upgrade to continue with business as usual, if you must.
The problem is that TPV uses a really old and clunky theme. that alone is probably going to break a lot of stuff in a mjaor update like WP 5.0.
Good point, Nate. I was reminded of the need to get a new theme by yesterday’s problems.
Well, I did get Catch Pro to look remarkably like the current theme:
https://the-digital-reader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/new-passive-voice.jpg
I misplaced the file with the required edits, but I could recreate it relatively quickly.
The theme may be old and clunky but I really like the current look of the blog. I hope you can move to something up to date that looks the same.