ClassicPress is a hard fork of WordPress 4.9.8 without Gutenberg. Our goal is to focus on providing a content management system that ticks all the boxes for business users, including plugin and them developers.
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ClassicPress is a hard fork of WordPress 4.9.8 without Gutenberg. Our goal is to focus on providing a content management system that ticks all the boxes for business users, including plugin and them developers.
Launched on April 14th, 2019
Much easier to use than WordPress but not getting support for some plugins and such as WP goes further into developing those content blockheads. I'd like to stick with ClassicPress because I don't need to (again) learn new software but I wish there were more options for plugins. Or no plugins, if they went farther and developed it to be standalone and not need plugins.
Gutenberg is horrendous for writing long-form content. I tried to warn people before it was released in my extensive post on SmallBizTrends.
Dread filled my heart when the future of WP started filtering through and as much as I wanted to stay with WP, the introduction of Gutenberg and the forthcoming 'improvements' tied in with the total lack of empaphy from the top brass made me search for something else. Thankfully this is where ClassicPress came into play. Future projects are being slowly but surely switched over.
Resume'ed
I installed it on my blog as soon as I discovered it.
Pros:Better performance than WordPress
Cons:A themes/plugin directory may help
The community can decide where ClassicPress is going via a petition system. This is open source the way it should be. A stable and secure CMS with no surprises. I'm currently running about 20 sites on ClassicPress with no issues.
Pros:Friendly and supportive community. Continues the great tradition of WordPress without all the recent upheavals.
Cons:Needs more themes and plugin developers to get on board, but this is starting to happen.