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How To Disable Gutenberg Editor with Code.

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Do you want to disable Gutenberg Editor completely and want to use some other page builder?

Why Disable Gutenberg ?

there can be various reasons why you want to get rid of the new WordPress Gutenberg Editor and some of them are listed below:

  • Gutenberg is Hard to use.
  • Used to with Elementor / Divi / Other Page Builders.
  • Gutenberg is boring.
  • Lack of responsive settings.
  • Not much Prep-buit templates.

you can use this line of code to disable Gutenberg editor completely. make sure to paste that in your functions.php file.

add_filter('use_block_editor_for_post', '__return_false');

and if you want to disable it from specific pages then go with the code written below.

function itdoctorz_disable_gutenberg_for_post_type( $is_enabled, $post_type ) {
	if ( 'your_post_type' == $post_type ) {  // Change ‘your_post_type’ to your CPT slug for which you want to disable Gutenberg Editor.
        		return false;
    	}
	return $is_enabled;
}
add_filter( 'use_block_editor_for_post_type',  ‘itdoctorz_disable_gutenberg_for_post_type’, 10, 2 );

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