@michih that’s great to see you’ve changed your view, what a journey you seem to have gone on. You underline a point about migration and one to work on. What feature would you really like to see?
@karmatosed I think it would be great to have a button called “Export blog posts (from classic editor)” or something like that at /wp-admin/edit.php.
If you click on it, a separate view in the backend opens. It contains an option for the admin to select either some or all (1-n) blog posts to export. This file then contains the content of the selected blog posts done with the classic editor including all meta data such as title, date published, author, etc.
Afterwards, I imagine to have another button at /wp-admin/edit.php named “Import blog posts (for the block editor)” which makes it possible to import the same file again and the magic (migration process from classic to block) happens in the background.
This could be one approach.
Or a different approach (maybe “easier”) without the need of an export: Just have a button for blog posts saying “Migrate content from classic to block editor”.
The same for wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page.
In my opinion, the lack of having such an option is a big obstacle for people getting familiar easily with the new editor.
Thirdly, instead of putting that into core, it might be a good idea to have a separate plugin for that process.
What do you think?
Interesting idea. I haven’t thought too much about the how, but I thought it could be good to start the discussion over on GitHub about this. Would you be interested in creating an issue there or if not, I can for you: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md
Hey Tammie
Glad you like it – here is the feature request I just opened:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/18645
Thanks a lot
Michael