{"id":84,"date":"2026-07-07T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/wpadmin-ai-basics\/classic-editor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:27:04","slug":"classic-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/development-glossary\/classic-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Classic Editor is the older WordPress editing screen used before the block editor became the default editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many long-running WordPress websites still have pages built with Classic Editor. Converting those pages into Gutenberg blocks can make future editing easier, but the content and front-end appearance should be reviewed after conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/wordpress-tutorials\/convert-classic-editor-to-gutenberg-wordpress-ai\/\">How to Convert Classic Editor Pages to Gutenberg in WordPress with AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Editor is the older WordPress editing screen used before Gutenberg and the block editor became the default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-glossary","tag-development-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpadmin.ai\/ai-website-developer-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}