Disable Gutenberg vs Polymetric AI Search Optimizer

This plugin disables the new Gutenberg Editor (aka Block Editor) and replaces it with the Classic Editor. You can disable Gutenberg completely, or selectively disable for posts, pages, roles, post types, and theme templates. Plus you can hide the Gutenberg nag, menu item, and more! ♠ The all-in-one, COMPLETE solution for handling Gutenberg ♠ Hide ALL traces of Gutenberg and replace with Classic Editor ♠ Restores original Edit Post screen (TinyMCE, meta boxes, etc.) The Disable Gutenberg plugin restores the classic (original) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. So you can continue using plugins and theme functions that extend the Classic Editor. Supports awesome features like Meta Boxes, Quicktags, Custom Fields, and everything else the Classic Editor can do. Easy to Use Just activate and done! The default plugin settings are configured to hide all traces of the Gutenberg Block Editor, and fully restore the original Classic Editor. Further options for customizing when/where Gutenberg is enabled are available in the plugin settings. ♠ Disable Block Widgets and restore Classic Widgets 🙂 Options Disable Gutenberg completely (all post types) Disable Gutenberg for any post type Disable Gutenberg for any user role Disable Gutenberg for any theme template Disable Gutenberg for any post/page IDs Disable Gutenberg admin notice (nag) Option to restore Classic Widgets Option to hide the plugin menu item Option to hide the Gutenberg plugin menu item (settings link) Adds “Classic Editor” link to each post on the Posts screen Adds item to the WP sidebar menu: “Add New (Classic)” Option to enable Custom Fields Meta Box for ACF Choose which editor to use for each post Whitelist any post title, slug, or ID Option to enable/disable frontend Gutenberg stylesheet ♠ Works same as Classic Editor plugin, but can do a LOT more! ♠ Lightweight and super fast, built with WP APIs 🙂 Fully configurable, enable or disable Gutenberg and restore the Classic Editor wherever is necessary. Automatically replaces Gutenberg with the Classic Editor. Features Super simple Clean, secure code Built with the WordPress API Lightweight, fast and flexible Regularly updated and “future proof” Works great with other WordPress plugins Plugin options configurable via settings screen Focused on flexibility, performance, and security One-click restore plugin default options Translation ready ♠ Works great with Google AMP and the WordPress AMP plugin Disable Gutenberg is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author. Super light & fast plugin, super easy on server resources! Why? Gutenberg is a useful editor but sometimes you want to disable it for specific posts, pages, user roles, post types, and/or theme templates. This plugin enables you to disable Gutenberg and replace it with the Classic Editor wherever you want. For example, lots of WordPress users already enjoy robust page-building functionality via one of the many great plugins like Composer or Elementor. So many options, no need to feel “locked in” to using Gutenberg! If you like Disable Gutenberg, please give it a 5-star rating, thank you! Privacy This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way. Support development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books: The Tao of WordPress Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂

Your best article is already written. It just isn’t structured the way AI search engines want to read it. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude don’t return ten blue links. They read a page, lift the answer, and cite a source. If your content buries the answer three paragraphs down, or wanders before it gets to the point, it gets skipped – no matter how good it is or how well it ranks on Google. Polymetric AI Search Optimizer fixes that without making you start over. It adds a panel to the WordPress block editor that restructures the post you’re editing for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), so the engines can find the answer, understand it, and quote you. It takes your actual words and reorganizes them – clear structure, key-takeaway summaries, featured-snippet answer blocks, the formats AI systems pull from – while preserving your voice, your specifics, and every single link including affiliate and UTM parameters. You bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key – a typical 1,500-word rewrite costs roughly 2 to 8 cents. No markup, no middleman: your content goes straight to the provider you choose, and your key is stored encrypted on your own site. How it works Open any post in the WordPress editor. Open the Polymetric AI Search Optimizer sidebar and pick a preset, or choose individual tactics. Click Rewrite. The plugin sends your content to your chosen AI model and gets back an optimized version. Review the full rewrite in the preview pane. Apply it, or discard it. Nothing changes until you say so, and your previous version is saved as a WordPress revision. No content is published automatically. Ever. You are always the editor. What makes it different It rewrites what you have. Not a content generator. Your research, your numbers, your opinions – kept. It protects your voice. The optimizer matches your existing tone, vocabulary, and rhythm instead of flattening everything into the same AI monotone. It guards your keywords. Add the phrases that must survive verbatim, and it reads your Yoast SEO or RankMath focus keyword automatically and locks it too – your exact target terms come through the rewrite word for word. It never drops a link. Every href, including affiliate links and tracking parameters, survives the rewrite verbatim. It shows you everything first. Full preview before anything touches your post. One click to undo via revisions. You control the keys. Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key. No markup on your API usage, no middleman server holding your content. What it does NOT do No content generation from nothing – it only restructures content you already have. No fact-invention or claim-fabrication – numbers, percentages, dates, prices, and names are preserved, never generalized away. No automatic publishing – you preview and apply. The optimization tactics Pick a preset or toggle these tactics individually: Optimize the heading hierarchy (your H1 post title is left untouched) Add bullets and lists Add comparison tables where the data supports them Add a key-takeaways summary up top Add a 40-60 word featured-snippet answer block for AI Overviews and position-zero Add a linked table of contents Add HowTo steps with HowTo JSON-LD schema for procedural content Tighten paragraphs (remove filler, no meaning lost) Presets Not sure where to start? Pick a preset: Quick polish – structure only, keeps your voice. The safe default. Custom – check the exact tactics you want, ignore the rest. Built to fit your existing stack Reads your focus keyword straight from Yoast SEO or RankMath and loads it as a protected phrase, preserved verbatim through the rewrite. Detects page builders (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Oxygen, WPBakery, and more) and warns you before touching content it shouldn’t. Pure block-editor sidebar. Vanilla JavaScript, zero jQuery. Long posts are handled in sections automatically, splitting at heading boundaries so a few-thousand-word guide optimizes without timing out. Images, figures, and source tables are preserved in place. Free and Pro The free plugin does the core job, on your own Anthropic or OpenAI key: All eight tactics: headings, bullets, comparison tables, key takeaways, featured-snippet block, table of contents, how-to steps with schema, and tighten paragraphs Preview-and-apply with full revision safety Protects your Yoast/RankMath focus keyword automatically, plus any keywords you add yourself Bring-your-own-key for Anthropic or OpenAI Pro (sold separately at polymetriclabs.com) adds the tactics that rewrite your words for citation, plus the controls to aim them: Rewrite tactics: lead-with-answer openers, simpler language, full Q&A reformatting, FAQ sections with FAQPage schema, and inline key-term definitions Additional presets: Full AI optimization and Rewrite as Q&A AI keyword detection – automatically finds the entities and key terms worth protecting A brand-voice override applied to every rewrite Per-post custom instructions – content briefs, goals, and do-not-edit notes, saved with each post God Mode – bulk optimize posts straight from the posts list A hosted plan is also planned: managed API access (no key of your own needed) and auto-optimization on publish. For full details and documentation, visit polymetriclabs.com/ai-search-optimizer. Source code The editor sidebar’s minified bundle in assets/sidebar/build/ is compiled with @wordpress/scripts from the human-readable React and SCSS source in assets/sidebar/src/, which is included in this package. To rebuild it, run npm install then npm run build from the plugin directory. Third-Party Services To rewrite a post, this plugin sends its content to an external AI provider. This happens only when you click Rewrite – never in the background, on page load, or on a schedule. Content goes directly from your site to the provider you select in Settings, using your own API key, and is not routed through any intermediary server. Anthropic (Claude) Post content is sent to the Anthropic Messages API (api.anthropic.com) for rewriting. Service: Anthropic Terms of Service: https://www.anthropic.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy OpenAI (GPT) Post content is sent to the OpenAI Chat Completions API (api.openai.com) for rewriting. Service: OpenAI Terms of Use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy Your API key is stored encrypted in your WordPress database using AES-256-GCM and is sent only to the provider you selected.