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.
Gutenberg is horrendous for writing long-form content. I tried to warn people before it was released in my extensive post on SmallBizTrends.
ClassicPress is the base code I learned from and worked with for 10 years and I'm glad to see it continue on without drastic (destructive) changes.
I used WordPress for 10 years before deciding to move to an alternative cms. My choice is ClassicPress. I do not like the direction WordPress is taking and feel very much at home in the ClassicPress community. ClassicPress stays true to the WordPress ideals and users on my sites didn't even notice the transition. It's exactly the same as the familiar versions of WordPress up to 4.9.9. It's also easy to migrate from WordPress 5.x.
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.
It is a WordPress done the right way. Especially it seems from the Roadmap of 2.0 version.
ClassicPress it's community driven, so all decisions are taken in pro of the community.
