A button to split a “classic block” into two?

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    hesir · Member ·

    Hi, I’ve been a wordpress.com user for several years, and even taught students to use it as it has always been the best and most flexible blog host available, both from the point of in edit usability, and reader access (I.e not having to be a user to access the blogs).

    After a short break (redundancy and rebooting my career in a different direction) I returned to WordPress and paid up for a year on my professional interface blog, while toying with other sites on different subjects (all here on WordPress).

    The change from an editor that allowed me to copy and paste formatted work from external word processing sites, or to edit flexibly and fluidly on the fly within the WordPress post editor to the block system, which leaves me unable to select across paragraphs to change the order of my first edit for clarity, or to shuffle paragraphs back together, or to insert images in the middle of a paragraph in an immediate intuitive way) is a debilitating change.

    I understand there is no moving back (I’m sure there are reasons) but will there be any effort to:

    1 – allow more flexibility in the “Classic Block” for example, to be able to add images and even video after the text is written and edited as a single Classic Block?,
    or
    2 – to be able to insert a cursor at a point within the whole classic block text and create a block break, as you might a page break, in order to achieve point 1 without pushing against the block system?

    I’m not a developer, I’m simply a user of the service, and it seems to have outpaced me with these changes. Which has causes creating a blog post that might have taken 45mins to write, re-editing on the fly then inserting images and video, then adding hyperlinks back to other posts, to now take hours of painful sliding text up and down to avoid obstructive floating toolbars, having to select dozens of individual pieces of text from a preview, edit outside of WordPress, then reimport as several separate text blocks. Surely there is no need to write refine, and edit a blog post outside of the blogging software?

    Ironically something not needed whilst editing this forum post.

    Any help answering the two points above (though point 2 would solve much of the issue) would be great fully received, and will help me with my decisions with how to move forward with my web presence.

    If it helps I’m also using an iPad to attempt to blog from. And have several blogs at present on differing subjects.

    Thanks in advance.

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    If I am understanding correctly, everything that you described above can still be done in the classic block, as it functions essentially the same as the classic editor. For example, the ability to insert an image/video along with text within a single classic block can still be done:

    So, I was able to add text above and below the image within the same classic block. Is this what you saying you want to be able to do?

    Let me know. Thanks!

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