Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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In addition to what everyone else says, and I agree wholeheartedly, I can no longer automatically link my new posts to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn even though the boxes are checked to do that. How can there be so many glitches to this new “editor”? Seriously, I wanted to come home from work and do a quick post. Now it’s 2 hours later. This is not how I like to spend my time. Blogging is my RELAXATION not my frustration. Facebook brings me many of my readers.
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“Boycotting is not the thing of the time, becaus in all wp delivers a very nice feature”.
Strange that you say this, because I have the feeling that WP is boycotting users.
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@gracejiyoung Thank you for relaying the problems mentioned to the people who may be inclined to rectify the issues. However, I am still not particularly happy with advice which tells me to go back to the dashboard to find a post (amid all the other ones) to see if one had been saved. During my initial attempt to use the new editor this morning I typed a post, hit preview — got a green ‘happy’ sign — and then the post disappeared, wasn’t in drafts or posts or anywhere. I ended up having to use the work around, and retyping all the work again.
What I really appreciated about the old version was the auto-save and the draft saved advisory. Does the new version have that? I’ve not found it.
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having to go the extra steps to access the editor that works is not a helpful “improvement”. My specific complaint is I can’t access my media gallery from the new edit page.
If the pictures are already in my files, why would I want to search for and upload them again? -
I wanted to know the name of an image in one of my posts so I could find it in my media library. I clicked on edit to get to the edit page. The image was a featured image, not embedded in the post, so I clicked on Featured Image in the right column (annoying that it wasn’t already displayed and I had to click to open it). Turns out there’s no image information on the Featured Image. None. No name, no URL, no link to my media library. Only an X to delete the image. This is a MAJOR oversight. Featured images need to be every bit as accessible and controllable as any other images.
My theme uses featured images and I include one with almost every post.
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If I’m understanding the directions properly, in order to save a draft I must hit the Preview Button, then search for the draft among the posts (this didn’t work this morning) to continue working on the remainder of the post. Frankly, this doesn’t fall into the “improvement” category in my book. What was wrong with the continuous auto-save capacity of the older version that it required a change?
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Also, I just checked. On the new post screen, clicking “Set Featured Image” in the sidebar takes me to my own computer files, not my online WordPress media library. If the image is already in my library, as is usually the case, I don’t want to upload it again. I want to choose it from my library. This needs to be fixed.
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Came back, and discovered this is a beta version that we were lumped with without any warning! So not impressed.
I’d also like to point out that not everyone lives in the US, or Europe, or in a city, and some of us are on super slow internet connections. Quite simply, my internet cannot handle the new Boop Doop, and the more “improvements” that are added, the more impossible it will become.
This might also explain the errors you are unable to reproduce: you’re not testing it on a 3rd world Internet connection.
When Yahoo Mail upgraded, they offered a “classic mail” option for people on slow connection speeds – could you at least consider this?
I’m now living in fear of the code for the old interface being removed (again, without any warning!) and simply being unable to use WordPress at all.
I’d pretty much made up to my mind to upgrade to a Pro account by the end of the year, but this has convinced me that it isn’t worth it, due to uncertainty I will be able to keep blogging at all in the long term.
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The new editor is terrible and practically unusable. I have now spent over an hour struggling with trying to get a restore to appear and that doesn’t seem to work either. In any case, there is no longer an intuitive way to select the revision you want. i.e. a box over each of the options to check which one you want and a submit button. I’ve tried picking the one on the left and right and neither works. Pls go back to the old editor or offer the option to use the old editor AND fix the bloody revision selection interface!
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@quarkone – for phones or tablets with GPS you could tag a post on the map.
Some More Feedback on the Boop Editor
1) It wasn’t using the fonts in the style of my blog when editing in visual mode.
2) There is no add media button in the full page mode
3) The buttons on the full page mode were floating on the very far right
4) The drop down entries for tags and categories were very hard to use, as it would scroll to the top for every check. I think it worked better going from the bottom up. The lists were also populated with some “extra” tags and categories that I never added. These might be the suggested ones that the post edit screen used to (still?) show.I don’t usually stress the editor too badly, but if I found a lot of flaws in the first minutes, this is very worrisome for the times I need to use the other features.
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Reading through this thread it is terrifying obvious that it was completely untested before its launch. That is a real worry for all WP users. The need for the rear guard action of Andrew Spittle is difficult to comprehend. This is a major social network site with hundreds of thousands of users and this sorry episode is completely unprofessional. If I were the management team I would be sacking people!
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Why is this still showing up? CLEARLY it’s a problem! Make this mess go away, WordPress. Just stop with the unasked for upgrades and changes that, obviously, no one wants.
There is nothing good about this, nothing. Including it’s juvenile and asinine name. Also? It not only takes FOREVER to load, but then it crashes everything else I’ve got going on.
Please, listen to your bloggers, WordPress, and get rid of this heinous mistake.
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As Staff seem to be cherry-picking issues and totally ignoring others, it seems that I have to re-iterate some major issues in the forlorn hope that they will be addressed.
1. It is no longer possible for admin or editors to edit someone else’s post. With 50 or more editors on my site, maintenance is no longer possible.
2. No longer possible to edit photo galleries.
The advice so far is to use the old editor! If that is the case (and is likely to be for some time) then users must be given the ability of crossing their preferred editor. Making the users jump through hoops to access the old editor is not an option – it’s an imposition.
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Another request for an option in settings to choose which editor the ‘edit’ links point to – Boop for under 10s, Dashboard for the rest of us.
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Hello Auscm,
I laughed out-loud at your “Boop For Under 10s” comment, thank you very much for the good laugh. :)
Also, I agree that it would be nice to have that option in the settings, and then people could choose which Editor they want as the default. ;)
Have a good night,
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echoing everyone – this is terrible.
The ‘Preview’ button doesn’t take you to a preview page, just an updated Drafts page. But on this updated drafts page, there’s also no ‘Publish’ button. What in the world?
I then switched to the old editor, which worked great as always, and then tried to fix a typo via the Beep Boop editor, which I thought would be fine since it’s just a simple change. Instead, BeepBoop automatically converted all my video embeds into hyperlinks upon updating. WHY??
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Could I offer a suggestion that might satisfy all the experienced bloggers and would also allow the WP developers to save face?
I think we have to accept that beep beep Boop is here to stay, and for many bloggers it might be perfectly fine. However, by WP’s own admission, it is clearly not fit for purpose when editing a post (the list of faults and irritations is huge).
Therefore:
1. Keep Beep Boop as the New Post Editor. Ideally, the old editor should be retained for New Posts as an option. I think the default could be Beep Boop.
2. Keep the Old Editor as the Edit Post Editor, linked into the Post, I.e. When you press Edit you get the old editor.
Just a suggestion….
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