Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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Wow…
So I duck out for a few hours to get some sleep (UK time) and this thread has exploded! But what i find most disconcerting of all is that, while I appreciate they want technical feedback, the core issue is being ignored by WP staff – to wit:
EVERYBODY hates this new feature and DOES NOT want it!
Why is this being deliberately overlooked? Come on WP your loyal users deserve better than that!
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My theme, and probably some other themes too, has special post locations. There isn’ t a module, or a dropdown menu in the new editor to set the location. (https://otomobilaski.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/display-post-in.png)
And the text box is too small. I know we can make it longer, but it must be wider. And it must be wider by default I think, it won’t be practical to reshape the box everytime I write. Currently, it limits me to write longer posts because I cannot see the whole post like I did before.
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Agree with everyone on this topic. The new editing feature actually reminds me of why I left Blogger. Now why would WordPress want to do that?
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@fergusonandurie
It loads the preview in a pop-up window (and now auto-saves when you click Preview), so you’ll have to disable your browser’s pop-up blocker to see the preview from the new editor. According to an earlier staff reply they’re “looking into it” or some such response.I’d recommend you go to the dashboard editor (Posts ->Add New or Post ->All Posts ->Edit) as there everything is still working as it should.
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apetcher’s point is right: It is terrifyingly obvious that this was completely untested before its launch. This sorry episode is completely unprofessional. If I were the management team I would be sacking people!
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How is it possible that more than one hundred WP users have made their voices heard about this new feature which has been foisted on them, and that there is no dialogue with management? If you observe the quality of language of most of those protesting, and for the most part the sheer reasonableness of their positions, you can see that these are friends who wish to get their voices heard and respected by management.
But management is ducking, making one think about the Malaysian Airlines counter in the airport in Amsterdam that was unmanned when most needed during the Ukrainian tragic crash. And if these words from Timethief/ @apetcher are any guide we sure are in a rather dismal situation. She writes:
“No I don’t buy that. The new dashboard has been under construction for over a year now and many hours of Staff time have been invested in that development. That development doesn’t happen without management decisions being made at the top that direct the work be done. We bloggers either choose to learn how to use the new Beep Beep Boop dashboard, and work with Staff to improve it, or we don’t but there won’t be any going back (mark my words on that).”
Oh dear.
Eric Britton, WorldStreets.org , (email visible only to moderators and staff)
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where are the admins???
Is this blee bloop boom bam beem editor is for good ???
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Just out of interest, how long does the “beep boop” (we’re struggling to connect you) page last for other users?
For me it’s around 40 seconds – and that’s every time I edit, save, etc, not just the initial connection.
I find this unacceptable.
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This new Betty Boop editor may be great as a one time April Fools gag but should be gone by April 2nd – every time I endearvour to use it I feel like using “Your tiny tot’s first steps on his own lappy – program”
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I don’t know if this helps, but it works for me .Just go to
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I don’t understand why the problem is still here.
A rollback must not be complicated.
Putting back the old link in the Edit button shouldn’t take more than 24 hours!How can you hope we will by your premium stuff if you lack such a minimum of seriousness and professionnalism??
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At least it’s fun being part of a determined group. . . not to say a mob. GET WITH IT WordPress!!!! This change is a MESS!!!!
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Just out of interest, how long does the “beep boop” (we’re struggling to connect you) page last for other users?
For me it’s around 40 seconds – and that’s every time I edit, save, etc, not just the initial connection.
I find this unacceptable.
45 seconds here. (MacBook Retina 2012, latest Safari browser, highspeed Cable Modem internet connection.) I just tried it out once more. Usually I’m hitting BACK or I close the Safari window as soon as this silly beep beep boop animation shows up. No beta testing here.
45 seconds for reaching a messy text editor!!! The expression “unacceptable” is just an UNDERSTATEMENT! They are clearly misusing their users/clients as cheap beta testers.
lunarmom wrote:
Why is this still showing up? CLEARLY it’s a problem! Make this mess go away, WordPress.
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Make this MESS go away AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! PLEASE!
Look, WordPress.com staff: I’d like to help you with innoviations—but not THIS way! As some times before there was no announcement or anything, this tremendous problems came up over night. That behaviour reminds to dictatorship.
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Any serious IT firm these days has accreditation in the principals of “ITIL”. WP should seriously look into this if it wishes to survive in the cut throat on-line market. This disasterous change would never have passed the Change Advisory Board (CAB) if it followed even the basics of the ITIL principles.
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I have my blog set up such that when new posts are published it’s automatically tweeted, dual posted to Tumblr, and shared on LinkedIn. This auto sharing definitely doesn’t work with the new editor.
Please fix ASAP!
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^ Very good point, fergusonandurie! Give them the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastructure_Library
No need to invent the wheel from the scratch. It’s all here since decades.
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Anyone having trouble editing: you can get the old edit post interface back if you go to the post through your “all posts” page. As someone who edits quite a lot, this new change is a huge inconvenience at best – please change it back.
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I have problems like everyone else with the new editor, except that my main issue is editing existing posts.
1. Why I don’t want to use the new editor, in order of importance:
– doesn’t take up all of the screen estate, only a narrow column in the middle of one of the two of 24″ monitors I use to work with text.
– it meddles with my HTML code. I have many “tl;dr” (very long) posts which I like to format with empty lines in order to facilitate editing.
– it is buggy (read: non-functional) in my browser of choice (experimental Opera running on Ubuntu). Now, I don’t ask WordPress to adapt to my needs; but if everything else works fine with that browser, why would I want to switch to something I don’t like just because one beta feature on one site doesn’t work?The first two features make it unusable; the third can be circumvented.
2. How to circumvent the new editor
Of course, clicking on the little pencil icon on your blog post takes you to the new editor. To use the old editor, the only way is to go to “Dashboard” -> “Posts”, search for the post you would like to edit, and click on “Edit”.
3. A better solution
Another, better solution would be to add a link rewrite plugin. The link to the old style editor looks like this: https://yourblogname.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1234&action=edit
Since the link to the new editor looks like this:
https://wordpress.com/post/BlogIDNumber/1234I think that a regular expression rewriting your links (for example, a simple bookmarklet) should do the trick. Essentially, you would catch the regular expression “https://wordpress.com/post/BlogIDNumber/([0-9]*)” and replace the link by “https://yourblogname.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=$1&action=edit”.
The code below is untested and you should use it on your own responsibility
There is actually quite an easy piece of javascript code that you can add as a bookmark. You click the bookmark, and all your new-editor links convert in your old-editor links. You may start with the following code:
javascript:(function(){
var m = /wordpress.com/post/YourBlogID/([0-9]*)/ ;
var r = ‘yourblogname.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=$1&action=edit’;
var links = window.document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
for(var i = 0, l; l = links[i]; i++) {
if (l.href)
l.href = l.href.replace(m,r);
}
})();Replace “yourblogname” by your blog name; replace “YourBlogID” by your blog ID. Add a bookmark that contains, as reference, the above code. Clicking on the bookmark should replace all “new style links” by “old style links”.
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Every change that is made on WordPress seems to be for the worse. And what is the beep beep boop all about? Not happy
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