Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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I, too, have had issues with the new editor. It doesn’t save ANY text, whether in a new post or while editing, in visual or text mode. I figured out how to access the old editor through the Dashboard, but if I open an old post to edit it, all formatting (including line breaks) are lost. It is extremely difficult to find what you want to edit in a sea of text!
Another issue I have with the new editor is the link embedding. There is no option of “naming” your link. It simply defaults to the actual link instead. Oh, I guess it doesn’t matter, really, since the new version won’t save any text!
Since this change, my photos all default to Small size, where they previously defaulted to large (my blog is photo-based, so I want them to be the main focus of my post). I haven’t been able to change the default, either.
It used to take me 20-30 minutes to do a post; today, with the three attempts to create a single post, I spent over two hours. I don’t mind change; it is a matter of adjusting my habits. However, when the changes implemented impact my time and the pleasure I (used to) derive from blogging, I find it hard to accept that change.
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WordPress.com user ztrewq: You are my hero of the day!!! That works indeed:
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”.
My Safari insists on replacing all blanks in that code with “%20” but it still works. After loading my blog in a Safari window I just have to click/tap that bookmark first (there is no visible response) and if I click/tap on ANY “Edit” link then (even with “Open in new window/tab”) it will open the good old editor. This is MUCH less hassle than the provided (by WP staff) workaround (via dashboard…).
However: If you (re)load your blog roll from new, or if you load a single posting, you’ll have to click/tap on the bookmark once more. Just watch Safari’s status line: There you find the “correct” (old) URL to the only working editor.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! The community here is clearly better that the staff.
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Yes, unfortunately you need to run the code each time a wordpress page loads.
There are plugins for adding your own styles and code to any page you visit, and I think that might be one way to create a more useful solution.
Alternatively, those who have paid for wordpress premium (or whatever it is called) can add their own code, including javascript I think.
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@ztrewq Thank you for the tip!
Bug reporting: I edited a post with a youtube link in it. I directly paste YT links into the text editor so the videos show up as an actual embedded video and not a link. But this time, when I pasted the YT code into the text editor, when I pressed ‘update’, the YT link vanished from the post entirely and it was basically edited into a blank post.
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BEEP BEEP BOOP. Why don’t they change the BOOP to what it really says? “OFF”
BEEP BEEP OFF
Although I can now create the post going through the Dashboard, it is not the point. It takes longer and sometimes I don’t have a lot of time. 5-10 seconds can make a complete difference in a rush.
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There are plugins for adding your own styles and code to any page you visit, and I think that might be one way to create a more useful solution.
Alternatively, those who have paid for wordpress premium (or whatever it is called) can add their own code, including javascript I think.
Just a correction here: On WordPress.com we don’t have ANY ability to install plugins or add JavaScript, regardless of upgrade. Only self-hosted WordPress.org users have that ability. You might be able to add a browser extension or bookmark that does this, but there’s no way to add it directly to WordPress.com.
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Kokkieh
How about giving us back the ease with which we could concentrate on our blogs and not on your glitches!? We did not PAY to get into this hassle – and I still have a year to go!!!!
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@oldnp
Do you see the word “Staff” under my username? I’m a regular user just like you, as frustrated as you, and as powerless to do anything about it, just like you. I’m just trying to prevent other users from giving inaccurate information that will cause even more problems.I suggest you read the forum code of conduct and furthermore make sure of your facts before you post anything more here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-forums-code-of-conduct?replies=1
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While I was glad to know that this “beep beep boop” stupidity was not a virus of some sort, I’m at a loss as to understand how ANYONE looked at it and said, “Oh, this is great! Bloggers will love this!” I’m not 12, and I’m not sitting around texting with my BFFs; are the developers?
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Kokkieh,
My apologies for mistaking your post as coming from “staff”. Anger does that. But from your response, there is more than a hint that your level of irritation is about as high as mine in this situation. . .
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While I am irritated by these changes (and it’s not the first I’ve had to endure), I’m much more irritated by being attacked for trying to help. But let’s leave it at that, okay? Apology accepted.
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For the thousand and one faults with this new interface, there is just one good thing… if you have multiple blogs you can choose which one you want your post to go to… that is the only benefit I can see of it right now… the rest of this new interface is, to put it bluntly crap.
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It seems to me that staff and volunteers have been pulled off this thread so we are all wasting our time now. This is exactly what happened when they changed the photo editor. It looks as though we will have to sit and wait and see if there is any sensible response and they find some way of backing down or compromising!
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Simple. Give us – the users – the choice between new and old, as a setting in the dashboard.
The precedent has already been set with the photo carousel. I think I’m right in saying that when this was first introduced it was imposed on us. After much hoo-ha, WP backed down and made it an option. I think they even made the default = carousel disabled.
I am fairly optimistic that WP will relent and make the new editor an option.
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After 6 years of blogging with WordPress, after posting yesterday I thought, “Maybe it’s time to stop blogging.” I have taken a hiatus this summer so I don’t know when these changes happened but boy is it confusing!
I could write and publish a post with my eyes closed – tagging, category, schedule for later or pub immediately, shortlink, title with shortlink in social media post, etc. Yesterday I fought with it and ended up with no short link and no links posted on Twitter or Facebook.
For about 10 minutes I tried to figure out if I had actually published and then realized it did before I was ready for it to do so.
What happened to my beloved “preview” button?
I’m all for change if it improves things and with blogging, streamlines, but this new interface is just plain confusing and clumsy.
Oh, one more thing, I searched and searched and couldn’t figure out how to change the color on font.
Please either go back to the old way or just make the old way look more current. I don’t care which but this new one is so confusing that I wouldn’t currently recommend wordpress to a new blogger and I am a wordpress girl! -
mondrak wrote recently:
Although I can now create the post going through the Dashboard, it is not the point. It takes longer and sometimes I don’t have a lot of time. 5-10 seconds can make a complete difference in a rush.
You don’t need to go through the dashboard for new postings with the good old editor.
You see that little grey globe icon (with your blog’s name) in the first line of your browser’s window (loaded with your blog and logged in)? In the drop down menu just press “New” (and NOT “New > Posting”; sorry I don’t know the exact English expression for “posting” which is used by WP because I have a German-language system)—and voilà: There you have the old editor in all it’s glory.
The real problem is/was editing recent (or older) postings. But there is ztrewq’s javascript as an option.
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