Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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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.
Wahey. Brilliant! Thanks Rossau! Now I just have to remember to do that ;-) Thanks again. You’re a time-saver :-)
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I came here for the scripting, too many had eliminated the opportunity. This seems to be their way of saying the same. Today people have adapted to icons, maybe it’s time to link back here and move on. So much time spent finding ways around the better methods.
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I just noticed that “stick this post to the front page” has reappeared, now under “Advanced Settings”. That’s good. Of course, it would be even better if the new editor could disappear, or at least be made optional e.g. through a setting in the dash.
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Twitter isn’t a blogging platform, and WordPress isn’t a tweeting platform — at least it never has been until now. If management thinks tweeters using tablets are the future of this place, then okay. That means I’m part of the past.
I’m a blogger, not a tweeter. I’ve written well over 4,000 posts and I have over 2.8 million pageviews — without gimmicks like tags and social media links. I even pay for the “no ads” option so my blog won’t be cluttered up. I write, and for that I need an acceptable editor, which WordPress used to have. It was messed up recently with that scroll bar fiasco, and then we got this Beep Beep Boop thing.
If staff thought it was necessary to add an optional junior editor with limited features to accommodate tablet users who post only brief items, they could have done that. They still can, and that would solve the problems reflected in this thread. But why was it necessary to force that new editor on the rest of us?
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Semi off-topic. By the way… When I’m saying “the good old editor“—it still has it’s flaws.
- The font color feature is unreliable. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The preview doesn’t display the correct colors (almost never). There is no color feature in the “Text”-Edior”. Hey, it’s 2014!
- In Safari (latest version, latest OS X), when you edit a posting, then hit “View Posting” and go BACK (via Browser-button)—the code in the “WYSWYG”-editor will probably be a complete mess (all blanks deleted or something like that). Never do that!
- “The automatic URL creator” (per posting) doesn’t recognize German umlauts. You’ll have to edit the URL manually (almost every time) in a tiny fiddly editor if you want to have a clear URL without embarrassing spelling errors. BTW the mini URL editor is completely absent in the “Boop”-editor.
- Most annoying (this happens 50 % when you post new articles or edit old ones): The editor inserts randomly line breaks. The only way to get rid of that (I tried everything within the last six years believe me): Switch to the WordPress.com online “Text”-Editor, mark, copy and delete all the text (code), paste it into OS X “Notes” app, copy and paste it from there into the WordPress.com “Text” editor again.
- The space under embedded YouTube & Vimeo videos is smaller than usual (p.e. under photos). I have to insert some p style=”padding-bottom:1px;” workaround under EACH video. The WP.com software will copy this workaround in all sequent paragraphs (can’t avoid that).
- HTML-Tables (although officially supported) are working very unreliably. I refuse to use them. What? Already 2014? Problems with tables?
And this is just a short excerpts of the flaws, I could go on like this for hours. You see, WordPress.com staff? There would be enough to do and fix with the “good old” editor. Why inventing a new one before the old one works?
Other than that I appreciate your service. It’s 99 % available and even the browser of my Blu-ray player displays the Twenty Ten Theme correctly with all my edits (but honestly I never tried to use an editor within my TV set or Blu-ray player). ;-)
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Per sensuouscurmudgeon:
Twitter isn’t a blogging platform, and WordPress isn’t a tweeting platform — at least it never has been until now. If management thinks tweeters using tablets are the future of this place, then okay. That means I’m part of the past.
I’m a blogger, not a tweeter. I’ve written well over 4,000 posts and I have over 2.8 million pageviews — without gimmicks like tags and social media links. I even pay for the “no ads” option so my blog won’t be cluttered up. I write, and for that I need an acceptable editor, which WordPress used to have. It was messed up recently with that scroll bar fiasco, and then we got this Beep Beep Boop thing.
If staff thought it was necessary to add an optional junior editor with limited features to accommodate tablet users who post only brief items, they could have done that. They still can, and that would solve the problems reflected in this thread. But why was it necessary to force that new editor on the rest of us?
This.
Well said sir and thank you.
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Hi, staff: @gracejiyoung. Regarding this.
I was able to reproduce this duplication of categories. If you have access to my dashboard, then go to the Categories section and you will see the duplicate right at the top. I will keep this duplicate category for you for one day (and then I will be deleting it).
PS: this is my last post here. I am not going to torture myself (nor should you) by going through this lengthiest thread in the history of wordpress.com. You may email me and I don’t mind helping.
I noticed a duplicate category in my dashboard and realized, that the new editor created it after I edited a published post in the new editor. i had to delete that duplicate category from the dashboard.
This is odd. I just tried to reproduce this and wasn’t able to. Can you walk me through the steps of what caused this?
So currently, I have the “test” category already created. I check that off and published a post:
So then I went back to the new editor, and found that there wasn’t a duplicate category called “test”.
Are these the steps you took? Let me know your steps, and I’ll try to replicate it.
Thank you!
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I am not happy with the changes that are being imposed on me. I believe as some one who is contributing to the bottom line, through WordPress advertizing on my current 1274 articles I should have a say in these changes. WordPress monetizes off of my hard work and as a result should be interested in not killing the “golden goose”, by making my life and experience using the WordPress editor more complicated. I believe being that I bring in revenue to WordPress, that I should have a say so in the way things occurs. Please REVERT THESE BEEP BEEP BOOP changes to the previous editor. Thank you.
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Bravo!@
The highest cost to all concerned is the waste of time and the frustrations that inevitably arise. -
As many of us, I also complain against this new editor that makes more complicated to edit old posts, even from many years ago, in the easy mode by clicking on “Edit” link. It’s completely absurd to change something we have assume completely works in its essence and no other change was needed.
This new Beep Beep Boop interface annoys myself at all, and as the rest of complainers, I want the old editor back.
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I have been a vocal advocate for WordPress.com and have referred many bloggers to this platform because of its power and how well it was set up and run.
Hopefully this problem get’s resolved and I can continue directing people here.
Unfortunately, at the moment, I can’t make the strong recommendation I’ve previously made. Even if the beep boop editor weren’t buggy, it is too watered down. The strength of the editor has been too important a part of my love of the system. -
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I can’t write or edit posts and haven’t been able to for two days now. I just upgraded my Mac OS from 10.5 to 10.6 thinking that might solve the problem. No luck. I still get the “Updating” screen and it updates nothing. I asked for support yesterday morning and have gotten no response.
Allow me repeat that: I cannot write or edit posts and haven’t been able to for two days.
What exactly am I paying you for, WordPress?
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WordPress: Hey, let’s impose down the throat of our clients an idiotic, trendy, oversimplified web7.0 feature that has a retarded “beep-beep-bop” loading screen. After all, our user base is 5-year-olds. Shall we ask them? Of course no! We know better. And to make it even more cool let’s give them no option to revert back to the classic editor.
Seriously though, I always thought that this sort of mentality belonged to companies like Microsoft and Facebook, not WordPress…
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Hey, they fixed it!! The “beep-beep-bop” became “Loading all the things…”!
Problem solved. Everyone, back to your blogs.
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