Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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@kokkieh Thank you … but they may not yet have “got” to the other editor yet! As to the other question, I’m stuck in this mode with blockquote italics being straight and blockquote straight text being italic? In what way is that good?
And, by the way, I can no longer enlarge the size of the old editing window.
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I posted this comment on another thread.
Same here.
I’m editing older blog posts and when I click “edit” from the blog post it takes me to another editor with WordPress at the top, not my blog’s admin bar, etc.
The work around is to search for the blog post under “Published” posts, then click the “edit” button.
I should be able to edit from the blog posts, not have to copy and paste the title and do a search.
I also noticed that when entering a video url in this “new” editor, after updating and viewing the post, the url becomes hyperlinked and the video does not show up.
I never use the new post button as I bookmarked Add a New Post so I don’t have to click so many times.
My question is: Is this a new permanent feature, or a technical glitch?
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The new edit screen totally and completely SUCKS!
1. Modern PCs typically have WIDE screens, 1024 or more wide; yet you’re cramming everything together and using 1/4th of the screen for an edit box. Some one actually thought this was a good idea? Are you kidding me!
2. Your new interface forces me to click more buttons to access options I could simply move my mouse to and select. Thus once again creating more work for me when I posting a new article. Seriously? Why use drop downs for things people want access to right now; not 5seconds from now!
3. I have templates set up and saved as drafts to …once again…same me time. The “copy post” option is no where to be found! Again making more work for me, or forcing me to click more buttons to accomplish something I was able to do with 1 click!
4. And because of all these new “features”; we’re forced to wait for some cartoonish idiotic “Beep Bop Boop”? WTH Are you in kindergarten?
Major Fail WordPress. Seriously major fail. Don’t fix it, if it ain’t broke. And it wasn’t broke.
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@davidderrick
The appearance of blockquotes vary from theme to theme. In the editor it shows as italic, but how it displays to readers is determined by your theme. That you should be able to override with CSS. Please post directly in the CSS customization forum for help with that. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform -
I think we need to prepare ourselves for the replacement of the editor on our blog’s dashboards with the new one ie. the Beep Beep Boop Dashboard. And, as the “new dash” iterations have been ongoing for a year now, I think we need to be mindful that once major changes are made here there is no reversion. We can either make constructive suggestions for improvement of the Beep Beep Boop new dashboard and be heard by Staff, or we can complain without making suggestions other than demanding reversion, knowing if we do that we will probably be ignored.
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Hi, quick feedback.
I don’t mind change, change is inevitable. But this ‘beep beep bop’ thing is not working at all. I edited a published post, saw this new compose screen, made some changes and saved. Nothing happened. The published post stayed as is; my change disappeared. I then went back to the dashboard, changed the post through the old (current) interface, and it worked.
Hopefully, this isn’t a cache problem, and you will look into making the change real-time (if the new editor is coming our way).
Please consider removing the beep beep bop phrase. We don’t want to get stuck with it in our minds for long time to come. It doesn’t look or feel professional. There shouldn’t really be a “waiting” in editing the post.
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My question is: Is this a new permanent feature, or a technical glitch?
Staff have been rolling out new iterations of the new dashboard for about a year. The fact the “edit” link hurls us into the Beep Beep Boop editor, rather than directing to the dashboard editor is, without doubt, intentional.
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A disgruntled employee made these changes before he went home last night to get back at WordPress bosses for some reason! Could this be the reason for the infantile and pointless upgrade? Or perhaps it is a Gene Vincent tribute?
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With respect I think that if WordPress had any respect for its users and our opinions they would heed the outpouring of dissent towards this latest change and think again about implementing it.
If something is that unpopular they would be doing a great disservice to both their users and themselves by ignoring the general consensus of opinion and going ahead with this futile and pointless alteration regardless of the obvious animus towards it.
The last thing any service provider right now needs is to lose the trust of their customer base and who knows if this could be the proverbial last straw for many WordPress users?
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@apetcher
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). -
I understand that they try to adapt WordPress.com to new design trends. But this new editor is dysfunctional, lots of features in the old editor is gone.
It is obvious that the “beep beep bop editor” is early stages in development- it is incomplete, and it is early to replace the old editor with this one.
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Can I add my displeasure… apart from it being awful to use the new beep beep boo (or whatever it is called) is not sharing any posts to Twitter/Facebook/Google/Path/ etc I liked the old editor and really wish wordpress had left us with the option to create posts by using our admin bar like before.
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It’s also a complete duplicate: there’s already a link to the dumbed down editor, the New Post button. The drop-down Add New->Post went to the dashboard fully formed editor. Now they have two buttons in different places on the same page that go to the same thing, neither of which is what the users want.
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Sadly, I feel WordPress.com will keep making upsetting changes. :(
Why am I paying $300/yr for WordPress.com when they keep making things worse?
Blogger and Tumblr are free and easy to use. I am now looking into switching… -
I found a workaround!
When you go to the drop-down menu on the left of the grey Admin bar, and you get to NEW, instead of opening up the drop down menu options Page, Post, etc, just click the word New. Gets you straight to the fully featured dashboard editor.
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Thanks for the tips raincoaster. It works fine for me as well.
Problem now is to find a smooth way to edit articles without having to go to dashboard and search for one special article in a very long article list.
Trying to edit any article outside the dashboard, example an article from a word you searched just wakes up the bleepin’ “beep-beep-bopp monster.”
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If there must be a beep beep boop specially designed for two-year-old children, please at least give us an option to disable it. The new editor is totally absurd, terrible, ugly, impractical, unusable, frustrating, uncustomizable, childish, discouraging, preposterous, chaotic, unhandy, inefficient, foolish and useless!!!
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@kokkieh Thanks, that’s as I figured, because right now it makes no sense. Will go to CSS Forum – or better still go through the original Dashboard editor (if they leave it alone).
Things had been quiet for a while. Obviously someone at WP had the thought “Time to annoy the customers again”.
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@raincoaster
Thanks for sharing that workaround.edited by Tess to add the link to Raincoaster’s post: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/beep-beep-boop-screen-is-a-joke-is-this-a-glitch/page/2?replies=228#post-1993593
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