Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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just for the record, I don’t blog through the new dash editor, either, never have. I frequently edit my posts, though, and usually through the “edit” links on my blog page (even though I am fully aware you can do it through the dashboard’s “All Posts” as well). Which is how I first encountered the new editor (that I’ve now opted out of).
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@timethief: I have chosen the “classic editor” button optioin time and time again — and yes, without clearing cache or cookies — and WP still continues to return me to the new “punk editor” (and, yes, I mean punk in the old-fashioned way that means “does not work well… or at all”). Simply stated: solutions are not solutions if they do not work. I find continuously offering and re-offering the same non-workable “solutions” becomes increasingly counter-productive and just a tad condescending, eh? The work-around link to the “classic editor” — much like the new “punk editor” itself — doesn’t work well or work at all, no matter how much — or even how many — Hidden Developers, Happiness Engineers, and/or Veritable Volunteers say they do or will or should or would like them to. Let’s deal with things as they are.
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@susanbourne-
Those of us who pay and have paid for quality services would like those same quality services continued — not suddenly changed, fiddled with, and so consistently and regrettably diminished by Hidden Developers and Happiness Engineers.
And yet… WordPress.com does continuously change, sometimes daily. Just look at the News blog and forum posts over the past 9 years. Not all new features or changes make everyone happy, regardless of whether they may be a free-site or with paid upgrades user. Heaven only knows the number of previous forum threads I’ve complained in.
all the comments and sentiments expressed here on based on our individual and collective uses and experiences… thus, they are real and valid enough to heed.
And yet… while valid, the number of posters here in this forum post do represent a small subset of users. I don’t deny the validity of people’s experience, just putting it in the larger context of 48M websites hosted on WordPress.com (the last hard figure I saw from a House of Representatives testimony in March 2014).
@tt,
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.
To be clear, you are referring to the Admin Bar menus when someone is on their website. The menu choices are different in the Admin Bar here in the forums.
@nixedsims-A-yup! Hijacked. :)
Past my bedtime.
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I wonder … are the programmers who gave us Beep Beep Boop even aware of this thread? Or are they just getting notes from the Happiness Engineers about a few bugs that need fixing in their otherwise glorious creation? And does management know only that Beep Beep Boop has been launched, and it requires just a few tweaks? I get the feeling that we’re really all alone here.
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Hello everyone. I started this post.
As of yesterday (Saturday, August 16, 2014), I stopped getting the annoying Beep Beep Boop editor… Thankfully! For me – everything is back to normal editor.
Meaning… when I start a new post or choose to edit one, it goes back to the old working editor we love.
It appears a lot of you are still getting the Beep Beep Boop editor? Weird?!
Maybe they are slowly reverting back all themes? Who knows?
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I just tried to add a paragraph to a previously published post with a YouTube video in it. I was using the new edit screen. When I previewed the change, the video did not appear, only its URL. I did not click publish for fear the video would be messed up. Backed out of it, went to the old edit screen, got a good preview showing the video in place, and published the revised post. It’s possible that publishing from the new editor would have been okay, but I’m not going to publish anything until the preview accurately shows what the published page will look like.
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Hello Windwhistle,
Several other people and I have also mentioned this bug where the new editor turns video embeds into clickable links when editing posts with video embeds in the new editor, and so you have to go into the dashboard editor and add the video embed again and then publish it in the dashboard editor for it to show up as a video embed.
@WordPress Staff
Has the WordPress staff been able to reproduce this bug, and are they going to fix it?
I ask because I have been following this topic since day one, but I do not remember this being addressed by staff yet (maybe I missed it ;) ).
Thank you,
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@johnjronline Sorry to have repeated previous entries. I didn’t remember seeing it mentioned and wasn’t about to go back through 25 pages.
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>>>This thing pisses me off so much I may drive down to your HQ first thing tomorrow and demand to speak to Matt. It’s that bad.
Better bring Bail Money.
On Twitter, when I insisted to Mat we needed better image handling, I was summarily Blocked.
And then months later, image handling was updated to exactly what I wanted.
But I’m still Blocked by him on Twitter.
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Hello Windwhistle,
No problem at all, I am glad that you mentioned it, because as far as I know it has not been addressed by staff yet; and so you mentioning it will probably help this bug get noticed because it seems to have gotten lost in the sea/ocean/flood/et cetera of comments here, and so thank you for reporting this bug as well. :)
It is nice/beautiful seeing more and more people join this topic (The Battle Of Beep Beep Bop) to report bugs, complaints, suggestions, et cetera; and this is probably the largest and fastest growing topic that I have ever followed/seen at the WordPress.com Forums (so I am enjoying the show, I even had some popcorn yesterday, hehehe). :D
Also I remember you from the last major battle here at the forums, it is nice having more survivors/comrades from that battle join this topic, and it good to know that many of us learned a few things from that experience. ;)
Normally I would have reported more bugs to this topics but I have only used the new editor once so far to briefly edit a post as an experiment (that is when I noticed the video embed bug), I have been avoiding the new editor for many reasons, and so unfortunately/fortunately I have not been exposed to it enough to find more bugs yet. :(
-John Jr
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Also as some other people have reported already, the new editor not only takes a long time to load (sometimes 30-something seconds on a cable internet connection), but it also causes my browser (Firefox 31 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) to freeze and dim briefly like it is going to crash every time it loads; and it never remembers my preference for the dashboard editor like others have reported (I have Firefox set to Permanent Private Browsing Mode), and so I am always taken to the new editor by accident when I click to edit a post from my Home Page or from a post itself.
Thank you,
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How do I get it to STAY in classic mode? Everytime I close WP it forgets that I set it to classic and defaults back to the completely useless new editor, requiring me to let that s-l-o-w-l-y load and then reload in classic mode before I can actually post anything. (What a waste of time!) The notes here say you can set classic as the default, but don’t say how.
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Yes please help
ThanksI just started blogging. Barely know what I’m doin and I got all these problems today.
I haven’t cried like this since my cat ran away.
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@John Jr , since you have the browser setting to private, it is not setting cookies which need to happen so the workaround for getting the old somewhat functional editor to come back for you.
The choice of editor needs to be a permanent choice for us, not one that gets erased as soon as our cookies are deleted.
@whos8that0girl, I’m so sorry to hear about your cat. Also, sorry to hear that you’ve just started blogging here and have to come into trying to use this “new” blue editor that is not functioning properly.
Do click the “use old editor” button when opening the “new” blue editor, it is supposed to save your choice until your cookies are deleted.
Another workaround is to bookmark the link to Add a New Post from the Dashboard and use it each time for making a new post.
@travelgalcindy, same as above info. Have you deleted your cookies in-between using your blog?
@windwhistle, the video urls showing as hyperlinks instead of the actual video when either making a new post or editing an older one using the “new” blue editor is one of the reasons I’m not using it at all. That is a huge technical error that needs fixing.
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Hello Dandelionsalad,
That was my guess as well, and I agree that there needs to be a permanent choice/setting for this. ;)
-John Jr
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Okay, it used to be I could specify how long the editing window in the now-called “classic” mode would be. It’s not there anymore. At least I can’t find it.
I am NOT enjoying the way the editing page scrolls. It’s very hard to find out where I need to scroll to.
I tried un-checking “Expand the editor to match the window height.”, and that does not help. It is just as frustrating to find my place. BTW when I uncheck that option, it does NOT remember that. I have to do it EVERY time.
I did eventually select the option to stay in “classic” mode, but there still is not an option to specify exactly how big I want the text editing box to be. I WANT THAT OPTION.
I have no problem with WP changing things, just give an option to keep it “EXACTLY LIKE IT WAS BEFORE”.
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BTW, when i DO un-check “Expand the editor to match the window height” (in “classic” mode), I get this teeny tiny (height) box, and it takes forever to find the SINGLE PIXEL where it turns into a box expansion tool.
Bottom line, I want to be able to set a fixed editing box size. I do NOT want to have to mess with this new scrolling system. I could work easily and quickly with the former system.
I do not like this new “classic” system.
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I agree with you, kauilapele. The so-called workaround for the internal scroll bar in the old, classic editor is useless as I mentioned in a previous comment here at the end of page 24.
There is an old thread in the forums about this issue: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/removing-the-scrollbar-from-the-post-editor-one-of-the-worst-improvements-yet?replies=394
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I probably agree with everything that’s been said here except that I haven’t read all 26 pages of it …
but what I really, really don’t understand is why the the b— b— b— screen is there anyway. It’s just a timewaster. I mean, if (creature of habit that I am) I forget about its existence and instead of going through the laborious new process to escape it, I do what I’ve always done and land on it by mistake, it doesn’t do anything, it just sits there while I count how many seconds it’s there for … and eventually it takes me to the wrong screen and then I have to exit that, and click this, that and the other and it all takes longer than it used to, but I’d better not whinge about that because it will only be ignored anyway.
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If there’s going to be a dumb new process imposed on PC users to suit all those people who have something else, well, ok, WP thinks The Rest of Us who use PCs are all fuddy-duddy people who resist change and they’ll ignore us (as 26 pages of complaints seems to show) – but why inflict on us a b—b—b— screen that doesn’t actually do anything?? Why doesn’t it go straight to the dumb new editor?
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