Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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I have dozens of trusted editors on my site and a small handful of administrators. Using this great new feature means that only the author of the post can edit it…. But of course you are only told when you have made changes and try to Update!
Yes – I know about the “work-around” (how long before that is removed?) but with 1000s of posts, this is a real pain.
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For those of you looking for the short link:
The shortlink button is still available in the dashboard editor (see timethief’s instructions above to find that). You can also get the shortlink by viewing the post on your blog, hover the mouse over the blog title in the gray admin bar and copy the shortlink from the drop-down menu there.
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@knashermac2009
I’m glad you know about the workarounds at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/beep-beep-boop-screen-is-a-joke-is-this-a-glitch/page/4?replies=121#post-1993873 and will share them with your other Admins.Yes – I know about the “work-around” (how long before that is removed?) …
I don’t have an answer for that. I assume the intention is for the final iteration of the new dashboard to replace the dashboard editor on our blog’s dashboard but I don’t know that for a fact.
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I don’t want to be boring or get off subject — but what is wrong with WP when it spends a year (according to Timethief) working on this pile of rubbish? One has the sense that there is a roomful of people there who panic periodically and think they need to change anything or they’ll lose their jobs.
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I would have loved to be at the management meeting when they approved this change! Pure Keystone Cops!
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I just talked to a WordPress.com tech support via chat.
Theses useless and upsetting changes are permanent!
It is sad, that, as paying customers, we have no control over what they do?!
We are the victims. I wish I never paid for this crap!
Now I have to find a way to copy all my posts to Tumblr or Blogger.
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The edit workaround is workable, barely, if you only have a few posts. I have 2,400 posts that span 33 pages/screens. That means once I get to the posts page, I’ll have to stop and type the title to get to the post. That’s probably a total of at least 10 keystrokes instead of the previous 1 (one!) to get to the edit screen. All that just to correct a misspelling, a missing punctuation mark, etc.
Comment edit is still a single keystroke that goes to the “old” edit screen. Why can’t post edits keep working that way? Or is the comment edit soon to be beep beep booped too?
To simplify most other WP navigation, I long ago put links on my browser toolbar to give me one-stroke access to my home page, the list of posts, the list of comments, a test page, the CSS edit page, and a page where I’ve listed some frequently used codes. But there’s no way to create such access to the edit page for hundreds of different posts.
Please, WordPress, don’t do this. Please reconsider.
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“Multi-device friendly” my arse. These changes are only for the hipster idiots who think they can blog with a tablet’s touchscreen. BTW, has anyone at WP.com considered that people may also work offline and then upload/import their posts?
I don’t think so.
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Did you tell them that everyone on these forums has expressed nothing but dismay and upset at this? Or do they not care?
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The work around provides a fix for now, but if they are trying to move to the Beep Beep Boop editor permanently, I’ll have some serious issues. I’ve messed around with it for a while, and I’ve yet to find a way to add media to a post. My posts usually have a few pictures to go along with them, so this would really hurt my site.
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Theses useless and upsetting changes are permanent!
Understood and note that the Volunteers who are long term users already surmised that.
Putting this here for the benefit of the Page 5 Readers:
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.
To Edit, go to Dashboard->Posts->All Posts and go to the particular post, and click Edit. That gives you the full-featured editor.
From https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/beep-beep-boop-screen-is-a-joke-is-this-a-glitch/page/4?replies=121#post-1993873 -
One other problem I had one the new editor was that there didn’t seem to be an option for all embedded links to open to a new page, I had to change the target each and every time. Using the work-around to get back to the old editor solved that problem. However, I’m worried that the work-around may not be a permanent option.
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What about the inability to edit someone else’s post? That has to be a fault, surely?
I suggest you email Staff about that to get a direct answer. Or if you have upgrades then use http://support.wordpress.com/contact/
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Why in the bloody sodding Hell would I or any other user be blamed for preferring to use the “Edit” button on a post’s page instead of taking the two extra steps of going to the Dashboard and then to the Posts?
This is not a workaround, this is a pathetic excuse. As is the case with everything which, instead of offering a truly responsive layout (one for desktops, one for tablets, one for smartphones), imposes a tablet-suitable UI on desktop users, WP.com is becoming less and less suitable for productive, serious amateur, semi-pro or pro use. It’s becoming every bit as idiotic as Ubuntu’s “Unity” desktop or the sodding Gnome 3 – the two worst Linux/UNIX desktops ever.
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Another issue I see with your presence here. What you do is damage control. Proper companies proactively ask users for feedback and, if a change proves to be for the worst, they act posthaste to roll it back. Hell, even the much-maligned Linden Lab has far better, more honest, more transparent, more respectful, and more dignified means (user group meetings, a JIRA, etc) of getting user feedback than the WordPress Foundation. And you can actually get answers from one of Linden Lab’s developers. Here? This is something users (even paying ones, like me) can’t count on.
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@monaeberhardt
I have to concur with this. If everyone else like Twitter, Wikipedia, etc can do a phone version and PC version of their product then surely WP can too?
Is it really good business to alienate a huge portion of your customer base for the sake of a few just to appear trendy?
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@monaeberhardt
Why in the bloody sodding Hell would I or any other user be blamed for preferring to use the “Edit” button on a post’s page instead of taking the two extra steps of going to the Dashboard and then to the Posts?
I’m not blaming anyone for anything. I’m here to help and so is raincoaster. That is what Volunteers do. She provided two workarounds ie. one for creating new posts and one for editing published posts and I linked to them. You are either here to locate help or to bitch and moan – whatever you choose to do is your prerogative.
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Got to agree with Mona. Convenience is being sacrificed here. Not just with new posts, but with editing published posts (such as after spotting a missed typo).
As the old saying goes, the more you over-tech the plumbing, the easier it is to stuff-up the drains.
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The GNOME Foundation thought it’d be cool to alienate desktop users by replacing the nearly-excellent Gnome 2 and hogging them with a heavy, poorly-coded, crashy, slow desktop that is supposed to “work well” on tablets… When, in fact, it was slow even on high-end PCs (much less on tablets, whose processing power is – at best – that of a 15-year-old midrange laptop). It seemed like a good idea at the time.
You know what? Even if timethief’s intentions are the best ever… Her presence here is a sign of a condescending, insulting attitude on behalf of WP.com; where’s a developer to gather feedback? Nowhere. Does WP.com want us to believe it has a (to use a term coined by Second Life’s most paranoid user) “feted inner core” of “elite” users, who are sent out to do damage control and save WP.com’s face?
Where’s a proper bug reporting/bug tracking/feature request system (like Atlassian’s excellent JIRA)? Nowhere. We just have a “forum” (which is poor in features and capabilities).
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