Block Editor Feedback
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The main reason I use WordPress in the fashion I do is because I want to preserve HTML entities in my posts. I give code examples. Some examples have angle brackets or HTML in them. And I’ve developed a crude but effective workflow of writing in Notepad++ and pasting into Classic > HTML.
I tried the block editor. And it is very nice. I hope that the code and syntax highlighting blocks will solve some of my entity problems.
But, the experience I had today was the block editor ate my entities. And, so, I’m uncertain of the future. I might accept that my work is randomly corrupted. Or, I might downgrade even further to WP Admin Classic. :(
That’s basically what I think. For more info, check out my demo.
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We still have options for you detailed at https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/05/18/say-hello-to-the-wordpress-block-editor/
We do recommend the new editor though, and we have some extensive documentation available at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/
Just so we can test, what code exactly did you try?
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I have never “upgraded” or switched from the Classic Editor in WP Admin since I started my blog over ten years ago. Sometimes it takes some navigating to get to that Editor from elsewhere on my site, but it’s always worth it to me, because I don’t have extra time to learn the little things that WP considers improvements but that I don’t need.
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^^^^ This.
I hate the block editor. I tried it and gave up. I’m an author, not a computer geek. I didn’t even have the internet until after I finished high school in the 90s, and what seems simple to some is too much trouble for others. I just want to keep using what I know, and if this is forced on us with no other options then I’m going to be looking for something other than WordPress.
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I tried the block editor when it was first introduced. I hated it utterly. I interacted quite a bit with the support staff. Their answer to everything was “There’s a block for that!” I am not interested in producing complex websites in WordPress. I am just writing a blog to support teachers. I gave up on the block editor. I searched for an alternative platform, but there really wasn’t anything that could do both blogging and file uploads at a reasonable price. So I stuck with WordPress and continued to use the old editor. I blogged happily for another two years. I thought, ok there must have been so much bad reaction that they gave up on the dismal thing. To tell the truth I forgot it even existed. But yesterday, I got another pop up encouraging me to switch to the block editor. I checked and it seems that now they are going to disable the old editor by June 1. It will be back to this block, that block, everywhere a block block. Like many others, I do not write in WordPress. I write in a text editor and paste into WordPress, and then format. The block editor is not conducive to this workflow.
I just watched the video about the future of Gutenberg. That is not a future I am interested in inhabiting. Please give us an alternative. The “Classic Editor” is not even the editor we are currently using.
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Hi all,
On June 1st, we will retire the Classic Editor.
We have a very detailed guide that will help you make this change more smooth but we are also here to clarify anything further. If you have any particular questions, let us know.
As staff-blorbo mentioned, you can also use the Classic Editor or the Classic Block within the new editor, it looks just like the Classic Editor, have a look:
https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/
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If you paste a multi-paragraph article directly into the the block editor it makes every paragraph a block that has to be formatted separately. A big pain. If you create a “Classic Block” and paste into that, will it not blockify the article?
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@guitarsophist I just pasted a few paragraphs of text in a Classic Block in the Block Editor and it all stayed in one block-the classic block.
Have you tried a test on your own WPcom site? If you encounter a problem, Staff and volunteers can better assist you if you start your own thread at https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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Block editing caters to cell phone users; the blocks fit well into a tiny screen. Classic editor is proficient for laptop users. If WordPress cared, they would allow a choice for their customers–those of us who post and bring billions of hits and revenue to their webspace. WordPress doesn’t care, they are selfish.
Whoever thinks block editing is somehow an advancement, they are not considering customers like me. That big gargantuan white space? And having to search for and chase for options? Study the process of posting again? The crappy html font? It’s clunky, inelegant and patently a nuisance.
Wordpress exerting control like this has been going on forever, similar to CCP. Another grim score for WordPress. Amid pandemic anxiety, WordPress dumping this on us just makes life suck even more, thanks for nothing. It makes me so angry that I can’t even react, knowing it’s foisted on me against my will.
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@justjennifer I went through fooling with the block editor a couple of years ago. Once I decided it wasn’t serving any purpose I had for WordPress, I turned it off and never looked back. I am afraid to turn it on again to experiment because if I tried to edit an old post it really messed things up. Now it seems that WP is going to turn it on for me.
The block editor seems to assume that we will write in the editor. I write offline, then paste the text in and format it. I have lost pages of text trying to write in the WordPress editor and then having the internet connection hiccup and freeze the window. You will say it saves drafts. Perhaps it does, and perhaps they are reliable. I am still going to write offline. If I can paste into a classic block that might be a solution.
The old editor is a wordprocessor. The block editor is a web design environment. What is really happening here is that WordPress is changing its target user. I am no longer the target user. I will find a way to adapt.
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@guitarsophist No need to convince me. I was replying to your question whether content pasted into the Classic Block gets “blockified”. In my test site all the pasted content, in my case a number of paragraphs, remained in one block – the classic block.
@phtasmagoria As staff-mckluskey has already written above in her reply “you can also use the Classic Editor or the Classic Block within the new editor.” So you do have that choice. -
@justjennifer The link for Classic Editor is in the plugin section, which means people have to “pay” for that choice.
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@phtasmagoria There is a (free) classic editor plugin for sites hosted elsewhere that use the wordpress installation. That isn’t necessary here at WordPress.com. As your account is 9 years old you can continue to reach the classic editor from your wp-admin dashboard.
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If you really want to use the classic editor, it is still available: https://wordpress.com/support/editors/#classic-editor
We also have tips for transitioning from the classic editor to blocks https://wordpress.com/support/switching-from-the-classic-to-the-block-editor/ and FAQs: https://wordpress.com/support/replacing-the-older-wordpress-com-editor-with-the-wordpress-block-editor/#frequently-asked-questions
We do recommend the new editor though, and we have some extensive documentation available at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/
If you have feedback that could help make the new block editor a better experience for you, please let us know here: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/feedback-thread-for-the-block-editor/
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