Block editor in the comment box
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Why is the block editor now appearing in the comment box? It is confusing several, non-WP followers, and they do not know what to do. I have attached a screengrab for your reference:
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Thanks for bringing this up. Looks like the updated comment form is still a work in progress. Technically, your site visitors can add their comment text without choosing anything. The default block in the Editor is the paragraph block. Hitting “Enter” makes a new paragraph, just like it always did. At the minimum, commenters now have the option of styling their comments a bit more
However, that “Type / to choose a block” is certainly confusing and unnecessary if you’re not familiar with the Block Editor. It’d be more communicative if it said something like “Start typing” instead.
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Is there a way to disable the block editor in comments on a free hosted blog? Are there any settings the admin can set/change?
Is there a help guide on how a commenter should use this editor?
It looks like it is useless on an old Andreas09 blog. Most things simply don’t work. Check for example on https://sarantakos.wordpress.com Try to use features of the block editor there, or embed a video, or even post a picture. Not only the fancy features don’t work, but even the previous functionality is gone…
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I’ve posted this on another thread about the ‘updated’ comment box.
I’m an admin on a site that is primarily for people to chat and post information. The update to the comment box has left everyone very confused about what they’re meant to do in the comment box.
In addition, this update has completely broken the ability to post links to twitter, youtube etc. It no longer embeds video or tweets, instead it just presents a link to the external site.
Please revert the comment box back to how it was before, or at least make embeds work properly.
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Hey folks, thanks for the feedback. I’m getting it to our developers.
In addition, this update has completely broken the ability to post links to twitter, youtube etc. It no longer embeds video or tweets, instead it just presents a link to the external site.
Thanks for sharing this. We’ll get it reported.
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If you mean by styling is how the comment box is displaying …
before clicking inside the comment box:
after clicking inside the comment box and ready to write a comment:
There is unfamiliarity in terms of what to do next, particularly among non-WP followers, when they see the top image. When you say “block editor,” they don’t understand. When someone, WP and non-WP followers, click inside the comment box, they see the second image. Your engineers may say it’s intuitive on what to do next, but it is not. What someone sees are bunch of symbols in a nice array. Remember, simplicity matters, not the number of features/tools available. They see the symbol array, and they’ll skip leaving a comment, thinking it’s too complicated. It will eventually mean they will not read your post, or any other post on a WP platform.
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You cannot demand from the average lay commenter to know, or to want to learn, how to use the blog editors. Neither everyone is a blogger, nor a WP blogger.
It is as simple as that.The block model goes back to the CSS/HTML box model, which the WP developers have in mind, but the lay user should know nothing about it. Perhaps a small editor is indeed missing in comments, but that should be something simple and straightforward as the classic editor.
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Thanks for that feedback @stazybohorn.
And thanks @rennaed – I see earlier there was a bug causing the toolbar to overlap; glad that much is solved, but I understand what you’re saying about simplicity too and am sharing this with our developers. Thank you!
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