block editor is making me insane
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I really urgently need to get back to classic editor, and to have it stay my primary editor. The new one may be superior but I have no time to learn it and a variety of WordPress guides are not helping at all. Please please!
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Hi there, the original WP Classic Editor https://wordpress.com/support/editors/#classic-editor is available via the WP Admin dashboard of your site at yoursite.wordpress.com./wp-admin/post-new.php That’s the same dashboard we used on WPcom before the MySite dashboard was introduced in 2015.
Here’s more information about the change at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-com-classic-editor-deprecation-faqs/
Post back here if you have any more questions about this.
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Thanks, but these instructions have not been working for me.
I go to the WP Admin dashboard, general settings, and the option to choose Classic Editor does not appear as it does in your screenshot.
Please, please help!
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Hello again, If you opened your new site on WPcom after December 2019, your site will only have the Block Editor available at the moment.
It’s my understanding that once the entire platform is switched to the Block Editor at MySite, you’ll have the option to post or edit via the links in WP Admin as shown in the screenshots at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-com-classic-editor-deprecation-faqs/#how-can-i-use-the-classic-editor
In the meantime, have you tried the Classic Block? It emulates the previous Classic Editor, as described here: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/
Again, post back here if you have more questions.
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If you opened your new site on WPcom after December 2019, your site will only have the Block Editor available at the moment.
That’s not my experience on an old account. I’ve created a number of new sites this year that have access to the WP Admin editor. It was only when I created a new account a few months ago that I encountered the issue of having no access to the WP Admin editor.
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Thanks, folks:
I am not sure what was going on — musicdoc1 is correct that I am adding posts to a site that I’ve had since 2010 — but in my most recent return to the page to add a post, I got the pop-up asking if I wanted to turn on classic block, which I did. Maybe the best way to proceed when “classic block” does not appear as an option in “add block,” and is not available on the WP Admin General Settings, is to close the browser and start over, hoping it will offer me the classic block option.
I believe there are still kinks in this system.
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but in my most recent return to the page to add a post, I got the pop-up asking if I wanted to turn on classic block, which I did.
If you’re in the WP-Admin dashboard and want to create and/or edit posts in WP-Admin, then reject any invitation involving the block editor. Instead, in the Admin menu at left, go to Posts > Add New to create a new post, and go to Posts > All Posts to show a list of all existing posts. Then hover over a post title to display the options, which include Edit, Quick Edit, Copy, Trash, and View.
when “classic block” does not appear as an option in “add block”
There’s no reason to use the classic block if you’d prefer to the use the classic editor in WP-Admin. However, if you do decide to try the block editor, the module that pops up when you click the “add block” icon (+) will always have a search bar at the top. There you can enter the name of the block you’re looking for, if you know the name. Even the first letter or two of the name of the block will ordinarily be enough to bring up the block among the options. -
Thanks for the follow-up @musicdoc1 – you are indeed correct.
@modernlatam If you want to write with the WP Classic Editor in WP Admin, @musicdoc1 has given you the correct path to get there. If you previously had the Classic Editor enabled at MySites, you should find it under WPAdmin> Posts> All Posts and not in WPAdmin> Settings. Since you have a number of WPcom websites under this account you’ll find that atyoursite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php replacingyoursitewith the actual address of your site
@musicdoc1 – is it just me or does it look to you like the support docs have been updated to remove the WP Admin classic editing option? -
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is it just me or does it look to you like the support docs have been updated to remove the WP Admin classic editing option?
Yes, you’re right, the Classic Editor was removed from our docs and, although it’s still available for now, we recommend people use the Classic Block instead if they prefer that editing experience over the Block Editor.
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is it just me or does it look to you like the support docs have been updated to remove the WP Admin classic editing option?
Yes, it’s the old bait and switch.
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Some troubling trends re: the Classic Editor:
1. Just a few months ago, perhaps more recently, members were routinely invited by staff, in multiple threads this forum, to ask staff for help if they were unable to access the classic editor on a site in a newer account. Post exchanges in forum threads indicated that in response to such requests, staff would IMMEDIATELY ENABLE access to the classic editor, and members are documented thanking them for doing so. More recently such requests have been routinely denied or ignored.
2. Not only are such requests now denied, but staff seems to be pretending that enabling access isn’t still possible on a site in a new account. Since enabling access is still possible, when a member’s request to have access enabled is denied, the member should be honestly informed that enabling access to the classic editor is still possible, but WordPress.com has chosen not to enable access, either universally or selectively, as the case may be.
3. There are cases where when a member points out in a thread that other members in the same predicament (new account, no classic editor access) have been provided access, but they’ve been denied access, this contradiction is ignored, dismissed, or met with suggestions to use the Classic Block instead. Example: In the topic Classic Editor, started by @blaiddcelf, this member said:
I don’t understand how other people have been allowed to use the Classic Editor when they ask for it, but not me.</strong
Although a moderator and a staff member responded to the thread, there was no response to this statement, but the Classic Block was suggested as an equivalent alternative. It’s not an equivalent alternative, since many who wish to continue to use the Classic Editor want nothing to do with the Block Editor.
4. I myself was denied access to the classic editor on a site in a recently created account, UNTIL I pointed out that just a couple of months earlier staff had specifically told me, and (by inference) every member, that access should be present in all new sites, that the absence of such access was certainly not intended, and that if access to the classic editor wasn’t available then staff would gladly enable access. Once I pointed out that staff had personally promised that staff would enable access if I requested help via the appropriate account, the access was quickly enabled, within hours.
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If forgot to provide a link to the topic “Classic Editor” from which I quoted in the previous post.
“Classic Editor” topic — https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/classic-editor-63/
cited post by @blaiddcelf — https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/classic-editor-63/#post-3564715 -
@musicdoc1 – To me it shows that things are in flux. However, I would say that lacking any specific instruction/direction from Staff, we can only go by the most recent Staff replies to users, including what staff-mckluskey said above
the [WP Admin]* Classic Editor was removed from our docs and, although it’s still available for now, we recommend people use the Classic Block instead…
It would probably be more productive to pursue this topic elsewhere since it involves the forum volunteers.
[*added for clarity]
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It would probably be more productive to pursue this topic elsewhere since it involves the forum volunteers.
I agree. 👍
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Thanks for your input guys : ) I had been planning to start a topic at the Forums Help site on the points I raise above, but decided on the spur of the moment to begin here. I don’t regret doing so. The involvement of volunteers in a couple of the examples I provided is, IMO, tangential and not essential. The policy particulars that I question are those of WordPress.com. The four points again, with further explanation:
1. Sometime in the last two or three months, there was a change of course on staff enabling access to the (WP-Admin) Classic Editor to those requesting it. Seemingly overnight, and without explanation that I’ve been able to detect — although I admit that might have missed something — the typical response went from enabling access on each request to a new tack of meeting the majority of such requests with a. denial or evasive response in which an alternative is suggested (see c.), b. failure to provide a good reason for the denial, and c. promotion of what is to many an unsavory alternative.
2. If there are exceptions to the rule, and some such requests are honored without promoting an alternative instead, then wouldn’t everyone like to know what conditions must be met in order to qualify for simple enabling of access (on sites in newer accounts)? And wouldn’t we like WordPress.com to be transparent about what those conditions might be?
3. It’s easy to miss a single question in a longish post, or series of posts, by a member in a forum thread. I included the following quoted sentence because it is representative of questions that surely numerous members have been asking:
I don’t understand how other people have been allowed to use the Classic Editor when they ask for it, but not me.
My point wasn’t to expose any individual, staff or volunteer, for missing or not answering the question. The question is posed to WordPress.com.
4. I say “most such requests” in item #1 above because I know of at least one recent exception, and I’ve no reason to believe the exception involved volunteer status. It was my impression that the request was fulfilled or satisfied in my example because the member pointed to an earlier promise that the request would be satisfied.
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addendum 4a. Any member who goes back to relevant forum topics from May or June of this year can point to “an earlier promise that the request would be satisfied.”
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Oooh I see that I am mentioned in this thread! I did wonder why I was denied the use of the Classic Editor yet I had seen threads where other people were told to ask staff to enable it for them, and they did. I deleted the blog as a result of that. I was then told by someone (not staff) that if I used one of my old WP accounts (12 years old) I woulld be allowed to use the Classic Editor. I wanted the blog name that I deleted though, and although I can get that blog back, it won’t have the Classic Editor enabled. Crazy!
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You could have transferred the site to the old account. Has the address been deleted for less than 30 days? If so maybe staff can recover it to your new account. Perhaps then you could transfer it to the other one?
https://wordpress.com/support/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/
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