Block Editor-It’s Really That Bad
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I just had the Classic Block Editor forced on me when I went to edit one of my pages. It wouldn’t stay in HTML mode for all the editing I wanted to do, and then wouldn’t keep any of the changes until I reverted. I’m still able to use the real Classic Editor for posts, and I’m dreading that being taken away and being forced to use the non-intuitive, ten times as long to figure out Block Editor.
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I have talked to many WP users and most all of them are fleeing WP. I intend to do the same as soon as I can locate a more user friendly platform. WP was once the premiere bloggin platform for us regular folks. Not any more! Obviously they want rid of us. Why else would you take one of the most successful blogging editors and convert it to a nightmare?
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ppjg – Is there a specific feature or operation that you’re needing help with in the block editor?
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Gutenberg editor is terrible.
First: it won’t generate a preview in Safari.
Second: when typing, my cursor jumps very often to the start of the blogpost. Then I have to find in the text where I was typing. This happens really often, several times in a quarter of an hour. Have you any idea how frustrating that is while writing? It kills the creative process. I started writing in Word, then past it to WordPress. It is that bad.
Third: can’t access code anymore. This limits possibilities that aren’t there in WYSIWYG.
Fourth: how on earth can I get back that a picture opens bigger in an attachment page? Can’t find that option anymore.
Fifth: Often can’t move blocks up or down, so I have to delete the block and start building it again.
Sixth: How easy it was, just paste the URL of a YouTube video and how ridiciously more steps I have to make just to embed a video.
Seventh: I officialy now hate WordPress and am actively looking around for an alternative, to move my blog and website. -
Oh, I forgot one: it gives warnings all the time, that somehow there is a version other than the version that I am working on, that is newer. Which is impossible, because I am not editing in several computers or browser tabs.
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it won’t generate a preview in Safari.
when typing, my cursor jumps very often to the start of the blogpost.
Often can’t move blocks up or downHm, I’m not having these issues myself with Safari 14.0.3 under macOS 11.2.3.
Which version of Safari are you using, and would you please try with all Safari extensions switched off?
can’t access code anymore.
You can by following these steps: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/#more-options
How easy it was, just paste the URL of a YouTube video
You can still do that: https://wordpress.com/support/videos/youtube/#embed-with-a-url
it gives warnings all the time
Would you please quote the warnings you’re seeing?
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Thank you for your information about how to embed YouTube video’s the simple way. Although you have to use now Cmd+shift+V, otherwise you get a hyperlinked title instead of the link.
I use BigSur 11.2.3, Safari 14.0.3 (16610.4.3.1.7), with no extensions on a iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020).
Editing in HTML gives a lot of errors. Even with the most simple HTML it gives the warning “This block contains unexpected or invalid content.” You can then convert to HTML but can never go back and editing again normal if you want to type text. It’s also one block, not the whole page.
Generating previews gives the message like: Oops, it seems that this page doesn’t exist.
The warnings are about existing a imaginairy newer version that can only be found in block editor.
Writing is still horrible for somebody who can type fast. Cursor keeps jumping to the beginning of the first block. This is an absolute no go for me.
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Also you forgot to respond to two of my points:
Fourth: how on earth can I get back that a picture opens bigger in an attachment page? Can’t find that option anymore.
Fifth: Often can’t move blocks up or down, so I have to delete the block and start building it again.I take it as there is no resolution yet for these problems?
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Hello there,
Many thanks for that additional information.
When you reference HTML, can you elaborate what you’re doing here? What HTML are you using exactly?
how on earth can I get back that a picture opens bigger in an attachment page? Can’t find that option anymore.
This option can be found in the image block here: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/image-block/#link-settings
Fifth: Often can’t move blocks up or down, so I have to delete the block and start building it again.
Please see how to move blocks here: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/#move-blocks
I hope this helps.
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Message: “This post was previously edited in the Block Editor. You can continue in the Classic Editor, but you may lose data and formatting.
You can also browse previous revisions and restore a version of the post before it was edited in the Block Editor.”
Read: “We want to annoy you so bad that you will use block editor eventually. Even if only opened this post in block editor per accident and have edited in the last hour in the classic editor, so your latest version is in classic editor and you do not need to go to block editor but I still will give you this message each time you save this blogpost, even when your last 10 saves were also in classic editor.
I know how to move blocks, it just doesn’t always work the right way.
In HTML I like to add attributes like valign=”top” or bgcolor in tables.
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In HTML I like to add attributes like valign=”top” or bgcolor in tables.
Thanks for clarifying! You should still be able to add those attributes using HTML by switching to the code editor in the new editor by following these steps:
https://wordpress.com/support/editors/#edit-html-in-the-word-press-editor
If you’re seeing “invalid code”, can you walk us through what steps you’re taking to add the code and what code you’re adding? We can try to replicate the issue to see where it’s not working.
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What is happening in Safari with Block Editor when I want to see a preview (desktop, open in new tab):
https://kampeerwijzer.com/?p=21653&preview=true
Translated from Dutch I get the message: Oops that page could not be found.
This is the link I get from classic editor (different post, made in classic editor):
So a much longer URL. This one works.
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Thank you for the information to the link to the code editor. Very helpfull.
Another thing I have is: I add a gallery to the post. Then I decide want to add one extra picture. I can’t find how to editing the gallery to make this happen. This is when I remove the block and start over.
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Things I do in HTML:
A simple reason to want to quickly switch to code is: I want the dot behind a link after . Because I think that looks better. This is often difficult to do in the WYSIWYG editor, because typing often places it inside the anchor.
Or I ad anchors, so I can link to it from another page.
Or add <sub> or <sup> (now possible WYSIWYG in the paragraph block, thanks).
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Sorry, it made HTML in my post.
I tried to type: I add anchors like < a name = > (so I can link to it from another page to that specific part).
Don’t like the style of the quote, liked the old one better.
Looks like sticky’s don’t work anymore, at least in my template. Can remove an old one but a new on does not appear.
I miss the quick edit in the list of blogposts, to for example add tags or to make it a sticky.
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Sorry, it made HTML in my post.
The dot behind a link after the < / a >
I tried to type: I add anchors like < a name = > (so I can link to it from another page to that specific part).
Don’t like the style of the quote, liked the old one better.
Looks like sticky’s don’t work anymore, at least in my template. Can remove an old one but a new on does not appear.
I miss the quick edit in the list of blogposts, to for example add tags or to make it a sticky.
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Gutenberg Editor is not what i want. I have designed a couple of sites with wordpress and that’s was going smoothly until i came along the Gutenberg Editor.
My advice: Forget this stuff and go back to the classic user-friendly easy-to-use classic editor. That is what WordPress has to be: easy building pages and messages without the mess of Gutenberg madness.
The classic editor worked intuitive and others than web developers could easily place post a message on the pages there was virtually no learning curve.
Why choose the bad thing while you have a good thing!
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We want to annoy you so bad that you will use block editor eventually.
This sort of manipulation is exactly what WP.com has been doing. The strategy for years has been to make it difficult to access and use the much more user friendly WP-Admin dashboard. They’ve done this in myriad ways, including the following:
- Claim that the Calypso interface and the Block Editor are superior to the older options — Those who know from experience that these claims aren’t true are not deceived, but newer and less-experienced users might be.
- Remove links to WP-Admin — They’ve been periodically removing links to WP-Admin, only to restore them after a barrage of complaints, for years.
- Remove links to the Classic Editor — Making it difficult to easily switch between the editors, while constantly promoting the Block Editor as superior, are obviously part of the strategy to get people to “give in,” be good and compliant sheep, and stop being individualists who spoil things by going back to WP-Admin and the Classic Editor.
- Hide features — This started many years ago when they hid the WP-Admin Header and Background pages, requiring visits to the slow-loading and much less user-friendly Customizer in order to manage these features. More recently they’ve hidden the Links menu and other important features from the WP-Admin admin menu.
- Unwanted switching to the Block Editor — WordPress.com inserts links in WP-Admin that automatically switch you to the Block Editor. These links are present even if you customarily use WP-Admin and obviously do not want to use the Block Editor unless you visit Calypso and open a Block Editor intentionally,
- The Add New links (post, page, etc.) in the WP-Admin admin menu open into the Block Editor. This happens despite the fact that the URLs of the links are for the corresponding WP-Admin pages.
- The “Edit” links in the Post and Page managers switch you to Block Editors, forcing you to choose instead “Classic Editor” links.
- The “Edit” links on the visible post or page open up to the Block Editor even if you NEVER use the Block Editor, you have multiple pages open in the WP-Admin interface, and you use the WP-Admin interface 99.9% of the time. Why are there no “Classic Editor” links on the visible post/page?
- Insist that we, not the designers of the Block Editor, are the problem — We are repeatedly told that the issues users keep pointing out regarding the Block Editor aren’t really problems at all. The problem is that it takes time to get used to doing something that you’re not used to doing. So WordPress.com wants us to believe that while they understand that you’re accustomed to walking normally, you will eventually become comfortable with walking on your knees, while blindfolded, with ankles tied together, hands bound behind your back, in a dark room with no windows, while whistling Dixie.
Well said. Thank you!
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