Blocks . . .

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    paulbakacs · Member ·

    I am a blogger with small to middle level, nascent experience. I keep running into this new ‘Blocks’ feature – it makes my life so much harder. I am scared I will have to consider a new blog platform. I switched over to using an old app version of WordPress on my MacBook just to escape Blocks. Please return to a ‘what you see is what you get’ word processing format. Blogging is hard enough without having to deal with what feels like butchering blog posts into sections and having to try to conform to its way of doing things instead of the highly intuitive MS Word type enjoyable, logical, pleasurable format of writing right for publication. Please. Fix it, make it more user-oriented instead of ‘strict, dogmatic obey its awkwardness’-oriented; more streamlined, no one needs blocks separated, or get rid of it. It makes life harder. Please. PS – I will study the post I just read below ‘Why did the editor change?’ but you have to do your part to make it more user-friendly because it is not user-friendly at all and that is deeply, deeply disturbing to try to function around.

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi @paulbakacs, just to make sure, you’re talking about posting on the site you linked to theblogaboutbeautifulthings.wordpress.com ? Since it looks like that hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, there has been another change here since then.

    Besides the switch to the block editor, we now have “unified navigation” which combines the two dashboards, WP Admin and the WordPress.com “calypso” dashboard. When you log in to WordPress.com, do you see your Posts dashboard like this? (temporary screenshot) If so, click on the Screen Options in the upper right corner and then select “Classic View” to change to the WP Admin Posts dashboard. That will then allow you to write in the Classic Editor (for as long as we have it). https://wordpress.com/support/classic-editor-guide/

    If you’d prefer, there is also a Classic Block in the Block Editor that very much resembles the Classic interface you were used to working with. https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/ You can add it to your post straightaway by typing /classic in the block editor.

    I also found this guide to working with the Block Editor very helpful https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor-for-writers-bloggers/

    I hope that helps somewhat.

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