Classic Editor
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Unable to access Classic Editor by following Help instructions on site. It tells me to find the view toggle button on the top right but there is no such toggle button.
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Please can I have a reply to this? I need to know how to switch to Classic Editor as I need to upload a number of images and that cannot reasonably be done with the Block Editor which is a nightmare anyway! Do I need to use a different template? Please advise. Thank you.
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Which methods to regain the Classic Editor have you tried? I’ll list them here, to save time:
(1) When on your Admin page, if you click on POSTS in the left sidebar, and then on ALL POSTS, does a dropdown arrow appear next to ADD NEW POSTS? (don’t click on Add new post, just click on the dropdown arrow). If you click on the dropdown arrow, does it give you a choice of either Classic Editor or Block Editor?
(2) If you don’t have that choice: When on your Admin page, look at the URL in your browser bar. Does it look like this:
https://(whatever your site name is).wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php
If it doesn’t follow that format, change it manually so that it does. After you do that, does the Classic Editor reappear for you?
(3) If that did not work, a suggestion posted here yesterday by another member was to try something similar, which is:
Go to the post that you are trying to put images into. Make that URL follow this format:
https://(whatever your site name is).wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=17&action=edit&classic-editor
(the above should be all on one line, don’t know if it will display that way when I post this reply)
I have not used this third method but am reporting what was suggested.
Do any of these bring back the Classic Editor for you?
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(Ignore the partial hyperlinks in my reply above, they are probably there because the miserable Block Editor is what is used here on the forum for writing replies.)
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Anyone trying to create a new post using the Classic Editor and not finding the link can add wp-admin/post-new.php?classic-editor to the URL of their site.
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I tried the others and only this one worked.
Go to the post being edited in block editor and change the URL to this – whatever it already is plus &classic-editor:
.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5&action=edit&classic-editorThat worked!
Thanks so much.
If ever they do away with the classic editor, I will walk! -
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@samabc3be051c1b , plug-ins are not available to either the Free plan accounts or to the paid Personal and Premium accounts.
The least expensive paid account in which any plug-in is available is the Business plan which is currently $300 per year. This is why so many people are upset whenever there is a chance that the CE will no longer be available to all plan tiers. There are many, many users for whom a Business plan is either unaffordable or unnecessary (myself included, on both counts.)
There is a huge gap between the cost of a Personal and a Business plan. The SMART thing for WordPress.com to do would be to either
(a) create an intermediate level (let’s call it the “Classic Level” hypothetically) that would not contain any Business tools but would include the CE. Right now the annual cost of a Personal plan is $48 and a Premium one is $96 (without applying any multi-year contract discounts). A Business Plan is $300, which is 3x the cost of the Premium. Would I pay $150/year for the Classic Editor? Yes, but I couldn’t afford more than that. Currently I have a Personal plan because there is nothing in the Premium plan that I need.
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(b) Give the $96/yr Premium plan the ability to install or otherwise use the Classic Editor plug-in.
This is all assuming that WP.com wants to monetize the Classic Editor instead of providing access to it for all plan levels for free. Obviously, option B would be the simpler of the two.
But as of now, the Classic Editor as a plug-in costs at least $300/yr.
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@thecybisarchive no it should be free and many other are using it. Just @aliceharding77 just said they used it.
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Go to Settings > Writing. Look for the option “Default editor for all users” and select Classic Editor. Click Save Changes.
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@samabc3be051c1b , Yes indeed the Classic Editor should be free to all, as it currently is.
I was responding to your post earlier here wherein you said that a @aliceharding77 should try using it as a plug-in. I was pointing out that that option (using the Classic Editor plug-in) would only be available to her IF she has a Business Plan or higher.
To anyone who has a Free or Personal or Premium plan, your advice (“You’ll need to install a plug-in. The most popular one is Classic Editor.”) is incorrect. Nobody who has a Free or Personal or Premium plan here can install any plug-ins.
My opinion about WP changing from the free-to-all use of the Classic Editor stem from the fact that WP has always indicated that at some point that may stop. In other words, at some point it is possible, and perhaps even likely, that the CE will no longer be available to all users regardless of plan level. There should be some new compromise whereby people who cannot afford to pay $300/year in order to use plug-ins can access just the Classic Editor plug-in. I was suggesting two possible methods for that. Of course, WP may want to kill off the CE completely for any but their Business and Enterprise plan customers and if that is the case, everyone below that level would lose it because it would then only exist as a plug-in. As it does for WordPress.org users.
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