Editing text and images flexibly and fluidly

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  hesir · Member · Sep 4, 2020 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi, I’ve been a wordpress.com user for several years, and even taught students to use it as it has always been the best and most flexible blog host available, both from the point of in edit usability, and reader access (I.e not having to be a user to access the blogs).

  After a short break (redundancy and rebooting my career in a different direction) I returned to WordPress and paid up for a year on my professional interface blog, while toying with other sites on different subjects (all here on WordPress).

  The change from an editor that allowed me to copy and paste formatted work from external word processing sites, or to edit flexibly and fluidly on the fly within the WordPress post editor (I.e. not being able to select across paragraphs to change the order of my first edit for clarity, or to shuffle paragraphs back together, or to insert images in the middle of a paragraph in an immediate intuitive way) to the block system is a debilitating change.

  I understand there is no moving back (I’m sure there are reasons) but will there be any effort to:

  1 – allow more flexibility in the “Classic Block” for example, to be able to add images and even video after the text is written?,
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  2 – to be able to insert a cursor at a point within the whole text and create a block break, as you might a page break, in order to do this?

  I’m not a developer, I’m simply a user of the service, and it seems to have outpaced me with these changes. Which has caused creating a blog post that might have taken 45mins to write, re-edit on the fly then insert images and video, then add hyperlinks back to other posts, to now take hours of painful sliding text up and down to avoid obstructive floating toolbars, having to select dozens of individual pieces of text from a preview, edit outside of WordPress, then reimport as several separate text blocks.

  Ironically something not needed whilst editing this forum post.

  Any help answering the two points above would be great fully received, and will help me with my decisions with how to move forward with my web presence.

  Thanks in advance.

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  hesir · Member · Sep 4, 2020 at 8:37 pm

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  If there is a way to cause the effect of point 2 above by using one of the myriad of new tools in Gutenberg, that would be enough to make WordPress flexible enough for me to use easily again.