Editor Feedback
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I’m so frustrated with the new editor. Change is inevitable, but you guys did a terrible job around the “WHY” this change was necessary, and gave us no options to keep the old, but surprised us with the new. Ta Da! Deal with it now! So my rant is over now, kind of.
One of many issues that are driving me nuts is that the new Editor is so slow. I type faster than it registers what I’m typing. and to highlight something, its so slow, because it’s still trying to type, never mind to catch up to the words I need highlighted. I have rebooted my Mac, close down all programs, which does improve it sometimes for a while, then it lags again. This is really unacceptable. I can’t keep rebooting my computer, and sometimes I need it open and not rebooted, so then I edit my writing in Word then copy and paste to Editor when I’m ready. Seriously? This is what its come to. This sucks. How much testing was done before this was launched? Maybe these issues are just me and my new Mac, but I doubt it. Worked perfectly before, and with other programs, but not with yours now since your update.
Also now my photos are no longer ‘clickable’ to open them up in full size in another page. Before, all my photos could be clicked on to open them fully, but no more. why did you change this? This certainly should be an easy fix for you guys. Change it back, without some crazy work around. Keep it simple. That will take care of some of your detractors easily.
And now it takes forever to upload the photos! Why?!?!?!Also my publishing dates are wrong. When I hit publish, it automatically using the date I created my draft as the default Publish date. Some drafts I started months ago. Now I have to go to schedule, and schedule the current day and time to Publish currently. Really?
And no toolbar in HTML – so then I keep switching to Visual just to make something Bold or Underlined, or to add a link. Adding Links, no longer gives my links as options. So then I have to go to my website, search my page, copy the link manually, return to WordPress Editor, and paste. Previously, again, it was better. I could scroll through my posts and add that link. Sigh. I can’t even add a photo in HTML, and no spell check. What are you guys doing? Need tool bar back.
This is so frustrating. You guys got it so wrong. The answer lies in giving us some choice, not surprising/forcing us with something we didn’t ask for, and fixing all this. Argh! And maybe addressing the community to say we screwed it up, and why the changes are necessary, and which changes you have undone and brought back. The silence is deafening. Fix and rebuild trust in the WordPress community.
I’m using Apostrophe theme and my website is petersfoodadventures.com
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Thank you for finally listening. I agree with petersfoodadventures, you need to be more responsive and communicative to us your customers. Without us there would be no WordPress.
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I just want to add my thoughts about autosaving. The new editor does away with explicit drafts and autosaves every 30 seconds. I prefer being able to explicitly save a draft and having the autosave as a backup for crash recovery like the classic editor does. Without the option to explicitly save, I can’t easily throw away new edits since the last draft if I decide they’re not good enough; I’d have to search for an old version in the revision history (which would take me to wp-admin anyway. Please, keep things consistent).
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I’m running the OS X app, and in the Blog Posts and Pages section, I see “You haven’t published anything yet.” However, my blog (self published) is many years old with with hundreds of posts and a few static pages.
Why isn’t anything showing up in those sections? Other areas work fine—I can see stats, modify settings, even write a new post. And if I write a new post, I can use the Drafts button to see the few saved drafts I have. But that’s it; the rest of my posts and pages don’t seem to exist.
-rob.
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Hey — to the Automatticians who are sticking with this thread: thank you. I know this can’t be much fun, to slog through all these complaints. But I appreciate it, and I appreciate the attention you’re giving to quickly adding the most requested functionality.
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When I add a post, it won’t let me add a title. It just says “Title” at the top of the page while editing but won’t let me change it and then nothing shows up when I publish. Except that, apparently, the post named itself “17” as that is what shows up in the archive list? Help?
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kriskarkoski: All updates, other than some themes I don’t use, are current. The Manage module is enabled. Jetpack is enabled. Not sure what else to check.
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I like the new auto-save function, but the lil’ problem I’m having is with the photos. In the old version of editor I could select multiple photos and insert them into my post all at the same time, but now when I select more than one photo I can only make a Gallery (which I don’t wanna do). Could you work on separating those two functions??
I’d also prefer to be able to edit the size and alt text of the photo by clicking on it (currently you can only add a caption.) Thanks!xx, Roxanne
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I’m probably not the first person to mention this in the 19 pages of this topic, but I don’t like the changes to the media library. I really miss the “Attachment Display Options” that were available upon inserting an image; it seems counterintuitive to only be able to edit things like size and linking to the original image after the image has already been inserted, when before it was possible to do all of that at once. (Not to mention that hitting the minus button to decrease image size no longer automatically gives you the previous “large” size of 660 x 495 px, so my image sizes would no longer be consistent with old posts.)
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In my opinion Insert/edit link button became too simple.
I used a lot a field that allowed searching for older posts in the same blog, which I could link to the post.
No I need to open a different window with my blog homepage, to go to the post, copy the link, and paste it on the new post I’m writing.
Thanks!
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Don’t like it.
No! Time won’t change it either.
But not that it matter much that I and many others don’t want it or like it. I know you are killing the dashboard and ain’t listening very well to us users.
SO NO I do not like it!And neither do I like the new reader.
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@veryfungi No, this editor is the same for unpaid users as well as users on our plans (Premium and Business)
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@janecmorr Could you let us know what browser and operating system version you’re experiencing this problem in? (available from supportdetails.com)
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@griffman Can you fill out the Jetpack contact form (http://jetpack.me/contact-support/) so someone from that team can take a closer look at why your posts aren’t appearing on the WordPress.com side. Thanks!
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Hi
I am trying to compose a blog post and I seem to have lost not only autosave bit also both Update and Save. Plus, once I inserted a picture I can’t get a cursor below it so that I can continue typing. It will allow me to edit above the picture but not write new text after it. I still cannot load a blog post after coming out of Preview without having to exit the site each time and come back in. -
@kriskarkoski
As this thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/editor-feedback?replies=579 is 20 pages in length now and as the irrelevant sidebar tags do not help when it comes to finding solutions, and as I have neither the time (I’m multitasking) or the inclination to read through 20 pages I no longer tell bloggers to post into this thread. I tag the threads they have posted with editor feedback and modlook and move on to the next thread.If Staff posted a summary of exactly what’s missing from the new editor, and where to find the answers to the most common issues bloggers are experiencing with the new editor that would be most helpful but scrolling through 20 pages does not appeal to me in the least.
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