Editor Feedback
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I use an eye tracking device to write because I have ALS and am unable to use my hands. Any change is a challenge for me. Because a stray eye click once hit “publish” on a post that was nowhere near finished, I now write using WordPad on my device, then copy & paste into WordPress when ready. I paste using a right click in the body field. But this no longer seems to work. No “paste” option. Why?
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Oh I don’t like this one bit! I’ve tried to select and scroll copy material and this version will not scroll down at all! The page is too narrow, and the side menus keep disappearing! I’m constantly having to reselect my widescreen option and when I preview a page, I’ve lost the options to click on upper tab links to move between pages.
It’s caused me a great deal of extra work — I’d just wish you’d left it alone.
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WHERE’s HOME PAGE BUTTON GONE? I find this essential menu item has disappeared so I can’t get back to my latest post when I’m reading another separately. [Blog: richards-watch.org]
AND DASHBOARD LOST!! That’s the best and most essential bit and I always use it whereas this new stuff is strange eg – I really just don’t have precious time to be messed around. Please reinstate WP ADMIN functionality right away.
EVEN MORE WORRYING: NON-RECEIPT OF EMAIL NEW POST ALERTS!! Am no longer receiving emails to my WP-registered email address or separate main address as ‘follower’. So how many of my subscribers are not being notified??
Please can we get back to the original version and stop tinkering and tarting up a reasonably good system.
Presumably this may also explain why I can’t like or comment upon other WP blogs??
Thanks in advance for attending quickly to rectify situations …
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Dear Staff who has New-Editor-Thread-Duty: I don’t envy you for the job you have to do here.
You got to read a lot, you’re offering workarounds for formerly working features (how lame is THAT?!?), and, of course, you must defend your company’s decisions and actions. You often do it by keeping silent when there’s no way of defending something that doesn’t work.
re the new editor:
All has been said already, but I understand you’re collecting votes. Here’s mine.First of all:
I am quite angry that we are used as beta-testers.Now to the features I miss (as far as I have found out yet). Some have been announced to come back; I still list them.
– HTML-toolbox
Its coming back in the future (when?) won’t soothe my anger about it missing in the first place. I can kinda hear the discussion “Html-toolbar? Nah, only geeks use the html-editor, and they don’t need a toolbar.”
You were wrong.– writing-template is too narrow
– writing-template gets too long
Dunno how to say this properly; has been adressed in this thread several times already. I miss the scroll-bar on the left.– tools on the left must scroll down
Eg. I often tag my entries while typing them. I don’t want to scroll up and down for that.– the ability to link to existing posts of my own blog was lovely
– inserting and resizing photos is awful
It just is. Worth a a longer blog-entry of its own, and all said here already.– BBCode
I used to work a lot with BBC-code, mostly with my own tags. Most times the code I paste this way disappears after a few seconds. Sometimes I have to post it three times, and then it stays. (Is this a ritual? A charm?) Sometimes it always disappears.
So, yea, I get it. No BBC anymore. Why?We’re not asking for new fancy features, we just ask for what we had.
We are working with those workarounds, coz we love our blogs. And because there’s not much left with WP.com not working. So there might be a feeling of smug confidence in the company. Oh well, you’re providing seemingly fee service (adds), that is very welcome, and me, I AM grateful for it. I also loved the functionality (mostly).
But the bones of WP.com are from the Open Source community, WP.org was there first and did the main work. Seems you want to get free of that heritage…I am quite new with blogging and was planning to get Pro next year.
Now I am thinking about swtiching to WP.org and host myself. I chose WP.com mainly for being easy to to use and for itsits community.
I’ll have access to the community with WP.org, and as the functionality is broken I rather learn how to host and properly wordpress with WP.org that to learn ‘workarounds’ that are of no use outside of WP.com and change again again, just to achieve basic functions.P.S. Sorry for clumy English, am German.
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Well said heckenwicke. You have expressed the sentiments that most of us feel. You are also so correct about the work around aspect. I know I’m beating a dead horse but why no choice?
Thanks for adding your voice to affray.
Regards,
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Hi,
While I appreciate that you’ve decided to give the freebie WP a facelift and some of the new-look is great, I agree with a couple of the comments in here. it is difficult to atempt to improve something such as this which everyone is used to.
Notably, the width is an issue. I understand you’re looking at accessibility but we could all change the width we were looking at via a browser before. If you give us an alternative option to widen the edictor space ourselves this would be an improvement. It feels cramped and restrictive and doesn’t show inline images well.
Please bring back the spell check, it’s just simpler to use on within the editor.
After inserting images, I don’t like that the edit image button has disappeared. Aslo, there seems to be no way (with what ever keystroke such as shift or Cmd etc) to constrain the ratio of the image when resizing.
I do like the auto save (although I’m a bit wary of it) and I do like the chunkier graphics.
It is a shame you just foisted it all on us though, without allowing anyone to try a beta version for a while and give feedback. We could’ve been quite helpful and it would have saved the long rants in here :)
And finally, it’d be great to get some feedback in here about planned tweaks and changes – or are we all just commenting in a large ‘Room 101’??
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Thanks!
Sorry for all those awful typos in my post! :P But it seems that the message gets through.
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Have just lost a detailed reply to a comment on my blog because I’d somehow got logged out !!!!! AM REALLY BRASSED OFF WITH WASTE OF PRECIOUS TIME
Instead of doing it from within WP Admin because it wasn’t available to me I visited blog as ordinary reader, scrolled to comment and then logged in to my account to make comment. Upon hitting submit button I got “You need to be logged on” or words to that effect!!
Will you please get system back to its normal proper functionality and stop using us for Beta testing. I’ve paid my annual fee and expect much better…
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PS: I strongly object to not having been notified/consulted about any changes requiring valuable time spent in re-learning and familiarisation – it’s simply bad business practice.
(I managed IT help-desk in gov’t and acted as user liaison and my staff understood the need to see things from business users perspective. It wasn’t easy as they were just ‘techies’ lacking basic work practice skills.)
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Ok. When I tag (on the left, still vanishing toolbox) a list of already-used tags appears. Which is nice. Really!
But when I want to scroll down that list by touching the scrollbar it provides, the list disappears. I can only scroll it with the mousewheel.
Why? (My browser? Another beta-testing of a buggy feature?)
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Nice one heckenwicke but did you know that if you edited from the list of posts in WP Admin then you could start typing the existing tag and it would pop-up? (Or create new one in tag field).
Also, I noticed what you mention when I found this new-fangled editor popping up when editing published post BUT it wouldn’t give me a full listing of tags! That is I could scroll to a minimal extent only.
I like using shirt-urls for sending posts via email or popping into Facebook BUT that facility’s not available.
Hence I always revert to the solid and sensible WP Admin that’s now difficult to find.
Regrettably WordPress is getting beyond a joke. I used to recommend it unreservedly , but not at present.
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Just wondering why image URLs I insert in the blog are saved in Media Library. Do they eat up my allotted space?
When I did this in the old editor, images from other websites (URLs) were not saved there, only images I uploaded directly to WP.
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It is all just soooo frustrating. For 270 days I posted my paintings daily with absolutely no problems. Now I go through the NEW way of posting, and it says I can view my post…Ha! The Title is there…but no photo. Trying to keep my cool over this beta testing is getting very shaky. Went through this with Yahoo groups a few years ago. And many groups on there just folded…couldn’t take the frustration. Hope they get things worked out at WordPress.
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@kriskarkoski
I hope you do not miss my request made here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/editor-feedback/page/20?replies=595#post-2504839 -
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@rjaybee
Thank you a lot :)
I did know that; I love the option to see and to choose from my already existing tags (I wish that list would show all of them…) in the same tab in which I am writing.Also I have technical issues with the classic editor (have asked for help in the German forum today, to no avail yet), – when I start to type the text jumps and I can’t see what I am writing. So I can’t use it. Which is really awful, coz now I can’t really use the new editor either.
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Dislike the new format for Page editing, when I add a new link I can’t search for existing posts to link to!
Is there a way to default to the old editor? I hate the new editor so much, it’s so limiting.
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Not happy about the changes. It used to be a breeze to upload images to my classroom blog (which has NOTHING fancy, just some text and the occasional set of photos), and today I log in to find all my buttons moved, others nonfunctional, and it’s taken me 15 minutes (so far) to try and upload 8 pictures to a new post. And now I’m finding there is no easy way to edit pictures, so all of mine are now captioned “Olympus Digital Camera” Awesome, thanks.
There is nothing user-friendly about these changes for the average, boring, unfancy, PC-using, old editor-loving user. How do I revert back to the older, better editor?
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