Feedback Thread for the Block Editor
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I fear WordPress has been caught up in the ‘blogging is dead’ scenario of a year or so ago.
So, sensibly, they decided to move their focus from a mainly blogging platform to something generally useable to the business world.
Why this meant that the traditional blogging platform (which didn’t die, by the way, WordPress) had to be thrown out with the bathwater, who knows?
But, here we are, a bunch of dinosaur-bloggers who should have just lain down and be dead already.
Such a shame.
So.
Do we just give in, lose all our current content, and go somewhere else?
Do we give in and struggle along with the new editor?So many options to choose from!
Bummer, hey?
Good thing I kept copies of all my blogs and pictures.David
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If you really want to use the classic editor, it is still available: https://wordpress.com/support/editors/#classic-editor
We also have tips for transitioning from the classic editor to blocks https://wordpress.com/support/switching-from-the-classic-to-the-block-editor/ and FAQs: https://wordpress.com/support/replacing-the-older-wordpress-com-editor-with-the-wordpress-block-editor/#frequently-asked-questions
We do recommend the new editor though, and we have some extensive documentation available at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/
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I started blogging blogger and sure hope they don’t change. I have yet to learn everything about blogging over there.
I want my Classic Editor simple as that. Hope they don’t change. -
staff-blorbo, we have already analyzed this post you made in another post in this topic. A reflection will be interesting.
Again: There are two major problems with that sentence.
The first is to think that the block editor is so good that hardly anyone would think not to use it; this is not the reality.
Second, we do not want the traditional editor to “still” be available, but that it is always available or that the WP makes a clear choice to support editing options for those who write. This has been said since Gutemberg was launched, but there is no answer on the subject.
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staff-blorbo Most of the people in this thread know that they can have the classic editor now. But I just checked and the My Home page still says, “The new WordPress editor is coming. Get a head start before we activate it for everyone in the near future.”
That sounds like a threat. That’s what people are worried about. And it is not that people haven’t tried the block editor. Many have. Some have spent considerable time with it and still don’t like it.
And it is not about being old and not wanting to learn new software either. Heck, I just had to transition from teaching face-to-face to teaching completely online. I am in the midst of learning Kaltura, Google Slides, Slack, and features of Blackboard I never thought I would have to use. But you know what? All of that stuff (well, except for Blackboard) is well-designed and easy to use for the purpose.
WordPress needs to consider that the Block editor Might. Just. Not. Be. Very. Good.
But thanks for your patience. We all know that this is not your fault and we appreciate your help.
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The plan currently is to switch on the Block Editor for everyone, not to remove the Classic Editor.
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staff-blorbo Does that mean that one morning everyone using the classic editor will log on to find that their editor has been switched to blocks? And then in their confusion they will have to search for the way to switch back or come screaming over here?
That doesn’t sound like a good plan. That will alienate the users even more. Whatever else it is, it doesn’t sound like good business practice.
Oh well. In the grand scheme of things, it’s just a ripple in the continuum. There’s bigger stuff going on in the world.
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staff-blorbo, quote:
The plan currently is to switch on the Block Editor for everyone, not to remove the Classic Editor.
Er…. could you kindly tell us WHERE we can find the switches to get back to the Classic Editor on that fateful day?
(We can save that information and I am sure it will forestall the mentioned “screaming”, which is not to anyone’s pleasure….) -
I am sure the process will be click WP Admin (at the very bottom of the left hand list) then Posts/All Posts. Then in the upper right there is a button that says “Posts/ Add New. Next to it is a little down arrow. Click on that and you get a choice between the Block Editor and the Classic Editor. I learned this from this thread! You will probably have to make that choice for each new post.
This only appears if you have activated the Block Editor. And I believe that WP Admin only appears for users of a certain vintage. It is the old dashboard.
But users who suddenly have blocks will not know this unless the change comes with specific instructions for reverting. That’s why they will be screaming.
WordPress seems determined to cajole, coerce, or trick users into using the block editor at all costs. I am sure it is coming from the top.
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I’m terrified to even look: is the new “block editor” anything like Wix? Because I tried building my text heavy site there and just about lost my mind. I came back to WordPress because this platform was built for writers. I’m a writer. I don’t want to be creating, positioning, aligning text boxes and heading boxes and background boxes all over the place before I can make a single sentence, and I sure as hell don’t want to make a new box for every paragraph.
Please, please tell me this isn’t what’s waiting for me.
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@karenm213 if you use the classic editor (the real classic, in the administrative area), you will have no problems. Blogger also perfectly fulfills your goals, but it doesn’t have, as in all Google products, human support, which, in my view, is the big difference of WP.com
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@karenm213 for text-centric blogs, I suggest this theme:
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@guitarsophist, quote:
I am sure the process will be click WP Admin (at the very bottom of the left hand list) then Posts/All Posts. Then in the upper right there is a button that says “Posts/ Add New. Next to it is a little down arrow. Click on that and you get a choice between the Block Editor and the Classic Editor. I learned this from this thread!
I am aware, however, it might still be that WP will change the path you describe, so that getting back to the Classic Editor can’t be done via the old path.
(Btw, for me that button is in the upper left. And there is no ‘down arrow” beside it, to choose, it used to be there, but somehow it disappeared, I think because I made the choice years ago. )
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PS: The quote code got messed up in my reply above, #3507520; the bit from “I am aware” to “years ago)” is MY response in reply to guitarsophist’s quote, ending with “I learned from this thread!”
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@mabelamber You’re right! The “New Post” button with the crucial down arrow is in the upper LEFT part of the screen.
Sorry.
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The various members’ comments all seem to make the same point, which I endorse fully. Meanwhile WP has delayed the imposition of the block editor.
The solution, which they can still work on before imposing, is to have the block editor which Manxman thinks so highly of (he even admits that we have to read “extensive documentation” before even beginning to understand it) simply as an OPTIONAL alternative choice, with the classic editor (or the present one that followed it) as the main and default version.
Anyone prepared to go through all the palaver of difficulties with the block editor will not mind having to press an extra button to select it every time. The rest of us will continue happily as at present.
THIS CAN BE DONE THERE IS STILL TIME.Finally can anyone please explain to me where Gutenberg comes in, who or what is it/he and what is the connection with free books download, or is it a different one?
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I will add to my last comment,
If you agree please say so and flood them with requests. The solution should satisfy everyone except those who wish us to be forced into what we do not want whether we like it or not. -
As I understand it, “Gutenberg” was the internal name of the project, but they de-emphasized it because there was already a “Gutenberg Project” that digitized public domain print works and put them on the internet. Also, people pointed out to them that it was pretty audacious to imply that developing the block editor was somehow akin to inventing the printing press. So now it is the”Block Editor” or sometimes they try to call it “the WordPress Editor.”
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@halilac, quote:
Finally can anyone please explain to me where Gutenberg comes in, who or what is it/he
Johannes Gutenberg was the guy who introduced printing to Europe, with the “printing press”, see this Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
WordPress chose his name as the code name for the new, not so very appreciated Block Editor (only two stars out of five on Google Reviews…)
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could you kindly tell us WHERE we can find the switches to get back to the Classic Editor on that fateful day?
By following the same steps at https://wordpress.com/support/editors/#classic-editor
We also have tips for transitioning from the classic editor to blocks https://wordpress.com/support/switching-from-the-classic-to-the-block-editor/ and FAQs: https://wordpress.com/support/replacing-the-older-wordpress-com-editor-with-the-wordpress-block-editor/#frequently-asked-questions
We do recommend the new editor though, and we have some extensive documentation available at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/
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