I HATE the block editor!
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It’s clumsy, adds extra steps for editing images and just doesn’t appeal to my mostly text-driven site. Is there a way to set WP Admin as the default view to open and edit pages, without having to type in extra code every time I want to open a page?
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We 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
And, if you really want to use something like the classic editor, we recommend sticking with the classic block: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/
For more details, please see https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/08/13/the-classic-editing-experience-is-moving-not-leaving/
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’m halfway through editing a huge, 3500 page site, and NOW I have to re-learn everything?
And all you can offer is “extensive documentation”? Oh, joy!
My colour choices, for example, are restricted, and it takes three or four steps to do what I used to do in one. Like, now I need to create a new block every time I want to change text styles?
That’s a good thing?
Sure, I have a lot more design “choices,” but I’ve been doing web sites for twenty years, and to me it looks like the much-vaunted simplicity that once made WordPress so desirable has been pissed away.
What moron thought we all wanted this clumsy, complicated, non-intuitive “improvement”? Seems to me you’ve turned your backs on everyday users to appeal to the geeks.
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Also, your “extensive documentation” features images that don’t look at all like what I’m seeing.
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Are you sure you are working on a site running on the wordpress.com platform? What is the URL of your site?
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The advice about “classic blocks” is unfortunately no help at all. I’ve tried using a classic block, and it looks nothing like the classic editor. I asked about this in May, and was sent an e-mail saying that there would be a “switch to classic editor” option underneath “options” on the right hand side, but there isn’t.
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