I HATE the block editor!

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  kevinburtonsmith · Member · Oct 2, 2020 at 8:40 pm

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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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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 2, 2020 at 10:10 pm

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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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  kevinburtonsmith · Member · Oct 3, 2020 at 4:20 am

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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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  kevinburtonsmith · Member · Oct 3, 2020 at 6:54 am

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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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  staartmees · Member · Oct 3, 2020 at 9:39 am

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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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  galois · Member · Oct 3, 2020 at 9:48 am

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  @kevinburtonsmith
  What is the URL (https://…) of your site?

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  theyearwithoutwimbledon · Member · Oct 3, 2020 at 10:28 am

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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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  barbarah · Member · Oct 3, 2020 at 1:55 pm

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  I agree. Posting was so simple before, and now it is so complicated.