In-post image editor has stopped working–editing icons do not show up
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Basically just copying over what I erroneously posted on WordPress.org:
What have you done?
I noticed today that there’s been some changes to the image embedding tool for my WordPress blog. The Add Media bit seems much the same, but the after-editing I used to be able to access via a small image icon in the top-left when selecting the image, has now been replaced with an edit icon and an X in the top-right. And they are halfway useless for my purposes.
I now have to go into the plain-text editor to make sure I get the width and height measurements correct, the Title field seems gone entirely, and so has the checkbox for making sure a click on the image will open the full-size version in a new tab.
What have you done?
While the old tool perhaps needed some steamlining, this “simplification” is going to make it needlessly more complicated to embed images on the posts I write. Why? Why did you do this?
By stripping away useful options like this, I can really only say it is now objectively worse than it was before. I’d rather have something ugly and functional, than something pretty and useless. (Not that the new design is really any prettier, but that’s a different matter.)
So please, please either give me the option to revert to the old tool, or at least somehow add the stuff I use into the new thing.
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It’s likely useless, but I just want to add my voice to the roar of complaints: Why, WordPress, why? Hampering users, and eliminating useful tools that have been available for years – that users have come to rely upon for the aesthetic continuity and polish of their sites – is absolutely not an improvement. What harm could the advanced image editing options possibly be doing, that you felt the need to remove them completely?
It’s not that I’m anti-change, when the change is for the better. However, this is a definitive step backwards. I use WordPress for a variety of blogs – for myself and others – and I rely on borders and the % adjustment for images. When changes like these are made, it seems as though WordPress powers-that-be are saying, “Sorry, we’d rather make upgrades for the sake of making upgrades than leave a good thing alone. Oh, your blog is ugly now? Gosh, sorry, that’s just the price of progress.”
Please bring back these simple tools that, clearly, many of your users appreciate. I expect better of WordPress – i.e., intelligent, design- and user-oriented upgrades and innovations. But frankly, this is a major disappointment.
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I agree with all the angry users and would like to reiterate that taking away functionality and ease of use of WP will severely hinder what WP set out to do from the beginning! I really am all for improvement, but why take away features that weren’t affecting the overall changes for the better, ie. the “more colors” option!! Why? There’s no real reason that feature would need to be removed in order to implement other changes! Its just doesn’t make any damn sense!
I really wish you would let users know of these changes before putting them into play because once again, WP makes changes that are not making our experience better, only making it worse!
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I have found a solution – go to Microsoft Paint and select an image and then draw a border around it. This might be 20 years out of date but it is light years better than WP and their dismissive responses!
Can it delete an existing border? In any case, that’s a very unwieldy solution to what used to be a one-click process.
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Seriously we have a blog for business, and as such you want to look professional, finished, nice edged pictures not just something floating in a white space. This is very disruptive change and it would be best to have options, why not keep the old and just add the new instead of taking away anything between wordpress and facebook, BAHHHH! So upset!!!
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Just to update, dragging the corners of a photo to resize it didn’t work for me yesterday, but it’s working now. Still a miserable replacement for the percentage option, but it’s better than nothing – which is what WordPress left us with initially. A horrible mess.
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When I dragged the corner you have to be careful to use one away from delete button or when you unclick you can delete photo very easy….
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Hi everyone,
Thanks for all of your ideas and suggestions so far. We do recognize that there are concerns about our changes to the way WordPress handles image editing. While we’re not going to go backwards in time, we do take constructive feedback seriously and will consider your ideas in future iterations.
We have a second thread about these issues into which one of the main developers for the image editor changes has already posted:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-resize-1?replies=15
Already we have made a few changes and fixed a few things thanks to the feedback there.
If you have constructive feedback about new or missing features, or if you encounter any bugs, please post in that thread so we can keep the conversation all in one place.
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