Is there a way to permanently disable the "new posting experience"?
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Hi –
I want to permanently (as in, automatically when I click “Create New Post” or “Edit Existing Post”) revert to the “old posting experience”.
The new editor is a hassle to use — takes too long to load (or at least feels like it), has a restricted user interface compared with the old version and is, honestly, uglier to me than the old version. Although the black righthand nav menu on the old editor screen isn’t exactly glamorous, at least it contains all option at a glance and is simple to use. Hiding interface elements is great for newbies, and profoundly annoying for anyone who knows what they want to do but finds the options (for example, the “Get Shortlink” option) buried somewhere in menus.
I eventually found the shortlink menu option, but after giving the “new and improved posting experience” at least a month, I find myself heading back to the “wp-admin” screen and manually opening the old editor over and over any time I want to create or edit a post.
Hopefully it would be simple to give users a choice so that we aren’t stuck with a new experience that doesn’t actually add to the experience, and in fact detracts from it.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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…and I meant “black left-hand nav on the old editor”…
It would be great to be able to edit the original post, but the main question is more important.
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Yeah, I’d also love to get rid of the “new posting experience.” I’m surprised that no one spoke up to point out how terrible it is, but I’m sure that some users must like it. However, I’m equally sure that most don’t. I hope that we’re given the choice as I get tired of my posts being deleted, the screen freezing, and not being able to edit.
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@elegantzest: “I’m surprised that no one spoke up to point out how terrible it is, but I’m sure that some users must like it.”
I would be amazed to find out why… seems like I’ve spent days looking at the screen telling me that infuriatingly cheerful “beep beep boop boop” or whatever gibberish someone thought would be cute to stare at for an eternity, while the page decides whether to load properly or not…
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The nice thing about WordPress is that they USUALLY realise when they’ve made a huge mistake and they backtrack PDQ. Hopefully this “new posting experience” isn’t someone’s pet project and a hill that they’re prepared to die on.
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Hopefully this “new posting experience” isn’t someone’s pet project
It is – you are stuck with “the new posting experience” also called the Blue Death Editor – the Blue Death Editor is here to stay
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@raincoaster: “There are several HUNDRED complaints in the forums. Scroll.”
Hundreds? WTF…
@elegantzest: “Hopefully this “new posting experience” isn’t someone’s pet project and a hill that they’re prepared to die on. “
Hopefully…. I’m personally starting to hear Tumblr nipping at WP’s heels in the “advanced blogging interfaces that actually work” department, though. You know, because Tumblr’s interface? It actually works (most of the time). And it’s pretty nifty, I have to admit.
But I love WordPress, so I’m not giving up on them completely — sort of like keeping an eye out for what Marissa Mayer does with Yahoo…. anything can happen, right? Maybe WP will stop trying to “Tumblrize” and get back to being a solid blogging platform, starting with a return to the posting/editing interface that actually works.
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@auxclass
Here’s the main thread:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-reinstate-the-option-of-choice-to-use-the-old-publishing-formatraincoaster is right in that there’s no way to disable the new editor, but there is a workaround. I wrote a script that forces a redirect to the old editor. Follow the link for details.
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@tpenguinltg there is a workaround. I wrote a script…
Cool.
Fingers crossed that the “Happiness Engineers” at WordPress are working on a real fix for their overengineered, unhappiness-inducing new editor in the meantime.
Thanks, tpenguinltg.
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I may have wasted near 500 dollars and many years with WordPress. They need to read the Tao Te Ching and know it’s okay to DO NOTHING… especially when things are fine!!
(military and police could use some of that too) –Bill
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