MANY problems with CSS editor (wordpress.com premium plan)
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1. Mouse wheel insanuty.
2. First tap insanity.
3. Can’t save without publishing.
4. The need for frequent saving makes revision history useless.
5. No way to export/important to/from a decent text editor.
6. Because edit frame is narrow, need to have editing and view in seperate browser windows, defeatibg the purpose of WYSIWYG.In summary, the CSS Editor is barely usable and it’s terribly inconvenient to use an external editor. Your CSS development environment is poorly designed with many bugs. It’s crap.
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Hi –
Thanks for getting in touch.
Is this where you’re working on the CSS?
https://whplumber.wordpress.com/wp-admin/customize.phpThe editor works appropriately for me. I’m wondering if you could be having a connection or browser issue, possibly interference from another extension. Try using a different browser as a first step.
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Thanks for responding. Yes, that is my web site.
I have the problems when editing on my Galaxy Tab S3 and on an old Windows 7 notebook. I bought a new windows 10 notebook. CSS editing seems fairly solid using MS Edge browser…but weird things still happening when using Chrome on the same machine. I need Chrome’s developer tools. I’m satisfied using Chrome for detailed analysis of web pages and MS Edge for editing CSS.
I’m seeing a new screwy problem. On my new notebook, when using MS Edge in the CSS editing window, I have to double-click the right mouse button to open the context menu. With Chrome on the same machine, a normal right-button single-click works fine. I’m currently searching for how to fix this. Let me know what you hear.
Still. With all bugs fixed, CSS editing via WP’s editor is not a very good tool. WordPress could do much better. I need a manual save button that doesn’t publish. It’s a warm fuzzy that WP should absolutely provide to users. It should be optional whether saves and publishes are inserted into revision history. I should be able to separately adjust font size in the editing frame. I should be able to adjust the width the editing frame. C’mon. I’m a retired GUI developer…this is basic stuff for cryin’ out loud !!
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Hi there,
1. Mouse wheel insanuty.
2. First tap insanity.Can you please provide more details on exactly what is not working here? Without exact steps to replicate the issues you’re experiencing we have no way to confirm and fix it.
3. Can’t save without publishing.
4. The need for frequent saving makes revision history useless.At the top of the Customizer, click the gear icon next to the Publish button and select the option to save as draft instead.
Can you explain more about the need for frequent saving? You are in full control over whether or not you save/publish and how often. There’s no autosave in the Customizer.
5. No way to export/important to/from a decent text editor.
This is not a feature of the Customizer, no, and one that’s not likely to be added by the open source WordPress community who develops the WordPress software. Any changes like this would have to come from there. It’s not something we can add on WordPress.com directly.
6. Because edit frame is narrow, need to have editing and view in seperate browser windows, defeatibg the purpose of WYSIWYG.
Are we still speaking of the CSS editor in the Customizer? The CSS editor is not a WYSIWYG editor, as it’s sole purpose is for adding custom CSS code on top of your theme’s existing style sheets.
Can you please clarify what you mean here?
I’m seeing a new screwy problem. On my new notebook, when using MS Edge in the CSS editing window, I have to double-click the right mouse button to open the context menu.
That sounds like a problem with your computer rather than with the Customizer – I haven’t seen any other reports of that happening on WordPress.com, nor do I see any bug reports for it on Core, so it’s unlikely to be Edge itself. Have you checked if clearing the browser cache in Edge make any difference in that behaviour?
It should be optional whether saves and publishes are inserted into revision history.
That would defeat the purpose of a revision history, which is to have a log of all changes made. The post and page editors also save a revision for every auto- and manual save, and this is by design.
I should be able to separately adjust font size in the editing frame. I should be able to adjust the width the editing frame.
Those types of enhancements would need to be made in the Core WordPress software before they could be implemented on WordPress.com. You can see how to contribute there at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/
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Once in while I’m able to work with WP customer support. I just recently helped WP make an improvement to the Reader. But you’re a jerk. It’s a total waste of my talking to you.
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I am trying to get more detailed information from you in order to further investigate the issues you’re reporting, and getting them fixed if needed. But if you’re not willing to help us investigate the issues, there’s nothing more we can do to help.
Telling you that something is by design, explaining why something works the way it does, or saying that we cannot add a specific feature or enhancement because we don’t control the software in question is not being a jerk, it’s being honest.
Before you call me or anyone else in these forums some more names I suggest you take a look at our forum guidelines at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-practices-community-standards/
We do not tolerate abuse of forums staff or volunteers, and continued behaviour like this can lead to your ability to post in these forums being suspended. I notice you’ve already been warned about this by our email support staff as well.
I’m closing this thread to further replies.
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