New Interface is Confusing
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Playing the mother role with words more eloquent than my own.
There seems no reason that you dislike panaghiotisadam so much. And vice versa.panaghiotisadam has a private blog (in Greek), has never asked for help in the forum, and has offered excellent advice here in the forum. There is no point in you making contact. There is no point in confrontations.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.
[Lat., Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant.]
– Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira
(II, 34)or in simple words:
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Just curious as to how you decided whether there’s a point to make contact. I believe there is as this is lingering on. In case ya didn’t notice, I’ve been ignoring, till he brought me up again. And as far as the mother role with words. Very gracious of ya, but I, for one, don’t need a mommy????
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#graceystinson – I haven’t used WLW since the upgrade (haven’t been blogging much) but my suggestion is that you contact support here at wordpress.COM as well as support for WLW, if you haven’t done so already. (I had a problem in the past which required cooperation between the two in order to fix.)
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To panaghiotisadam:
Well, I was so proud of having found the term “drop down menu” and now you tell me it is wrong……
When I open a new post or an old one to write or to edit, to the top right of the post there is a white rectangle containing the many publishing options and the “save” button. In order to start writing I must close this rectangle and it becomes a small rectangle that only says “Publish”.
Now, when I want to save what I wrote, I look all over but there is no saving button! Remember it is hidden behind “Publish”. So I click on the “Publish” button, find the “Save” button, and wait for it to do its “saving” dance which for some reason has been taking very long these last weeks. When it has finished saving, I must close the publish button to get access to the tool bar of the post to be able to continue writing.
Maybe the secret is to simply trust WordPress to do the “automatic saving”?
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i liked the prior version a lot better as it was much cleaner. the new boxes cover up half of the screen when i am trying to post. i have to minimize them, then make then reappear to add tags etc. *sigh*
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mjbonfanti
Did you know that besides collapsing the modules, you can move them around so they are not in your way?
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To panaghiotisadam:
I have to close the rectangle in order to see the WordPress tool bar, because I often need the “unlink” button which is covered up by that rectangle.
Maybe the new design is for people who have a large computer screen. This would also explain why on my screen the stats cover each other up partly and also why to read here, on this forum, I must all the time shift the page to the right to see the end of the line and back again to see the beginning of the next line.
However, this only happens to me on WordPress.
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I found a way to get around the new interface:
Write off-line on Word or Open Office. Do all the formatting there. Both programs allow you to convert the final text to HTML. Open up the HTML document. Look up its “source” and copy it.
Open up WordPress and paste the copied source text on the HTML form. Publish.
I think it would not work with pictures, but it works fine with everything else, italics, paragraphs, align right, write bold.
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“Maybe the new design is for people who have a large computer screen”.
I’m afraid you’re right.
“I have to close the rectangle in order to see the WordPress tool bar”.
You could gain some space by minimizing the Navigation bar to a column of images. You could also move the Publish module (and whatever else you have in the right column) below the editor.
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Some time ago I got a little freely available program called BlogDesk to write offline. I have just used it to write and upload a post with four pictures. It uploaded instantly and without any problem at all.
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To panaghiotisadam:
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Look! There is something new or I did not see it before.
On the left, beneath the first square where there is a little house, there is a fine line with an arrow to make the sidebar narrow ! -
I have used WLW since the upgrade and it worked fine for me including with photos.
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@cantueso: Er… obviously you’ve missed this post of mine (written the day 2.7 was implemented):
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/a-guide-to-the-new-dashboard-pt-1?replies=8
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