Old posts and pages get blockified
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I know that if I want to use the “classic” editor (which is not the TinyMCE editor I am used to) I can go to WP Admin. However, I just did a quick edit to a page from the normal interface and it turned the page into a “classic block.” I hate the block editor with the fury of 10,000 suns (you may think I am given to hyperbole, so ok, 1,000 suns). But it seems that just opening a page from the regular interface transmogrifies the page or the post into a block. Eventually this insidious process will pollute the whole site, post by post, page by page.
So is your advice to simply live in the old WP Admin interface and do everything from there? Just forget that the newer interface exists? As you know, WP Admin is ancient and clunky.
I feel like every move I make I have to outwit the block editor. And I think that is by design.
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Sorry, it seems I was wrong. Though the interface says “block” it looks like it is still “classic” and not a block. Sorry for the rant. I still hate the block editor though.
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Hi @guitarsophist – From my experience with the Block Editor so far, it is not worth hating it with the fury of even 500 suns. There’s been a lot of improvements made from the time it was introduced back in 2018 and I have found that if my post is mostly text, I just write. The default block is the paragraph. If I need a new paragraph, I just hit Enter and the Block Editor takes care of providing a new Paragraph Block. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
In any event, the MySite editor is defaulting to Block. The Classic Editor in WP Admin is the Classic interface being provided via the Classic Editor plugin.
which is not the TinyMCE editor I am used to
The Classic Editor at MySite was an in-house Editor developed by WPcom.
But it seems that just opening a page from the regular interface transmogrifies the page or the post into a block.
What are you calling the “regular” interface here? MySite’s Block Editor? That does put any previously written content into a Classic Block, which you can then edit or convert to blocks. Did something unexpected happening when you did that?
If you open that same post to edit it in WP Admin’s Classic Editor are you encountering any issue?
Let us know your process so we can try to help you out.
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@justjennifer Yes, one of the most confusing aspects of WordPress is the My Sites/ WP Admin connection. There are lots of duplications. It is actually weird that the old interface and the new interface coexist. I never paid any attention to WP Admin until the block editor forced me to. And if you are in WP Admin and then click on “My Sites,” it takes you into the newer interface world, which is not very intuitive. I think it is not clear to most users that there are two separate ways of dealing with WordPress.
The block editor is forcing me to rethink practices that were entirely routine before.
As far as the problem I reported above, I think I overreacted to what I was seeing in the interface. When you open a page for editing, in the upper right, it says “Page Block” with a blue line under the one it thinks you are dealing with. When I first pulled up the page, the blue line was under “Block.” After editing, now when I pull it up, the blue line is under “Page” and the box under the header says “classic.” So it probably isn’t blockifying the page. It’s ok.
I am researching other platforms though. I can see the direction WP is going in, and it is not for me.
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Hi, If it helps explain things, take a look at my reply to another user here: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/the-classic-block-within-the-new-block-editor-is-not-the-same-thing-please-let-us-go-back-please/#post-3548329
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@jennifer That’s a good post, though I already knew some of the info. But if you step back from your excellent description of the situation, doesn’t it sound like something of a kludged together mess?
The only reason I am still on WordPress is because in addition to blogging I can upload .pdf files for teachers to download. From my research so far, WordPress.com is still the cheapest and easiest solution for that combination of features. But every time I post something now, I long for something else. One of the alternatives has an editor in which you just write, but if you need something a bit more complicated, you insert a “card,” which appears to be similar to the blocks we are discussing here, but is only inserted when needed and by user choice. That seems elegant to me. But then there is the matter of hosting files.
But this is the wrong place to discuss this. My immediate concern appears to be resolved.
Thanks. You are always helpful.
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