Please Reinstate the Option of Choice to Use the Old Publishing Format
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@ jeremeyduvall,
The Post Revisions page does not say “25+.” It says,
WordPress.com will store the last 25 revisions for each post on your blog.
andAlso you can’t manually delete post revisions, but the oldest revision is automatically deleted if there are more than 25 revisions.
The post I referred to with 50 revisions (previously 47) is https://songbook1.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/songbook-site-index-2/.
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@ jeremeyduvall,
Sorry, that last post was supposed to look like this.
The Post Revisions page does not say “25+.” It says,
WordPress.com will store the last 25 revisions for each post on your blog.
and
Also you can’t manually delete post revisions, but the oldest revision is automatically deleted if there are more than 25 revisions.
The post I referred to with 50 revisions (previously 47) is https://songbook1.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/songbook-site-index-2/.
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I understand the point of view you’re mentioning. My counterpoint was that if you’re already going to open two windows (unless you plan on leaving your post page), why not leave this page open:
Then, launch the New Editor in a new tab? Wouldn’t that be similar to having the Classic Editor open and then launching your Widgets page in a new tab?
No. Because, as I explained here, My Sites has at most 20% of the features that I typically use when creating a post/page or doing extensive revision of the same, AND those which it has are far less easy to use (bulky) with fewer capabilities — absence of quick edit, bulk edit at All Posts, and immediate post tags and categories links, for example — than the classic alternative. My Sites is not a valid alternative by a long shot.
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to the assholes that run, sorry ruin wordpress: restore the original site then go get a job.
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I would like add my vote to the petition to restore the classic editor (or at least to add the button that was there previously on the beep beep boop editor)
All had been well until today when I tried editing some older posts and went into the new editor, usually when this happend I just clicked onto use classic editor and all was returned to normal for a while. Today I saw that option has been removed.
I also noticed that I cannot remove any tags or categories already set up so there’s another bug.
As someone who uses a laptop to write blog posts and who edits, previews, edits, previews etc etc the classic editor is a vital tool.
I do hope that the WP team reconsider this (IMO) flawed upgrade.
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why not leave this page open:
Then, launch the New Editor in a new tab? Wouldn’t that be similar to having the Classic Editor open and then launching your Widgets page in a new tab?
Even if the menu at My Sites were comparable in quality, comprehensiveness, utility to the classic sidebar menu, it would still be an unnecessary extra step, one step removed from the immediate access to the features of the sidebar available at all of the classic administrative pages.
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i have an imaginary view of your office filled with nerds who need to justify their existence so each morning they say to each other: what shall we fuck up today?
leave the fucking site alone! better still go back to the original. it worked perfectly well until you wankers started messing with it!!!!!to the assholes that run, sorry ruin wordpress: restore the original site then go get a job.
Whilst I admit progress is slow, I am not sure becoming offensive and abusive is the quickest way to achieving the preferred end result.
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Like Timethief already mentioned, us bloggers on WP.com are the unpaid beta testers. I believe it’s always been that way. WP launches a “new” whatever and we chime in on the Forums what we like and don’t like about, then maybe some changes are made.
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it is nothing to with being lazy and everything to do with not changing something that works to something that evidently, transparently, clearly, uninamously does not work!!! duh!
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I don’t see where anyone has taken in account along with the numerous other things that the pitiful excuse for an ‘improved’ editor has is that it’s very unfriendly to the eyes. Everyone doesn’t have lovely young eyes with perfect vision. The colours and the set up give tremendous headaches. The new stats page is the same but even more so as it crunches the nice big lovely stats into a small muddled mess with blurs that make me nauseous trying to read.
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@thebrokenelbow Hey, knock it off. We’re all angry and frustrated, but name-calling doesn’t help.
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If I wanted to use an editor that looks like a “lite” version on an iPad, then I’d use the iPad to post.
When I want to get serious about a post, I want to do it on the computer, using the classic editor.
It is not like I want something for free either – I pay for the premium upgrade each year. Perhaps if WordPress wants to be really difficult about it, then it should be an option for premium subscribers.
But it shouldn’t have to come to that. There has been enough conversation about Beep Beep Boop, that the entire ‘upgrade’ should have been binned long ago as a bad, bad idea.
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@jazzylemon, from the first launch of the “Beep Beep Boop” editor last year, I complained about the colors. I will not use it because of the colors. It would drive me mad if I had to work on that editor. So, I don’t. I use the classic editor for new posts and editing older ones.
I also don’t use the “new” Stats page, nor the “My Sites” dashboard. None are user-friendly and all are too-blue for my eyes.
Others have complained about the blue colors; it reminds me of Facebook. Not pleasant either.
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Just made a bookmark directly to the old dashboard – looks for a while at least I can go back to working as I used to (almost), until WordPress again decides to force the Beep Beep Boop issue down our throats even further.
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In case anyone missed this: You can also install a user script through your add-ons on your browser if you have Greasemonkey or something similar to always use the classic editor for new posts and editing older ones.
See: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-reinstate-the-option-of-choice-to-use-the-old-publishing-format/page/4?replies=179#post-2311725 (Many thanks to tpenguinltg.)
This is not cookie dependent, so it’s better than what WP was giving us as an option to use prior to them eliminating it.
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Yesterday was a frustrating day for me, when I realized that the button to access the “classic” posting form had been removed. So I came here to the Forum hoping for an answer to the nagging “Why” in my mind. I really did try to wade through the comments here but as yet have found no compelling reason why the “improved” experience is in my best interest. It isn’t and no amount of patronization from the folks at R&D will change my mind. “Beep, beep, boop” lacks any sophistication or flexibility. What I’d like is for someone who made the decision to implement the “improved” posting mechanism to admit it is not all that they might have hoped. PLEASE let me have the button to easily access the old version. An apology would be nice but I’m not holding my breath.
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