Please Reinstate the Option of Choice to Use the Old Publishing Format
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@jillsmorningcup
Staff are monitoring this thread and will read your feedback.In case you are not aware of how to locate the classic editor and use it got to > Dashboard > Posts > All Posts
http://brickiesgazette.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpThe Classic Editor will continue to exist in wp-admin. We know some users prefer to use this editor, so we want you to have access to it, instead of phasing it out with the new version of the Dashboard. However, a link to the Classic Editor will not return to the New Editor. From: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/when-editing-an-old-post-how-do-i-switch-to-the-classic-editor?replies=5#post-2316097
Here’s the list of workarounds all in one place:
http://git.io/wpcom-restore-classic-ed -
TT its the same with this link, won’t let me in.
http://brickiesgazette.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php -
@dribblingpensioner
You can access the classic editor at Dashboard > Posts > Add New
http://dribblingpensioner.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php -
@dribblingpensioner
Of course the link to another person’s blog will not work for you.http://INSERT_NAME_OF_YOUR_BLOG_HERE/wp-admin/post-new.php
http://dribblingpensioner.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
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Really don’t like the new editor and would like to ask WP to reinstate the link to the classic editor. I know you can access it via the dashboard but for editing old posts the old link was so convenient!
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@christinesmorningmug
It appears that you have two username accounts.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/jillsmorningcup
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@timethief
I think I explained that I have many editors and admin on my blog. Does the fact that their home pages are different but in the same blog disqualify them from having an opinion? -
@knashermac2009
Heck no. However, posting the same thing into this thread under multiple username accounts is not the way to go IMO. Staff can see that one person is one person no matter how many username accounts they have registered. Otherwise this would become a truly silly sock puppet type of situation, no? Understand that I, like all Volunteers, do have multiple username accounts but we are very careful not to pretend we are more than a single person in matters like these. -
@timethief
Sorry you misunderstand. Christine and Jill are separate people each with their own username account. I know them both and have met them on several occasions. Neither have their own blog – we all share the one I set up. I have maybe 30 or more real people who may come onto here. -
Edit: replace “like all Volunteers” with “like most Volunteers”
Also note that I have more than one blog registered under my username accounts and we can change the primary blog our usernames are linked to.
This thread would become a total gong show, if for example, I logged in under each username account and changed my primary blog each time, and then posted my unhappiness over and over as though I were more than one person.
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Christine and Jill are separate people each with their own username account.
Okay then what I thought was happening isn’t happening. :)
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Many of us already know you can reach the Classic editor through the dashboard. For now. With the attitude displayed by WP towards our complaints, one wonders how long that option will be available.
As an example, there were many justifiable complaints about the woeful new Stats page as well. And to stem the tide of discontent , an option to the ” visit the old stats page” option was given. But it was manipulatively and sneakily placed at the VERY BOTTOM of that endless scroll. Where it was likely to be missed. And we’re not able to simply choose the version as a permanent option. We have to go through this rigamarole each time we sign in.
Years ago I studied some very devious ways of influencing public opinion subconsciously. The instructors never used the words “sneakily” … but they were sneaky too. Placement of text was one such ruse, size and style of fonts was another. Choice of words yet another.
Note that they don’t use the word “classic” .. WE do. The say “old” stats on that link. But emblazoned on the top … the FIRST line of text is ”’Have you tried the upgraded stats page.”
Aha …. the classic is “old” and the junk they’re trying to foist on us is “upgraded”. Sneaky sneaky ….
Then to add insult to this charade they claim there is more interest in the new version. With these skewed gimmicks. It’s disgusting.
Now that the furor seems to have died down, WP is sticking to an ugle cramped version of stats … and to access the old version AND even to access your SITE you have to go through that horrid stats page every time. Click Click Click.
With the handling of the miserably designed stats page what can we hope for here? WIth the editor we don’t even have an option to choose … and must sneak in through the dashboard,
But what can one expect when the designers can’t even see what a terrible impression that Boop Boop Bleep nonsense presents. It is an embarrassment for WordPress. Neither clever nor witty. Merely amateur. It is the clearest indication that professionals perpetrating these changes on us are few and far between. We look more like a High School project with each new “upgrade”.
Give us choice. And please allow us to make that choioce permanent until we’re offered something better. I’m sick to death of all this clicking and clacking around. I don’t have time for it. I’m a pro and I don’t compose, think or create on a cell phone.
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You keep playing it again Sam when the horse is dead and you are beating the ghost of a dead horse.
I really do not understand your attitude, @thimethief.
It seems you do not like the thread is still open and that users complain.
If @staff decides to put the “edit” with a link to the classic editor, also would you be upset? -
Why oh why does WP have to change stuff that works perfectly well in the first place. beep beep boop is a pain in the butt. Yes there are ways around it but why make something that was simple so time consuming. Can we please get back to as it was or can someone explain the benefits because I can’t see any… Is anyone up for that challenge? Probably not…
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You keep playing it again Sam when the horse is dead and you are beating the ghost of a dead horse.
You commented & complained more than anyone else about how much you hated the new editor. Then you do an about face and attack people trying to describe the problems they are having, even adding a tag yesterday to encourage forum administrators to close the thread. Then you accuse a member of multiple postings under different identities to discredit the hundreds of responses to the topic. At least 3 pages of comments were deleted and I doubt many were useless. This is censorship. Sneaky censorship.
You are free to express your opinion but it is only that.
Everyone else is trying hard to describe a serious malfunction in the system and aren’t willing to give up on WordPress yet.
These are obviously loyal and long-time members who deserve respect and support, not condescension.
I want the new editor put in the background where it belongs and to work exclusively with the classic without workarounds and repeated clicking in 3 stages for every post.
The new editor is defective, inferior, a bug-ridden technical fail.
@nikkitytom
Reading through your comments, what would happen on GIMP if the community encountered the same technical fault? How would they work together to resolve it to everyone’s satisfaction? -
Perhaps I don’t understand what is so wonderful about the new (inferior) post editor. Is there some specific investment the WP team has in pushing it, despite a majority of comments being to go BACK to the “old” (more useful) editor?
Would it be so hard to simply give a customer the choice (permanently) to use one or the other in an “options” setting?
I simply don’t understand what is gained by the “new” editor and why it is worth insulting your most loyal users in order to prop it up.
Let the people who want the new one have it.
I simply like the older one…to the point where it is INCONVENIENT to post in the “new” way and I’d consider moving my blog because of that. It is not just the crappy editor, but also the condescending tone shown to us INSTEAD of a solid answer.
I think we’re intelligent enough to see a halfhearted stopgap measure when we see it and like Charlie Brown having the football yanked away by Lucy, only see the claims of “but the classic editor is still here… if you do this.. and this… and this..and this…” as also saying “for now… until we again sadistically yank it away from you with no explanation.”How is NOT having tags available for your posts possibly a good thing? How does that make our experience better or more functional? I see not a single advantage to the new editor. It seems illogical to keep pushing it.
You seem to think that only a tiny vocal minority care about the posting experience.
Perhaps a site-wide poll of all the users open to the public would settle this issue. Or are you afraid of the results? -
We have the same issue in the Army. The ol’ Black Beret was a great case in point. Some genius in the Pentagon (an officer looking for a promotion I bet) had a BRILLIANT idea that we needed to replace the useful baseball-cap style “patrol caps” used for years and years with a wool “beret.” They said it looked “European, stylish and elite.” It not only pissed off the traditional “elite” units that wore berets as a privilege of highly advanced training. Essentially EVERYONE in the Army automatically became “special” and the elite soldiers were told to suck it.
Additionally, it was a TERRIBLE HAT. The patrol cap is light, tough, with a bill on front that keeps out the sun and rain. The beret is wool that gets soppy in the rain and crumples.
How did ANYONE ever think it was a great idea?
Because it was “new” and “stylish?”
Even once the beret was proven by soldiers to be a TERRIBLE idea, they had already bought millions in Chinese-made berets sitting in Army warehouses. So, they HAD to keep issuing them. Now that they’re not used in the field anymore (back to the old patrol cap that worked), they are STILL used for dress uniforms instead of the garrison caps (which are still better at that than berets.)
Some people just can’t admit a bad idea when they see one. They INSIST it’s the best for everyone and even make up fake statistics that they are “popular with the troops” even when REAL polls (and simply knowing a lot of soldiers) proves that they are HATED and IMPRACTICAL.
The berets were always “lost” on purpose. I personally know I “lost 6 or 7 before the Division Commander personally chewed us out and forbid us wearing patrol caps or be demoted for insubordination.
Is this another example of punishing people for not liking what they’re SUPPOSED to like?
Sure seems like that to me. Again and again the old stats and editor pages “disappear” and have to be found. Time and again we’re told “well all you have to do is all this additional work… but why not try the new editor AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN? THIS time we KNOW you’ll like it!”
There’s not a warehouse of new editor pages sitting there that have to be used. So what’s the reason for hating the old post editor and stats pages?
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