Split: Working with the new editor on my site
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Based on what was being said by WP staff I thought the Classic Block theme would allow me to use the new editor, but it is very foreign and really only partly similar to what I was accustomed to. The Block Editor itself is so overly complex that the tutorials offered are of very little value to a user like me. I doubt most users would be able to make any sense of most of it. I know I couldn’t. It certainly does not seem easy to use, especially if you only post infrequently and don’t use it every day. If what we have is the improved version I would have hated to see earlier ones.
If WP is determined to force users onto the Block Editor they need a separate tutorial just for the Classic Block version, call it “Classic Editing for Dummies” if you want, that eliminates all of the unnecessary stuff and complexity found in the regular tutorial, goes further in depth just on how to do things in Classic Block, and takes a detailed step by step approach to instruct users how to use the Classic Block without straying into other aspects of the new editor and really messing things up.
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Hi @gregbeau, when you post into someone else’s thread it sends an email out to anyone subscribed. This is especially true since the thread you posted to is marked resolved, so better to start your own thread so that it can get the attention it deserves. I’ll go ahead and split your reply to its own thread.
Thanks for your feedback. There are several tutorials in the support documentation that address the transition. First is the one at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/ with the addition of this guide to the Classic block https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/
Each block has it’s own support documentation and you’ll find them at https://wordpress.com/support/category/writing-editing/blocks/
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Apologies for jumping into the other discussion – I hadn’t thought of the email responses – and thanks for the split.
I had not seen that guide to the classic block before but I hate to say that it is of virtually zero help. The animation is so small and so fast that it is difficult to follow, and the icons are not intuitive. It only takes you through step one of selecting Classic and then typing some text. That is a good example of what I was mentioning originally. What would be useful is a far more detailed, and much more deliberate step by step walk-through that demonstrate some of the other things to do and the things NOT to do without getting into deep trouble (most of which seem to be in the 3-dot menu on the right). If someone is trying to use the Classic block it seems they are unlikely to want to use the many other things in the new editor which are far more complex. It also does not help that when I tried using it, it gave me a large left sidebar once I hit the + sign to search for classic block, which I could not get rid of. So my page looked nothing at all like the one in the tutorial. Confusing as can be.
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Perhaps you could share some details of where you are finding issues. I’ve been trying the new editor recently. The toolbar in the Classic block is very similar to the Classic editor toolbar. I can write text and add images just as I always have done. I can add categories etc and ignore all other Block options.
PS: The classic editor is only a click away at wp-admin anyway. -
I already gave one, the large left sidebar that would not go away. Another is adding a link, which seems to have no obvious option to replace either the http address or the title of the page being linked to with some other text that is shorter and makes sense in the context of what is being written. I found those two things within the first couple of minutes so I can only imagine what other booby traps await if I delve deeper into it. It all seems quite unintuitive.
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I can’t recreate that. The add link button in the Classic block works exactly the same as in the wp-admin Classic editor for me. The left hand area shows options of other blocks which is opened and closed by the plus button top left.
PS: The classic editor is only a click away at wp-admin anyway. -
When I tried to add a link (it was to another of my WP pages) I copied that address and then pasted it into the popup box. It took me a while to figure it out but eventually I realized it had duplicated that into a second shaded area below where I had entered it with an “edit” button next to it, and had left the full web address I had pasted in above. I figured out that I could then change that upper part to whatever words I wanted it to say in my paragraph and like in the old editor, that would be rendered into a clickable text link.
Problem is, it didn’t quite do that. No matter what I typed into the field for text in my paragraph, it always inserted a https:// prefix to it. The link would actually work but having my paragraph read something like “https://This post” was not ideal.
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