The classic editor is gone – how to bring it back
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In the WP Admin Classic Editor you can also link the image to itself directly in the Media Library when you insert the image into your post.
1. Click the Add Media button
2. Select your image
3. At the lower right corner of the Media screen, at ATTACHMENT DISPLAY SETTINGS, you have several options, including Link to: Media File and that will automatically fill in the next line “URL” with the image URL.
4. Click the button to insert it in your post.When you preview your post or page, clicking on the image will open it.
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o magic robot, you are human, not like Alexa or Siri or google something or other.
Thanks, you’ve made me encouraged and no longer sad. Indeed I found a way, not quite as before but doable even by this geriatric.
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Jennifer, bless you that works, too, quite neatly. I’m beginning to see that everything is still there but rearranged according some principles of digital feng- shui. Light revealed at the end of a rather short tunnel, WordPress’s doomladen email having been received only yesterday.
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I have an older WP account where there is still a drop-down next to “Add New” on the Posts page in WP Admin mode. I can hover over a post title and see “Classic Editor” as a link. I’m seeing newer accounts lose these options. There is no drop-down and no Classic Editor hover link, even in WP Admin. How can new users access the Classic Editor?
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People who had the classic editor set as default on their sites should get to it by default in WP-Admin for now, in other words, they won’t see the drop-down, they’ll just get classic if they open any post for editing from within WP-Admin rather than from My Sites.
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This is an utter disaster. I depend on my website (with eight years of content and thousands of visits per month) for my work. I can’t even make the slightest changes now without tearing my hair out.
Now this is a really easy request…
Please, please, please just give us back the Classic Editor.
Just let us work!! We shouldn’t have to spend all our time trying to work things out. This doesn’t make sense. Why, why make life more complicated than it already is… especially right now??Kokkieh, you look like a nice guy. You write “It is no longer possible to select the classic editor as the default option.” My simple question… Why not? Why did you have to change something that worked so well?
I have another site at Wix which I don’t like to use but it integrates different functions that I can’t find with WP. I really don’t want to have to shift my site to Wix, but if this continues, I can’t see another alternative.
Now, maybe I’ve missed something really simple and it is possible to launch the Classic Editor (although I have no idea why it is no longer default, since I did use the plug-in). In that case, please forget everything I’ve said, and excuse me.
Perhaps Mr DarnellDibbles could help me find precisely that classic editor page that he has an image of in his post. That would be most kind.
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I have already spend an hour this evening trying to change one sentence in my calendar of events, and trying to figure out how to work this new editor, time I really need to use doing other things. -
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From my lint of view I have Avery simple blog. I can put up a week’s post in under half an hour with classic. With the block editor there are too mama you things, you to hunt for things, things don’t do what you expect. It’s like walking into mega hardware store and all you need is nail. I have made other specific comments on details. But bottom line I cannot afford spending ten minutes or more for a four line post and two photographs.
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I don’t know if I can go into specifics on these forums in case I am breaching any rules, but there is a wonderful browser script available that overrides the editor lay out so the classic editor is your default.
You’ll need an extension like Tampermonkey to run it. It was updated last night so it cancels out this new monstrosity and saves time on all the faffing about trying to switch between it and the decent editor. ;-)
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Hello – I have just had this happen to me (block editor by default) and tried going to WP admin, add new. It still comes up as block editor. Is there any other way to get the classic back?
I can probably learn to use the block ed but would rather keep working with Classic as I’m so familiar with it and it works fine/ suits me!
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Ah wait, I see that I can add a new post in block, then go back to admin and use Classic. Great… for now… will this continue?! Hope so.
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@clairedoble you can also compose a new post in the classic editor by choosing this option from the dropdown. You can see what I see at this link: https://d.pr/i/AaPfUJ
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I’d just like to add that you won’t see the dropdown if you select Add New directly from the dashboard.
You will see it if you select Posts from the dashboard.
Please see https://rochereau.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/addnew.jpg
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I gave the Gutenberg default editor a thorough workout, I even wrote instructions for other bloggers. That said, as an editor it is too rigid, the lack of flexibility is a hindrance to writing. plus, when working with images the editor is often unresponsive.
Moving a line of text to another part of the page is impossible, justifying the page is also impossible. Editing each block individually instead of a whole page is time consuming.
I stopped using the desktop App and changed to the Classic that is accessed via WP Admin. I’d never used it before and was pleasantly surprised to find the oldest of the three Classic editors is actually superior to the other classics. Once you find your way around it is very simple to use, it has everything the desktop Classic had and more.
In June 2020 WordPress wrote that there were no plans at the current time to remove the Admin Classic. I do hope that doesn’t change; Bloggers who write need a simple word processor, nothing more, nothing less. The Gutenberg does not offer writers a simple word processing experience, the Admin Classic does.
In the meantime if any bloggers are having difficulty/using accessing the Admin Classic, read my simple instructions.
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Here’s how I found how to get the full classic editor back.
I’m not sure if someone else mentioned it already, if so, here’s the information again.
After clicking on the “Pages” or “Articles” option (my version of WP is in French so please find the equivalent in your language), you’ll see the list of your pages/articles.
As you hover your mouse over an existing page or article, you’ll see some options appear, one of which is “classic editor”.
Clicking on this opens your page/article with the wonderful old classic editor.
Here’s an image of the option : https://cfucem.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/where-to-find-the-classic-editor-1.jpgI now regret a post I wrote recently, complaining about the lack of classic editor, but can’t see how to take it off. Many thanks to WordPress for maintaining this option for those of us who prefer the old and trusted (and very functional) method that is the classic editor.
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Hi there.
Go to your WP Admin (https://example.wordpress.com/wp-admin)→ Posts→All the posts→ and…
Cheers.
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OMG what have you done? Wanted to post and I find its ALL DIFFERENT!
*cries*Why do you have to make things SO DIFFICULT! I loved the old editor. Now I have to spend hours figuring out how to do it?
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This was an incredibly helpful thread, I was able to get back to classic (my style of linear image posting wasn’t working efficiently in blocks and I felt stuck).
Thank you!
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