The new editor

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  learnerwp · Member · May 24, 2020 at 2:57 am

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  I suppose I might as well have found out before I got too far into my new project, but it’s obvious that the block editor is going to be a real nightmare. :( Right off, I lost the ability to justify the text (to make it span the entire page uniformly). Doing what I wanted to do with the ‘classic editor’ was fairly easy, although it could have used a few minor tweaks here and there. But this new setup is going to make it ten times more difficult – and I might be understating it.

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  bscritic · Member · May 24, 2020 at 5:03 am

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  I absolutely HATE the new editor. I tried it on a post I was trying publish, and it was a nightmare. I couldn’t figure out how to size my text, italicize some text, or add tags from the list I had going. What was wrong with the old editor?

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  staartmees · Member · May 24, 2020 at 6:45 am

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  You still have access to the classic editor as a block, https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/

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  justjennifer · Member · May 24, 2020 at 8:16 am

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  And also according to the WordPress.com blog announcement, you’ll also have access to this version of the Classic Editor as well.

  

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · May 24, 2020 at 10:30 am

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  @learnerwp, you can still justify your text. In the Paragraph Block, click on the arrow pointing down to display more options:

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/paragraph-block/#block-toolbar