Total Confusion: the Editor Page
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Which Editor am I using?
If your account with WordPress.com was created after January 2019, you are most likely using the WordPress Block Editor.The easiest way to identify which editor you’re using is to open a post or page in the editor.
I don’t even see what I’m told I should be seeing:
Look to the right and click on the Settings icon to expand the Settings Module, if you see Post or Page Settings, you’re using the Classic Editor. If you see Document, you’re using the WordPress (block) Editor.
I don’t have any of these. -
If your account with WordPress.com was created after January 2019, you are most likely using the WordPress Block Editor.
Have you got a site here at WordPress.com? In a previous thread you mentioned using BlueHost. Can you confirm the full address of the site you are working on.
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Hi mredmondcogeconet,
Have a look at the FAQ with the titled: “Will I still be able to use the old editor?”: https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/#frequently-asked-questions
There is a screenshot there where you can see the settings icon and the options list that will open when you click the settings icon (the three dots). If, at the bottom of that options list, you see “Switch to Classic Editor” then you’re currently using the Block Editor.
If you’re not seeing anything like the screenshot in the FAQ then you might be using the Classic Editor, in which case you might have an information box at the very top of the page where is says “There’s an easier way to edit posts on WordPress.com. Switch to the new block editor.”, in which case you’re using the Classic Editor.
Are you able to establish which editor you’re using now?
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Thank you so much for your help.
I think I’m literally losing it. 😊
I signed up for a blogger plan with wordpress.com and found myself linked to my sister’s site somehow.
So I went at it again and signed up with what I thought was the same plan with bluehost.
That means I paid twice – once for $48.00 with Paypal, and a second time for about $77.00 with bluehost.
I got in to ‘my own’ site, and began to experiment with the Block Editor features.
Then those disappeared and I began to notice a degradation in the features I could use.
I got some plugins that I thought would help regain what I lost.
Then my Editor page lost even its settings, so I could no longer tell what I had or figure out how to change them. (There was no ‘Settings’ icon and no options.)
Now I’ve lost my login, which was functional a few hours ago.
All I see now is “You don’t have any WordPress sites yet.”
So how was I seeing and doing all those things a few hours earlier? 😊
It appears that I have paid twice – over $100 – for a recognition you-know-the-absolute.blog is already connected to a WordPress.com site. -
WordPress.com (here) and BlueHost are two completely different places where you can host a site. You need to decide where you want to be. Perhaps you can then look into the possibility of a refund from the place you don’t want to be at. -
Right; thank you. I’m working on that.
In the meantime, my Edit page (which I got to through BlueHost), does not have the Settings, Options, or three dots mentioned earlier.
It has Publish, Page Attributes, and Featured Image only. Screen Options appear to be something different. -
Read the link I posted above. There is a big difference between WordPress.com (here) and the WordPress.org software used at BlueHost. You need to make sure you are reading the correct instructions for the platform you are working on.
PS: I would think that if you’re using a brand new install of the WordPress.org software then you’ll be using the latest Block editor by default and the only way to use the classic editor there would be to install the appropriate plugin.
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