Trouble Editing Posts on Desktop WordPress

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    clarissazhu · Member ·

    Everytime, I use WordPress on my laptop and click Posts to edit or write a new post, it automatically redirects me to log on and will redirect me to Plugins (I have since updated but I still have the same issue). It has made it impossible to write on my desktop using both Safari and Chrome. I’ve had to since use my phone but it does have limitations.

    Can any of you please advise me what this issue is because it is very frustrating.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Are you speaking of https://thesydneysider.com? And when you say “WordPress on your laptop”, do you mean using the WordPress.com interface in a browser, or the WordPress desktop app?

    If you’re speaking of the desktop app, are you using the classic editor plugin, or any other custom editor plugin? If so, that’s why – the WordPress desktop app connects to your site via Jetpack, and doesn’t have any access to the WP-Admin dashboard, which is where the classic editor lives. So if you try to access anything in WP-Admin from within the desktop app, it will always cause that to open in a browser instead.

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    clarissazhu · Member ·

    Hi,

    Yes it is this website and i am using WordPress through a browser (Google Chrome).

    It is absolutely impossible to use WordPress via my browser – it always redirects to plugins.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    WordPress and WordPress.com are not the same thing.

    WordPress is the software your site is made with.

    WordPress.com is a hosting provider. Your site is not hosted on WordPress.com, but it is connected here via the Jetpack plugin.

    So with that in mind, can you confirm if this is happening when you try to use the WordPress.com editor at My Site ->Site ->Posts, or is it happening when you use the WP-Admin editor at https://thesydneysider.com/wp-admin ->Posts?

    If it happens on WordPress.com, then it indicates a plugin on your site is preventing the WordPress.com editor from loading, and is instead forcing Jetpack to redirect you to WP-Admin. To figure out what plugin is causing this, disable all plugins on your site except Jetpack. Check if you still get redirected.

    If not, reactivate your plugins one at a time, checking if you get redirected each time. If you end up getting redirected after activating a specific plugin, that’s the plugin that’s causing the issue.

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