"Use the Classic calypso Editor" error message
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Help please! If there is a WordPress staff checking this forum today, please can you let me know when I will be able to see the block settings using the Gutenberg editor. I wanted to add an anchor (bookmark) to a Block, but to my surprise I can’t access any block settings. See attached please.
I did try to research this error and found something dated January this year about Jet Pack clashing with the new editor, and that the Calypso Editor is another name for the Classic Editor (which is the current editor being replaced by Gutenberg) – but that was then, and this is now!
This is quite an inconvenience for me, not to forget baffling and not endearing people to using the new editor.
I did switch to Classic Editor to try to add the HTML in BUT even though I press the Update button, and even though I cleared the cache, then tried using HTML in the Classic Editor and to Update, to my surprise the update has not saved.
Thank you to anyone who can help or make a suggestion. Celine
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Sorry I just read my post (it may have a typo) and I thought that one could attach a File to a Post …. as I can’t … here instead is a link to a screenshot of the error I got.
https://wordpressguidelines.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/usecalypso.jpg
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I am replying to myself – and letting others who may come across this issue know that the problem was to do with my somehow having switched over to the Classic Editor and all the content of my post was one “Classic Editor block” if that makes sense.
If you take a look at the screen-shot below, you will see when one clicks on a paragraph (or block) if the new Gutenberg Editor was used, to create a GE Block, it will have its own separate block border.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/use-the-classic-calypso-editor-error-message/
I clicked at the top of the “offending” post and found to my surprise, no separate bordered blocks, but one giant block if you like. or at least one border only around my entire post content. This was a clue that I was not using Blocks (and that’s why I got the message to use the classic calypso editor, because it was the editor that was somehow used to produce the output at that time).
I have NO idea how this happened, but can report that I started using the Gutenberg Editor and that I switched between the Classic and the Gutenberg Editor once or perhaps more than once, though I did not use the “Classic Block” under the Formatting category for new Blocks ever.
All very mysterious. Luckily I had the sense to go to “More Options” (in the Top tool-bar, enabled via clicking on the 3 dots at the very right-hand corner) and saw the option “Convert to Blocks“.
I clicked on that, praying that it would not destroy or mess up my long post.
It didn’t — sort of. I had laboriously added code to the HTML behind all my images to put borders around them, and to my dismay, the borders had disappeared. The HTML was null and void — or disappeared !
This teaches me, by the way, to use Adobe Photoshop in future to put borders around my images, not to edit the HTML of my image blocks ! Borders as part of images will not disappear. I did like the editing options of the WP-admin console though, for putting borders around images.
All is okay now, hopefully.
The post in question is the one titled “The Gutenberg Editor is here to stay” and I wish that the new editor did have a function to allow borders to be put around images.
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