web editor of wordpress is indescribably bad

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  backupyourmind · Member · Mar 5, 2022 at 8:44 am

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  How can you turn off that horrible, horrible, horrible ‘editing’ monstrosity that makes it impossible to just type or enter the text of a blog update?

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 5, 2022 at 10:48 am

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  Hi there, since it looks like the posts on the site you linked to are entirely text, you can just type it directly in the Editor and when you are ready for a new paragraph, hit enter. The Paragraph block is the default block in the Editor.

  If you are having a specific problem typing in the Editor, let us know what it is.

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  staff-sheva · Staff · Mar 5, 2022 at 10:32 pm

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  Hi @backupyourmind,

  In addition to what @justjennifer noted, you might prefer using the classic block to write your content as well: https://support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/

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  backupyourmind · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 4:32 am

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  Thanks, when I copy and paste text the editor will just boldify alternate paragraphs, so I will try the classic block.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 7, 2022 at 8:40 am

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  Copy-pasting text from other word processing software can sometimes bring over undesired styling. If you try the Classic Block, make sure you’re pasting the content as Plain Text:

  https://wordpress.com/support/microsoft-word/#plain-text.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 8:42 am

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  when I copy and paste text

  When you write a post offline, are you using a plain text editor, like Notepad or EditPad? If so, it should paste cleanly into the Block Editor.

  Regardless, if you are using Word or another word processor and you decide to use the Classic Block, as staff-sheva suggested, you’ll want to use the “Paste as Text” function, which is in the second row of buttons in the Classic Block’s toolbar. It looks like a little clipboard with a capital T on it. See explanation here: https://wordpress.com/support/classic-editor-guide/#pasting-text

  staff-sheva et al – I just realized that there’s no explanation of the Classic Block’s toolbar icons.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 7, 2022 at 8:44 am

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  LOL- thank you staff-mckluskey. :)

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 7, 2022 at 12:42 pm

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  Hehe, thank you! There’s never too much good information :D

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 8, 2022 at 9:36 am

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  staff-mckluskey – let me circle back to the “there’s no explanation of the Classic Block’s toolbar icons” in my above reply to Staff.

  There is on the Classic Editor support page but if we volunteers are meant to encourage users to use the Block Editor’s Classic Block, shouldn’t there be some explanation of those tool bar icons on the Classic Block support page rather than needing to point them somewhere else?

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 8, 2022 at 11:29 am

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  I understand you mean this page, right? https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/#block-toolbar.

  I’ll raise that up with the folks who take care of our support docs. Thanks for pointing that out!