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I need help with this new editor malarkey. It’s changed completely to the new format with blocks and such bollocks and sometimes I can find ‘Classic mode’, however, even in that mode it doesn’t behave as it did originally and I still end up unable to alter the parts I want to. I could go on but I’m sending myself to sleep as it is.
Does anyone know how if there’s a way to access the old Classic Editor? When I’ve searched online every answer is from before this point, back when it was easy to swap. I’m on WP.com, so don’t have plug-ins and all that gubbins. It doesn’t bode well for future postings if I can’t sort it out or get my brain snakes round the new block options (which seem to make every line a block and won’t let me make the text larger or smaller).
Anyone?
Esme's Cloud 
Mine still giving me the classic, but has threatened that I should get used to the new sustem before there is no choice. Great. Seems like lockdown has given the ‘App Development Elves too much time to fuck things uo that didn’t need any fuckery at all.
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It’s annoying when they don’t make transitions smooth, I envy you being in past mode to my present which is indeed rife with WP fuckery. I’ll have to spend some time ‘learning’ the new fuckery mode I suppose if the worst comes to the worst. Thank you for stopping by Simon beams
Esme and Simon looking glum upon the Cloud
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You older people seem to be having a lot of trouble with it 😀
As you have a paid site, I believe you can use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
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You kiddiwinks don’t seem to grasp that a WP.com site isn’t a paid one so, so can’t have plugins beyond jetpack!
Esme eyeing the toddler and throwing an ice lolly his way upon the Cloud
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Because of your site name, I thought you had a package – if you’re a classic user, then try this link: https://sonmicloud.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?classic-editor
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Thank you dearie, I’m abed so shall try the linkage tomorrow. I paid for the name so as to be Esme officially, I suppose its what people would call fur coat and no knickers so far as appearances go.
-Esme leaving him a faberge egg for his kind help
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Oh, you two fussy kids settle down! You both are disturbing my WordPress joy-ride of Geriatric Agony. 🤨
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🤣🤣🤣
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I cannot help you. I can only agree with you. The new system is nothing but frustrating to me.
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Thank you anyway tref, solidarity in frustration!
Esme shaking his hand whilst gaining frown lines
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Haha!
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Same Same.
It’s like the programmers at WordPress decided that everyone is an idiot so they dumbed down WP
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Perhaps it’s sabotage! Blogger has infiltrated WP and its evil spies have left wee mince pies with even tinier bots in them and they’ve beggared the whole thing up.
Esme waving at Mak but not allowing the conspiracy theorists up the ladder to the Cloud
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I would try pancakes and berries with whipping cream. That’s my suggestion
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Your suggestion to every possible query I suspect. Hahahahaha. I like giving my cream a good whipping, don’t tell Prof Taboo for heaven’s sake.
Esme flipping pancakes and letting cream off the hook for Jim upon the Cloud
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We shan’t even discuss the pancakes with the prof lest it lead to pancaking. On second thought… nice to see you dear!
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Hahahahaha, you too dearie!
Esme locking the maple syrup away upon the Cloud
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I’m sorry to inform you Esme that you are now eternally trapped inside the WordPress Matrix of “Our Way or the Highway” while you and all of us pay WP nothing or too much for their daily torture. Members may Enter, but you can never Checkout! 🌀 No, this is not Kansas anymore. 🌪️
But hey, at least you are stuck here with Pink and all us Munchkins. 🧝😁
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I replied to this, did you see my reply? Is there a reply I can’t see? Let me know!
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I see this reply right here. It reads on my WP enslaved computer monitor from you to me:
Is this the bedazzling reply to me of which you refer Esme? 😁🥰
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No, that’s the one from Swarn. Keep up.
‘my darling breasts of May’ – You may not.
Hahahahahaha. Thank you for sharing Swarn’s passion for you dear Prof, I know he’ll be blushing at his monitor when he finds out the Cloudsters have become aware of his wondrous love verse capabilities. He’s at it on Twitter all the time you know.
Esme falling off the Cloud laughing
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😄 You mean to tell me that not only do I have YOU chasing my heart, but Swarn as well!!!??? 😍
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Sure.
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So sorry to say that I have been carrolled and brought into the new space. To begin with it’s frustrating … but as most things in life that will ease our transition, when we are open to it and take our time .. it works out just five.
Okay – the first few posts are a bitch. Hang in there 🐰🙏🐰
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I’ll stop smashing things and go zen on it then. Good plan Val! Hahahahaha.
Esme doing the highland zen with Val upon the Cloud
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Highland zen .. love it 💕
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Dancing to Bhagavad-Gita-pipes.
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Thanks for the visual and the chuckle H❣️
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I’ve been using the WP block editor for quite a while, and had reached the stage where it was quite intuitive for me. When The Pink Agendist published a post a few weeks back along similar lines to yours here, I commented how much I liked the block editor. Then a week later WP messed with the block editor too and I had to eat my words. I’ve been using online editors for over 20 years and the new “improved” WP block editor seems to be a step backwards of at least 10 years. I’m not impressed.
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It’s so annoying. I wouldn’t mind as much if they altered these things slowly, tried out this and that to see if people liked the changes, but if people don’t like them they should leave the previous versions available. If it isn’t broken don’t fix it! Thank you for commenting Barry, always lovely to see you.
Esme shaking his hand and blowing a raspberry at the WP fiddlers
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I started using the block editor while it was still in beta, and on the whole I have been happy with the way it has been developing. But the most recent iteration has been a step backwards in my view. It’s still quite powerful compared to the classic editor and it does a better job of creating pages that are more compliant with current HTML specifications, meaning that web browsers are less likely to mess up how a page looks.
I hope the current setback is just a case of two steps forward and one step back. Time will tell.
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lol – high five! I thought I’d come to terms with it as well, until it was improved. -cough- I’m glad to say the stupidity with the Preview has been cancelled, at least for now. What was it for you?
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High fives back! The blocks. Also the intuitive way of editing has been tipped arse over tit. It offers changes in size of font apparently easily, yet when applied only does one line at a time regardless of selection and decides on it’s own blocks initially and the spacing is enough to make one give up the ghost and drive to the funny farm. Other than that it’s great.
Hahahahahaha.
Esme hating it all upon the Cloud
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-pat pat- Yes, all that and more, but you must stay calm. Think of the Cloud. This too will pass.
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Unlike the Balrog.
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-grin- Indeed -while tweaking Gandalf’s beard-
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😂😂😂
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The block editor pretended to a WYSIWYG editor but now all pretence is gone. For example if I create a Quote block it used fo identify quoted text in the editor with a grey bar on the left hand side. Now in fhe editor it’s not possible to identify quotes unless one starts to edit the block.
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Yup. I’ve noticed that too. I think we have to accept that ‘Word’ press is now ‘Smallscreen’.
I only use my phone for the most basic of things, like phone calls, so I have no idea whether WP works any better on mobile phones than it does on full sized computers, but if it doesn’t… someone has goofed, very very badly.
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I hadn’t considered small screens being a factor in recent changes, but now that you have brought it to my attention I think it’s highly likely.
I only use my mobile phone when a desktop computer is not available, even for sending SMS messages – I use an app that integrates my android phone with my Linux desktop and laptop machines.
I understand why they are implementing a block editor. In fact I think it’s a necessity as HTML/CSS is beginnig to include elements that have historically been implemented as program code. But I do tbink the move is being poorly handled and we’re all being used as beta testers.
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‘we’re all being used as beta testers.’
Very much so. Medium uses a block editor as well, but it’s a heck of a lot more intuitive. Still a learning curve, but it works. Wish I could say the same about the WP one.
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This article might help solve your problem. The option is available for WP sites.
If you want to create a post in the classic editor you can type (save it as a book mark):
https://wordpress.com/support/classic-editor-guide/
WP has committed to keep the classic editor alive until 2022 so these tips might stop working in a year.
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Thanks dearie, I’ll read up on it. I’m sure I’ll have to give in eventually. The beggars!
Esme handing over a plate of sticky buns regardless of whether he likes sticky buns or not
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I agree with you Esme, the block suck big eggs. I might even go off WP if they keep f*cking it up. I think that the WP IT department tries to make things all hip and flashy but forget that usability is more important. They are paid to do their jobs so they’ll be ordered to constantly innovate, update and modernise software. Or in this case fuck up. If you want write a poem then you can use the “verse” block but then you get some greyed out block with an old fashioned font. Hate it. Or some other block that looks like a bag of shite. The worst thing for me is the line spacing. That it skips one line when you hit enter. On my iPhone I can still get the old dashboard but when you click on some parts it takes you to the updated crap version. I always wonder why they can’t leave a good thing be. Nearly every update of anything is anything but better. Sigh.
Try working in HTML mode? Good luck!
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Amen to that! It’s bad news for poets. I already know someone who posts every poem as a jpeg due to previous spacing issues, so I suppose that’s an option. It works, however, the image needs to be high quality or it looks fuzzy, and no one can copy the bits they like to the comments to say how wonderful or poo on a stick they are. Bag of bollocks basically.
HTML – otherwise known as my nemesis! Hahahahaha.
Esme and Poetpas throwing old cabbages at the WP engineers from upon the Cloud
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HTML is… your nemesis? How can you say that about the very foundation of the Internet itself? Shame on you. Give me a shout if you need any help with it 🙂
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Shame! Shame?! There is no shame in that one does not excel in, it’s all down to how your brain works. Some may be capable of creating architecture that stuns for millennia, yet they falter at crocheting a scarf. Some may be considered a God of sorts for their howling Operatic endeavours, yet be incapable of making a decent plate of toast; some may find computer language, the very foundation of the internet itself as you say to be as challenging as one who has dyslexia looking at plain text, yet they can write poetry whilst wearing a tutu, clashing knee cymbals (no symbols), and playing ‘I Yam what I Yam’ on the comb and paper. sniffs and strides about for a bit
But thank you, I’ll come to you when I’m lost with it all. Hahahahaha
Esme ashamed at literally nothing she has ever done (probably – poor memory) upon the Cloud
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Ah, but the point (I failed to make) is that HTML shouldn’t be compared to ‘a computer language’. It’s a markup language. A tutu-touting poet who can compose flawless prose in English (even while protesting “dyslexia!”) should have no absolutely no trouble with it. Really.
Check out the (free!) W3Schools HTML tutorial. You might enjoy it.
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Markup. I have struggled with the concept of Markup since the beginning of time and still have no idea what it is. I have clicked the ‘markup’ button in settings however, as I was told I should do.
Here is part of the ‘easy’ text on the link, the Gods of all sizes will only know what this spell might do to my comment, blog or the blogosphere for that matter.
Page Title
This is a Heading
This is a paragraph.
Turns out it magically transforms symbols into other symbols. I am not overly shocked by this.
Looks like a computer language to me. Reminds me of the very basics they showed us a few centuries ago at school when computers were brand new to the world and eighty-foot wide beams.
I should also point out to readers that I was using dyslexia as an example of being unable to fathom any kind of code or language, I do not have dyslexia myself. I have dyscalculia, which makes me see numbers differently and can make a universe constructed of numbers a tricky place to be at times. I also have problems keeping information stored. A brain drain of sorts I suppose.
Thank you again pendantry.
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Butbutbut… did you follow my handy link? The concept of ‘markup’ is incredibly simple. For instance: If you want to emphasise text, you use the <em>; HTML element, like so: this text is emphasised. If you want to emphasise it further, you use the ‘<strong> element. It really, really is that easy. Honest.
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I’ve managed to add line breaks with it, but again and again have randomly failed or succeeded to make text larger or smaller, and only then by keeping a document with examples on to copy and paste which gets lost in no time. I think it actively dislikes me as a medium.
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Aw, bless you. Hahahahaha. It’s fine, I’m sharp in other ways beams.
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Dangit, that GIF didn’t embed. See? You can fathom things I can’t too 🙂
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Hahahahahaha. I do like my gifs, but mine sometimes don’t play nicely either!
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Lol 😂 When you write a new post in the new version from the app you can switch to HTML and that don’t give spacing when you type. When you’re done typing you can switch it back. Still, every thing about the new WP sucks. So yes old cabbages to them. There will be no dawn for WordPress engineers 😂
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I tried that and it fannied about with my layout and italics and got rid of the sizing changes I’d made. Chances are it’s a vendetta against me personally falls about
Esme of rotten cabbage fame
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Hmmm, no good is it 🤨
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One of my blogger friends taught me a workaround for the line spacing. If you want to go to a new line without /adding/ a spacer, press SHIFT & ENTER at the end of the line. Pain in the proverbial if you have a great many lines but, it’s something. Good luck.
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Yeah I know how to do that as someone told me as well. But still you have that block system from which you have to pick something, a block, bit I don’t like any of them. I want to edit it how I want it to look. But oh no, we only live in 2021. Maybe in 100 years they will start asking us users what we want? Now is too early, we are just little pawns in their little development game…
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Esme nodding from the Cloud
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😂
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LOL – my sentiments, exactly. Word processors have been around since the early to mid 80’s [1980’s]. Most of us have had some experience with them, yet WordPress is determined to /take away/ the bare bones functionality we had originally.
Remember when we could select one single word and change its colour? Now the whole block has to be coloured. And remember when the toolbar/ribbon used to sit comfortably on top and scroll with the page? Now we have floating panels /for each block/ that can’t be manually moved and ALWAYS conceal the block that came before…?
-sigh-
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A possible workaround for you too, Esme. If you select ‘Heading’ instead of ‘Paragraph’, you will have 5 or 6? heading levels to choose from. The default if H2, which is very big, but you can change that to H3, H4 etc with each one progressively smaller. From memory, H5 is about the same size as the normal paragraph font.
As workarounds go, it’s not great but perhaps better than nothing.
-nods sadly-
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I’ve been struggling with this new editor for some time now. I found some ways to get back to the (perfectly good and why-fix-it-it-ain’t-broke) ‘classic’ editor, and, thinking I’d help others, wrote a couple of blog posts explaining how to do it.
And it was a complete waste of time, because It All Changed Again.
I whinged at the ‘Happiness Engineers’. One of them kindly reset my account to use ‘Classic’, and I thought: “oh, goodie!” … a week later, it got reset to the block editor again.
Jill Dennison recently recommended this post: ‘Navigating The Waves‘. I haven’t read it… because it seems evident to me that WordPress.com is bloody-mindedly determined to shift us all over to their sluggish, klunky, quirky, bug-ridden new editor, and anything that you might find that does allow you to continue to use the ‘classic’ editor will only work for a short time.
I’m going to ‘navigate the waves’ by riding out the storm in the hope that it gets better.
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Yes, the feeling it is inevitable, much like all social media changes, pervades. I shall surf too, we’ll see if I sink or swim!
Esme and Pendantry sat the the crow’s nest upon the Cloud
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Madame “Giffy” Esmarelda, you make my giffy all giddy gurly, truly. I just wanna smack my smouchy luv-lips up and down your arm ma Dame de la passion insatiable! 🥰💞
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Bwahahahaha!!! Yeah, she definitely digs me. 😁
(pulls out his trampoline, places it just right a short distance from the Cloudy Wall of Futile Resistance, backs up, licks finger & holds it up in the air—Mmm, good tailwind—KAPOOWIE! Monsieur le Pepe Don Juan-iesuave is off, darting his way to a bouncy leap with a full twist! Nailing his dismount on the Lady’s bedroom balcon d’amour!)
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Esme falling about upon the Cloud
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