As someone who has had the new WordPress Block Editor foisted upon her, this says it all, and more. WordPress – bring back the option of the Classic Editor. Some of us (many!) don’t like this new techie style, we don’t have the time or the inclination to go through a whole new learning curve which we didn’t ask for, so please
BRING BACK THE CLASSIC EDITOR
And thank you if any of you WordPress bigwigs & techies are reading this. Please – just do it.
Some time ago WordPress introduced the block editor, giving much greater functionality than the old classic editor. This probably seemed a great idea to the geeks at WordPress HQ.
The problem is: it’s far harder to use than the classic editor, which is much like any old editor of the past couple of decades. Or at least it wasn’t a problem until they made the block editor the default, so you have to rummage around to find the classic editor, hidden away in the detail.
This makes blogging harder; why do that?
Now I have to admit to having used the block editor on web pages, when it gives some very nifty features to simply achieve complex things. But for my blog posts the classic editor is quite sufficient. You could almost make a general rule – classic editor for blog posts and simple pages, block editor for doing clever…
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I’m coping with it but am struggling to find it any better and haven’t had time to look into all its bells and whistles. I agree I was happy with how it was before but developers will always want to develop!
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Barry has received propbably more comments & feedback on this post than any other. There are quite a lot of disenchanted bloggers out there struggling with this – we’re not alone. What I find so irritating is that it kills off creativity – when you want to write, you want to write, not fiddle about learning a fancy new format. Memo for WordPress – KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid!
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