Rebuffing WordPress’s attempts to get me to use their new Gutenberg editor takes up more time than you would think.
And so I thought I’d vent my frustration through memes.
Okay, that’s all I’ve got.
Bottom line: I just don’t like new things.
I’m sure I’ll get used to the new editor, but I’m telling you right now I’m not going to like it.
But then again, I’d still be using WordStar if it was still around.
[…] Embracing the New WP Editor Through Memes […]
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I actually like the new editor! Good memes though 👌😂
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I’m sure I will get used to it someday. I have never been what one would call an early or fast adopter. I am slow to warm to things, and even slower to want to give them up for something new or different. It is a failing of mine.
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Don’t worry! 😄 Be positive 😊
Followed you 😊🤗
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Thank you! I appreciate that very much. I hope you drop by often. 🙂
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Sure thing.
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Clearly the WordPress gods haven’t heard of the KISS principle…
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That’s for sure! I don’t know why they had to take something simple and make it complicated. Or, if they simply HAD to change it, they could at least have given us more options for font sizes and formatting. It now seems less like a word processor and more like a layout editor.
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Wait! So, does WordPress have a new editor now? Lol
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I have heard rumors to that effect. But you know how rumors are. 🙂
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I’m setting up a secondary site and got strong-armed into the new editor after having successfully avoided it for ages. It’s … interesting. I think I’m getting the hang of it, and I do like that it gives you options you might not have always had (e.g., increased control over layout and design), but I’m not finding it intuitive or fluid.
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Hi Lucy! I had the same experience last time I tried it. It seems to be geared more towards people that are mixing different elements (photos, text, videos, etc.). But for boring people like me that only want to write a couple of paragraphs of text with no pictures or music, it just seems to be unnecessarily complex and user-unfriendly.
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OMG DID YOU MAKE THESE
THESE ARE LITERALLY GENIUS
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Hi Lu! 🙂 I don’t know about genius, but I did indeed make them myself using nothing but safety scissors, some paste, and some construction paper. But seriously, I have found several sites that allow ordinary people like me to create memes. And since I have no other talents or hobbies, I will occasionally cobble together a meme.
I’m really glad you enjoyed them. 🙂 And I’m really happy you stopped by!
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I’m getting used to the new editor slowly…but I still prefer the old one. I like sticking with what I’m used to, it’s easier that way. There are just too many options for this, that, and the other and then when I finally think I’ve got it, it doesn’t look like I want it to look! I did stumble across an option within the new editor where you can use a classic layout for that block without going back to the classic editor. Did that make sense? Lol. Anyway, makes life a little easier! 😉
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Hi Deb! Yes, it made perfect sense. I know I will have to eventually make my peace with the new editor when WP decides to stop supporting the classic editor, but I am going to hold out as long as I can!
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But these memes are worth their weight in gold!
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Thank you! I have found memes to be a very effective way at communicating an idea succinctly and with humor. One of the greatest devices ever created. 🙂
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You’re very good at it!
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Awww … thank you! 🙂 Too bad memes are not legal tender. I could quit my day job.
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There’s a new editor?…haha, just kidding. I just ignore it, hoping it will go away!
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Hi Suzanne! That is my philosophy for everything. If I ignore it long enough, it will go away. Some people say that is not a good attitude to have, but it has been working amazingly well for me my entire life!
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The only time it doesn’t work is when your car is making weird noises!
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That’s when you just crank up the radio really loud.
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Yup😁
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I agree. Maybe everyone should contact their ‘happiness advisors’ and tell them we don’t want to change!
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Hi Christine! Ha ha! You’re right. Not all change is bad, but most of it is.
I need to get me one of those happiness advisors. Do you know any that work for free?
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I think that’s what the helpers here are called. I had to get advice about a glitch once. all they could say was the problem was with my phone, not wordpress….
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Ah, that makes sense. I guess they’re along the lines of the “geniuses” in the Apple stores.
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Liking the inverted commas!
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I, too, am stubbornly using the old for as long as possible! And I love your memes.
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Hi! And thank you! I am avoiding the new editor for now, but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before they force us all to use it.
And I’m glad you like the memes. 🙂 I am a sucker for memes.
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I haven’t found a ‘new’ version of any editor that’s been worth anything since 2008. It’s easy to think this is just me failing to appreciate new things but, seriously, they’ve all been stuff that makes what would have been one step into more than one step, and I never find where they make anything I have to do often that takes a lot of steps into something that takes fewer.
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Hi Joseph! I’m with you. I really liked some of the older word processor programs. They were easy to use, had intuitive interfaces, and did what I wanted. It seems that with each new “improvement”, word processors have become cryptic, have abysmal user interfaces, and either don’t do what I want them to, or make those things so complicated to do, that I just give up. *sigh* Well, maybe someday a word processor will come along that we like.
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Whoa! I thought it was just me. Thank you Biff. I refuse to use the WordPress block editor. What’s the use of something if it won’t allow you to do what you want to do. I’ve been working with various editing programs since 1980. I managed to get the hang of all of them but not this one. I’m sticking with the old.
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Hi Noel! Nope, it’s not just you. I tired to use the block editor and found it needlessly cumbersome. Of course, they’re marketing it as a tool that will make life as a writer easier. I found that it made things orders of magnitude more complicated. Maybe its target audience is people who post pictures or recipes or videos, or things of that nature. It is definitely not a tool for writers!
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Tried the new, went back to the old. But I see there’s now an “improved” new. Haven’t checked that out yet.
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Hi Christine! I’m like you. I tried it … instantly didn’t like it, and went back to the old editor. There are certainly things I didn’t like about the legacy editor, either, but the new editor just seems like it made everything worse and more complicated without adding anything compelling enough to make me want to use it.
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