If WordPress was truly a forum for writers and by writers, they would understand that writers become accustomed to things and don’t like to change.
We are like athletes who have a favorite baseball glove, a lucky jersey, a favorite curling broom, or a pair of cleats that they will not play a game without. Writers are very much the same (except without all the physical activity). We like things a certain way.
Want to freak out an athlete? Hide his or her favorite bowling ball. Replace their hockey stick with a curling broom. Over-inflate their footballs.
Well, it is the same for writers. Forcing us to use a new editor is no different from the examples I just gave.
So, here’s the bottom line. Here is my personal message to whomever is the Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, or Genghis Khan of WordPress.
I hate your &$#*@& new editor.
(P.S. Thank you for the blog post idea. I was kind of sucking wind up until I tried to use your execrable new editor.)
Biff Sock Pow 
I can’t even use wordpress in my chrome browser. I get jetpack errors, and feed errors. If I go to another browser everything seems fine. But the errors I have keep me away…not that I am very active with my blog as it is.
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Hmmm … that’s strange. I use Chrome. However, I only have the bare minimum of gadgets installed in my WP interface. It’s all I can do to post a simple post. It is tempting fate for me to try and do anything more than that. 🙂
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I switched a while ago, and though I’m used to it, I still dislike it because it’s not for writers, for people who edit their work and highlight and move stuff around and even delete sometimes (just a couple words, not the whole block, what the heck???) I think they made it with a different kind of creator in mind which is inane, but I guess blogs aren’t for words anymore?
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Hi, A.K.! I agree with you 100% that the new editor is in no way geared towards writers, but rather to multi-media “content providers”. I wrote a post tonight and it literally took about 4 times longer than it normally would have. And I got so frustrated 2 or 3 times that I nearly just chucked it all. But I stuck with it. I still don’t like it, though. If there was a reasonable alternative to WP, I’d so be there!
And I like your comment that blogs are not for words any more. That certainly seems to be the case, doesn’t it?
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I absolutely hate it, too! I’ve been using it though, so I can get used to it. It’s been slow and I still get pissed at it but slowly, I’m getting the hang of it. Still don’t like it but I guess that doesn’t matter to the powers that be. After weeks of fighting this new editor, I found that you can choose “classic” for each individual block and that has made my life easier!
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Hi, Deb! I’m sorry you don’t like it either, but it is nice to have company in my loathing of it. 🙂 I know I will get “comfortable” with it someday, but I will never stop hating it. Writing should be as easy as opening up a blank post and starting typing. Now every part of the writing process is such a gawd-awful frustration that I nearly give up every time.
I tried the “classic” block for the post I wrote tonight and, you’re right, it was better. But still not great.
Oh well … let’s just keep encouraging each other and maybe someday, like chronic back pain, we will just learn to live with it.
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I’m glad the “classic” block option was better for you! Sure was better for me.
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Yes, thank you for the tip. It is definitely better. However, by the time I am finished writing a post, I have accidentally created 20 or 30 random blank blocks everywhere that are a pain in the tuchus to delete. These blocks have become the “suspicious moles” of the smooth skin of blogging.
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😂😂
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I had trouble with it as well but I find that if I write outside WordPress and copy in the stuff it’s easier Love the post Way to stick it to the man
Stay well and Laugh when you can
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Hiya, Mr. Ohh! That’s a good idea. I did actually used to write externally in Word and then paste it into my blogs, but for some reason, I find a much lower incidence of writer’s block when I write in the blog directly vs. in Word. I’m not sure why that is.
But with the new editor, I may go back to composing in Word.
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I hate it, I keep making the same mistakes. I can’t find my way round it properly. I’m not interested in bells and whistles, just basic bog standard blogging. I don’t want to create professional articles. I hate it.
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Hi, Christine! I could not agree with you more. One of my all-time pet peeves in life is when people or organizations make inherently simple things so complicated that it makes me want to jump off of a building. Like a TV remote with 700 buttons in six square inches. I just want to change the channel! It’s easier to walk across the room and change it manually. Reminds me of the days when you had to go to the TV and turn the channel knob with a pair of pliers because the knob had broken off years ago. How far have we really come?
This abomination of an editor is the latest in that chain of de-evolution.
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Yes. We had to hit the TV with a hairbrush to get it to come on… Loose connection…. But it worked… 🤣
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I am so unhappy about the thought of it….it hasn’t hit yet. But I know I don’t like it for the very reasons you say.
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Hi! Hopefully you won’t suffer though all of the frustrations that I have. I admit it … I have a real problem with “new” things. I’d still be typing on my old electric Olympia typewriter if I had my druthers, but I can’t find ribbons for it any more. 😀
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Check Amazon for those ribbons! I have recently fallen in love with typewriters again. But thanks to Tom Hanks the good ones can’t be found. Anyway. I haven’t seen ‘improvements’ in most of what WP forces on us. I like opening up something as familiar as a blank page and start writing, or put what I’ve been working on, in place. I suppose we will muddle through.
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Thanks for the tip. I will definitely check into that. I would love to fire up the ol’ typewriter. Of course, I might be shocked to rediscover how loud that thing was! So maybe I should buy some noise cancelling headphones at the same time as the ribbons.
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I love the feel of the typing. What took my by surprise was how hard I have to hit the keys compared to the typewriter. That’s what I forgot about.
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I tried typing on an ancient Underwood mechanical (non-electric) typewriter one time. I felt like I had to hit the keys with a sledgehammer. It was amazing to me that there were people who could type 100 words per minute on those things! They must have had very muscular fingers.
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I thought the very same thing.
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I live in terror. They have been threatening for years. I have been trying to stay out of their notice. Maybe they will forget me and leave me be? hahaha. who am I kidding . . . the apocalypse is here!
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Hi Pam! I didn’t have a choice. When I logged on a few days ago, the new editor was my only option. I seriously considered giving up my blog, but lately it is the only vice … er … hobby I have. As my mom used to say, “It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.” But just barely.
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I hope you stick around!
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Thank you, Pam! I plan to. But I also feel that, every time I finish a new post, that I have completely run out of ideas. Hopefully, I will keep on being wrong. 🙂
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In defense of the new editor, it gave me something to be annoyed about that wasn’t related to a global pandemic…
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Ha ha! Now THAT is a positive attitude if I ever heard one! There’s bound to be a pony in here somewhere!
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Let’s not make excuses. It’s a dog’s breakfast, which is an insult to any dog that might happen to be reading this. I hate it, and refuse to use it.
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Hi Noel! And you’re so right. And I apologize to all of my dog readers.
I didn’t have a choice but to use it. The classic editor disappeared from my WP. It’s like they don’t even care what I think. Just like the management at the company I work at!
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It was Change-over day for me, too — and others write about being discombobulated by the new system. But this is where we’re at; this morning I wrote a quickie poem about “NEW and IMPROVED.”
One day I tried to turn on my daughter’s electronic all-the-bells-and-whistles clothes dryer; but I lacked a degree in computer science. Now it’s their NEW and IMPROVED tap-less (read: touch it just the right way or else no) water faucet. Sigh…
Glad you found a topic that inspired you! 😉
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Hi Christine! I’m sorry you’re having to suffer through this as well, but at least we can suffer together.
And I agree … so many everyday things have become so complicated that I’d rather just not use them. Why does a washing machine need 7 dials, 27 buttons, and an eject button? Do they want us to land the thing in the East River a la Captain Sullenberger?
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Same. I dislike it intensely.
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Hi Lu! Maybe we’ll get used to it someday … but today is not that day.
Hang in there!
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it really isn’t. i send an angry message to wordpress, but who knows if any one will even see it. in the meantime, the wordpress app is less difficult with their classic mode… so i’ll be on that hah.
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Yes, I’ve been using the “Classic” block. It’s not bad, but I still seem to end up with dozens of empty blocks everywhere in my post. I don’t know where they came from, or how to get rid of them. Very frustrating.
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Sooooooooooooooooooooooo with you, Big bro! I want to keep using my old mitt.
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Not if I hide it from you, you won’t! 😀
Just kidding. I’ll keep my “mitts” off of it.
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It’s not that bad. If you choose the “Classic” block, you get pretty much the same editor as we had previously, and you can work inside that with text and images, just like always. It’s a little awkward until you find where all the buttons and such are, but every function still is there — If I were there I could show you how to make it work for you in about ten minutes. You’ll figure it out!
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Hi Linda! Thanks for the vote of confidence. 🙂 I tried the “classic” block and it was indeed less sucky. I suppose I will begrudgingly get used to the new editor someday just like I got used to not being young anymore.
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I don’t love it either, but I’ getting used to it. It’s buggy though and some features don’t work right esp. in the reader.
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Hi, Dee! I have decided to take a deep breath, hold my nose, and take this giant dose of cod liver oil. I know it won’t cure anything I have, or make me feel better, and might even have unpleasant side-effects. But as I have no choice, I’ll just try to muddle through somehow. 😀
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