So WordPress is at it again giving us “improvements” that many of us don’t need and don’t want. It reminds me of my mother’s suspicion of any packet that said “New. Improved” at the supermarket. Whenever they did that to pet food the cats would not eat it.
I went to take a look at the brand spanking new format for WordPress.
WARNING: If you do that, you will NOT be able to go back to your old format. I think what they have done is eliminate all the old versions of the editor we used, so you can use the new one, or hope they don’t delete the old ones entirely and leave you with this mess.
Which is what I think is really going to happen.
Now, there are things about the “new new new new editor” that may — eventually, when they get the bugs fixed — be useful. But right now? You can’t even get a set of standard editing functions across the top of your page.
They also (apparently, unless it’s a bug) have a limited number of categories — AND they no longer offer you the option of picking up an…
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I could figure out how to change the font size in one of the new paragraphs. I gave up, rewrote it, and deleted the original version. This is the most overly (and unnecessarily complicated) format yet. A whole lot of extra work to accomplish the exact same thing.
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I saw something about it a few months ago and got worried but then heard nothing more and thought perhaps it was only meant for WordPress.org but I should have known better. Sometimes I write Q&A posts on a Word doc first and paste them in to WordPress though I still usually have to format a bit if I do that. I don’t really like to create posts that way though because I like to add the photos as I go.
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