Melanie of Sparks From A Combustible Mind has produced this “cheat sheet” which may be helpful to the many bloggers who are getting their first unpleasant taste of the block editor. I know that WordPress has info on this as well but I think that most of us are too mad to talk to them right now and Melanie has really got down to the basics with these diagrams.
I thought, during a recent discussion about this damned block editor business, that it might be useful to have a post that had pictographs of how to use the ‘classic’ editor. How one might insert images and manipulate them (resize, align) with relative ease.
Bear in mind that I’m presuming that people reading this and trying to use the steps blog ‘like I do’, i.e. desktop computer, Windows OS, Chrome/Google Browser. Clear as mud? Leave a comment and I’ll try to explain further if necessary.
These ‘steps’ are mainly about image manipulation and how to ‘get’ an image easily from your own library. The text (typing) part isn’t really covered, but I think most folks ‘get’ the text part better than they do the images part. And yes, it’s highly presumptive on my part to even offer this. I know the bloggers who follow me are smarter than all…
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The problem with that is that it’s just a block. I had it happen that I wanted to change something in my article, let’s say in the middle… so, I clicked there and made the changes. Now I wanted to get back down to the end of the article… and that’s where the classic block drives me crazy. You literally need to aim to get back to the last line of the classic block. Otherwise, the tool wants you to add another block or you leave the classic block. Not to mention the annoying popup when you click somewhere.
For me, the workaround for the next weeks, until it stops working too, is to go into the dashboard and click on posts, then on “add new”… this still seems to open the classic editor I found out. But it probably won’t work for long. So, I know I will be confronted with the Gutenberg editor again very soon.
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This workaround won’t work for everyone as it depends on the way you work. I’m afraid you won’t be able to dodge Gutenberg forever so I hope you think of some way to make it work for you. It is stressing people out so badly.
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I guess you’re soon right. I won’t be able to dodge Gutenberg forever unless I go the self-hosted route.
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