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Bear with me while I bitch.
(I have two weeks worth of scheduled posts in the queue so the bitching will be limited at this time.)
Ever since the husband started teleworking in March, I’ve been doing a lot of blogging on my phone. Which, until the new roll out of the editor from Hell, was fine.
But now that people are being forced to use it, things have changed… at least for me.
My friend from No Facilities, Dan Antion, is always nice enough to include photos of the rabbits he sees on his walks for me. With a backyard family of foxes, bunnies are the one critter we never see at Casa River.
But when I look at his posts now…
This is what I see –
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Text over photos.
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Photos over photos.
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Text over text.
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And photos over text.
Anyway you look at it, it’s a mess.
So if any of WordPress’s inappropriately named ‘Happiness Engineers’ drop by to say hello?
Be sure and tell them I ain’t happy.
Yikes! Is there no way to contact someone from WordPress and complain directly?
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I believe he tried on his end. Even took down what kind of phone and operating system I run. If I view on the computer, it’s fine. Weird.
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I did. I even gave them the model phone an OS version (kindly provided by Rivergirl). They said, “we can’t reproduce the error.”
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It’s bizarre. And happens on every one of your posts. I miss my bunnies!
😥
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Next time, I’ll post the bunny in a comment. If it happens to be a day you have a post 🙄
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I post everyday. I’m always here. Bring the bunnies!
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Hi Rivergirl…I started following you because I too have been upset with these changes and have been talking to marlagro…she highly recommended I follow you!
I was going to move to Wix because I have a sales site/blog there also but marlagro told me she was finally able to post her most recent story. Encouraged to try here again, I “played” with the site and practiced playing with some of the new features…if you click on the + sign on the top left there are a ton of options…including “Classic”…which allows you to do things more like it was before the changes. Not exactly the same but I find it easier to figure out the rest. It is taking me longer to get my post done but I am taking my time and learning as I go. I haven’t published yet so I don’t know if my photos will scrambled. Sorry you got that after you finally posted!! I am hoping if we all complain enough WordPress will put things back the way they were! Good luck! I enjoyed a few of your posts and am looking forward to how it goes in the future!
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I’m afraid they’re never going to bring the classic editor back, but yes… I’ve been playing with the classic “block” and as long as they leave that there for people like me who bitch, I’ll deal with it. The only other alternative is finding anew blog site and I’ve bounced around too many times to want to start over again elsewhere.
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What changes????? Have you been having too many……….????
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Hang on. It will roll over you shortly…
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Oh, man. I feel ya. I hated the switch when I made it. I will say, though, that those happiness engineers are fantastic. Every single time I reached out to them with a problem, they fixed it. Sometimes there were temporary workarounds while my theme argued with the new editor, but mostly, they just fixed it. I wrote a bit about my frustrations back here: https://kjottinger.com/2019/12/16/new-and-improved/. Maybe shoot’em a message with an issue and see if they’re still the beautiful bunch I was working with last year? I love them! Renewed my faith in humanity and customer service. Them and YNAB. Those folks are incredible, too. Good luck; it’s not so bad once you work out the bugs.
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Glad you had good luck, but Dan did just that. They said they couldn’t find the problem…. when clearly there is one.
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Bummer! That’s stinky!
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Look at this, I just saw this (someone I follow)
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/79388113/posts/2896838145
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Yes, I use use the WordPress app on my iPhone all the time. But it still screws up Dan’s posts beyond redemption.
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Does that mean using a computer instead of phone? Your photos are the best!
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I can still post the old way on my phone, but reading Dan’s post on it has become impossible.
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Ah. Poor Dan.
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Also, do you have certain posts private? Like the next one? Just wondering because sometimes I can’t access them.
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I usually schedule my posts ahead of time. Sometimes it publishes immediately by mistake and when I fix it, it disappears. Ghost posts!
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Haha yeah the editor really is doing a number on the photos. I myself need to summon up the Classic block every time I want to insert a photo because the captions don’t work properly in the Block editor.
Oh well, what you gonna do, am I right? Stay strong!
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I’m going to bitch… I thought that was clear.
😉
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HAHAHAHAHA…love the response!
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We saw one today. Initially not cooperative
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But it still counts. Thank you!
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But I told it that you wanted to see its pretty face, and…
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Ooh! That’s a beauty.
Bunny fix satisfied…. for today.
😉
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This is the first one I’ve seen in a week – you might have to make it last.
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You’re rationing my bunnies after we just figured out how to let me see them?
That’s just cruel.
😉
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I’m sorry. There just aren’t that many bunnies out there right now. I’ll do my best.
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I know you will…
And I appreciate it.
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As I mentioned to someone else regarding the new editor, change is good, most of the time. I think the jury is still out in this case.
I’m about to take the plunge myself…wish me luck.
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I’ve been bypassing the damn blocks and adding classic. It’s more labor intensive and doesn’t space properly for me….. but I suppose I’ll live to tell the tale.
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I can’t get a caption to line up beneath a photo to save my life, but other than that, I can’t say I’ve had any issues with the new block editor.
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Luckily, I rarely do that.
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Sure it is not a user issue? We are all still learning this thing. Except me. I only write.
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User on his part… or mine? He contacted the powers that be and they say the problem doesn’t exist, which it clearly does. But only on my phone. And only his page.
I’m clueless.
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I meant his, but now that I think about it…..
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I have not written much at all lately, but it now taking me some time to get used to it, too. I hope I like it eventually, but right now I agree with you.
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I’m adjusting. It will just force me to post from my phone more often..
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It sucks and is difficult to use but I don’t have that kind of problems.
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So far it’s only on Dan’s site.
Weird.
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