Labor Day is one of the holidays that don’t sell a lot of merchandise. When I was a kid it was the back-to-school holiday since school always started the Tuesday after. Now that schools have moved their startups to August and many have gone to a year-round schedule, Labor Day has lost a bit of commercial viability.
It still has some pop. A lot of Americans – and most of the Americans with money – have the day off. That means BBQ supplies, recreational gear, and food and vacation rentals. COVID-19 has really cut into that this year.
In my experience, the last major heat-wave of the year usually happens around Labor Day. This year we’ve got one in spades.
WP in their infinite wisdom seems to have taken away the editor I’ve used for 4 years now and the only editor I have ever used. (Stupid me to assume that this was the “classic” editor, right?) There is supposedly a way to add the classic editor back thru the WP administration page. I did manage to find the plugin and it is installed and active. I went into writing preferences and set it to use classic only. But this is not the editor that used to automatically come up when I went to edit something. It is just the “minimalist” little editor that has always come up from the dashboard.
Applicable defintions of classic:
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adj.Belonging to the highest rank or class.
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adj.Serving as the established model or standard.
This does not fit either editor I am left with.
This is what I am supposed to see in the admin pages window:
This is what I actually see:
Plug-in is installed and active and might as well not exist. FAIL for the plugin.
I have to believe that with all the love for the previous not-classic editor, the block editor is really here to make things easier for WP in some way. Certainly not for established users. Gutenberg is almost universally panned.
On edit:
I just contacted WP tech support and according to them the editor I’ve been using for the last 3 years is not the “classic editor” and has been retired permanently. The “classic” editor in their view is that PITA editor from the WP admin page. Way to go WP. You threw away something everyone used and replaced it with inferior and inferior.
September 5, 2020 at 13:43
I spent about 30 minutes looking just like that picture of Aggretsuko this morning while trying to upload a simple post with a picture. I cannot understand why WordPress would did a simple, intuitive, user friendly editor for that piece of junk they have now. Like you, went through the “get classic editor” and yeah, not working. I don’t need the anger and frustration, so I’ll just go back to happily reading and commenting (if everyone I read doesn’t also quit). No biggie for me as I really quit blogging years ago now and don’t feel any great need to share my words anymore.
But my last word is this; NEW is not necessarily IMPROVED and go on.
Ha. Labor Day in Tulsa, OK means FLOOOOOOOOOD. (But if you check their website they will happily tell you that Tulsa never floods) Residents will tell you the Arkansas River overflows it’s banks and goes romping gaily down the streets annually for Labor Day. It’s kind of funny, really – as long as you are on high ground. Now I’m in Las Vegas and Labor Day is still solidly summer triple digit brutal. Right about now, I wouldn’t mind a flood.
September 4, 2020 at 13:12
Gutenberg’s taking a beating, especially in the last week. If they’d just stop randomizing the UI, I might be able to get used to it. The latest update changed how you access the building blocks, which meant I have to rebuild the habits that helped me be productive.
It’s not that I object to the idea of a block editor. I left the basic editor about 2 years ago because I wanted more control. I used Thrive Architect, a block editor, for about a year. Then it got squirrelly. Same kind of UI nonsense that Gutenberg is pulling now. Plus, it became unstable on top of that.
I know lots of folks compose in another editor, and maybe it’ll come to that. Still, I really wish they’d take their time, design a solid product, and support it long term. WordPress is huge now, sure — but if they don’t take better care of their bloggers, it won’t last long.
Anyone remember WordPerfect?
September 4, 2020 at 15:52
Yeah… another WP.
The deep question is not why they tried to create a block editor. It is why they eliminated the editor they had that was very popular. Most of WP’s bloggers never used nor needed anything but the “not-classic” visual editor that I was thinking (and probably most WP users) was the classic editor they were talking about. It was all we ever knew. Saying people could stick with the classic editor was deceptive on their part.
I am more than a little angry here.