Offkorn
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Recent Update to WP1) I’ve never installed an editor theme. All the themes I’ve seen only affect how the site looks when visited. I’ve seen editor plugins of course, but never had to install one to increase the available writing area since the writing area filled the available space by default.
2)-3) Maybe don’t try and force people to do something they don’t want to do on their own websites? Code literacy is at all-time high, it only makes sense that people who know how to code want to actually make use of that knowledge.
4) It does if you don’t know the link you want to add. Before that single button press got you directly to the internal link searching prompt. Target=_blank is fantastic: Why would I ever want someone to leave my site to check a reference? Far better to have that reference open in a new tab.
5) That’s not what I was referring to. Say you have a category for ‘Games’ and then 20 subcategories for each type of game. Before if you added the Games tag and the last subcategory in the list, after you saved the draft that last category would now appear at the top of the list directly under ‘Games’ (it would stop being alphabetical). Now the subcategories stay in alphabetical order even after they’ve been added to a draft, which is a bit of pain when you want to quickly see which ones have been added while editing.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Offkorn.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Recent Update to WPThere have been several “I hate the new editor” posts, but few people seem willing to go into specifics about why it’s lacking compared to the previous one. So I’m going to now:
1) The writing space has been halved and replaced by… large expanses of blank space. Being only able to fit half a sentence per line is ludicrous on a 1080p display, let alone on higher-end systems.
2) The ‘code view’ button has been hidden in a sidebar (the ‘visual editor’ button meanwhile is clearly visible in the upper righthand corner).
3) The editing shortcuts like bold, italic, link, and so forth have been removed from code view.
4) Adding internal links has been complicated and now requires clicking a second button after the first (as does making links open in a new page).
5) Added categories no longer ‘bunch up’ at the top of the list after being added.
These changes seem inexplicable and in no way necessary to facilitate the new ‘block’ system. They in fact seem specifically designed to punish anyone not editing on a mobile device.