Wordpress 5.0 -The new editor - What the what?

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The Wordpress 5.0 update installed the blocks editor. Whyyy??? When the old editor worked so well! I knew how to use it...with almost zero effort! And it worked with the WA content editor..Those darned blocks caused me to completely re-do my blog post. It took me twice as long to do a simple post. Now I have to learn something new. I cant stand those blocks!

Maybe this article will save the somebody the trauma I suffered....Lol

https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-5-0-cheat-sheet/?amp

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I find Gutenberg very cumbersome, and I'm back to using the Classic Editor (which I find very intuitive and efficient).

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I CAN'T STAND IT! Not stable on Safari or Chrome. Very frustrating and time consuming to do simple tasks. I understand the bugs will be worked out as they go but right now I'm losing sales right now because of this.

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There are other comments below stating you can still use the classic editor.

Go into the dashboard and choose the post or page you want to make changes to - hover under the article title and an option will appear that will allow you use the classic editor as well.

WordPress has become so large - almost too large for any change to be considered simple but the Gutenberg editor is not difficult - just different.

Hang in there - don't give up! You'll get this!

Marion Black is the WordPress guru here at WA. Watch her videos - they are short and sweet!

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I had the same trouble, I didn't want to spend my day to learn something new, I asked my husband to help, he's trying to figure out for me, I need to work on my writing, anyway thank you for the link.
Jacqueline

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Thanks for sharing, I will sure use the cheat sheet too at least till I get more comfortable with the new editor.

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you have moved back from unconscious competence (how you drive a car without thinking about every movement) to conscious competence (how you drove a car just after you passed the test), give it time

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Lol. I like the analogy but......

Have you got Classic Editor plugin installed as it makes it so much easier

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It disappeared!

You still can use the old classic editor if you want.

See these

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