I just went to create a new post for friday Fictioneers, and I thought I had clicked the wrong button. The post creation is all wrong. It has changed completely! Where can I edit the title page location?
What have you done to my photos? I have gone from having used 3gb of space to having used 99.3mb! Where can I add Youtube links? Where can I add Twitter links? What have you done? There was nothing wrong with the post creation process. Please put it back!!
My tips pages are now useless as they are nothing like they are now! What happened to being able to start typing the categories and have them come up to save time? I can’t believe what you have done. You have destroyed the process of creating a new post. You have removed some of the categories and i have to add them again. I do not like this new creation process!
Even the Text window has changed.
Please, please, please put it back!
****EDIT****
Don from A Pondering Mind has come up with a brilliant suggestion. There are two ways of creating a post in the old way:
Start the post as you normally would and then save it as a draft, and then go to the Dashboard, then select Posts on the left hand menu, and All Posts, then choose your draft and you can edit it the standard way.
The second way, is to go straight into the dashboard, select Posts from the left hand menu, and then Add New. This will create a post using the standard form. The proper way of doing it.
Thanks very much Don, I appreciate it.
Yeah, I didn’t like it either. Actually, it wasn’t too bad at first, but there was no Publish button! And the Preview didn’t work either. What was really jacked up was that when you did publish (accidentally, in my case) it didn’t actually say it was published… I only knew it because I got a Like notification LOL
Very frustrating… WordPress is turning into the Facebook of blogging for (lack of) user experience…
At least now they have added a bit at the top that asks if you want to use the Classic mode. Although it still takes about 20 seconds to load up where you see the pathetic attempted imitation of an astromech droid.
Why do they keep messing with stuff… is it time for another revolution?
I think it might be. Viva la … oooh lunch
get back here…
Haha
oh yeah
Oooooh yeeeaahhhhhh …..
let’s not drag it out
o ye
of little face… HA!
haha
yup
No kidding eh? Try the new system at 3 a.m. — talk about a shock!
I can imagine
It WAS not a good thing – at all.
sigh
well everything seems weird then
Lol —- no, not really, unless you’re absolutely snoggered on beer and cracked squirrel nuts 😉
well… I usually am if I am up then.
It sucks when they mess with a good thing. ^_^
sherry @ fundinmental
It does.
I have always created my posts from dashboard. Not sure what went so wrong but doesn’t seem to be real serious. I thought that is why dashboard had the new post option.
I always went through the name at the top right which was the same as the Dashboard option, so it was quicker. At least the dashboard makes it normal so it’s not too bad.
Yes, I agree. It all became weird, difficult, it isn’t working well at all. It can be so frustrating that I don’t even fee like posting anything! Hope WordPress can fix them soon.
If you go through the Dashboard, it is the proper way of doing it thankfully.
I had the same experience this morning, Al, when posting my poem for today. When I hit publish, it wasn’t on my blog. So I then went to the dashboard and saw it there as a draft. Then I published it…very strange. I wonder if that’s how future new posts will be. I haven’t read other comments here so I might have missed some info. Anyway, just what we need, more tech trouble! 🙂
I am going to do a post on how to get it to be the normal way thanks to a couple of comments
Okay, sounds good! It was definitely weird! 🙂
I didn’t like it. I thought I had clicked the wrong thing so I closed it and opened it again, and said (aloud) “You have got to be kidding me!!”
I know, I had the same thoughts and I also couldn’t find where to change the font color, etc. It wasn’t as user friendly, so I hope it’s not the norm from here on out…
I couldn’t until Bjorn said about creating it through the Dashboard. It’s YAY normal in there
What’s funny is I usually go through the dashboard, so I don’t know how I ended up on the funny screen. 😛
I always did posted from the dashboard.
I didn’t I always went via my name in the top right of the page. It will have to be dashboard from now on though
They have well and truly muffed things up – nightmare
They have. Have you changed something as I had to authorise your comment.
Not to my knowledge
How weird. Change of name? Email address? Socks? 😉
underpants? lol
I was going to say that LOL
Mine is screwed up right now too
Go through the Dashboard to create the posts and you can do it normally
thanks for the tip!
You’re welcome 🙂 Takes about another ten seconds on top to create a post
I just finished a post doing it the old way. Loved it
And there’s an even quicker way of doing it now 🙂
Really?
Yep. On the top left where the name of your blog is, hover over that, and then just click NEW. Not “post”, “page”, “york”, or “year” (okay so those last two were just daft 😉 ) it will open the editor.
Thanks for the big tip!
🙂
Actually if you start in the “posts” area through your dashboard, you can start a post like normal.
Yeah, I found that after Don mentioned it. It’s annoying that the short way of doing it – the drop down from your name in the top right corner – is all wrong now.
Hope this works out for you.
With the way Don has suggested, it works like old times again
Hooray!
Yep indeed 🙂
A Pondering Mind is correct
Before you hit Publish put your Post in Save or what use to be Draft but it may have changed again to Preview
No matter what word WP is calling it today Save it
Go into your DashBoard and bring it up under Posts
Then add your pictures and finish it off the way YOU want it to be
Then Publish
And believe me it was not easy to figure that one out
Trial and Error
Also trying to reply to Comments I did finally finds those who Commented and ReBlogged in my Spam
But some were never found???
I found that with comments as well. It’s Akismet going a bit OTT with the security Sometimes if a comment has a letter of the alphabet in it, it is obviously spam.
Thanks very much for the confirmation, I appreciate it.
What you have to do is, save what you are doing in draft. Then go to dashboard, and you will find what you wanted to post. That is how I found a post I wanted to send.
It does suck, and remember the saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Thank you Don 🙂 I’m going to add that into the post
You’re welcome, Al…
🙂
Are your other photos safe?
I don’t know. They seem to be. I don’t know if they have reduced the quality substantially or removed a lot of things
Oh no!
There’s something wrong with everything these days. 😦
We deserve some kind of explanation from WordPress on what is going on.
I agree. It’s awful with what they have done to it. I have used WordPress for five years, and it has been the same all the time. Now … it’s horrible
I had a lengthy experiment with The Seeker and she agree that there are things not right at the moment. I hope WordPress correct them ASAP.
Blessings
belsbror
I hope so too. I want it back the way it was
I agree.