Monday was the day for tackling the new editor on WordPress.
First impressions were good, and I managed to create a standard paragraph post with an image. Said goodbye to all my misgivings and felt a little smug!
On Tuesday I tried to do it again, but it turned into a wrestling match. For some reason, it didn’t seem as easy today. I swear they have changed things overnight!
It always take me forever to muddle my way through anything new, so I know I will get there eventually but I would get on better if they stopped tweaking everything!
Today, everything seemed to fall into place as if by magic. I’m playing around with colour and found where to add the tags and categories!
Provided nothing changes too dramatically, I might hang on to my sanity after all!
Speaking of things changing, I logged into Buffer this morning to schedule a week’s promo posts, only to be met with this message…
WELCOME TO NEW BUFFER!!
The air in the office was blue for nearly an hour as I tried to discover exactly what they had changed. Turned out to be everything and I nearly threw in the towel!
First, my current password didn’t work, and I found out by the process of elimination, that they had reverted to a password from years ago. Not a good sign…
Feeling far more confident than I had a right to, I switched heads and made sense of it all, so that’s another notch on my belt this week.
If I could just figure out why Google have abandoned me, I would be well pleased! I like to upload some of my photos there, to be accessed by my tablet but for some reason, I can’t do that anymore despite trying everything I can think of…
When did life get this complicated?
I’m signing off now to work on this month’s newsletter with Mailchimp.
Now that WAS one huge learning curve!
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I haven’t even tried the new WordPress editor yet. I’m hanging onto the old one as long as possible!
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Everything changes on June 1st. We have to choose, but doesn’t sound helpful…
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Is it just for bloggers who pay, or for everybody
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Everybody, I think…
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Your first block post looks good! I didn’t find it too challenging. I wrote a test post that’s still in my Drafts folder. If I want to experiment with some feature I haven’t used before, I bring up that post and fiddle around. That way I don’t lose anything important if things go pear-shaped.
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I tried a test post, but must have done something wrong for it ended up a hopeless muddle. So glad I didn’t need it. So far, so good!
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The new editor is not as scary as many had feared, but I object on principle…why, when we choose the set-up that feels best to us, then pay to use it, should they have any right to alter the process so drastically…
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It reminds me of the difference between owning a house or just renting it, and none of it is fair or humane!
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Yes, there are a lot of similarities there…
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I think platforms change cause companies hire new programmers and they need to have something on their resume that they have done. I can hear the person in an interview now, “Look I introduced Gutenberg to Word Press and drove ten million folks crazy.”
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Some claim to fame!
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😁
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Congratulations. 🙂
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Swings and roundabouts, eh?
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