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Does Beep Beep Boop drive you dilly? Did you always go back to the older version until the option to do so on the page below disappeared?
I’m not sure how it works on later themes, but for my preferred old one here is a quick method for getting back to the other far more flexible version:
On the ‘My Sites’ dropdown, you don’t go to Blog Posts but to Sharing.
A new dropdown appears, and with this one the ‘Posts’ and ‘Add New’ get you into the old version, with the usual plaintive urge to use the ‘new posting experience’ – no, thank you. The old one gives far better response and ease in operation for changing fonts and colours, adding links, and manipulating elements generally.
Dead easy – when you know how. You have no idea how long it took me to find it out, though!
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I also don’t like this “beep beep ” version. When you go via the admin tab and then to the posts you also come to the old version.
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That’s even better – nearer the top! Thanks!
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Oh. Sorry for the repeat comment – please feel free to delete the extra one 🙂
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I reblogged this on Far Out in Africa and had this to say about it (my first reblog ever. I hope I did it right):
“I don’t know about anyone else, but I really Really don’t like the “improved posting experience” we are now being forced to use when writing a new post.
Heaven knows why it’s been changed – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Colonialist found a way to beat the system and he has kindly told us how he did it. It works for me and I am very grateful to him.”
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Thanks for the reblog – tgeriatrix has pointed out that it also works on the WP Admin tab which is nearer the top!
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Thanks, I’ll check that out too 🙂
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Reblogged this on Far Out in Africa and commented:
I don’t know about anyone else, but I really Really don’t like the “improved posting experience” we are now being forced to use when writing a new post.
Heaven knows why it’s been changed – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Colonialist found a way to beat the system and he has kindly told us how he did it. It works for me and I am very grateful to him.
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That beep beep bop drives me insane! Luckily I usually use my phone for blogging so I don’t have to deal with it
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That beep beep boop thing drives me crazy! THANK YOU for posting this – I have bookmarked the page for future reference 🙂 And once I have finished the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge I am going to reblog this – it is very useful to know.
Strangely, if I am on my laptop at home, creating a new post always takes me to the older (easier) version but my office computer does not.
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Maybe it has to do with newer versions of Windows 7 upwards? Better not upgrade your laptop platform!
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Perhaps it is something to do with the platform. I use Ubuntu on my laptop.
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I am forced to open a new post in the beep mode, so I write a title, press save draft then immediately access it via the drop down as you’ve listed.
Of, course once you are out of the Old mode and continue to press ‘Edit’ it will automatically take you back to ‘beep’.
But it gets sorted in the end!
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You, Sir, are a genius! Using your method, one can edit in the old mode as well. Just save it in ‘beep’ as ‘draft’, and then access the draft as before and – voila – back waiting to be edited in pre-beep!
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Well, I discovered this by chance as well after going a bit spare myself.
Glad it helped.
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I’ll save this post until I can figure out what I get on my screen when blogging. Thanks, Col.
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If you are stuck with Beep and yearn to chuck it, the links should be similar regardless.
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Somebody told me – I think it was Misky – ages ago and I’d only used the new version once or twice, which was more than enough for me. I wish WordPress would appreciate that most bloggers are a little bit more sophisticated than dippy teenagers…
I gathered a load of complaints from other bloggers to add to my own, and gave a list to Celie Gunther of http://thekitchensgarden.wordpress.com/ (my favorite blogger) to take when she went to speak at the WordPress conference in Portland, Oregon. She passed it on to what WP quaintly call the “happiness engineers”.. Watch this space.
love,
ViV
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Wish I had been told – it would have saved me a lot of frustrated fuming! Now to see whether any happiness can be engineered …
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sorreee
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Very cool
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Thanks!
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