Recent WP Update

  • The recent update has affected the simplicity of Gutenberg. When starting a new draft, the first block defaults to “classic paragraph,” which is incredibly clunky. And the only way to access the non-classic paragraph block – a.k.a. the simple, streamlined block or even the image block – is to use the + above another block. It makes no sense, at all.

    For the past couple weeks I’ve worked on updating older posts to the Gutenberg format, because it makes editing so much easier. Now, I won’t bother because it takes so much more work. For example: In several posts where a quote follows an image, even after converting to blocks, the image and quote are bundled into that “classic paragraph.” This renders the image as part of the quote.

    Suggestion: Restore the lovely streamlined Gutenberg blocks as default, and allow those who feel they need the classic block to choose that from the built-in block settings (the three vertical dots). Please.

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  • You can write an issue for the editor here:
    https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/

    The latest for the editor can be found in the Gutenberg plugin. They removed all use of TinyMCE, except for Classic block. I’m not sure if that is in WP 5.2 though.
    I just tried a new post on 5.2 and it does start with a paragraph block, but it is a paragraph block, not a Classic block with a paragraph. It has always been that you could just start typing, but for everything else you have to use the Inserter. I guess I don’t understand what is different.

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