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Thank you SO MUCH! I will follow your advice. People who use WordPress are just the best people, IMO.

I really appreciate your taking the time to help me!

Thanks so much for your review of the code. Obviously, this is not a huge problem, but is there a fix I can apply by changing something in the Code Editor? I’m not familiar with the term boundary.

Thanks again!

OK, so I’ve now done as suggested and made a fresh page that I’ve got up on this site’s news page.

https://tommyfussteam.org/news-december-2018/

I had to use Code Editor to copy and paste and trim all the text, but this a step forward.

I’m sure I must’ve missed it, but was the information about the new Gutenberg editor not being backwardly compatible with previously created pages shouted from the roof tops and echoed in the canyons, whispered in the back alleys and spread like jam across the body politic?

Knowing this earlier on would’ve been very… helpful. And again, thanks Samuel Wood.

As for converting all the old pages into blocks, well I’m not so sure I want to do that with 90 or so pages. I’ll just stick to the few that have to be updated. (As you can tell, I’m not brave).

Samuel Wood: you are a gentleman and a WP scholar. Thank you! So let me see if I’m getting this correct.

The behavior I see on a previously created page is not a bug, it’s a feature. To access the new block style behavior, I have to create a new page and start fresh. Is that it?

Samuel, thank you for you response, but I’m beginning to believe that WordPress is seriously broken. I just upgraded to WP 5.0 and still cannot type, copy or paste into anything using the Visual Editor. It simply does not work. At all. Unless this is fixed and soon, I think WordPress as a CMS is in dire straights. Here’s what’s on my screen below:

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From my perspective, WP has now enshrined a non-working feature in WP 5.0. How can I move forward with this or reassure clients that WP is a platform they should stick with?

If I have to use the Code Editor exclusively there are othe, better ways to work with code directly.

Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately, after deleting those three lines my situation remains the same.

When I first go from the web page proper to “Edit Page” the same graphic from down in the page comes up briefly with nothing else on the page. Then a second later the full page displays. But I cannot do anything in the Visual Editor mode. I cannot copy and place text or make any modifications.

I need to go into the Code Editor function, paste the new text and format everything with HTML tags.

Here’s the page in code view:

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Let me repeat that this is really the first serious issue I’ve had with WP in all the years I’ve used it. I always tell people: if you can do email, you can do WordPress.

Also glad to hear that you take time away from your screens. Last week I mentioned to someone that I turned my smartphone off and left it off for days at a time and they were horrified!

Partial content, odd behaviors… sounds good to me!

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So sorry to hear that you’ve been completely blocked from updating your site.

I am a huge fan and supporter of WP and have been using it for over a decade. Up until this Gutenberg issue, I’ve never had any major problems with this CMS. Since other CMS’s have already cracked this nut successfully–see Squarespace for the most prominent example–I don’t understand why WP is having such huge and continuing problem with this ‘block editing’ iteration.

Believe me, I’m not here to trash WP. I’d just like to see this fixed and move on…

Actually, no. The issue I’m experiencing is with the Visual Editor, not the Code Editor.

OK, here’s the latest from me. Again, my deep appreciation of everyone’s time.

Now when I access the Edit Page function, the previous page I described initially loads, with the classic editor box and a single graphic. In a second or so, this disappears and the normal Visual Editor page layout appears.

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OK, that’s better, right?

Only I still cannot type or copy and paste into the block on this page. To make any changes at all, I need to use the Code Editor, as previously reported.

Thank you so much for your response. On a holiday weekend, too!

My experience with Gutenberg has been pretty dreadful right from the start.

I’ve been using WordPress since 2005 and never have I seen such a frightening cascade of problems with any other aspect of WP, core program or plug-in. Disappointing and depressing. Not ready for prime time, for sure.

To clarify, Gutenberg’s visual editor shows no empty blocks of text at all: a single graphic shows up (part of the post for October 2), a header for the Classic Editor and nothing else.

However, switching to the Code Editor all the text and images are in their proper place. And, as you can see if you visited the page, it does display correctly. Working with the code directly isn’t a problem for me, but if I was going to go that route I wouldn’t use WP to do it.

Please don’t take this wrong way but I’m not sure I’m the right person to trouble-shoot JavaScript errors in WP. Unfortunately, I’m not a coder or a developer, just a user.

It completely undercuts the value of using the Gutenberg plug-in if I need to use the Code Editor exclusively.

Thank you again for your time!

OK, great. Thanks for this info. I will try that on my next News page update. Really appreciate your fast response.

Thank you for prompt response. I was using the Classic Editor block function in Gutenburg, where the classic editor options appear on top of the text block.

Thanks for directing me to the correct forum. Appreciated!

I don’t know if this will help resolve your problem but. . .

I was having the same log-in issue after upgrading from 2.5 to 2.7. On an external WP forum I came across the suggestion to try deleting the wordpress.com cookies from my browser, empty the browser cache, quit and restart it.

When I did this the log-in functioned correctly and the rest of the 2.7 install was fine.

Just wanted to offer another possible fix. Hope it helps someone.