If you thought the Block Editor was enough to worry about, think again.
Looks like they have a new version about to be foisted upon us that makes Mr Blocky look easy.
Read this post from Ron, in Alabama.
Dear WordPress. Please stop mucking around with a great product!
beetleypete 
Just got an email with from WP about that Full Site Editing, and it has “Why we’re excited (and you should be too!)” as the headline. I certainly think we ARE excited about it, but maybe not exactly the way WP thinks! 😀
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Dead right, Pit. I haven’t had an email yet, and I don’t want one! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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So far, if I understand that email correctly, it can only be used for NEW blogs, and with a few themes only.
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I have a knot in my stomach… If classic goes away, I might, too.
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I can just about manage the original Block Editor if they leave that as an option.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sigh!
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Is that what they – in a recent email I got – call “full site editing”? I haven’t seen any changes yet in the eidting of may blogs and will have to see what will come.
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Yes, Pit. Ful Site Editing is the ‘selling point’.
However, it doesn’t work with every current theme.
Best wishes, Pete.
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From what I read it is still a beta edition and can only be download for a new blog, but not (yet) used for existing blocks.
So, for the time being I can be relaxed and leave my fire-spitting to later. 😀 [gallows humour] 😀
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New horrors? Not really with me, since i am selfhosted. 😉 Or i will automate all. Lol xx Michael
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Good luck with that, if WP keeps on playing games.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks, Pete! Lol – I will try. Eventually all is a trial in the virtual world, of bits and bytes. xx Michael
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Reblogged this on NEW BLOG HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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It was only thanks to the kindness of a fellow blogger who told me that I mis-published that I realized the error of my publishing ways. I’m not quite sure I’m ready for more complexity…
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I have never been ready for more complexity in anything. I was still paying bills by cheque until last November.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I saw that something was in the works but hadn’t seen it rolled out yet. Sigh. Hopefully we’ll all be able to continue blogging! 😉
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I’m hanging onto the Classic Editor like grim death! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh no, I’d just got used to the new one!
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And I am still using Classic!
Best wishes, Pete.
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I blog exclusively on my iPhone using the WordPress iOS app. So far, whatever horrors they introduced in 5.9 haven’t yet manifested themselves on the iOS app. Not yet, anyway.
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Thanks for adding that information, Fandango
Best wishes, Pete.
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I worked at a university in my previous life. The IT people were constantly breaking things that didn’t need to be fixed in the first place. This meant every time the end-user learned the program they changed everything and had to learn it all over again. We all were out for COVID and came back to more changes. One of the reasons I decided to retire. I figured it was a way for them to keep their jobs.
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I lived by the old adage, ‘if it ain’ broke, don’t fix it’. I don’t think anyone born after 1980 knows what that means, Molly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m thinking of studying for an MA in coding so I can continue with my blogging hobby using Mr Blocky! Thanks for ruining my day Pete.
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Well my day was ruined by Ron’s post, so why not pass on the gloom! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ll reserve judgement until it comes and I try it out.
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I looked at Twan’s link, and think you will be okay with it. Fancier version of Blocky, and some tweaks you might enjoy. Just looks like gobbledegook to me of course! 🙂
By coincidence, I got an email today from WP, offering to sell me an online course to work out how to use it!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes I had a look, but it’s all gobblledegook to me too, I need to play with it to get it sorted.
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You are good at that stuff though. 🙂
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So long as it isn’t too complicated!
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I have complete confidence in you!
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Suddenly I have to log in every time I want to comment on one of your posts Pete, even though I am already logged in…happens for more than half of the blogs I follow….one of th many new “bugs” that has shown up…
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I have no doubt it is because WP is ‘fiddling around’ behind the scenes with this new ‘nightmare’, John. It won’t be long before we have to pay for the training courses they sell, just to be able to carry on blogging.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m right there with you Pete. I hate the block monster, but don’t know where else to go, so I trudge on.
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Thanks, Phil. This new version seems more complex. But then most things seem more complex to me these days.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep Pete, I never considered myself pc literate, just enough to get myself in trouble. I once deleted my blog by mistake but WordPress got it back online. At my age, confusion is part of my day so anything that WP does messes with my head.
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Doesn’t look good. I’ll carry on as I am doing for as long as I can: I think I’m using the ‘Classic’ block in the block editor, which just means I have to select it for every paragraph, and then format it in the html editor so it left & right justifies, the way I like it. A bit of a faff, but easy enough, so I hope WP doesn’t change that! Cheers, Jon.
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I always worry that they will just change everything overnight. Let’s hope they hold off for a while yet, Jon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m still using Classic Editor. On the other hand, I haven’t posted since bristlecone pines were just sprouts.
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I’m still using Classic too, David.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Don’t know what that is?
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First I have heard of it, Pejj.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Could it be that WP is actually a malevolent Big Brother? Warmest regards, Theo
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Diverting resources to business customers is my suspicion, Theo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh moan…
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I moaned too.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I knew they were mucking around with something in the back – things were quirky again.
Thanks for the heads up
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As soon as anything slows up the blog, you can bet they are fiddling around.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The embed wasn’t working for me either, so I looked up some more information on the new version. I kind of wish I hadn’t… What a confusing, hot mess the new ‘experience’ is.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-coming-in-wordpress-5-9-features-and-screenshots/
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Thanks for your link, Twan. Here is a different link to Ron’s site.
https://ronscountry.com/depotblog/
Best wishes, Pete.
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The link is not working for me, Pete.
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Try this main link, Maggie.
https://ronscountry.com/depotblog/
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks, Pete. That worked. I read and left a comment.
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No!’
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I said something similar, Bridgette.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Change for change’s sake yet again!!!!!!!!
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Looks like they are continuing to pander to the business customers, Jack.
Best wishes, Pete.
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