As I suspect for you guys, having done a few posts you get a feel for how long it will take you to get it done. But I was in for a surprise with the newWordPress posting format. Added at least an hour!
Looks like you guys are getting up to speed, and I hope I am, too. But the biggest change is everythingis done in “Blocks”.
Probably like you do, I write my article’s draft as a Word document, and when I want to insert a photo, GIF, video, etc. I just put the title of it on the next line. And I learned that every new paragraph or “Enter” is like adding a “Block”.
So in a new “Block” I click the “+” sign off to the left, and then select from the options what kind of Block I want to add:
And where the graphic is to come from. (I should note I’ve not had good luck on directly uploading it from my hard drive, so I select “Media Library” and that process is like the old way.)
Then when I’m done with the draft, I just copy/paste it into WordPress. Easy-Peasy.
The first thing I learned with the new WordPress 5.0 (Gutenberg) edition is that it automatically puts each paragraph in a “Block”.
It took me forever to figure out how to enter graphics – and you know how I love to use graphics.
The good news is that it does provide an Option to use the old format, called “Classic Editor”. But it requires that a plugin (amazingly enough, called “Classic Editor”) be added.
And here is a Tutorial on how to install plugins:
I checked, and at this point it is not installed, so we’ll be using 5.0 (Gutenberg) unless TC installs it – or agrees to let one of us install it.
It actually had a steeper learning curve than I had anticipated – at leastfor me. And if you read the Comments about it, it does NOT appear to be a popular transition.
But I found two tutorials that are pretty good.
This one is pretty good:
This one is good and not too detailed:
This is also a pretty straightforward one:
The next one is a little funkier to follow – but has some solid info:
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Thanks, Nameless. I’ve just added an update to my last article a few days ago and encountered THE BLOCKS! Put me off publishing for a while, I can tell you. Thanks for the tutorials which I definitely will have to use when I’ve plucked up enough courage to publish an article again.
OMG, Nameless, thank you! I have been working in ASCII, and WP doesn’t make every new paragraph a new block with ASCII, so there’s that. I wondered if MS Word would work better for me in placing graphics where I wanted them, and the short answer is not only no but hell no. I suspect this is TC’s sneaky scheme to get us to post more just to figure out how to use the bloody thing.
If so, it didn’t work on Lona. it did on me temporarily, but this is a week I don’t have a lot of free time. So we’ll see.
I’m sure glad I use Windows Live Writer for all posts, bgut your wish is my command. I just installed the Classic Editor Plugin.
I haven’t even tried it yet, but THANK YOU!
Thanks.
I’m actually going to stick w/ 5.0 (Gutenberg) for a while – I like a challenge.
But I think the advantages it offers probably are for involved formatting with more bells and whistles. I have my doubts whether it will be an advantage in the long run, but I’ll give it a go for a bit.
Let me know if it works.