Some of my wp-admin links, as WordPress.com is hiding access to classic-editor and wp-admin links more and more
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/18
For my link list as WordPress.com is actively hiding them:
- Posts:
- https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php or https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post (append
?classic-editoror&classic-editorto outgoing links in order to forego the Gutenbeg editor) - https://wordpress.com/posts/wiert.me
- https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php or https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post (append
- Categories:
- https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
- https://wordpress.com/settings/taxonomies/category/wiert.me (bug alert: this one does not allow
/slashes in categories: it hangs while saving those)
- Tags:
- Comments:
- Pages:
- Blogroll???
- Post:
Notes
You can see the old versus new infrastructure by comparing these branches:
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/tree/4.9-branch/wp-admin
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/tree/5.0-branch/wp-admin
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/tree/master/wp-admin
WordPress.com does not have the “Classic Editor” plugin, but just gradually discourages use of the old infrastructure which is far more feature rich, thereby screwing old users.
Some of these features from the old infrastructure that are gone (despite the pretentious name of the Gutenberg editor):
- Posts/Pages/Tags/Categories/Comments overviews are paginated, can be filtered and have bulk-actions
- Classic-Editor has lots of useful keyboard shortcuts and allows for nested quotes
For reference, WordPress – Wikipedia: Gutenberg versus classic-editor:
WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”[edit]
The December 2018 release of WordPress 5.0, “Bebo”, is named in homage to the pioneering Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdés.[90]
It included a new default editor “Gutenberg” – a block-based editor; it allows users to modify their displayed content in a much more user friendly way than prior iterations. Blocks are abstract units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a web page.[91] Past content that was created on WordPress pages is listed under what is referred to as a Classic Block.[92] Prior to Gutenberg, there were several block-based editors available as WordPress plugins, e.g. Elementor, and following the release of Gutenberg Elementor was compared to existing plugins.[93][94]
Classic Editor plugin[edit]
The Classic Editor Plugin was created as a result of User preferences and helped website developers maintain past plugins only compatible with WordPress 4.9.8, giving plugin developers time to get their plugins updated & compatible with the 5.0 release. Having the Classic Editor plugin installed restores the “classic” editing experience that WordPress has had up until the WordPress 5.0 release.[95] The Classic Editor Plugin will be supported at least until 2022.[96]
The Classic Editor plugin is active on over 5,000,000 installations of WordPress.[97]
–jeroen
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