Navigating WordPress.com Changes: Where did my dashboard go?!
It only took two and a half months since my last post for a major change to happen to our WordPress.com experience.
TPTB (AKA Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company) decided this month that it will make WordPress.com much closer to the core WordPress experience. They first switched several of our site dashboards to the WP Admin view. This caused the Classic Editor to temporarily disappear. They also turned off the VIEW tab on those same dashboards, which removed the ability to switch between the Default/Calypso view and Classic/WP Admin view.
Then, a few days later they finally announced it officially in this post:
You’ll want to read the entire thing, including comments. (Aside: I haven’t seen that many comments on a WordPress.com News blog post in years. And if you want to leave feedback about the change, there’s currently an open sticky post in our Community forums – now closed.)
Now it’s the Classic/WPAdmin view all the time in those dashboards and there are at least two known issues:
- Lost: the ability to edit comments without using HTML.
- Lost: the ability to schedule reshare a post to social media (available on Premium and up).
Being a longtime site owner here can sometimes makes me feel like I’m on a roller coaster, especially since this particular site focuses on changes to WordPress.com itself. And there have been a lot of changes, even since 2021. What we really need is stability so we can write and not wrestle with our workflow all the time.
Your thoughts?
As always, the information in this post is correct as of publication date. Changes are inevitable.
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