{"id":65,"date":"2021-12-22T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/?p=65"},"modified":"2021-12-22T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:36:56","slug":"cmd-a-del","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/cmd-a-del\/","title":{"rendered":"CMD + A + Del"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">shot in the dark: anyone know of any plugins that will make the WordPress blocks interface not suck as much? or a dev who wants to make one? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; tracy apps \ud83c\udf08 (@tapps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tapps\/status\/1473474467217252353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracy&#8217;s tweet reminded me of an experience I had recently&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mostly manage to avoid the block editor, but sometimes in debugging something, or on a customer site, I end up using it&#8230; and it&#8217;s interesting to see how it&#8217;s evolving (and how it&#8217;s not).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case I was doing something I do all the time\u2014 <strong>cloning an existing post in the same taxonomy term and deleting the post content to write a new documentation entry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Why do that? For me it&#8217;s easier than re-writing the SEO details and filling out the various ACF fields we have attached to our docs entries, when there are only a few points that change with a new post).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized this simple thing still isn&#8217;t possible with the block editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at how we do this in Classic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Edit Post - Classic\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/659388854?h=5449f3105e&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cmd + A, delete<\/em>. Select all and delete to start fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It takes ~1.5 seconds to begin writing again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We build our landing pages and non-content pages with Elementor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often doing the same thing\u2014 we copy an existing landing page and tweak some of the elements to make a new landing page. It&#8217;s easier than starting fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty easy here as well. Elementor supports a right-click contextual menu, as well as Cmd + click to select multiple elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Edit Post - Elementor\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/659390361?h=976e2f64a5&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It takes ~6 seconds to begin writing again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s try to do this in the block editor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Edit Post - Gutenberg\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/659392088?h=96f07bd79c&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It takes ~35 seconds to remove 5 text blocks from the page<\/strong> \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No right click. No multi-select. Hovering doesn&#8217;t give any context as to what you&#8217;re about to do. It&#8217;s amazing how frustrating this can be, 3+ years into this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I missing something? Is there a plugin or admin setting that can make this more intuitive? Let me know \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; END: My two cents \ud83e\ude99<meta charset=\"utf-8\">\ud83e\ude99 &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy holidays y&#8217;all \ud83c\udf78<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy&#8217;s tweet reminded me of an experience I had recently&#8230; I mostly manage to avoid the block editor, but sometimes in debugging something, or on a customer site, I end up using it&#8230; and it&#8217;s interesting to see how it&#8217;s evolving (and how it&#8217;s not). In this case I was doing something I do all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drunk.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}