pressnine

Living with the redundant extra-click Preview dropdown, but still wondering why Preview so often doesn’t load? I just had to click Preview 3 times to get a load. That’s using Safari in Big Sur, latest Mac OS. This didn’t used to happen with any old Mac OS a year or so ago. Such an impediment to productivity.

I should add I am using smart quotes.

I’m using Safari 14.0.2, so the message that pops up is “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” with two buttons below reading “Stay on Page” and “Leave Page”. These buttons normally appear in Safari if you’ve not finished filling a form and try to leave a page, for example.

If I hit “Save Draft” in wpadmin, there’s no problem – the warning dialogue above doesn’t appear, the word “Saving” appears and when I close the post and reopen it, the saved version appears with the latest changes intact.

It seems I can only save manually. Auto-save doesn’t save anything. When I started using WP about two years ago everything seemed to work fine.

Now, as well as auto-save not working, Preview opens another tab but often hangs on “Generating preview” and never loads.

In addition, in my case the more complicated Preview dropdown creates more work, impedes productivity; likewise the author dropdown, recently redesigned.

I realise WP is free and appreciate its utility but I’m mystified by some recent “improvements” and wonder if anyone considered their practical implications.

I’ve got a few “not resolved” topics open in this forum, and while some kindly responded very quickly, responses seem to have dried up quickly. Maybe I’ve exhausted my allocation of help. But then, yes, it’s free, so can’t complain, I suppose, and fair enough.

I wonder if WP has developed a problem with Safari? Maybe Firefox or Chrome wouldn’t show the problems I describe above?

Thanks
Mark Gilbert

The option to scroll through author names is a slight redeeming feature of this mess-up, but bad luck if you click in the box to change author name (having entered incorrect name, say) and the name appear in a blue block. You have then to type the name (more keystrokes). It doesn’t always appear in a blue block, by the way, which suggests a bug.

Further to this, how to highlight and copy text across para blocks in WP (say for external editing to send to a write for approval/edit. If I left-click mouse and highlight text in one para and part of the following para I cannot copy it. The two paras simply acquire a blue outline in their entirety and are uncopiable (not that I want in this case to copy whole of two paras, only parts).

WP doesn’t seem to work so well as an editing tool for publishers as before, if you know what I mean. Unless all this can turned off. Don’t particularly want to go back to the old tech of classic edit but the new tech seems to not be particularly set up for word/text editors.

Thanks
MG

Many thanks for rapid reply. I understand that motive, but for those who only need rapid desktop preview it would be good to have the old option.

I don’t really understand the tablet and mobile options. If I click either and then ‘Preview in new tab’ I only get desktop preview of page in site – same as I do if I choose desktop. I don’t get, for example, a tablet or mobile size preview in my browser (Safari).

When I click tablet or mobile (without going on to select Preview in new tab, the text edit area reduces to imitate tablet or mobile proportions and that’s where I see clipped title. These smaller edit views seem pointless anyway, since they don’t represent the actual site.

Am I missing something here or seeing a fault, I wonder? Or could it relate to my theme, Newspaper?