Senseless Sunday Sarcasm : Color blind
It has been days since the latest insignificant 1st world problem entered my life.
You’d think a sinkhole had eaten half my home.
What, you might ask, is so catastrophic that I would write about it at 3 in the morning?
This particular irritation is the same one that doesn’t allow me to use strike-through, either.
My WordPress editor has inexplicable become color blind.
I’ve tried writing the post on a word processor and copying it to the editor, but all the lovely colors disappear.
Try to see it from my perspective:

This is how I saw the world until age 12 or 13.
The very first thing I’ll see is a “red dress” or a “grey suit,” not the person. Sidewalks are white(ish) and that’s what you walk on, not the green grass or gray road.
All of this is a throwback to a time when I memorized OFLC3 on the eye chart so that I could pass that weird test I had to take at school each year in the nurses office.
Yes, there are a whole lot of issues more important, but…
… think of it this way: The next time you go to dinner, pay $99 and the wait person fails to bring the dessert you ordered, are you going to shrug your shoulders and say, “Oh, well.”
Joelle, you’re probably in the new Classic Block Editor format, which has no way to select colours) – to get back to the trusted old Classic Editor, try this:
Click on the W My Sites logo, top left of your page.
Below it you’ll see < switch sites – click on this.
Click on your rantingalong site (yes, I know, it’s boring, yawn)
That brings you to an Admin Overview that has WP Admin at the bottom left of the menu list.
Click on that.
Now you are in the old WP Admin format.
Click on the three bars, top left of screen to get to your Dashboard, with everything in the old classic admin format.
Click on Posts – All Posts, then save the browser address onto your favourites, or Bookmarks (I’ve saved to both)
This new link should get you back to the old format in future (and help your sanity and boredom levels in future when trying to get back to the old Classic Editor)
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Excellent instructions. I followed them and now I have another way to get to my old editor if the email I’ve relied on for so many years disappears .
Several years ago, a helpful lady named Kristen at WP sent me the quick links to stats, posts and new posts.
As always, your assistance have been very, very helpful. You have helped me prove that the problem is with WordPress and not my computer.
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Glad it worked for you, Joelle 👍🤗❤️🤗
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You’re my knight in shining (hairy) armor — always coming the the rescue when needed. 🙂
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I don’t like the new version WP has. I am going back to classic. That is, when my ISP is stable enough to actually do something lol. Been having issues all week! I hope you can use the old version and solve the problem.
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Most of us, the ones who learned how to type on a manual typewriter, have problems navigating through computer stuff.
Chris the Story Reading Ape provided excellent instructions (in the replies to this post) about how to get to the old version of WP.
Follow his instructions, and you can’t go wrong.
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With the way 2020 is going, I half expect a sinkhole to open up at some point. A couple of weeks ago we had a 5.5 earthquake, which was the largest earthquake in over a hundred years for NC.
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I read about it, and I was not surprised. We’ll probably have a new saying soon, “Typical 2020.”
I used to live in NC, around the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle. Absolutely beautiful part of the country. 🙂
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