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By Jamie O'Reilly on Tuesday, 15 March 2016
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Hi. I wondered if you could help me. Since my upgrade to the latest version of Easy blog from a 3.9 installation I've been getting to grips with the changes. One of the things that is puzzling me is why some of my blog posts now appear to have the JCE Editor available as the composer and yet other posts do not. In addition the ones with the JCE Editor do not have the 'Blocks' tab in the sidebar composer thing whereas the ones that work with Easy Blog's own composer does have the 'Blocks' tab but instead has 'fields'.

I have the composer set to 'Built in Easy Blog composer'.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Jamie
Hey Jamie,

It's actually the default behavior of EasyBlog 5. When a post was initially created using a WYSIWYG editor, it will use the WYSIWYG editor for future editing.

The reason is because when editing with the new composer, it actually contains tons of rich meta data that will be incompatible with WYSIWYG editors. There is no way to add cross compatibility between the new composer and WYSIWYG editor

There is an alternative where we could use a standard tag like [link] or [youtube] or [linkedin] but this would defeat the purpose of the new composer editor.
Mark
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Wednesday, 16 March 2016 00:43
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HI Mark

Thanks for this. Actually it's helpful to know a bit about the rationale for these changes as my main customer has been quite unhappy about the customer experience with the new Easy Blog. I'm hoping it's just a case of their getting used to the changes and that once they do, they'll find it just as straight forward to use as before. Was it this inclusion of the meta data which was a key driver for the changes with the new composer and blocks system or was it to try and make adding elements a more consistent exercise? Any explanation/background is helpful to know.

Thanks

Jamie
Jamie O'Reilly
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Wednesday, 16 March 2016 01:04
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Hello Jamie,

The changes of our Editor is due to our intention of bringing a new way of writing a blog post. Where as you can see, there's a new block system which users can just drag and drop to add the content. I can say it is more user-friendly compared to other Editors. However, you can always choose to use the external Editor such as TinyMCE, JCE Editor if you feel your user having a hard time to use this Composer.

Hope this helps.
Nik Faris
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Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:39
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