New Blogger post editor - birthday gift?

Blogger has launched a new post editor (as a 10^th birthday gift?) which they say is an improvement over the old pre-birthday post editor. You can switch to the new post editor by signing into Dashboard and go to SETTINGS > BASIC. At the bottom in Global Settings (this means your choice is not limited to a single blog but to all the blogs in your Blogger account), you will find the choice to select either the ( ) old editor or the ( ) Updated editor. You can read about the updated editor at An overview of the new post editor.

Blogger claims improved image handling with the new post editor. Now when you upload a photo, it will be placed at the insertion point (cursor) rather than always at the very top of the post editor and dragging it (in the COMPOSE mode will not kill the link to the enlarged photo as with the old editor. However, this "improvement" comes with a price. The photo upload icon is missing from the toolbar in the updated post editor in Edit HTML mode. Looks like Blogger have dropped the video upload icon for that is missing in both Edit HTML mode as well as the Compose mode

Compare the toolbars of the old and new editors below:

Toolbar in EDIT HTML mode with old post editor

Toolbar in EDIT HTML mode with new post editor

Toolbar in COMPOSE mode with old post editor

Toolbar in COMPOSE mode with new post editor

I have tested the photo upload with the new editor and I don't like it. Fortunately one can easily toggle between the old post editor and the updated post editor. Go to Dashboard, SETTINGS > BASIC and at the bottom, you will find the Global Settings (meaning whatever changes you do here will apply to all the blogs in the same Blogger account). There you can select the old editor again. May try the new post editor again sometime in the future. I understand Blogger may do some tweaking after negative feedbacks. See screen shot below:



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Images and the Blogger updated post editor
Blogger updated post editor: Removing image border

Missing tool icons shorter toolbars - what to do

Update: This post was written for the old post editor and not for the updated post editor. You can toggle between the updated post editor and the old post editor by going to SETTINGS > BASIC and at the bottom (Global Settings), tick your preferred post editor. The new post editor especially in the edit HTML mode has very few icons. There are no filmstrip icon (video upload) in the new post editor

It has happened a few times in the past that bloggers complained that suddenly those icons in the Blogger post editor for specifying the color, font type and size have disappeared. Now if previously the toolbar in the post editor had looked like this (see screen shot):



but has changed to this (see screen shot):



then the problem is easily solved. What has happened was that previously the post editor was in the compose WYSIWYG mode which has a longer toolbar with more tool icons but somehow the blogger probably got changed into the edit HTML mode which has a shorter toolbar with less icons. All you need to do is to change back to the Compose mode if those extra tool icons are important to you.

However, my advice to you if compose WYSIWYG mode is what you prefer is to switch over to the edit HTML mode as you can do more and have better control over your blog.

Related posts:
Missing toolbar, distorted unusable post editor
What to do when you don't see EDIT HTML/COMPOSE tabs
Cannot see toolbar in post editor - what to do

Missing toolbar unusable post editor Singtel

Many bloggers have been reporting an unusable post editor with missing tool bars, etc. If you are having this problem and your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is Singtel or Singnet (Singapore), you may be able to solve the problem by using the regional Singnet proxy "proxy.singnet.com.sg". Please refer to Distorted / Unusable Post Editor Toolbar for instructions.

Related post: Missing tool icons, EDIT HTML and COMPOSE tabs