I’m starting to write some pretty extensive how-to articles. And I’ve got some questions/considerations…
I’m basically “winging it” and as I do a certain procedure myself, I’m writing about it, taking screenshots, coming up with awesome content, it’s all good. Except…
Whether I’m using the WordPress app for Android, or hitting up the online editor in a web browser (tried Opera, Firefox, and Silk (I’m on an Amazon tablet).
The trouble is, as document length increases, things got SLOW. I mean SLOOOOOOOWWWWW. As in, I can count the seconds between letters as I type words on my external keyboard. It’s so slow, I cannot work this way. I can think of only two solutions, and would love comments/observations either way…
1) Use an external editor. As an ex programmer, I’d be quote comfortable writing things up in raw HTML and posting that, if I had to. But that makes working with WordPress BLOCKS, specifically slideshows and galleries, more awkward than it needs to be.
2) Split things up into smaller documents and connect them. What’s laborious about this is, how do I deal with navigation structure? The immediatly obvious one would be use PAGES not POSTS, nested carefully in an outline. The problem is, how do I automate the linking of those pages? I’m on [WordPress.com](http://WordPress.com) free version, so extra plug-ins aren’t an option. I want to have blocks in the widgets to automate links to sibling and child pages, and the obvious block choices I’m seeing just aren’t flexible enough. Are there any good in-depth tutorials out there on using less well known and more challenging to configure block types, like POSTS or QUERIES? I notice that rather intuitively, POSTS can be set to display PAGES only, and then there are a bunch of criteria one can set to filter the output. This MAY be the final solution, but I’d like to avoid having to do A LOT of experimentation to get this to work properly. But heck, if I end up doing that, it just may become one of my how-to articles.
Thoughts?
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try using the html mode
This issue shouldn’t happen when you use the blog editor in Chrome. Make sure to check the activity manager / task manager of your computer when it gets slow so you can check what’s taking up so much resources.
Are you using browser extensions (like translation plugins and grammar checking plugins). You can use the incognito mode of your browser to rule out that the extensions are causing issues (since extensions are disabled in incognito mode)
As a temporary solution, try to break your tutorials to posts placing into categories with the name of the tut.
It can be a variety of things, but it generally stems from the way WP’s block editor works (and temporarily stores stuff as you’re continuing to add more blocks). There are auto-drafts and other things that may be getting synced in the background and draining your resources. WP’s block editor is notoriously slow, and you can dig up other reddit posts on this subject.
Every single paragraph, image, header, etc uses a WP block. And some blocks (ie: image-related blocks) consume more resources than others, while in editor mode.
Since the block editor continues to use more resources (ie: memory), the more blocks your adding, it will slow you down while you’re keeping the page open. This is typically evident for people that use cheapy/basic hosting with stuff. But it’s nothing too terrible… until you start using other stuff like Jetpack, or have other plugins active, or are just using a bloated theme altogether.
My biggest advice is to type out your articles locally on your computer. Then it’s just a matter of copying and pasting. It’s hard to really say anything else, because we don’t know exactly what you’re using or doing in WP.