Problems with "Wordpress" Website Software

[Ross365]

What seems like a very long time ago, I asked a website designer to setup a site for me which I could easily change/update myself. He did this using Wordpress, and for years and years, everything was wonderful. But one day I logged on to make some changes to the site and Wordpress had changed; the old “Classic” editor was gone and a new “Block” editor is there.

So I plod my way through it and create a simple page, which appears on the site, but when I search for it via Google, Goggle appears to find it , but when I click on it, it takes me to my site but only to a page which says “Page not Found”.
The new page is at the bottom of a “nest of pages”, but there is another page at the same level which is almost identical, and Google finds that with no problem (but that page was created using the Classic editor). I've tried all sorts of changes but I'm getting nowhere.

Any ideas please?

 

[Newlands]

You can change back to using the classic editor. But I have to say that exactly the same thing happened to me - it took me ages to find the way to change back, and every now and then I still can’t seem to add images like I used to. The old Wordpress worked a treat and the new one is just rubbish. I still have no clue what a block is and it was changed over a year ago.

 

[prepman]

You can change back to using the classic editor. But I have to say that exactly the same thing happened to me - it took me ages to find the way to change back, and every now and then I still can’t seem to add images like I used to. The old Wordpress worked a treat and the new one is just rubbish. I still have no clue what a block is and it was changed over a year ago.

As I never got round to setting mine up ....https://3dplinth.com ...this is worrying indeed.
My main concern is security. I need to feel that it's not going to be hacked and wrecked via all the porting to external apps.
Also my free 3 yrs with Bluehost expires in 12 months and never used.

 

[Ross365]

I've tried creating some new more pages; Bing and Google seem to find them, but I just get the Page Not found response when I click on them.
Maybe I will look in to going back on to the Classic editor.

While Wordpress was a popular and effective website app many years ago, finding anyone with a good thing to say about it now seems difficult.
That said, I'm not sure if there is much enthusiasm for the alternatives.

I wonder what goes on behind the scenes when perfectly good apps are "updated" to become so much harder to use. Of course the master of this art is Microsoft.