Thread by @jpluimers

OK, let me try to phrase what I just learned from fiddling around with polls in the WordPress Gutenberg block editor and wp-admin based classic editor.

In the distance past, the classic editor had polldaddy polls. Automattic (WordPress.com owner) bought Polldaddy.

Polldaddy got changed to Crowdsignal. The wp-admin blog-editor interface removed polls.

There is a /wp-admin/admin.php?page=polls&action=create-poll trick where you can still create classic style polls and a /wp-admin/admin.php?page=polls with an overview of polls.

That wp-admin overview by default only contains the new WordPress Gutenberg block editor polls, not the wp-admin poll you just created.

I have worked around this by logging in to Crowdsignal with my WordPress.com credentials.

There on app.crowdsignal.com/dashboard you can see both your wp-admin based polls (in folder "My Content") and Gutenberg based polls (in a folder with the same name as your blog).

From this dashboard, you *can* edit your wp-admin based polls (not from /wp-admin/admin.php?page=polls)

but from the dashboard you *cannot* edit your Gutenberg based polls. For that you need to follow the link to your post ID, which brings you to the view of Gutenberg based post (even if it is non-published) then from there click "Edit this entry." to go to

the Gutenberg block-editor where you have to find the poll-block and edit it the poll from there.

Sounds like a mess?

At least it gives some more context to understand the aversion many people have against the Gutenberg block-editor (apart from that it is very unfriendly for people that cannot use pointing devices and the hautain name).