I’ve been designing my website for many weeks now and quite frankly I am exhausted from the amount of bugs I keep encountering. I have been trying to add the Wix Forum app and I gave up and decided not to add it to my website even though it’d be a great addition…. then I went to remove the item from the menu and the item wouldn’t get removed, so I had to delete the menu and make a new one, then I went to all my pages and found out that the menu on every single one was messed up and the “Manage Menu” button wasn’t working so I couldn’t just select the new menu. I had to manually delete then copy/paste the menu again on each page.
Then as I was changing the menu on each page, I went to my Product page and noticed that the Product display got messed up and the justification of the text got stuck right next to the image (?) I don’t even know how that could happen out of nowhere because I’ve literally had it on for weeks and it was fine.
The login bar doesn’t work.
The social bar can only be set to horizontal.
The Member Menu keeps getting messed up.
Wix Support takes about a week to get to every single issue that I have and all they do is look at the issue and tell me that it’s fine. I set my social bar to horizontal after I got tired of trying to fix it at vertical and literally all they responded with was “Your bar is set to horizontal; you need to set it to vertical for it to be vertical.” They could’ve tried setting it vertical and seen for themselves at least, but no.
I have a backlog of issues that I’m still waiting on responses for, and quite frankly I’m not sure I’m going to actually get a real answer on anything.
I am incredibly disappointed with Editor X. Like I said, I’ve been working on my website for a long time, and it feels like it’s probably going to go to waste because I’m thinking of looking elsewhere after years of being on Wix. It’s 2020 and the best they have to offer is a buggy beta release of a responsive design editor with bad customer service.
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It seems right now that anything you do could make the whole site fall to pieces. Something has certainly changed in the last handful of months because the amount of issues (as noticed above) seems to increase daily…
A few more to add to the list:
There’s now a weird glitch where containers suddenly have some strange version of the contents imprinted on them underneath like a picture (there is no object there it is just the empty background of the container but it displays whatever you previously had in the container as a ghostly unclickable image) and all of a sudden anything you try to do like delete the container or former contents won’t work and there is no object menu when you click on the container or the contents that was previously inside it, they are now unclickable and unremovable in the editor or in the layers area.
If you add code to any page there is a high likelihood that all database links across the site will revert to linking to the homepage, but this doesn’t seem to be happening 100% of the time. It seems the issue is connected to adding code for sure.
Sometimes just changing something in the database or editing a page connected to data without any code at all will suddenly have the same effect with all non-menu links on the live site changing to point home, but this seems to resolve itself with enough refreshes or by itself after a minute or so it seems.
Half the time links on a live site will open a blank page that needs refreshing to actually load. This is probably due to cache stuff, I know, we all know by now that seems to be a huge ongoing problem but unfortunately site visitors probably aren’t going to waste their time refreshing every page of a website to see if by chance it might work, so that’s not helpful at all (I know this is just a general problem and not specific to Editor X like the other issues but it’s worth mentioning).
Again there’s a whole backlog of one off glitches and oddities which you’d expect of course, but these lingering entire site-altering bugs are making it impossible to progress at all, you literally have to save and check after every slight change in case it has somehow broken the whole site structure and you might have to go back in the site history at any moment. This is certainly new though, things were much more stable before and there were hardly any major destructive issues that I had noticed in the past.
“ It seems right now that anything you do could make the whole site fall to pieces.”
Yes, this is exactly what it feels like. I keep finding alternative solutions and compromises and yet keep encountering more and more issues. I’ve come to the point where I’m basically dealing with the bare necessities, and if they’re not fixed, I’m going to have to ditch the whole website. No customer would want to deal with an unstable login bar and menu—nor do I want anyone to deal with such issues on my website.
Well that’s it, today it has completely broken. I tried to add the same code as always that has always worked on the Classic editor and had always worked in the early days of Editor X and as I mentioned previously doing that now in “Editor X: Completely Broken Edition” causes all database links across the entire site to stop working and link to the homepage. No problem right? Just go back in site history to before I inserted the code and it’ll be fixed like usual? Nope. It’s just completely broken full stop now, no going back. Great. That’s weeks of time and effort now wasted. Every single day this gets more broken and frustrating and with no explanation why things are getting worse and not slowly being looked into and fixed?
I just came across editorx and at first glimpses thought it was an excellent move by wix. However reading these comments makes me want to put it on hold. Although, what’s more concerning is the premium prices stated and yet its buggy and in beta. Wix, if you’re going to launch something new then at least provide it completely free or at a very low cost until it’s at launch stage. I’m debating on doing my own website on wordpress just due to the high editorx costs.
Ditto. Me, too.
Also, if you’re going to launch something new… at least be sure the basics are sound and do extensive testing beforehand. Don’t be impetuous with advertisement that is beyond the actual capabilities.
Hello, I fully agree with you in your remarks! Besides, I absolutely do not understand this price difference between the premium plans of “classic” wix and editor x … It’s nothing to understand. I discuss it very vaguely on this post:
I hope that wix will react and take into account our different opinions.
I’ve just tried it out, for a very simple website for a new client. Go it looking nice but couldn’t for the life of me get it working due to bugs. Each change I made just moved items around in the layers in different breakpoints. I really love the idea of it, but while its still in Beta, unfortunately I wont be using it. And using it in the state its in at the moment, it seems to me like its still in pre-Alpha rather than a beta! Word of advice Wix, test before you release. Also the price is ridiculous for something that doesn’t work.
PS FEATURE REQUEST: The ability to work on two windows at once (or if you’re feeling snazzy, build a desktop application where we don’t rely on browsers to handle high development needs)
I do experienced lots of bugs in this Editor X. From my understanding, the advantage of this editor is to allow us to work with multiple devices. If the cost is too much then I rather work under the guideline of the classic editor.
just a quick post so that I get updated on this post.
I have a quiet week where I was going to return and look at Editor X but still in Beta and inadequately resourced suggests that I should put this on the backburner for a while yet. Still no clear response to the ability to migrate content or assets from our production sites.
Is EditorX a dead player? I see very little activity on this forum and many problems and questions go unanswered. I don’t want to waste my time on something that is going to be gone in a few years.
At first I thought Editor X was buggy until I tried other responsive editors. My last experience with Dreamweaver was not bad but it’s a bit slow in speed especially with the html and CSS. The more editors I tried the more I know how to handle with responsive editors and its not easy. I realized I have to work with one section at a time, resizing viewports from maximum to minimum and all your elements mustn’t have sudden overlapped or scattered until you reach the breaking point. When it all finished try and resize over various of breaking point to see it run smooth.
Wix urgently need to improve customer support for editor x immediately as at the moment there basically isnt any, i think this is why there is alot of annoyed people out there as Wix are currently charging full price for a product that is still in BETA and has no customer support.
There are people reporting on the web that editor X has faster page loading times then webflow sites, if this is true then editor x could possibly have huge potential. I have done some minor testing in relation to this and these editor x sites do indeed appear to load very fast.
I’ve spent so much time on EditorX and its now un-useable!! unhappy clients - lost income - have to rebuild whole site with another platform. Over promised and under delivered.
Hi,
I’m Shiri from the Editor X team.
We appreciate your feedbacks. Our DevTeam is constantly working to solve all the stability issues. Please continue to raise any issue you are experiencing, so we can be sure not to miss it.
Thank you for your patience.