[Blog] Moving content between Classic Editor sections

Another thing that you might want to try if you have a lot of content that you'd like to get rid of, there's sort of a secret, somewhat finicky workaround where when you're working between two Classic Editor sections, you actually can click an element and move it to a different section.

It works best between neighboring sections.

It's really difficult to move them across something.

A divide further than that.

like you don't want to click and then just start scrolling and drop it.

It does work, but it's extremely finicky.

So let's just say I just duplicated this section.

Change the color so we can see the difference between the two.

But they are both Classic Editor sections.

For right now.

If I, for example, wanted to maybe delete these three elements, so that means that I have more elements in this section that I want to keep than I want to delete, I could.

And while that's not necessarily faster, it does work in that I would just delete this entire section and all the content that I just moved into it.

So you can try that.

So that's an interesting, slightly creative workaround.

Can be fiddly.

You can't do that between Fluid Engine and Classic Editor.

So if you do have both editors on the same page, you're not going to be able to move content between them.

You also can't go back from Fluid Engine to Classic Editor.

So if you do convert the section, make sure you really, really are sure that you want to keep that section as Fluid Engine before you hit save.

Because if you converted it and you decide you don't want Fluid Engine, once you say that change is done, it's saved in the code like it's converted.

There's no looking back.

But if you convert the section to Fluid Engine like I just did, and see now this top section is Fluid Engine.

If I discard my changes and I don't save what I just did back in to the edit mode, you'll notice it does not say Fluid Engine version.

That's your only workaround.

If you want to test it but you're not sure, just remember, do not save it if you convert it.

Otherwise you're stuck with Fluid Engine.

You will have to recreate it in Classic Editor.

If you have access to Classic Editor, not everybody will.

And I don't know for how long.

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