I moved across from OldBlog to New Blog with over 10,000 posts.
My website is a community newspaper and has been using Wix for nearly three years. I originally chose Wix as the platform as it provided EXACTLY what i wanted by way of layout, font, graphics and ease. For more than two years it was perfect, simple and stable. Then things began to change. I saw the OldBlog was being downgraded and Wix efforts focused on NewBlog with continued encouragement to move across to the new platform.
I did... the transition was smooth.... however... my website required a major change in presentation due to the templates of the new Layout that either compromise graphics in Custom Forms, limit multiple font choices within a post or both.
I have been more than patient and have tried to find work-arounds waiting for promised developments however they just aren't coming.
In all honesty, if I was asked to recommend Wix NewBlog i would have to say NO as it is at present.
I am persevering as best I can in a hope it improves and is able to deliver even the basics that OldBlog was able to offer.
The NewBlog continues to deliver daily issues that I keep discovering. Strange things like the Post Page overriding the layout you have set or the Search Engine tab (Chrome) of a post not being forced updated to the correct Post description - while it is no big deal ... it is .... because it makes my website look cheap and dysfunctional.
While i firmly believe there is a dedicated team working on the NewBlog I also firmly believe it was rolled out too early and should, at the least, have had the barest of functionality that was offered by Old Blog to then reveal OLDBLOG Plus +++ celebrating all the things that OldBlog had plus much much more...
So to sound disappointed but I am. I will persevere as long as possible as I have dedicated considerable effort to my website and as it is a daily 24/7 newspaper I need to be mindful of its continuity that is now in doubt under the Wix NewBlog platform.
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Edited: Aug 18, 2019
NewBlog is becoming more and more unstable
NewBlog is becoming more and more unstable
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Of particular frustration with the NewBlog is the failure of the post URL to update in the Search Engine Tab description of your browser to the correct article description - instead it reflects the last Post description you looked at. this can be overcome with a refresh The need to physically refresh blog pages to show the latest blog is of concern, especially to anyone who comes to the site looking for new posts and sees there are 'none' because the page reflects only what is in cache memory and not the current status of the page. We once had a Recent Posts list box that was vertical, text based and effective. The Recent Posts allowed for lateral viewing of posts rather than returning to the Blog feed and then drilling down to find the next article. That has now been replaced with a horizontal Recents that has a maximum of 3 feeds. I overcome the Refresh issue only by advising readers to refresh. This has been an issue of WixBlog from the start and was present in OldBlog however it really is time to address it in NewBlog because it really is a very basic issue that directly affects every blogger who uses the template and custom templates that are driven by Category.