Resolved…

Two different posts kind of ended up merging together in troubleshooting:

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/missing-most-text-toolbar-icons/#post-274012

The classic text editing options were never available nor was the proper formatting of text and images UNTIL I had installed ‘classic editor’ (including ‘classic’ paragraph). Previously, aligning an image left would not allow the following text to format itself on the right side of the image. Now it does.

Also, with the ‘classic editor’ installed, the visual editor layout did not reflect what was shown on the site. I since uninstalled the ‘classic editor’ and now suddenly I have the classic options available again as well as content formatting properly next to pictures.

I have no idea how to explain it other than installing and uninstalling that plug-in seemed to do the trick.

Some progress… I installed a plugin ‘classic editor’ and this restored all original editing options.

However, with the visual editor, my post is not retaining the same format from edit view to actual page view. One example is a smaller image lined up on the left with paragraph in line with the top image border in editing view, whereas the page view (once published) shows a much larger image with the paragraph cramped into 2-3 words on the right before going to the next line.

Yes, I’m familiar with this and a caption has been in place. However, when selecting media & text, editing & publishing, the caption is not included. In addition to the caption missing, the media & text layout does not allow me to perfectly line up bits of the article side by side with the image, like what’s shown in the provided example in my op.

Can you advise exactly how the referred image/article was formatted in my first post example? I’m thinking there are text edits/formats in use that aren’t available in my text editor toolbar. I only have options from the ‘bold’ icon to the solid chain ‘hyperlink’ icon.