Comments on: WordPress is cack

By: David Anderson

David Anderson — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:15:46 +0000

I've never used the rich text editor, so it wasn't that. It was the addition of line breaks as default behaviour that was a problem – the answer in the end was to switch to markdown instead of the default formatting; though there were issues with getting that to work right until I found the Text Control plugin – no link as, sadly, the download site no longer exists.

And WP? It's pretty good

Well, I'm still using it

By: Podz

Podz — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:48:02 +0000

Switching the editor off (Users>Profiles>scroll down) will give you more control.
A plugin exists – there are several – which will encode characters before they are sent into the blog engine. One such is http://www.village...09/wp-simplecode/

And WP? It's pretty good

By: David Anderson

David Anderson — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:55:09 +0000

I knew there'd be dissenters

It's not the only blog script that inserts markup in place of carriage returns, but unlike others there's no easy way to alter its behaviour. Nucleus, for example, allows you to more easily alter what happens by providing a simple interface in the control panel to edit the template that controls this behaviour. WordPress doesn't do that, and so unless I want to avoid using appropriate markup for content I'm going to have to either delve into the functions files and search for what I need to alter, or find my way over to a forum and wait for someone to come along and hold my hand. To me that is closer to cack than to awesome – because it's inconvenient.

By: Jonathan Fenocchi

Jonathan Fenocchi — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:56:43 +0000

Wordpress is awesome, and if you are having issues with the default settings, ask in the WordPress forums. One of the reasons WordPress is so great is because it has a very large, helpful and friendly community behind it. http://wordpress.org/support/