Why does WP suck so much for formatting?

  • RageQuitWP

    (@ragequitwp)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    I will start by saying WP is great for the most part. It takes what could take a couple of months and allows me to do what I need to do with a web design and get it done in a couple of weeks.
    My gripe about WP is the formatting aspect. It sucks. Plain and simple. I don’t need something stripping and reformatting my code when I switch from text editor to wysiwyg. It doesn’t even meet web code standards for how it takes its approach to formatting code.
    And this is what makes me want to rage quit and go back to dreamweaver and notepad ++. LINE BREAKS DO NOT WORK. No matter how many ways I think to code it.
    I’ve tried

      even css styles. Such as <h4 style=”text-align:left;”> </h4> and other non-standard web design methods with CSS.

    SO… When the are you going to fix this? This a major flaw in design. It is a simple line break to put spaces between things.

    P.S. I’ve used the raw html plugins to avoid WP stripping code and reformatting.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    12 years, 10 months ago

    SO… When the are you going to fix this?

    Probably never or at least not before the Heat Death of the Universe…?

    The Visual Editor/Text Editor work for the majority of users.

    There are users such as yourself and others who don’t like/will never like/can’t possibly like the setup that works for lots of other users.

    That’s really why alternatives that people use such as

    P.S. I’ve used the raw html plugins to avoid WP stripping code and reformatting.

    It’s not a solution for you apparently, but if you have a fix then you can always contribute code in the form of a patch to WordPress.

    http://make.ww.wp.xz.cn/core/handbook/submitting-a-patch/

    If you do do that then it will get reviewed and if it’s good, doesn’t break things, does it better, etc. then it will get incorporated and you’ll get credit.

    Thread Starter RageQuitWP

    (@ragequitwp)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for the response. I’ll keep that in mind as I’m looking for ways around certain things. I have figured out how to get it done. But it is not the correct web standard of doing so. CSS spans are usually not the way you would or should approach a line break. Also wrapping text isn’t generally away (at least me) to get an image beside text. That is for tables. As I didn’t really want it wrap around the image, I had wanted them to be side in there own cells. If I ever figure it out to do it the way that it should be done then I’ll definitely pass that along. There are instances for text wrapping but this for what I needed wasn’t one of them. It is something I’m going to have to live with for now, as it least it looks good. I also have to much on my web design plate to back track and go with dreamweaver as I wouldn’t get done what I needed done until sometime next year instead of in a month or so. Hopefully between all the designers out there that we get something figured.

    P.S. removed raw html plugin as it didn’t work right with WP. Had to go strict WP Formatting style.

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