WYSIWYG
19 December 2006 • html, wordpress
This blog is my first major experience with WordPress 2. Although I haven’t given up on the WYSIWYG editor yet, I’m pretty closing to disabling it. I have two complaints:
- I spend more time fixing its weird markup errors than I would spend typing in all the markup myself. For example, the previous post has a two-paragraph block quote, for which the WYSIWYG editor managed to create four blockquote blocks: one for each paragraph and two empty ones!
- It automatically converts my i tags to em. Semantic markup is useful only if the semantics are correct, and I know what meaning if any I intend better than the editor.
Maybe I can fix these problems once I learn to use the thing better, but for now I’m not impressed.
Update: fixed typos, added a link.
Scraps says:
20 December 2006 at 16:12
I hate that so-called WYSIWYG editor. Among many other annoyances, it converts me perfectly good links into non-links that still change color when I mouse-over; I have to edit the post to make the links show up.
How do you get that block to show up on Livejournal that says this is a post from your blog and comments need to be made there? Is it a plugin?
Steven says:
20 December 2006 at 16:37
Yeah, I do the Livejournal crossposting with a plugin called, in fact, LiveJournal Crossposter.
Scraps says:
20 December 2006 at 16:50
Ah, thank you!
Lyle says:
1 January 2007 at 7:23
One of the first things I did when I switched over to WordPress was to turn off the WYSYWIG… my short experience with it ended with the same conclusion, that I’d spend less time typing out the HTML than fixing the WYSYWIG editor.
Steven says:
1 January 2007 at 9:45
I’m still waffling. I just discovered the keyboard shortcuts, which is good because I hate having to click buttons. And I just now learned how the i-to-em substitutions are defined, so if I can figure out how to override them in a plugin then that’s one problem solved. I like not having to type in the HTML in theory.