Comments on: WordPress Editing Issues

By: Breda

Breda — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:55:29 +0000

Every time I do some editing the whole thing goes into HTML in the Visual. Edit.com say they’ve never seen that before – I must be rather unique…. Has anybody else experienced this or does anyone know what to do or am I jinksed

By: Serena Casey

Serena Casey — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:40:38 +0000

I’m using Firefox, not Safari. If you meant Firefox, it’s version 2.0.0.12. No, I haven’t tried turning off the plug-ins. I guess that will be my next plan of attack. Thanks

By: pops

pops — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:05:30 +0000

@Serena,

What version of Safari are you using?
Have you tried turning your plugins off temporarily to see if that has any effect?

By: Serena

Serena — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:35:08 +0000

I’m having the paragraph/line breaks problem, but I’m not using Safari; I’m on Firefox. I’ve tried turning off the visual editor but that doesn’t do it. If anyone hears of a fix for WordPress with Firefox, I’d love to hear it.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:42:09 +0000

Have to agree with Mike Huang here. Most visual editors suck. I use a WYSIWYG editor for my letters, I use one to get a quick site design, but for the actual editing they always seem to mess up somewhere.

By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:42:19 +0000

I absolutely hate that “VISUAL EDITOR” crap when I have to edit pages/posts with php

-Mike

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:32:46 +0000

I personally switched off the wysiwyg editor a long time ago, because:
a) I like coding;
b) I found myself embedding a lot of videos and wordpress kind of struggled to cope.

Unlike the author here though, I actually really love the theme editor. It allows me to make small changes and test them instantly on the live site.

By: Jim | BloggingStartup

Jim | BloggingStartup — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:41:43 +0000

I have also found the WP post editor to be somewhat quirky and don’t care for the small editing window. Since I work on a PC, I have downloaded the free editor Windows Live Writer and find it to be a wonderful tool for writing posts. It allows me to edit in HTML, normal or even a view of what it will look like on my particular blog. Since I have four blogs, I can change the view with just one click.

The editor also has a find feature that I find most helpful. I can add photos, select categories and tags, and even insert video or maps. Plugins add even more features to the publisher. When I am done, I just click to publish. It sends the file from my computer to the blog in my browser. Very easy to use.