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Wordpress, why are you like this
Jan. 12th, 2020 09:43 pmThe hurt/comfort discussion is still cranking along! Feel free to join in!
I've spent the last couple of days updating my websites, trying to get my realname author-name mailing list updated/fully set up, and so forth - all those nitpicky bookkeeping details that go along with being an author and running a small business. Wordpress's new block editor is definitely ... a thing that exists. I think I'm figuring it out, and in fact I like some things about it now (it basically amounts to a slightly clunky WYSIWYG website builder) but I remain massively annoyed that it turns EVERY PARAGRAPH into a separate text block. At least I've figured out how to mass-delete them rather than having to delete one paragraph at a time whenever I need to wipe out a bunch of text.
.... It also turns out that the desktop install is, for a change, less buggy and slow than the Wordpress.com version. I have websites hosted both ways - Laurenesker.com (as well as a couple other sites I have, like the mostly-unused Mar Delaney one) is hosted on wordpress.com, but my realname website has a custom Wordpress install on server space I pay for. So I can compare. For a long time I've generally preferred the WP.com version, which is why I kept using it rather than doing multiple sites on the space I already pay for - it has more themes and better options, and was easier to keep updated (the auto-updates on the custom install kept either breaking things or not installing). But they seem to have FINALLY made the desktop version nice and not as much of a pain to use. Which, since I plan to start using my website and blog more, is a good thing.
/teal deer galloping over the horizon
I've spent the last couple of days updating my websites, trying to get my realname author-name mailing list updated/fully set up, and so forth - all those nitpicky bookkeeping details that go along with being an author and running a small business. Wordpress's new block editor is definitely ... a thing that exists. I think I'm figuring it out, and in fact I like some things about it now (it basically amounts to a slightly clunky WYSIWYG website builder) but I remain massively annoyed that it turns EVERY PARAGRAPH into a separate text block. At least I've figured out how to mass-delete them rather than having to delete one paragraph at a time whenever I need to wipe out a bunch of text.
.... It also turns out that the desktop install is, for a change, less buggy and slow than the Wordpress.com version. I have websites hosted both ways - Laurenesker.com (as well as a couple other sites I have, like the mostly-unused Mar Delaney one) is hosted on wordpress.com, but my realname website has a custom Wordpress install on server space I pay for. So I can compare. For a long time I've generally preferred the WP.com version, which is why I kept using it rather than doing multiple sites on the space I already pay for - it has more themes and better options, and was easier to keep updated (the auto-updates on the custom install kept either breaking things or not installing). But they seem to have FINALLY made the desktop version nice and not as much of a pain to use. Which, since I plan to start using my website and blog more, is a good thing.
/teal deer galloping over the horizon