May 18, 200917 yr So I'm setting up a new blog for a fairly large group of people to use. I want everyone to be able to update and edit the 'pages'. As most people don't know much about HTML, most of the editing will be done in 'visual' mode, rather than 'HTML'. Trouble is, when you write some code in HTML mode, its fine, but when you click back on 'visual' mode, wordpress decides to change the code to whatever it feels like at that moment. Rather than teach HTML to 10 people, is there a fix for this?
May 19, 200917 yr What kind of code are your trying to write directly? Also does this effect the published version? (your custom css sheets aren't loaded into the backend, i.e the preview).
May 19, 200917 yr ... Trouble is, when you write some code in HTML mode, its fine, but when you click back on 'visual' mode, wordpress decides to change the code to whatever it feels like at that moment. Rather than teach HTML to 10 people, is there a fix for this? Yeah, don't use Wordpress! lol It's notorious for altering code (and not very intelligently either!)
May 19, 200917 yr Yeah, don't use Wordpress! Hits nail on head! @fixie_guy if you're encountering these sort of issues then WP might not be the best solution for the site. However it may be worth looking for an alternative WYSIWYG addon which doesn't change the underlying code - no WYSIWYG will be perfect though!
May 19, 200917 yr Trouble is, when you write some code in HTML mode, its fine, but when you click back on 'visual' mode, wordpress decides to change the code to whatever it feels like at that moment. Rather than teach HTML to 10 people, is there a fix for this? As the people wont be using the HTML mode, what is the problem? I use WP to my satisfaction, you just have to write your css to deal with the code the WYSIWYG editor comes up with.
May 19, 200917 yr WordPress is amazing, you can turn of wyziwig editor in the settings of wordpress. Do not mock the greatest open source contribution to date! lol brave words!
May 19, 200917 yr At the end of the day the visual page/post editor in WordPress is just TinyMCE - nothing fancy like Dreamweaver where you can alternate between code and layout views!
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