Major problem with new version

I dislike the new blocks intensely, but am slowly learning to live with them – they make everything about wordpress harder to use.

However, there is one thing that is making me absolutely crazy. I use the code editor because using the blocks is so excruciatingly horrible, and I cannot tell you how many times I’ve started to add a link into my page, started typing <a href=…. gone over to another browser window to copy the URL, and bam! The editor deletes the rest of the page, everything after the partial anchor tag. It’s like the editor – even in “code mode” is looking for a closing anchor tag, not finding one and so just saying okay damn it, I’ll just delete the whole thing (including the rest of the content) in order to fix the missing closing anchor tag. But wait! It’s only missing because I hadn’t gotten to it yet.

I have lost content that I’ve typed now several times. This is an overly zealous editor! I’m in Code Mode!!! Assume I know what I’m doing and please please please don’t try to “fix” my HTML.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Andrew Nevins.