Is anyone ever going to fix the obvious WordPress bugs?

  • Although I think WordPress is great, I am surprised that a number of basic functions are still so “buggy” after 10 years. I’m not saying I could do better, of course, but I would have thought somebody out there could have done something about these hiccups by now, which leads me to wonder if there’s a lack of incentive for such solutions, a lack of funding, or something else that I’m missing…

    I’m referring mainly to the near impossibility of toggling between “visual” mode and “text” mode without wrecking your site’s alignment. That’s the main overall problem that I’ve noticed as someone who has returned to WordPress lately after a 7-year hiatus, but there are lots of little pesky problems, too: special cases where centering does not center, where indenting does not indent, where “what you see” in visual mode is not what you ultimately see in “published mode,” etc.

    Most veteran WordPress users might not even consider these as bugs because they’ve become so familiar with the small corrective actions that are needed to keep things in order — as well as with the operations that are to be avoided in certain cases because they will not work properly in certain contexts, but to a newbie with WordPress, it’s sometimes frustrating to figure out why various WordPress coding buttons are not working as common sense might have suggested that they would.

    Since I find it hard to believe that there is no one out there who can fix these things, maybe WordPress needs to create some incentive system that would encourage people to do so.

    Just an idea from a WordPress returnee,

    Brian

    PS Please don’t pillory me. I’m just giving my honest assessment as a newbie who gladly admits that he knows little about the behind-the-scenes development of WordPress.

    PS-2 Maybe I’m wrong: Maybe the WordPress system is used on so many various operating systems that it’s impossible to do a better job of removing the kinds of bugs that I’m talking about. But that would surprise me since such system diversity hasn’t stopped other sites from working more or less universally as far as user platforms are concerned (though perhaps these latter have finances that WordPress lacks).

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  • I am not sure of what you speak ??

    Having used WP extensively since 3.0, I never have had issues with my site’s alignment being wrecked by toggling the editor from visual to text and back or whatever. And my indents always indent and outdents always outdent ??

    WYSIWYG when dealing with the display of HTML is, IMHO, optimistic at best and once one realizes that, it’s all good ??

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