Noob – lost in the weeds

  • fbc21ca

    (@fbc21ca)


    13 years ago

    I’ve been making software for 20 years but am brand new to WordPress and it is driving me crazy. When I edit a post in visual mode and save the changes, it takes away all the line breaks. When I embed a YouTube link, I can see it when I preview the changes, and when I first publish the page, but when I look at the post on the homepage, the video is missing. I can create pages that show up in the menu, but when I tag posts with the names of the pages they don’t show up in those pages. Talk about counter-intuitive!

    Any help / pointers appreciated.

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  • Mr.Leo

    (@mrleo)

    Lost in the same weeds here bud.. i’ll be watching your post for a response as well, as i’ve got alot of the same ?s

    zanzaboonda

    (@zanzaboonda)

    Those line breaks are frustrating as all get out. But this should help:

    https://wpmu.org/daily-tip-manually-insert-a-line-break-in-wordpress/

    Can you explain what you mean about the other things?

    shirazdrum

    (@shirazdrum)

    WordPress visual editor is probably the biggest turn-off for anyone with any computer language knowledge. It was designed to acomedate mommy bloggers talking about daily change of diapers and it has no place in a software like WordPress. That being said, you can get around these issues by writing 100% valid html codes. If you are inserting a line break, make sure it’s in a paragraph.

    <p> blah blah <br /> blah blah </p>

    Or turn off the visual editor completely (which you should if you write html) and be done with it. Once you disable it, it won’t break your codes anymore.

    I can create pages that show up in the menu, but when I tag posts with the names of the pages they don’t show up in those pages.

    That’s not how tags work. Tagging posts is just another way to categorise your posts and allows users to view posts that have similar tags. It has nothing to do whatsoever with pages.

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