Why WordPress 4.7 Made This Change

  • I thought it would be useful to share the reasoning behind this change with those considering installing this plugin. Informed decisions!

    From the post announcing this change:

    The underline and justify buttons have been removed from the bottom row. Underlining is a bad practice as readers can confuse it with links (bad accessibility), and it does not insert a semantic element. Justifying has uneven browser implementation, and in many cases is bad for readability.

    Keyboard shortcuts for both will continue to work and can be found by clicking the Help icon (?) in the editor toolbar.

    See also: WP Tavern Article “WordPress 4.7 Removes the Underline and Justify Buttons From the Editor”

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  • Plugin Author Brice Capobianco

    (@brikou)

    Hi Mark,

    Thanks for sharing to others.

    I’m absolutely agree with this decision, exept in some very special cases for the justify button only (but CSS is most of the time the best answer to special cases!).

    I made this plugin because I do not agree with the way this changes have been done. Some of my customers wouldn’t have understood why those buttons suddenly disappeared. I thought it was too rough, so I prefered to not let them struggle with the editor and asking for support, I prepared my “fix” upstream.

    For my new customers & projects, I’ll not use this plugin because I won’t have to “take back” something wich does not exsiste anymore.

    That’s the way I see things, I’m not saying that’s the good one.

    Best,

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