WordPress editor deleted text box content, messed up table size
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This is ridiculous. I have a page with a series of text boxes an had to go back in to edit one of the text boxes. The result? ALL of the text in the subsequent text boxes was deleted. The text was in divs with ids so they could be linked to using anchors. I want my text back. Do I need to back up the ENTIRE site after every minor edit now?
Further, a standard table that I had on the page is now full width on the page. WordPress absolutely TRASHED this page. I have to now start over and recreate the entire page.
What the HELL, WordPress? I’ve already had to entirely scrap 10 pages that needed just a small amount of PHP, and now a straight HTML page isn’t even stable?
This is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable. This page has been FINE for four months, and I edit one text box and the rest of the page is now gone.
Your VISUAL EDITOR needs to be fixed. C’mon, this is absolutely POOR.
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The visual editor is about to be replaced for reasons like this. Have you tried Gutenberg yet?
In any case, building tables inside the editor is a terrible process. When I can’t avoid tables, I use the plugin “Tablepress” to build the tables and insert them into a page/post in a easily managed way. For “text boxes”, I’ll create fairly simple shortcodes that render all the necessary HTML from code, so the editor looks like
[mytextbox anchor="someanchorname"]sometext[/mytextbox]. That’s converted to appropriate HTML markup in my code.Yes, I’ve tried Gutenberg and I’m not impressed.
We are/were converting our site to WordPress for the sole purpose of using the Yoast plugin. I have a static site that has served us well for over a year, except for it needs SEO improvement. I have three custom javascript codes and a set of pages that are php, and WordPress has butchered all of this most horribly.
The PHP pages were butchered at WordPress’ most recent automatic update. The PHP plugin (the most popular on WordPress) caused the thrashing, technically, as they didn’t update their plugin with WordPress, but regardless – overnight I lost 10 pages.
And I’m using the Jupiter theme, which should be well supported as well.
The tables are still functional. There are multiple tables in the page and now SOME of the tables are full width for no apparent reason. I didn’t change a dang thing.
This is more of a rant than a request for assistance, since it is absolutely unacceptable to lose content or have content suddenly and unexpectedly display in a broken manner because one plugin vendor can’t be bothered to update their plugin. We just can’t afford to have broken pages, broken links, or disappearing content. And I now don’t trust plugins altogether.
I appreciate your response. Fortunately, we have not officially converted the site and I am working on it on a beta server. This experience makes me question continuing the process.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it is MORE of a rant, but it’s an issue that WordPress needs to correct, and there may be a solution that does fix this that I’m not aware of.
The issue isn’t a problem with Jupiter. It’s a problem with WordPress.
And I simply can’t trust plugins. I can’t have WordPress update and another vendor not update and then pages are broken.
If there is a way to put simple HTML tags and JS event handlers into WordPress without WordPress trashing your pages or deleting content entirely, I’m all ears, so long as it doesn’t involve downloading yet another plugin.
But I wanted to use ascii characters on a couple of pages, and the only way to get that into the page was to use the visual editor so that you could get to the text tab. I had previously deactivated the visual editor for this reason. Twice bitten, I suppose.
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