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Yes, for anyone reading this and wondering, the Appearance | Edit CSS menu item disappeared for me when I deactivated JetPack. That confirms that it is a JetPack feature in my case. There is a possibility that some other plugin could create the same menu item though, so it is a good idea to test it like that. JetPack is a good place for custom CSS because I won’t ever get rid of that plugin.

FYI: When I reactivated JetPack, I had to give it my wordpress.com login credentials again in order to reactive all the features, including the custom CSS feature. After logging in to wordpress.com again, my custom CSS was still there. Make me wonder if they store the custom CSS in the database. Would be an unusual place to put CSS, but I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

Anyway, thanks again.

In this thread, the same person said that Edit CSS is “a perfectly fine place to make changes”.

It seems to work just fine. The comment in the CSS editor says, “your stylesheet will be loaded after the theme stylesheets,
which means that your rules can take precedence and override the theme CSS rules. Just write here what you want to change”.

If it loads after the theme style sheets, then I should get all the theme’s styles and also the changes I made in Edit CSS.

I did log in to the server and try to find the CSS file it might create, but I could not find it, even doing a grep for “moz-hyphens” from the doc root of the site. Not sure where it stores that CSS, but it works. And as long as it loads after the theme styles, it should continue to work. Even if I change themes in the future, I will still want those style to load last.

What could happen that makes it so dangerous to use Edit CSS?

I knew someone would know. I searched and searched, but couldn’t find anything, probably did not use the right search terms. The CSS trick worked. Since I’m not using a child theme, I added it in the CSS Stylesheet editor and that worked fine. Thank you.

I know that YOU don’t have a solution, but you can’t speak for the entire WordPress community. Someone is likely to know how to fix it. I deactivated all of my plugins and it still happens.

I just showed you the issue.

Well, I haven’t pub-
lished it the state it is in, and I’m not go-
ing to pub-
lish it that way. The prob-
lem is that I type text just like I am do-
ing in this com-
ment but when I pre-
view the page, half the words are bro-
ken in two parts, just like they are here. I can’t be-
lieve such a thing could be turn-
ed on by de-
fault. How can I turn it off?

wevans, I will be busy until at least mid-September, but I will be looking for more projects after that. I would be interested in learning more about the needs of photographers who use wordpress and what kinds of plugins they need.

People I know don’t use the shortlinks, but they still get the “View Media” link when their posts are tweeted. None of my posts have that link and I don’t know how to turn it on. Any help in turning it on would be great.

Thank you for your responses. That helps a lot.