WordPress Tip-Disable Visual Editor
WordPress has a built-in visual editor that you can use if you want to when writing posts. It has been my experience and that of several of my clients who use WordPress that this visual editor can really mess your post up. It can screw up your perfectly valid code and there is a better way to view your posts prior to publishing.
First, you will want to disable the visual editor. Log into your WordPress admin area. Click on Users. Next, click on Your Profile. Under Personal Options, make sure the box in front of “Use the visual editor when writing” is un-checked.
Now, when you write a post you will see an editor with just a minimum of tags to use. You can add any XHTML code manually. After writing your post click “Save and Continue Editing”. Now you will see a “Preview” link to the right of the allowable tags. That’s right, even though you haven’t clicked “Publish” yet, WordPress creates a draft of your post, but it won’t be saved completely until you actually click “Save“. You can click “Save” when you want to save your draft permanently to work on it later, and then click “Publish” when you are satisfied with your post.
Happy posting!
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August 9th, 2007 at 10:27 am
That is very interesting Karen,
I keep surprising myself about WordPress. Sometimes I wonder if I should switch to that.
But I like playing around with layouts a lot. I am even thinking of using a seperate design of every month of my blog, maybe even use a style switcher to allow even more layouts for one month… some designs on the internet are so great you know…
I doubt if WordPress is really suitable for that. A little coding here and there is no problem for me, so I think I will probably stick to xhtml/css and some javascript.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
actually, WordPress is in fact perfect for switching layouts or themes…you can upload as many themes as you want in your themes directory and they will be available for you to use in your admin/presentation area…you can even code your theme pages manually…you don’t touch the php (unless you know what you are doing)…you just change the style.css of the theme and maybe some of the XHTML on the themes php files if you’ve created new or different div’s and then you can use the theme switcher to allow your users to select whatever theme they want to have when they visit your site
If you ever decide to switch to WordPress, let me know. I can certainly help
August 10th, 2007 at 12:48 am
…help…
ok, thank you very much Karen,
I will think about it.
August 12th, 2007 at 1:22 am
I really had problems with this when editing comments - I reply to a comment but editing it and adding “Reply:…” (since I can’t get the admin reply plugin to work!).
And I didn’t know and probably turned on the Visual Editor by accident (not knowingly what it will do), and it messed up my comments, I had to delete those tags, reedit the comment and such.
But someone helped from a forum (I think it was you on OD), not sure.
Thanks!
August 12th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
yeah, it happens…pain in the neck really…glad you worked it out and someone helped you with it…could have been me, I don’t recall
August 24th, 2007 at 8:11 am
thanks a lot, it was just what I was looking for !
it was really an ugly job to edit a post because the visual editor messed up my posts and i had to do edit them all over again every time.
thanks !
August 25th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
you’re very welcome! I’m glad my post helped you
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 am
Good job, very useful information it will come in handy some day. THANKS!
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 am
no problem
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:17 am
very useful tip, Karen.
I write my post in dreamweaver and than copy and past the code in wordpress.
Thank you!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 am
I’m glad I could help, jhon