{"id":1025,"date":"2025-11-21T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:38:31","slug":"fuck-the-new-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/21\/fuck-the-new-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuck the new WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The most convoluted, dumbass BS editing I&#8217;ve ever seen. None of this shit makes sense. Can&#8217;t even scroll &lt;code> or &lt;pre> text*. You&#8217;re trashing my code, assholes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of that &#8220;gets out of your way&#8221; malarkey that ends up adding several layers of complexity whenever you want to change anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saw a reddit post where a dev responded to another complaint about their new system with, &#8220;there&#8217;s a bazillion ways to do things&#8221; THAT&#8217;S PART OF THE PROBLEM!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m the dumb one for wanting shit to be simply usable instead of hidden or underneath a labyrinth of interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> * Sorted this out in the current (it&#8217;s an older code, but it checks out) theme in use, Twenty Twelve. The class by itself is not enough, it has to be <code>pre.wp-block-code<\/code>. The actual current this year theme still no luck. The CSS is applied, but I suspect the wrapping is being done proactively in javascript since it is a &#8216;block&#8217; based theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of &#8216;blocks&#8217;, apparently it is impossible to start a paragraph with an asterisk without it turning into a list and there is no way to change it back to a paragraph aside from re-writing it to begin with a slash. Or did that ability do such a great job of getting out of my way I can&#8217;t find it? Now I am interested in what happens to the leading slash once I click &#8220;save&#8221;&#8230; Still there. Leading space?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most convoluted, dumbass BS editing I&#8217;ve ever seen. None of this shit makes sense. Can&#8217;t even scroll &lt;code> or &lt;pre> text*. You&#8217;re trashing my code, assholes. Some of that &#8220;gets out of your way&#8221; malarkey that ends up adding several layers of complexity whenever you want to change anything. Saw a reddit post where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}