So I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5 and am having NOTHING but trouble with it. First of all, the day after I upgraded I had 22,298 spam comments awaiting moderation. I finally downloaded and installed Akismet which seems to be taking care of it, but TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND COMMENTS. The hell?
Also my biggest pet peeve is that my entries DO NOT PROPERLY space themselves. If I hit “return” that SHOULD mean start a new paragraph. Sometimes it works – like, of course, in this friggin entry. Sometimes (look at my entry from earlier this morning) it does not.
I can NOT fix this, no matter how much I try. I go in and HAND CODE spaces and it still won’t apply.
Does anyone else have this problem? HOW DO I FIX IT? It’s driving me mad. So far, WordPress 2.0.5 – I hate you.
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1. Akismet is necessary. But right now they’re having DNS problems, so everyone is getting inundated with spam comments. I’d install the Spam Karma plugin too. http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma
The two of them together have been working really well for me.
2. Which browser are you using when you post? Also, in your options, what do you have under writing options? Are you using the “visual rich editor” by default?
btw- feel free to email me, as this might get pretty technical (and not the kind of thing people will want to read!)
Hmm. I was using the visual rich editor which is SO annoying – but I just changed that in my options. It still doesnt seem to be working though (I just tried to fix that other entry from today).
Shift-return, maybe? Back in the day, some applets used to do that.
Maybe have to use an HTML paragraph element?
I’ve tried shift return AND hardcoding the HTML in – neither work. UGH. I’m cursed.
You have just successfully showed me why I should go to a different blogging software other than WordPress.
So you have that going for you, which is nice…
The break/return issue looks extremely odd. At a raw HTML level (at least from a cursory look), there’s no difference.
I’m wondering if that’s related to your CSS. Maybe you’ve got a style that’s cascading and overriding your style, except I don’t see that happening either.
I’ve noticed when using the WYSWYG editor that often I inadvertently shift-return, which doesn’t give a full break.
One thought: you could try temporarily switching back to the default theme and see if the problem happens there as well. If it doesn’t, at least you can narrow it down to the CSS.
As for blog spam – that sucks, but the aforementioned Akismet+Spam Karma combo is pretty much a necessity these days for any moderately popular blog — which yours is. People want your Google juice. Which sounds way dirty.
jenny, i feel your pain. Both Wiffiti blog and Beyond Madison Ave are both wordpress, and while I enjoy not dealing with general blogger flakiness, the trade-off is that I end up hand-coding nearly everything because the visual text editor is total shizz.
We just found a pretty decent plug-in over at BMA that has alleviated some of
the frustrations…
I’ll find out what that is and shoot you an email.
I’ve had that spacing problem occasionally too. I usually just start a new post, and it’s always fixed the problem.
I experience the spacing thing too. Seems like a bug.
You can fix it by backspacing the start of your paragraph into the previous paragraph. Then press return to create the paragraph break again.
I never have the rich editor switched on. It doesn’t take much effort to write HTML, and at least it’s consistent.
The real problem isn’t WordPress – its ANY of the rich HTML javascript solutions.