I’ve figured out how to tweak the CSS. Let me know if you’re interested… glad to share.

I believe the dashboard change upgrade was the root cause of my post (worked two hours on it) disappearing as I hit publish. I believe they were rolling out the new code at the time. I was not amused.

Having managed a SW dev team at one point in my career, I’m a big believer in letting people know you’re going to make a change and then telling them when you’re rolling the new code. If they did that, I totally missed it. Given the number of complaints, I’m assuming that said nothing.

Rene

From what I hear, the response has been overwhelmingly negative. But the powers-that-be seem to have indicated that there is no turning back. I sent a question to support on Saturday but have received no response…I’m sure they are flooded with questions/complaints.

All in all, I like WordPress. I think it still has significant advantages over other packages. In fact, someone who is not already “in a groove” with the old version of the dashboard probably won’t have a problem. It’s the old-timers who need to adapt to the changes. Think of it like the Electric Map vs. whatever it is they’re going to use now at the Gettysburg VC.

I don’t know from CSS…I only have the basic WordPress with no upgrades. All I can say right now is some of the changes are good: in WYSIWYG, you can cut and paste during the posting process (not just one paste at the beginning), underline, block the paragraphs (carefully), expand the posting box to full page, change the text color, undo (that’s a great thing for me), and change font sizes (for headings only – it also bolds at the same time). You can also now add audio.

On the bad side, when copying from Word it seems you can keep your font size, but not your font type. The post will return to your theme’s default font type. I like Arial, because on this dark (not quite black) background, it shows up better. Also, the process for posting pictures has changed. Whereas you used to be able to place your cursor in the text before inserting the photo, it now looks like you can only insert the photo at the beginning of the text you have posted, and then must move the photo where you want it to be. I have found in the past that moving photos around in the text does not work so well. Some of my posts are picture heavy, with lots of inserts in and between paragraphs. We’ll have to see how that works.

There is also a “paste from word” key that, as far as I can tell, keeps your paragraph breaks from Word, but otherwise makes the post the same as plain text, defaulting to the theme’s font type AND size, which in the case of my theme is a tiny, nearly unreadable font when the page view in IE is set to MEDIUM.

I’m hoping I don’t need to change my theme. I’ve had it since day one, and most of my readers (with a very few exceptions) like it.