Strange and annoying WordPress bug

I am abandoning the What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor that is built into WordPress (they call it the ‘visual rich editor’). It has the extremely nasty habit of randomly inserting literally hundreds of [em] tags and [/em] tags into pages with complex formatting, such as my academic C.V. Usually, it closes every tag that it randomly opens, so the formatting isn’t visibly affected. As soon as you try to change some small thing, however, everything goes insane. Going back through and fixing all of these mangled pages is a big pain.

WordPress also has serious trouble dealing with [p] tags and line breaks.

I hope the cause behind this was identified in the recent bug hunt and will not trouble people after the next major release.

Author: Milan

In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here. View all posts by Milan