pherojoe

I feel your pain. This absolute trash has ruined the wordpress experience.

If anything, they could have just added ways to improve the original edit, so quick and easy to to write long posts without mucking around with blocks and other useless “features”.

The re-usable blocks are driving me insane too. If you add one, then remove it, it seems to remove them from all of them. Can’t believe simple shit like this is still a problem 1 year + down the road.

Yes, well I get dozens of comments across several blogs on each post, and every internal nofollow link starts to take a percentage of the juice and waste it. It matters if you are competitive and ranking difficult keywords. It starts to add up when you reply to people.

Most serious webmasters understand what its for, there is just no reason to force it especially when there are plenty of anti-spam solutions out there.

I agree completely. Some of these updates are as useless as can be, like removing the underline… what was the point of that?! Most people have their links a different color from the rest of the text, so they know it is a hyperlink. Now I have to add a plugin just to put that basic feature back in to the editor.

Another thing that really irritates me is the spacing between bulletpoints. Now I have to do it via html and go hunting for exactly where I want a space in between each unordered list item, whereas before I could space twice, and just back space the empty one. Now it doesn’t leave a space.

And just to vent one more thing, the linking box for creating links is so fiddly and frustrating its amazing that it got placed as an “improvement” over the original. At this point, developers are just doing things for the sake of doing it. Leave all the other stuff alone and just focus on performance and security instead of meddling with things that have worked perfectly fine for years.

I’m not a developer, but I’m pretty sure nofollow/follow links have nothing to do with html 4/5. It is a search engine directive.

Jesus Christ, I have been having the EXACT same issue as you! Its been almost 3 days of trying to figure out how to stop this moronic “feature” inserting itself into all my comments. I can take care of nofollow/follow myself, and it really pisses me off that it isn’t so simple.

This is a piece of code you can insert in your functions file, so you won’t have to keep editing it when the automatic updates decides to mess up your default filter file again.

remove_filter( ‘pre_comment_content’, ‘wp_rel_nofollow’, 15 );

I have been trying to get it to work, but it doesn’t seem to for me.

however, you might have better luck.

Thanks Steve,

Unfortunately, I think the only way for now is to simply close off each ul tag manually in html mode. Hopefully they can fix this soon, but I don’t know, they might not even see it as a problem. They removed underline and highlighting which were both useful features in the past and they haven’t come back.

I think the developers need to stick with performance enhancements and security features, everything else is(was) already working as wanted!

Unfortunately, adding a space in the ul part of the CSS will also add annoyingly big spaces on content that is already formatted the original way.

Don’t understand why they can’t just leave it alone, it’s been working fine for years and then this small problem has wasted atleast 8 hours of my life trying to find a solution.

I have tried that plugin and it still behaves exactly the same.

As for the shift+enter workaround, unfortunately it doesn’t hold either.

It seems like such an idiotic thing, but it drives me insane that I can’t figure it out. I either have to live the 3 spaces in between the lists, or have to edit html on every page and insert a custom padding space for the list.

If I do something to the css, then it will mess with all the other posts and pages I have which use bulletpoints.

I haven’t found any effective alternative for now, except going into html and closing off each <ul> tag. Which is frustratingly slow.

I like the numbered HTML editor, however, now I can’t even add a space between bullets on unnumbered lists… what a moronic thing to do. The shift+space does NOT work, I can’t space twice and delete the space in between. Oh yeah, and what was the point of removing underlines? WordPress consistently does things which webmasters have to fix, so frustrating.

Hi Catacaustic,

I’ve just realized what you meant – I did not notice the file was on my website, I only saw the large hangs on the tests and assumed it was a resource you were sending me to. Dumbass moment haha.

Anyway, I just found out that it was my DMCA notice that I had near the bottom of my website which was causing the issue!

Thanks for your help anyway.

Is there a way to optimize the file, or perhaps reduce server calls? Or is this something that would have to be fixed by the developer?

I have tried some minify plugins, but I don’t think that’s really the issue.

If there was some way to make it load faster I think that would solve the issue.

Hi catacaustic,

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, I am not a techy, so I’m not sure how to use the website you suggested (it also doesn’t work – wrong link?).

I have emailed some people to take a closer look, but I would prefer to know what’s causing it first.

Pingdom shows the longest wait for the review widget on the right, which I need. However, it has never caused any issues before. I am running the plugin on another website, and it works great.