tbulb

Ok thanks. I thought there might be a plugin that might help, or a code hack for menu implementation that could be discussed here, regardless of whether a commercial or free theme. I will try the theme vendor as well.

thanks Mr V …

is this a JS call that I can add into the header of the PHP doc, possibly by writing it into the header.php of my child theme?

much appreciated!

are there no effective PHP hacks or mod’s that will nuke WP’s annoying stripping out of line breaks?

thanks esmi, too bad you can’t switch back and forth. a shame that wp’s “processing” removes what is essential to formatting. such a no-brainer. this should be an option, not a forced thing.

yeah, well thanks for the comments to Ipstenu & Travel-Junkie. and apologies for the off-tone tone.

the computer-world has always promised to be a time-saving and energy-optimizing thing, but has always led to more complexity, frustration and hours spent in “trouble-shooting”. What originally was a simple “point A to point B” excursion gets side-tracked in a labyrinth of mentally-justified options and distractions, which simply wastes peoples’ life-energy in “fixing” things that should have never been invented, set aside broken.

upgrade to this, upgrade to that. “newer, faster, bigger, better, more pixel resolution…” Have you ever had an inflatable plastic girlfriend? No matter how much “upgrading” we are constantly hounded to to, and all the promises that technology yields, it is no more than that – a plastic girlfriend. with endless justifications.

PS – the “bad HTML” is not the Authors’ fault. It is the way WordPress converts the rich text in the editor window into HTML. a variety of mixtures of line-breaks, paragraph tags, divs, etc. then when you put in in a “splitter” into the post, it really wreaks havoc. (meaning it creates orphaned tags, redundant tag pairs, etc.

the orphaned tags are the things that create the problem affecting posts “down the page” (older posts).

be nice if there was a “mod” or hack that could make PHP write out a set of “ending” tags that would cancel out any stray emphasis, bold, italic, blockquote, or font tags that act on downstream posts.

any suggestions welcome.

tbulb.