WordPress editor eats my /a’s

I routinely type straight HTML out of my head; the syntax is so simple it’s easier to type the codes than lift my hand off the keyboard and start flailing around with a desk rodent.

But wordpress doesn’t like that. It eats the closing tags off my “a” links, and when I put them back it just swallows them again. The only way to keep my HTML valid is to use the GUI editor, which is annoyingly slow when compared to typing raw HTML flat out. It’s like being forced to bolt training wheels on a racing motorcycle, dammit.

Heather says she thinks there’s a setting somewhere. I guess I’ll google it… well, there are a lot of people complaining I see. Skimming the reports, it appears that I might get rid of this annoying behaviour by turning off “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” in the formatting options under the “Writing” settings in the dashboard. Hell, I’m going to turn off all the formatting options – in the unlikely event anyone actually reads my ravings, I’m sure they can figure out what :-) and :-P mean for themselves.

Code ahoy!

I’m going to put up some software.  P’raps some ATA-over-ethernet stuff, and my implementation of Mike Rubel’s idea.

It’ll be at http://typinganimal.net/code as soon as I clean out any system-specific or site-specific stuff.

I wrote this stuff on company time, but with the understanding it would be released under GPLv2 whenever I got around to it. My boss isn’t stuck in an 18th century mental paradigm, for which I am appropriately thankful.