Does WordPress have bot that changes your code without permission?
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Worked all night on a blog post, published it, it looked just as I had intended. I wake up and the formatting is all screwed up and the code altered.
WHAT THE HELL?!
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Hi there!
To answer the following question:
Does WordPress have bot that changes your code without permission?
No, we don’t. Could you share the link to the post you are referring to? We’ll be happy to investigate to see what happened on the post that had its formatting changed.
Thanks!
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Mendacious creationists won’t fess up
So even if I manually justified my paragraphs (which was working fine after I uploaded the post), your system wouldn’t go in and change ‘justify’ to ‘left’ in the code? And it wouldn’t, in the process change font colors, paragraph spacing and take out a picture, again all of which were displaying fine after upload?
I went to bed wuth everything looking good and woke up having to reformat everything and now am having difficulty with manually justified paragraphs.
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Hey there,
Our system would never make a change like this. It is possible there is a bug, either with the theme or WordPress, that may have an impact like this. This would never be the result of our system choosing to make changes without permission. We want you to have control over your site and your place on the web. We are not interested in dictating what your site looks like, only here to help if you want it. :)
Can you clarify which paragraphs are not displaying as expected so we can take a closer look?
Thanks! Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Did you write that post in another program as e.g. MS Word because MS Word produces very sloppy and messy html . Not all formatting created in a word processor will be reproduced when pasting into WordPress.com’s editor. We’ve found that using Chrome as your browser is the best way to ensure the majority of your formatting transfers over.
You find all info at https://wordpress.com/support/microsoft-word/
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RE: Which paragraphs- All of them (and it has changed thing more than once now).
RE: What did I write with- The WordPress classic editor.
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Question: do you mean the full Classic Editor available through WP Admin or the Classic Block?
This is what your post looks like to me right now in Firefox latest (temporary screenshot). Did you edit it?
Given that the theme on your site, Able, has been retired for a number of years (at least since 2018 if not earlier), it may be there’s a conflict between the theme and the latest version of the WordPress software being run here on WordPress.com. Retired themes are generally only updated for security and things may go pear-shaped at some point.
I’m not quite certain if this will work, but if you aren’t interested in changing themes to a newer Classic theme, I’d suggest giving the Classic Block a try for a post and see if that works for you.
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I used the Classic Editor, no Block. Yes I have re-edited it, twice. I copied the whole code this time so if it gets messed up again I can just copy the whole code back in. Didn’t know the theme I have been using was retired. I wasn’t really looking to change it and I shouldn’t have to. WP need to stop messing with things if it is going to require their users to make major changes every time they do.
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What you call “messing with things” are improvements to make wordpress works better and faster. Whatever CMS you use, you will always have themes getting outdated at some time or themes that are no longer compatible with the CMS.
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Then perhaps we have different definitions of working “better”. If this was indeed the cause of the code spontaneously changing in my post, that is not “better” to me. Nor would I consider it “better” if I have to spend several hours switching themes every year or so just to stop things from going haywire.
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Hello again @pigeonchess I see that you’ve been blogging on your pigeonchess site since March 2008 (happy anniversary!) and can understand your hesitation in updating to a newer theme.
So let me make a suggestion. Export about the last 6 months or so of your content from pigeonchess, create a free test site with this link and then import your export file to the new test site. That way you can try out various Classic themes without anything changing on your current site. Classic themes are still supported and that is the type of theme you’re most familiar with.
My overrated 2¢/
And while you’re there, you can also give the Classic Block a whirl. It really is friendly and familiar and creates the code needed for the updated version of WordPress.com.
/My overrated 2¢And one more small suggestion, when you post for help with something on your site, it’s best to leave the problem/issue/troublemaker in place so that staff can take a look at it. If you update/edit/correct it, there’s nothing for them to look at.
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[Sigh] Finding a theme similar to the one I have and going through all the rigamarole to make it look right, is not something I really want to spend my time on right now. I’ll look though.
No thank you on the block editor.
RE: leaving the problem to be looked at. I understand you reasoning however:
A) The last two times I asked questions in this forum about a problem I was having didn’t go so well. The first time I got one response asking for a link to the post in question (which I gave) followed by silence. I later (like a month or something) I reposed the same question and got no responses at all.
B) I had already shared links to this most recent post on several platforms and I didn’t want my readers to be looking at a messed up post. Considering the lack of response I had previously gotten here, waiting and seeing didn’t seem much of an option.
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Thank you for looking.
Understand about the block editor, but in the spirit of scientific experimentation… :) Yes, there’s a learning curve involved, but the most important thing to remember is that you can just type text without needing to do anything because the default block is the paragraph block. It’s added for you each time you create a new paragraph. If you want to add a quote you type /quote and if you want to add an image, you type /image That brings up the appropriate block.
And just pointing out that you’re already using the block editor here in the forums. :D
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I’ve only been doing basic text here, that’s hardly a comparison.
Maybe, but it’s still the block editor. For many, getting their head around using it is the biggest hurdle of all. Taking small steps helps.
Best wishes.
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