I thought this was easy!

byIntroVent

601 followers

7 years ago

Hey everyone!

Until about two-and-a-half weeks ago, I thought that I understood editing in WP and felt really comfortable doing it. Now, when I say comfortable,I'm certain that I am not talking about the expert level, but back in the early day of HTML, I wrote simple web pages and, while I don't remember much about how to do that at all, I can easily remember enough to say that WP is WAY easier than that was! So, while I've been toying with WP over the last few months, I have become comfortable with it.

But something has changed.

No, I didn't upgrade to 5.0, although, being new at it, I might agree that the sooner I start adapting to the change, the better my half-century old brain will understand it. The change I'm talking about is different from that.

I notice that when I create an article in Site Content then publish it, I can go over to WP and edit it, adding images, captions, hyperlinks..whatever and it comes out pretty much the way that I want it to. I save it and I'm done.

But later, I'm surfing the wikimedia commons for a pic and find something that is better for my article than a picture that I have in it, so I download it, I go upload it to my article in the same place. It looks great in the editor, but then I publish it and go to view it and now all the text formatting is messed up by not leaving an entire block of text next to a picture, just the single line where I clicked to place the pic.

Odd as this seems, it only happens when I place a picture on the LEFT of the text.

So now, as I start to see complaints about the new 5.0, I am wondering if WP has changed something so that I would feel compelled to convert. Well, I am. In fact, because I need to start learning this now, I am going to convert now (After I make sure my theme is compatible).

I had to mention this. Do any of you experience this same issue with 4.9.8?

Do any of you have a theory on how to overcome this text formatting loss?

Thanks for reading!