Doing Things Wrong

WordPress 7.0

I cringe whenever I see a new major version number of WordPress - what did they break this time? But you can't hold back the tide, so with some trepidation I installed it on a test site, and to my surprise, I found nothing wrong. The changes are all on the back-end, and completely unnecessary, like animated menus. The people in charge must be six-year-olds in need of entertainment.

Then I tested the editor, and not at all to my surprise I found they had broken it in a way that shows just how little they test things or care. Fortunately I was able to fix it with a little more of my own code. That is the risk you take when you use a platform like WordPress. Someday they may break something I can't fix.

Of course, they also added support for AI. At least that is disabled by default, and it is going to stay that way. I am not even curious, crusty old curmudgeon that I am.


You can build a guitar with just a jigsaw. It will do everything you need to do, it just won't do it as well as a scroll saw or bandsaw. The biggest problem with a jigsaw is that the blade is only fixed at one end. It stays fairly perpendicular when cutting straight, but will get pretty crooked cutting curves, especially in thick materials. If you are going to use a jigsaw, cut well outside your lines and sand-in.