Doing Things Wrong

WordPress Again

It seems the WordPress team has been busy adding "features" to the new versions. Features that raise html errors. Otherwise known as bugs. I added some code to defeat the new "functionality". WordPress really needs to get some good product testers. Testing is just as important as writing buggy code in the first place.

This is a very useful tool:

https://validator.w3.org/

Some of what I uncovered was my own fault, but most of it was WordPress getting, ahem, "better". Try this page in that tool - right now it finds no errors and two warnings that are both harmless and buried too deep in the WordPress core to be worth going after.


I have been satisfied with the overall look and feel of the site for a while now, so it became time to clean up the code. A lot of features and ideas were scabbed-on in whatever way worked, resulting in a lot of kludgy code and redundancy. Some things ( like the main navigation menu ) became so convoluted that it was hard to predict exactly what they would do.