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Jackie Ralston's avatar

I doubt you'd be surprised to learn that WordPress has a "site editor" like that: just drag and drop elements where you want them. I despise it. Fortunately, there's a "classic editor" plugin that lets oldster coders like me do stuff by hand.

I hope the worst of the cleanup is behind you.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

I started with the Wordpress.com site circa 2009 or so, but quickly moved to a self hosted deployment and never looked back.

The new block editor is a major pain in the ass, and I *guess* it appeals to the less sophisticated, but I prefer to write in markdown, and insert HTML to get things to look just right.

I am still coming to grips with the chaos that the amateurs put in it 4 years ago when they started (and that person is - naturally - long gone

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