[Techtalk] Helping non-techies with websites -- any experience?

[Kagan MacTane]

On 2016-10-28 10:06, Akkana Peck wrote:
>> A web developer friend advised that, with wordpress, it's possible to edit
>> the html/css as you like while still keeping the back-end code as is if you
>> have your own host and download wordpress as a freebie.
> I haven't found that to be the case. On the Wordpress site I
> help with, sure there's an HTML tab where you can type tags, but
> only a few tags are supported and the rest do unpredictable things.
> And there are a lot of other weirdnesses, e.g. all line breaks get
> turned into <br> so you can't include any formatting in your HTML.
> It would be a confusing way to learn HTML, and what you learned might
> not translate very well to anything outside Wordpress.

There's a plugin you can get called Raw HTML, which lets you disable 
that sort of thing. It might prove useful:

http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/12/13/raw-html-in-wordpress/

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Kagan MacTane