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Followup to my post yesterday about WordPress, me, and insufficient delight.

I mentioned that my editor fonts look crappy. I noticed that as of version 4.6, the dashboard is supposed to take “advantage of the fonts you already have, making it load faster and letting you feel more at home on whatever device you use.” It may be doing that for fonts outside of the HTML editor tab, but for that tab, it isn’t using my chosen monospace font. I mentioned that I could probably fix this with Stylish, and I just did, and life’s a lot better now.

I mentioned that my markdown text is getting converted to HTML, which I really dislike. The WordPress.com account on Twitter kindly replied to tell me that this is a feature, not a bug.

I couldn’t find a mention of this change in any of the past years’ changelogs, and the doc page for WordPress markdown disagrees, but maybe it’s just in need of an update.

I mentioned that the media manager wasn’t surfaced in the new UI, and that that’s how I’d been uploading images to include in my posts. WordPress.com pointed out on Twitter that I can use the Add Media button in the editor…

But, there’s no Add Media button in the HTML tab of the editor, which is where I edit my markdown, which, I guess, will automatically convert at some future point to HTML anyway, so…

However, I realized that I can use the Set Featured Image button in the sidebar to upload an image, copy its URL, uncheck the featured image checkbox, cancel out of the dialog, and then paste that URL into my post, and that works.

Anyway, I let my annual premium subscription auto-renew about a month and a half ago, so I’m out of the refund window, so I’ll probably stick around, although this markdown to HTML autoconvert misfeature is pretty distressing. Worst case scenario, I’m supporting open source software, so there’s that.