I have previously written about how infuriating it is that you can’t just force WordPress to look nice.

Well, I eventually uncovered a button that allows you to noodle around with the raw CSS. I saw there was a button to edit the theme — but that’s going to get reverted next time a theme update happens. So I thought it was just impossible to fix (short of learning how to develop your own WordPress themes — which is a bit much like to get sensible rendering).

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So today I attempted to write a post that has some tables in it. Suffice it to say, working with tables in WordPress is infuriatingly hard! I came damn close to rage-quitting when I discovered that WordPress won’t allow you to change the text alignment of table cells. I mean, seriously. How is anybody supposed to do anything with this miserable piece of software if it doesn’t allow even the most basic formatting?!

I screamed in agony when I discovered that the only way to align table cells is to manually edit the raw HTML. (Which the editor then won’t recognise as a table any more, and has to be treated as “custom HTML”. Yes, that’s right, the trivial task of aligning a text cell is “custom”. Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot.)

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So, about 10 years after last using WordPress, I once again have a blog.

When I set this up ten years ago, my hosting provider offered, like, 6 possible themes. So I chose the one with the most green in it, obviously. It was wild and wacky and mildly over the top, and the font was awful… but since there is literally nothing I could do about it, I just kind of accepted that my blog would have to look lame.

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