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.)

The editor is starting to irk me as well. I mean, at least it’s not as hopelessly buggy as it used to be. But still, while it is nice to be able to hit Ctrl+I and get italics, it isn’t very nice that there’s a few milliseconds of delay every time you do this, so there’s a good chance that the next thing you type gets eaten. Also, context menues that only appear on hover — but only if they feel like it.

I don’t know. Maybe I’ll eventually be forced to go back to editing everything in raw HTML. Or maybe I’ll try to LaTeX2HTML plugin… we’ll see.