Wordpress’ HTML Editor sucks donkey

I’ve yet to figure out quicktags or even how to change or style anything in this horrible little WYSIWYG box, so bear with the ugliness for a while.

I started converting my HTML pages into “blog 2.0″ and hit a road bump. Wordpress can only edit posts or “pages” in this crappy little WYSIWYG editor box. It’s fucking retarded. It makes converting these pages a bloody hard job.

The editor box has a HTML button, so I click on that and get a little HTML editor pop up. Neat, I thought, I’ll just copy and paste the HTML from my old pages in to this little box and I’ll be set. Wrong, Baines, it’s never that easy.

Not only does it not read comments, it retards everything you put in to it. I pasted in my About Me page and the list next to the picture has <a name=”main”></a> All throughout it. I mean everywhere. At the top of the list, outside of the list, inbetween each list item, after the list.

I was able to mow out a few of them but damn, they are persistant.
If you go to the about page, view the source and scroll down to the content, I’m sure you’ll see what I’m talking about.

I decided it was just something Wordpress did, and shrugged it off. Next up, the contact form.
Well, here’s a before and after. I’m speechless, I just can’t figure out the logic behind this.

So it took the [endtextarea] tag, from after the [starttextarea] tag and put it all the way at the end of the form. Not only that, but it added another [endform] tag right before the [endtextarea]. So that’s One [startform], two [endforms] and one [textarea] that englufs the submit/reset buttons, aswell as an [endform] tag. Makes sense to me. Wait.. what?

If anyone knows how to straight code HTML pages or a way to obliterate this horrible, horrible WYSIWYG editor than please, PLEASE let me know. For now I’ve given up on wordpress, it’s just way too noob-friendly and not nearly user-friendly as it thinks it is.