Experience
I wanted to try a different writing experience in WordPress.
For me both the "classic" editor and the block editor are less than perfect for just writing simple posts.
Plugins
I did a very fast and lazy search.
At first I wanted to use JetPack, but when I went to install it I decided that it was much more than what I needed or wanted.
I then tried Iceberg, but became confused as to whether it was available or under development. I went to the github repo, but soon realized that I needed to build it. I might try that later, but for now I just wanted some instant gratification.
I believe I am getting that with Githuber. As you can see from the plugin repository link it has a pretty good user base and seems to be under active development at this time. Here is the githuber repository link.
By the way these articles were very helpful in my lazy search:
Using Markdown
Lately I have been using markdown more often as I work mostly in VS Code. I have found that for basic writing and taking notes (which is most of what I do on this site) it is tough to beat markdown.
The result is simple and that is what I am looking for.
Legacy Posts
I am a little bit concerned about how my legacy posts might look and don't want to re-work them for simple edits or for their formatting to become scrambled.
It seems that this won't be a problem as there is a switch which allows you to go back to the block editor for legacy posts. I'll need to test how that works later.
Here is a bullet list for demonstration purposes...
My concerns:
- Ease of writing
- Ease of editing.
- Ability to switch back to the block editor if needed.
- Keeping the integrity of my legacy posts.
- What about spell check?
- How much will I miss the cool little things from my Astra theme like custom preview snippets?
Adding an image
I am going to add an image below. I suspect alignment would be pretty basic.
Using HTML tags
I think I can also add the image directly via an HTML tag like this:
How does this work for code?
So, let me try some JavaScript...
(function() {
console.log("This is what a simple script would look like.");
}());So, this is promising...