JenJen May 10, 2024

Wordpress nerds! I am trying to figure out how to edit bits in code on their editor, but when I replace my navigation that looks like this, with my own html it won't show up.

What is this code? Css? What the heck?
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#wordpress #FediHelp #BeginnerCoder

Show threadZekovski 🧣May 10, 2024
@JenJen If I'm not mistaken, stuff between <!-- --> are comments. Which means they are ignored when displaying your HTML.
Show threadeishiya
@Zekovski @JenJen They're HTML comments, but in this case I think they might be some sort of WordPress markup with JSON inside. I've seen other templating systems use HTML comments for their stuff. I don't know WP though, so I'm merely guessing.
May 10, 2024 at 6:36pmWeb
Show threadZekovski 🧣May 10, 2024
@eishiya @JenJen
I wondered about this too, but hoped noone would actually do that.
I'll just share and hope some actual WP nerds know better.
Show threadeishiyaMay 10, 2024

@Zekovski I've seen it multiple times, so unfortunately yes, people do that, and often 🤣 It's the simplest way to make sure you allow the full range of HTML outside the templated parts while still being relatively unlimited in the characters and keywords you can use within the template bits.

Of course, you'd think with a system like that, they'd accept arbitrary HTML outside the comment blocks :|