WordPress, for all the good it has done, simply cannot help but to screw up the simplest things.
<pre>\\.well-known</pre>
In walks WordPress, "Oh, let me quadruple those backslashes for you."
So I try \, which WordPress then converts into &#92;!
I just can't win here.
Yes, I know to make changes in the TEXT view, and not the Visual view. Tragically, that will give you all sorts of [other] problems, like randomly eating carriage-returns, or inserting a <br> here and there. This utility simply isn't cut-out for sharing code(-like) content.
Wait, wait—I got the formatting to stick, and the content to look the way I wanted.
NOBODY-MOVE-A-MUSCLE…
Anybody know what these lines of code do in the WordPress source? They look relevant…
add_action( 'save_post', '💩ify_input' );
add_action( 'save_post', 'lol_random_noise' );
Fun Fact: WordPress has an internal method called capital_P_dangit which changes cases of 'Word[p]ress' into the preferred 'Word[P]ress'. They go the extra mile to make sure I don't mess up their name, but they'll doo-doo all over my pre-formatted text 🤨 developer.wordpress.org/reference/func…
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