(Toothpaste For Dinner is the comic of Drew, husband of Natalie Dee, whose comics I love)

This day just cannot possibly be more, umm, challenging. Between WordPress and YouTube, I had myself completely confounded. Around three weeks ago I was going through the options and whatnot in WordPress and out of curiosity enabled the Visual Rich Text Editor. That is the reason why some of my posts since that moment of doom featured weird-looking and utterly undesirable fonts.

Ever since then, I have been trying to disable the Visual Rich Text Editor — obviously to no avail. I normally assumed all along that the option exists under Options >> Writing, because it has everything to do with writing. Makes sense, doesn’t it? This evening, equally frustrated once again, I went through the Options under the Writing tab (for the 100th time) and read:

Formatting: Users should use the visual rich editor by default

The option was unchecked, which drove me even closer to pazzia than ever. But fear not, this story has an ending for all who wander are not lost. I looked under Users >> Your Profile and voila! there was my holy grail right under About Yourself! This is how the culprit looks like:

Personal Options: Use the visual rich editor when writing

Now, being your average (such a demeaning word, I resent it) user, I have been looking for this one sentence for three weeks. I have suffered, my blog has suffered, and my readers have suffered as well (cue: three revealing posts in one day). Could ye who speaketh in ones and zeroes explain why this option is located under Users >> Your Profile and not under Options >> Writing ?

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