Joomla - is it just ****

Soldato
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I've offered to help my wife's company with their website.

Main website is Wordpress, runs fine. This is a side website offering specialist products and it's on a Joomla platform.

The developer built it, gave them a Joomla book and left them to it. Then, 4 months later announced she was leaving the industry. The site looks good but underneath...wow

Everything is in a span tags, so <span><a href...><span>text</span></a></span>

the code editor doesn't save or show any formatting.

Urls use different formatting randomly.

You can't enter br tags, it just removes them. If you add a new line it adds in a blank <p> and even if you use shift+enter to move down a line without using a <p> it does show a <br> tag but insisde the paragraph before.

an hour I've been using it, I hate it. Is it really this bad or is it just badly setup? I know it's been around a fair few years now so it can't be completely terrible but I'm thinking of rebuilding it in WP or bootstrap. :(

Edit:

New issues..

Can't update, throws an infinite loop error, google brings up a fix I can try.

Uploading a pdf that is 4.5mb in size, choose file, max size says 10mb, start upload....this file is too large to upload...

now I need to mess around trying to change upload_max_filesize which I don't think I've got access too :( cry
 
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Soldato
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Yeah that is an option, just a drawn out one as I am doing this, their SEO and PPC as a favour.

I need to get some login details for the hosting to see if I can sort the file size upload issue otherwise some of the work is a no go.
 
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