Some of us like to prepare our WordPress posts or pages in a processor such as MS Word or OpenOffice Writer – understandable, especially if you are more familiar with such.
The thing to remember to do, however, is to paste your copied text into the HTML tab of your New Post or Page, and then pop to the Visual tab and work on any formatting there.
This is just a quick tip – there are obviously other ways to add new posts, but we’ve found that many people copy and paste their WordPress blog posts without realising that any formatting added/included with their Word text is also pasted, and that can make your post look a bit odd. We’ll cover other methods in further posts…
Now of course you can take out any unnecessary or un-required code from that HTML page, but it really is simpler (usually) to paste your text there and then add your desired formatting within WordPress.
Very sensible tip, and one I’ve often forgotten to do! It really annoys me, when I’ve done loads of formatting in Word and then lost it on transfer.
Very sensible tip, and one I’ve often forgotten to do! It really annoys me, when I’ve done loads of formatting in Word and then lost it on transfer.
Such a useful tip, thank you… I learn from you every day.
Such a useful tip, thank you… I learn from you every day.
Of course the other side of the coin is that you might want to keep the formating?
When copying from a Webpage into a blog I paste to notepad, and write the blog there to lose the HTML formatting.
Of course the other side of the coin is that you might want to keep the formating?
When copying from a Webpage into a blog I paste to notepad, and write the blog there to lose the HTML formatting.