How do I stop Copied code into Body?

Hi Simon,

Do you mean it has pasted the code as plain text, so the user can see all the code? Or that is has pasted the code and the user sees formatted code?

Thanks

Mark

someone has take text from a website page, or a Word document,

Most likely Microsoft Word.

You should find a “Toggle Toolbar” button in your Visual Editor. Press that to show more tools, including a tool named “Clear formatting”. Press that “Clear formatting” button after you’ve entered your posts to ensure styling is stripped out.

Edit: Just realised this may not be available in a default installation. If it’s not, use Natalie’s advice below.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Andrew Nevins.

Hi Simon!

WordPress is smart enough. However there are a couple of caveats.

First off, there’s a button just for that in the editor. The “Paste As Text” button. If you want to paste content copied from another page or platform (like Word), you need to press the Paste As Text button in visual editor before pasting your text to strip off the formatting style of the text.

Also, when using the text (html) editor to edit your styling, don’t switch between the text and visual editor back and forth, because WP gets a bit crazy and your text won’t be displayed as it should.

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I never knew that was there.
Is it possible to enable that all the time? Or do you have to go into a Product/Page/Post, click that each time, and then paste?

Are you referring to the Paste as Text button?

You need to press it every time before pasting your content. You would go into the product/post/page editor anyway to paste your text, right? ?? Just click this before pasting. ??

Ok. I can ask the person to do that yes. Just a shame it cannot be left “on”, so it always forces it to remove the coding.

That you can add with a plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/paste-as-plain-text/