Smart pasting in visual mode? Including HTML, Links etc…

  • Resolved nickaster

    (@nickaster)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    So dig this – sometimes people send me guest posts. Invariably they send me Microsoft word, which is of course a bloody nightmare to work with since they don’t understand that sticking images into word docs doesn’t help a blog post.. but that’s a tangent.

    I have seen, on occasion, that hyperlinks pasted into visual mode in wordpress actually do, in fact, translate over. I can’t figure out when I’ve seen this happen – was I using the pc? was it a browser thing? Was it rich text and not MSWord?

    I really can’t remember, but I know I’ve seen it work. Have you? Does anyone know under what conditions hyperlinks and other basic HTML will actually transfer over in visual mode?

    Right now I’m on a mac, and it never seems to work…

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  • Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Anyone ever gotten this to work?

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Was this a total hallucination?

    Nope but I think the whole idea of pasting anything in from Word sent most people screaming off into the hills. The potential problems caused by the additional pasting in of Word’s own formatting and the effect of said formatting on IE is just too serious a problem for most people to risk.

    FWIW, I copy all Word content into a plain text editor first before it goes anywhere near WP. All of the formatting, links & images are then added in manually. Sure, it’s a PITA but a heck of a lot safer and possibly even less work in the long run.

    Have you looked at using Live Writer? Never used it myself but perhaps it might help when transferring content safely from Word?

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    Thanks! Yeah, I hate word. The problem is I get tons of guest submissions all the time and they almost always get sent to me in word. Would be super time-savings to not have to re-do every hyperlink.

    I’ll check out live writer.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    In Word, you can save the document as HTML. You should still open it in a plain text editor to “sanitize” it before pasting it into the HTML editor in WordPress, but that should save you some time.

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    huh. did not know that. Does “pages” for Mac allow you to do that? I can’t seem to find the option…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Pages can’t, but TextEdit can.

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