WYSIWYG is stripping html from posts

WYSIWYG is not for posting code. It is for posting text.

If you want to use your own code – you don’t need the wysiwyg, so disable it, turn it off for good:
admin > Users > Your profile.

Hi Moshu,

Thanks for your reply. I’m entering code using the source tab (in the case of the form). With the line breaks, I’m just using the enter key in the WYSIWYG. Shouldn’t that work???

Shouldn’t that work???
As it stands now – NO, it doesn’t.
When switching between visual/code… the wysiwyg is still active/turned-on while saving the post.
So, I repeat: turn it off.

With respect: “turn it off” isn’t a fix.

I notice the main WYSIWYG thread (aka “Wish List”) was “turned off” 11 months ago.

Excuse me, but when I go to blogger.com *Gack Ptui* I get Visual and Code. When I go to LJ (Are we gonna have to pledge allegiance to Putin?) I get a totally awesome WYSIWYG and a righteous source editor. Heck, I get a usable source editor when I add comments at ITtoolbox. But for some reason I don’t get to use an honest source editor in WP.

To tell the truth I’d be happy to hear that this is a new problem. I was massively gob-smacked with the notion that folk have been putting up with this behaviour for years.

So … I repeat: “turn it off” might be a sort of work-around, but it isn’t a fix, because the “Source” editor imposes its own set of rules.

FWIW: I’m doing a survey of other editors (Xinha? I’ve never liked TinyMCE; I’m really angry at it right now; as I see more of the alternatives I like it even less. What’s this I hear about it truncating long posts? *shudder*) When I have something like a short list I’ll make a page at codex wiki.

–bentrem

I am unable to post code either and my thread on it was deleted. I think this is somethign Wordpess cannot do and the people that run this community can’t be bothered answering. Can i add object embed code or not folks? Its a simple question that doesnt seem to be answered anywhere. Sorry for sounding peesed off it’s just i dont appreciate coming to a forum to ask for help to be just deleted without question.

I suppose this will now be deleted. Glory glory wordpress.

I am able to post code, at least <p> and <br />,other simple html and embeded video code with no problem. When I am in the code mode I always save it before hitting the wysiwyg.

Sometimes when I come back in the code mode it looks like the s are gone but in the wysiwyg they are still functioning and in the actual post all is ok.

So, the key I think is not to flip back and forth between code and wysiwyg or if you do, save (publish) in between.

You might also try Microsofts Windows Live Writer if you are on that platform. It ties directly to WordPress and seems to work ok.

the key I think is not to flip back and forth between code and wysiwyg or if you do, save (publish) in between.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there. (As someone who uses “Code View” 75% of the time or more, it matters to me.)

Attempting to collect info on this at:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/How_Wordpress_Processes_Entry_Text

In my case, I am happy to turn off the visual editor, but require non-savvy users to later touch those pages and posts. I can get a working version on the site, but any future edit by another user using the fancy editor destroys the page/post.

The code view editor shouldn’t process or change a thing — or this should at least be available for those who desire / require such functionality.

This is really annoying! I upgraded WP for several clients and am not able to “leave” the wysiwyg turned off – my clients are not coder geeks! I find it strange that this topic is not answered or if so with words like “we don’t want the people to fill in code”. Even though WP is open source I’ll have to rethink my strategy of providing CMS for my clients… And I think it’s an offense to see “code is poetry” in the footer in all forum threads where I try to find a way to enable the “code function” in WP. I’m talking about structuring the posts and pages – not about severe programming – just a possibility for the end-user to push the frikkin “Enter” key to format his pages/posts.

@roberthauk
I’d like to hear what your clients sound like

just a possibility for the end-user to push the frikkin “Enter” key to format his pages/posts.

I agree! If the client wants to have 6 line breaks, he should be able to hit the “Enter” key 6 times and get what he wants. After all, that’s what “Word” does, and that’s what I compare most WYSIWYG editors to my clients to (ie. if you can type in Word, you can edit your website). I build the sites to look pretty, but the majority of my clients want to edit their own pages. Why shouldn’t they be able to do it in the fashion they want?

Holy cow…this is a crazy problem!

Why can’t we use the WYSIWYG and type in code as desired? I need some of the features of the WYSIWYG (I’m a novice), but if I keep it on it screws up some of the html I use.

Argh!

Please somebody do something about this! I’ll bake you cookies :~)

Has anyone tried RC1 for WP 2.6? I’m wondering if the line breaks issue has been resolved yet? And yes, @roberhauk is right. A platform like WP (which is very simple in almost every OTHER way) should easily offer non-coders the ability to write and post, w/o having to know HTML (even if these are fairly simple tags).

Hi Moshu:

We have a problem inserting the code also. So we did as per your recommendation, that is, disabled the editor. Then we created a page, pasted the code, but still don’t work. Captcha image fails to display.

We had to add a plugin called Hana Code so we can paste the code into said plugin and then paste the short generated code into the page. Now, everything works fine.

So, disabling the editor, seems to disable part of it and not all.

Charles

Why isn’t anyone able to fix this? I’ve searched all through the forum for days, tried everything, even inserting
p {
margin: 0;
padding: 5;
margin-top: 5px;
}
into stylesheet, and also grabbing a fix — editor_plugin_script.js from sourceforge and entering it into WP code everywhere I can find a mention of tinyMCE in folders. I am not a geek but I am familiar with CSS and necessary “stuff” for WordPress.

It is just unbelievable to me that we all keep posting and posting about this problem and there is no fix. I’ve tried numerous themes, I’ve disabled plug ins, I’ve done every fix mentioned in all the forum posts. I am about 48 hours away from leaving WordPress (after being a loyal user since WP’s inception).

I use Firefox, iMac (but have tried Safari and Opera). Have used IE6 and 7 and Windows XP.

I have lost too many hours of my life trying to fix this stupid problem.

Somebody please help us.