Formatting articles for your blog
Todays question:
Hello Great show last night. I don’t know if you can help or not
I’ve been searching for a way to change the format of plr articles
They’re full of goofy code. I copy just the article,but I can’t get them to work. I pasted one in my word press blog and the words break and they go edge to edge in my blog.
This is not an unusual problem if the content you are using is in Word doc format. You actually have two different items giving you problems and it can be very frustrating to say the least.
First Word documents have a lot of formatting code in them and when you copy and paste this formatting comes with it.
Second the WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) in WordPress adds it’s own formatting and the two do not play well and you end up with a big mess to say the least.
The key is to get rid of the formatting on the original before you paste it in to your blog WYSIWYG. This is relatively easy to do. You just need to add a step to your process.
Copy from the Word document and paste it into a blank notepad document. Then copy the notepad document and paste that into your WYSIWYG. This will remove all of the formatting that was in the original Word document and you will allow the WYSIWYG to format it without being over written from the original formatting.
Now you may still have to go in and add any features from the original article like bolding or italics but you will be able to have it display according to your blog’s normal display.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
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4 comments
Earl Netwal on November 19, 2008 at 11:32 am
Thanks Mike, Nice simple answer that solves the problem.
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Fred Lotgering on November 19, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Mike,
I learned this the hard way too. It is not just WordPress, many other WYSIWYG editors still have this problem. Some detect and let you paste the word document in a popup window simular to notepad to remove the formatting. Several safelists let you paste the word document, show it in “preview” with the word formatting but wait till you see the results in the e-mail!
I make it a standard practice to copy word documents into notepad, then copy and paste and then start formatting in the WYSIWYG editor to get best, consistent, results.
Fred
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Glenn Seymour on November 19, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Thanks Mike,
I did not know that.
Glenn
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Paul Livingston on November 20, 2008 at 1:16 am
Interesting stuff.
Too bad Wordpress doesn’t have the ‘Paste Special’ command
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