How to format a wordpress blog – question
May 6, 2009I type an an entry up in Word, nicely formatted with all code indented and with a 25% grey background. Font size set to 10pt.
I paste the entry into WP using the ‘Paste from Word’ icon and all the formatting is lost and I have every line of code triplespaced by the look of things.
I often spend more time formatting an entry here than I do actually creating it (yes I know, they read like I have rushed them through).
Does anybody have any ideas or even the contents of a word style that they use that copies into WP succcessfully
TIA
John
I have never been happy with cut and paste from Word – there are so many “hidden” items that break the formatting.
If you use Word 2007 there is an option to “publish” to blog – you need to tell word the blog url and passwords and it uses a publish API to send the content up – whether this is flexible enough for you though I can’t say…
Older Word versions did not do this, but a standalone App LiveWriter could do much the same thing
I’ve seen windows live writer to be a good formatting tool. Word 2007 does publish but i’ve had formatting issues with that too.
Copy/paste from word always gives you a lot of useless “word” formatting tags. Why not just style your blog in a good html editor and copy/paste from there ?
Thanks all. Still struggling a bit.
I used live writer but that formatting was no better than my post from word.
I used UltraEdit which helped a bit but I still had to add break tags after every line of code and I could not get the indent and background colour tags to work within WordPress.
Any more help appreciated