Wordpress Post Content Formatting Questions
The problem is I have 6-8 pages of content to put into a post right now.
I've written it up in Word 2007. I copy the text from Word and paste into Notepad. Then I copy from Notepad and paste into my Wordpress blog post editor. From there, I start formating the content.
The problem is that WYSIWYG editors are crap. I tried using the HTML version instead, and started trying to add line breaks such as "<BR>" and the silly thing won't allow me to separate paragraphs. It just ignores some of the codes I put in. This wasn't the only problem.
I've often had problems simply adding Heading2 tags to headings.. Wordpress just decides, HEY! The next 3 paragraphs are a heading?! Awesome!!
Some of the simple codes I'm using I *KNOW* are right on some level; I used to have to enter things into a Twiki that used a WYSIWYG editor every day. I simply went ahead and used simple tags for bold, italics, line breaks, etc all the time. In wordpress? Apparently adding a blank line is like asking for a cure for cancer.
Anyway. I'm looking for a complete list of simple HTML tags that are known to actually work in Wordpress so I can just get my content properly formatted finally. Can anyone help?
I have found some stuff online already, such as the following:
* b - <strong></strong> HTML tag for strong emphasis of text (i.e. bold).
* i - <em></em> HTML tag for emphasis of text (i.e. italicize).
* b-quote - <blockquote></blockquote> HTML tag to distinguish quoted or cited text.
* del - <del></del> HTML tag to label text considered deleted from a post. Most browsers display as striked through text. (Assigns datetime attribute with offset from GMT (UTC))
* link - <a href="http://example.com"></a> HTML tag to create a hyperlink.
* ins - <ins></ins> HTML tag to label text considered inserted into a post. Most browsers display as underlined text. (Assigns datetime attribute with offset from GMT (UTC))
* ul - <ul></ul> HTML tag will insert an unordered list, or wrap the selected text in same. An unordered list will typically be a bulleted list of items.
* ol - <ol></ol> HTML tag will insert a numbered list, or wrap the selected text in same. Each item in an ordered list are typically numbered.
* li - <li></li> HTML tag will insert or make the selected text a list item. Used in conjunction with the ul or ol tag.
* code - <code></code> HTML tag for preformatted styling of text. Generally sets text in a monospaced font, such as Courier.
* more - <!--more--> WordPress tag that breaks a post into "teaser" and content sections. Type a few paragraphs, insert this tag, then compose the rest of your post. On your blog's home page you'll see only those first paragraphs with a hyperlink ((more...)), which when followed displays the rest of the post's content.
* page - <!--nextpage--> WordPress tag similar to the more tag, except it can be used any number of times in a post, and each insert will "break" and paginate the post at that location. Hyperlinks to the paginated sections of the post are then generated in combination with the wp_link_pages() or link_pages() template tag.
* lookup - Opens a JavaScript dialogue box that prompts for a word to search for through the online dictionary at answers.com. You can use this to check spelling on individual words.
* Close Tags - Closes any open HTML tags left open--but pay attention to the closing tags. WordPress is not a mind reader (!), so make sure the tags enclose what you want, and in the proper way.
However I'm still looking for things like.. how to set the font size and style. How to *ADD BLANK LINES!!*, how to properly add H1/H2 tags and similar, etc.
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