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Earn a mitzvah: help Jill copy & paste text w/hyperlinks into WordPress


I’ve figured out how to bring up the advanced toolbar on a Mac (read here). I’ve managed to bring up the special panel that tells you to paste your Word text into a special box that then inserts it into the WordPress text box (for when you’re writing your blog entry).

But each time I’ve successfully managed to paste that text in (and I don’t actually succeed every time, and I don’t know if that’s because I have to use the Control C to copy or do it from the toolbar), it still doesn’t have the hyperlinks from the text.

I’m working with text that was sent to me in an html document.

Okay – I know everyone is just dying to help me with this. But think of it this way: it’s a mitzvah. A big mitzvah. And with Yom Kippur next week, don’t you need all the mitzvot you can muster?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:48 am September 9th, 2007 in Blogging 

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7 Responses to “Earn a mitzvah: help Jill copy & paste text w/hyperlinks into WordPress”

  1. 1 Lisa Renee on September 9th, 2007 11:34 am

    Jill, I do not use the rich text editor when I blog with WordPress, hence I just cut and paste the text into the box then use the tabs that you will see that are similar to blogger to make it a blockquote or to add the “more” which is the ‘read more feature’.

    When I do links, I use the standard a href link, when I am on the Mac or on my Windows. It’s the old fashion way, but for me it works faster.

  2. 2 rob hawkins on September 9th, 2007 11:39 am

    Jill,

    You need to either copy and paste the html source or manually add the link.

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on September 9th, 2007 11:43 am

    What does that mean, “paste the html source”? Is there a way to show all the source code while I am IN Word, then copy and paste that version into WordPress, in the code box, then go “visual”?

    I do realize that I may have to put all the links in manually.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on September 9th, 2007 11:44 am

    I will try cutting and pasting again with the editor off, but I think I did try that with this text that’s been sent to me. It’s for the All Women Blogging Carnival and it came as an html doc. I also opened it in text editor, and I copied it into Word. I’ll figure something out, I’m sure. :) I just assume I’m never the only one who has had a problem and that others must know more. lol

  5. 5 rob hawkins on September 9th, 2007 11:53 am

    Ah, didn’t realize you were in word.

    When I say html source, I mean where you can see all the p tags and a href tags etc.
    I don’t know if that’s possible with a word document. Did it come as an .html file or a .doc file?

    My be is you’ll figure it out before you see this post. ;-)

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on September 9th, 2007 11:57 am

    It came as an HTML file.

  7. 7 Michael Wender on September 10th, 2007 12:38 pm

    In this post, you linked to my screencast about pasting from MS Word into WordPress. If you are still having problems, send me your file, and I will see if I can give you some quick and easy advice on achieving the results you are looking for.

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