Adding spreadsheets and Publications to your blog

  • IS the best way to do this to save as html?

    ANd then copy/paste.

    Perhaps there are plugins that are faster?

    Also what about PDFs

    Are they slow and non SEO?

    And anyway as links they are outside your blog so is there a away to bring a pdf within a post or page?

    Ronan

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  • I’ve had a lot of luck with spreadsheets using Vista’s Snipping tool during Print Preview in Excel and OpenOffice Calc, to create a .jpg that I post as a picture in a WordPress page or post.

    For PDF’s, I use a similar approach, capturing a thumbnail .jpg of all or part of the PDF document. And tell people to click on the thumbnail to see the full PDF. I then code the A HTML tag with an href= that points to the .pdf file.

    Thread Starter ronandownes

    (@ronandownes)

    Is that not a bit slow –

    I am new to wordpress and web design so I might be wrong but I would have thought jpegs for data was a nono?

    Ronan

    Although there might be a Plug-in for it, the built-in Visual Editor in WordPress does not support HTML tables, so it can be a real problem displaying spreadsheets properly. Take it another step, as my customer did, who wanted the exact font, colours and other formatting shown just as a print of the spreadsheet would in Excel, and a .jpg was really the only practical approach.

    Obviously, it is only practical when the spreadsheet is small enough to display fully and still be readable. But, even then, the same approach can be used as I did with the PDF: show a thumbnail in jpg format that can be clicked on to see it full size. Since not everyone may have Excel or OpenOffice Calc, you may wish to give them a choice of actually downloading the spreadsheet or displaying a full size jpg of it.

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