WordPress recoding my posts.

  • I run a video blog. And I’m switching from blogger. As I’m not able to get the import function of WP to work with Blogger I’m manually entering every post and comment. (While this is frustrating and troublesome, it is not the reason I’m asking for help.)

    I have a snippet of code I need in my posts so it displays an image that people click, a JavaScript is called (which I added to the header) and a dynamic html page is generated from a php page.

    I add this something like this to the post.

    <a href="javascript:openpopup('qtdisplay.php?movie=landau.mov&amp;title=On the Job Training')" />

    <img border="0" alt="On the Job Training" title="On the Job Training" src="https://dakev.com/thekeverreport/qtimg/landau.jpg&quot; /></a>

    <a href="https://dakev.com/thekeverreport/qt/landau.mov&quot; /></a>

    These two clips hold a wealth of very valuable information. This one, where the drunk lady bashes the reporter is down right funny.

    Hopefully this post will display the code as I’ve copied it. If the code does not make sense, then the post is missing some of what I put because of tags and all that.

    Anyhow, WP is duplicating lines, adding </a> and subtracting them. There doesn’t seem to be any method to this but it’s totally messing up what I’m trying to do.

    I certain this is not a user error.

    I’ll go to the html window, get the code just right, select it all, copy it, and then click update. I’ll immediately click the html window again, and WP has messed the code up… and it will not display correctly. I’ll select all the code and paste it and try again and WP does it all over.

    This is extremely frustrating and honestly, I’m wondering why I’m leaving blogger to begin with.

    Has anyone heard of this before or knows a fix?

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  • Have you tried disabling the WYSIWYG editor? It certainly will not handle pasted in code gracefully…

    Click on Users -> Your Profile. Scroll to the bottom and uncheck the option to use VRE. See if that works better.

    One other option you might turn off (not sure if it is only for Wysiwyg editor or not): Options -> Writing, uncheck “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically ”

    Thread Starter dakev

    (@dakev)

    That absolutely fixed the problem.

    With a response in less then 3 minutes I must concede I’m impressed.

    Thank you.

    Now back to the labor some task of manually transferring everything over.

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