jsekera

I’d like to point something out that is becoming more and more obvious to me on the subject of cut and paste into the WYSIWYG editor.

Since switching to WP2.x many of us have been fighting the WYSIWYG editor for a number of reasons. I have because most of my customers are now using WordPress as their content management system (on my recommendation of course).

These people are running small to medium sized businesses and instantly see/want the power of the feature set WP 2.x offers them ‘out of the box’.

However MOST small businesses and people in business use Microsoft Word and Outlook (and Excel). Outside of a browser, these 3 programs are how a vast portion of people in business use and understand computers. Creating a document in MS Word is the only way they know how to write something professional. Copying that text From Word and pasting it into something else is how content moves to where they need it.

If Word Press is to really be effective and accepted as an easy to use – blog or CMS or web site generation – tool to all walks of people (not just us web geek types) its functionality needs to be geared towards how the majority of people will use it.

I want WordPress to go as far as possible – as a tool and a solution – to as broad a section of the “market” as possible. There has to be a better solution for this copy paste problem than to say that’s just how it is.

Thanks – thought that needed saying.

I have instructed my users to (for the time being) try one of a few shareware / freeware solutions that automatically strip formatting on cut and paste. The one that seems to be easiest for them to download / install / use so far is puretext20 from Steve Miller

https://stevemiller.net/PureText/

That said however I’d love to see a solution from within WP that doesn’t involve turning off the RTE feature.