Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

WordPress makes it very difficult to write a post with any links or images. When I write the XHTML code, WordPress “eats” it. Then in my draft window, it will put the link in blue underlined. The image will just show up as a blue box. When I look at the preview window, it is not much help. I then publish the page and I have dead links because WordPress just fills in random code. It likes to place “www.lifenotforliving.com/blog” before every address in the HTML code. Why it does this, I have no idea. So it takes me another 15 minutes or so to monkey arond with the code in a HTML window I can open inside the WordPress editor after I have written it.

So this is how I do my posts:

1. Write post in word
2. Paste in WordPress editor
3. Save the draft, preview in editor for any obvious errors
4. Publish the draft, view page in browser and check all broken links and images
5. Go back into WordPress editor, call up HTML window, fix broken links and images
6. Save, then view in browser window, check links and windows
7. Go back into WordPress editor and call up HTML window, fix broken link and images
8. Save and view in browser, hopefully everything is fixed.

When I write my post in Word, I try and remove all formatting that Word puts in. I also make sure my XHTML is correctly formed. If I am still having the same problems after I start writing my post in Notepad, drastic measures will be taken. Like moving to Typepad.*sigh*

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