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WordPress Blog Post WYSIWYG Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Often get asked if you can blog on WordPress with very little HTML knowledge, in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) approach. The answer we give is … yes … but the results may disappoint without some other programming intelligence applied. The idea of a WYSIWYG approach to anything that involves a conversion to anything is tenuous enough, without all the font styling and whitespace issues involved. However, the discussion is important, as what people have to say, is much more important that what it looks like, in our opinion.<\/p>\n

Have to say that, for us, hand crafted HTML is preferable once you get to that Post->Add New functionality as Julius Sumner Miller used to say … “observe” …<\/p>\n

Take a look at the look of LibreOffice “Writer Document” Save As… HTML (+ get rid of some annoying <span …> … <\/span> elements … ie. WYSIWYG + translation to HTML) …<\/p>\n

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This is a tutorial
\nabout WYSIWYG in the sense that today we make up a large part of the
\ncontent of our blog posting not using raw HTML coding. We create the
\nmiddle bits here using the Libre Office \u201cWriter Document\u201d
\nfunctionality, but it could just as easily be done with Microsoft
\nOffice Word or Open Office or perhaps even Wordperfect. In other
\nwords, you don’t have <\/b>to
\nknow HTML to post on a WordPress blog, but, as we always say, \u201cit
\nhelps a lot\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So
\nhere you are a bit trep<\/span><\/span>i<\/span><\/span>datious
\nabout HTML. First thing we’d say is to do an online peruse of
\nW3Schools <\/span><\/span>at
\nhttp:\/\/www.w3schools.com<\/a> <\/span><\/span>or
\nread more at this blog via
\nhttp:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=HTML<\/a>
\nand then the next thing would be that you create a document in a word
\nprocessor as naturally as you normally do, and at the end use its
\nFile->Save As… menu to save as HTML, and then open that HTML in
\na text editor like TextWrangler (Mac) or Wordpad (Windows) or Notepad
\n(Windows) or TextPad (Windows) or UltraEdit (Windows) and \u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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