Don’t Ever Copy and Paste From Word Into Your BLOG!

by Scott Jay Ringle on May 27, 2010


Let me Speak into the Microphone. Blogging 101

So I can be Crystal Clear…all MyBrandBuilderPro and Empowered Brand Builders, Inc. students pay close attention.

We have had so many people make this mistake this week alone I had to write a post about it. PLEASE…never copy something from the Internet or from Microsoft Word, or anything else for that matter, and paste it into your WordPress Blog or WordPress Website.  WordPress uses what is called a WYSIWYG editor which stands for ” What You See Is What You Get”…which really means…if you copy junk and paste it into me I will blow up your blog.

Now there are some exceptions but I am not going to tell you 99% of them because it will not help your cause at all!  You can take text copied from Word and place it into NotePad which will strip the JUNK that is wrapped around the text out. In reality I don’t recommend you do that either.  You will end up having to reformat all of your text anyway so why bother. Just type the damn document straight into this editor and stop cutting corners ;)

Now with that out of the way…let’s get into blog posts in more detail.  Most of our students are using one of the four hot blog themes including this one which is Thesis.  Have you begun to dig around in your Admin area. We have made a lot of custom tweaks to your CSS and PHP code within Thesis but that does not mean you can’t add some amazing plugins and widgets IF YOU ARE CAREFUL. Enjoy your blog and by all means makes posts, add videos, be creative with photos, etc. etc. Have FUN! Content is still King and if you enjoy making content you will go far.

Remember when in doubt call our office or send an email to support.  We will make sure you don’t BLOW UP your blog…grrrr :) so many have come close this week.

Keep your nose clean by writing your own content, type directly into your editor and don’t past graphics, videos and pictures the size of  Texas in your Thesis blog and you will be just fine…!

Yours In WordPress Blogging Success,

Scott Jay Ringle

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