My cut and paste to my web site, converts to text and not visual

[nigel wakefield]

my cut and paste to my web site, converts to text and not visual

I can by pass it by going direct to text and converting to visual, I lose all the links used in the articles and spend too much time setting them up again. Any thoughts on how to correct it?

 

[Ian]

Welcome to the forums Nigel .

Unfortunately, I don't understand your problem. What are you using to edit your website? I'm also not sure what the difference is between text and visual? If you could explain in a little more detail and I'll do my best to help.

 

[nigel wakefield]

I cut and paste articles from supportive companies on to www.buyingapub.com for our readers.
About three weeks ago I found that a lot of weird symbols were appearing when it was pasted on visual.

If you don't know the difference between visual and text, visual is what you normally do your web articles in, text is next to visual and you click on there and you get pages of techy language, I delete all that I don't want or need or change the dimensions of pictures, logos, headings etc.

As below, everything in red, anywhere that an apostrophe, hyphen or comma related had the red type between a link, as in Scotland - Minimum.

The only wording should be the link Scotland - Minimum Unit Price consultation.

Knowing a little about text, I switched the article from visual to text, the result was that switching back to visual, I had everything as, Scotland - Minimum Unit Price consultation, no link, no blue colour.

On big articles it was taking a lot of time removing the alien type, pasting on text was easier, but putting all the links back was a hassle.

Hope this makes sense, I have lost my IT specialist who normally sorts out these occasional nasties.

We do occasionally seem to get hit by companies that don't like their unsavoury activities being exposed, I don't think this is one of those times.

Version 1.0 etc., I have no idea what it is, unless it is linked to the article source.

Version:1.0 StartHTML:000000202 EndHTML:000013246 StartFragment:000012036 EndFragment:000013114 StartSelection:000012067 EndSelection:000013108 SourceURL:https://email25.godaddy.com/webmail.phpWorkspace Webmail :: Mail Index :: Trash

Scotland – Minimum Unit Price consultation

 

[Ian]

Ah, I see - this is a WordPress site. It looks like they name the WYSIWYG editor as "visual" and the raw editor as "text" (https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/content/editors/).

Unfortunately, encoding problems like this can sometimes happen when there's an incompatibility between the source and destination, or when unusual characters are used. You may have better luck using a different browser to try this in - it will be interesting to see if it still happens.

You could also try copying the text from wherever the source is (a browser or e-mail client I guess), then paste it in to Word as an intermediary, then in to the Wordpress editor. This long-winded way may preserve the encoding a little better, particularly if you use the "paste as text" option: https://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/