Caught out.
I got caught out by a very strange issue the other day. I posted a short entry about Bill Gates having a spot of bother with Windows. The entry I posted was copied out of an email I was composing to my brother in-law and this was my mistake. Of course I was using Outlook to compose the email, Outlook in this case is using word to compose the body of the email and add in the fancy rich text effects. What I did not realise was that when you copy and paste from word, you don’t just get the text but all the background XML and styling info as well.
Initially this might not sound too alarming, unfortunately when you paste that into Wordpress, without using the ‘paste from word’ option in the WSYWIG editor provided within Wordpress, the tags and style info becomes active.
The result of the cock-up was that over the weekend I has a blog with the ugliest colour scheme know to man (what you don’t like orange? ;0) All the links were blue, the default styling for most browsers, and IE refused to load the site at all :0(
Thankfully my pal Lummie did a quick search and found out what the problem was while I was trying to figure out how the frack I got all these crappy tags into my site without touching it.
Once the offending article was cleaned up, the universe was returned to it’s previous state and all is well.
There are several plugins available out there to help you clean up if you need to but I advise you either copy into notepad first then copy from there to ensure you don’t get the crud or use the paste from word function in Wordpress.
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