Re: wordpress user maillist

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Russell L. Harris (HE12025-08-17):
> Would someone kindly point me to a WordPress.org user email list?  I
> have searched without success.

Wordpress is strongly on the Open Source side, not the Libre side, they
probably prefer if users seek paid support instead of helping each
other.

Also, Wordpress is aimed at computer un-savvy people: a webforum or a
Discord server is more likely than a mailing-list.

> My problem seems simple.  I have numerous lengthy academic articles in
> LaTex markup which currently are on-line in PDF format.  But posting
> them also as WordPress would do much to make them findable by search
> engines.
> 
> The make4ht package (based on latex4ht) does a marvelous job of
> converting LaTex to HTML, while preserving features such as italic,
> boldface, boldface italic, and footnotes.

I would also suggest to give pandoc a try.

> But I have yet to find a procedure (which actually works) for
> importing HTML into WordPress (version 6.8).  The procedures currently
> posted on the web do not agree with what appears on my WordPress 6.8
> screens.

Consider cutting the Gordian knot: do not use Wordpress for that. You
have the HTML content, you just need to add standard HTML headers and
footers to it and create an index and you have a static site.

You can still use Wordpress to handle the parts of the site that change
frequently and/or need to be edited by computer un-savvy people.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George