Re: wordpress user maillist
At Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:46:42 +0200 debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote:
>
> 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.
Not entirely so.
>
> Also, Wordpress is aimed at computer un-savvy people: a webforum or a
> Discord server is more likely than a mailing-list.
Yes indeed. There is a wordpress support forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
There no mailling 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.
Yes, pandoc will generally work better.
>
> > 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,
>
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