Re: wordpress user maillist
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:46:42AM +0200, Nicolas George 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.
That is why there is wordpress.org and wordpress.com.
Back in the dark, dark ages of M$, I used WordPress when the package
first was released. But it was not long until the revisions began,
and they grew in frequency until simple maintenance of a WordPress web
site soon required religious devotion.
...
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.
I already am using make4ht; I have no complaints with make4ht. I use
make4ht to build my present website; a complete build takes only about
half a minute, providing tables of contents for each section.
make4ht provides me with syntactically-correct HTML files, and it does
so automatically from my articles written in LaTeX. And the HTML is
faithful to the LaTeX source.
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.
The HTML generated by make4ht constitutes a complete static web site.
I generate it and upload it without modification. I love the site and
I intend to keep maintaining it.
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.
I post documents which seldom are revised. But the time required
(less than a minute) for generation of the site permits revision as
often as necessary. That is not my motivation for creating a
WordPress web site.
The problem is that the sites noticed by the search engine algorithms
of the present day generally are WordPress sites. Most of the people
who are skilled at Search Engine Optimization have no expertise
outside of the WordPress environment. There are many packages
available for SEO of a WordPress web site. But most of the tools for
SEO work only with WordPress. So if your material is not displayed on
a WordPress web site, it is not likely to be found.
My need, therefore, is to find a technique -- other than manual data
entry on the keyboard -- to import HTML into WordPress. Manual data
entry is not practical, because my articles contain italic, boldface,
boldface italic, and footnotes. Aside from data entry, the task of
proofreading would be astronomical.
Sadly, the developers of WordPress either have not envisioned a need
such as mine, or have conspired to make the task difficult.
RLH
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