Re: wordpress user maillist
At Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:33:04 +0000 "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
Not so much anymore -- one can turn on auto updates for both the workpress
itself and for most plugins. (Themes don't have auto update.)
>
> ...
>
> >> 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.
I copy-paste. I have a Tcl/Tk application to help with that. I turn off
Block Edit and switch to the code editor (I hate the visual editor and find it
hard to use in any sane way).
I use pandoc to convert to HTML (non-standalone mode) and then copy-paste into
WP's "code" editor, (I also hand edit HTML and copy-paste that into the code
editor.)
>
> Sadly, the developers of WordPress either have not envisioned a need
> such as mine, or have conspired to make the task difficult.
There is an *insecure* post-by-email option (but it is not recomended as it is
insecure).
The copy-paste hackery works, but yes, it sucks in many ways, WP has poor or
no support for CLI oriented people. I generally hate web-based text editors
(include *all* forum systems, Google Docs, etc.). What really sucks with
these editors is that I have deeply ingrained muscle-memory of EMACS keyboard
commands, which generally do all sorts of completely different things with
Firefox (often totally unrelated things).
>
> RLH
>
>
>
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