Block editor ruins formatting from other editors when pasting
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How can you make the new crap block editor keep the formatting from word or other word processing programs?
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Hi there, tell us which site you’re working on and exactly what your process is..
Are you pasting directly into the Block Editor at MySite?
Are you pasting into the Classic Block?
Are you pasting rich text with photos and links, or plain text?
What formatting changes do you see after you paste?
https://wordpress.com/support/microsoft-word/
Please give us specifics.
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Pasting a numbered list and paragraphs from my blogger post. In the old editor everything came out great. The block editor ignores the paragraph embeds and runs everything together.
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Hello again, OK thanks for that additional information. Still need to know:
Are you pasting directly into the Block Editor at MySite?
Are you pasting into the Classic Block?
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I find your “new” setup very confusing and difficult to use. I have no idea what a classic block is. In fact, the idea of a “block” editor is foreign to most people in the publishing business. I’ve never heard of such a thing–at least not since WSIWG technology.
As far as I can tell, I am pasting directly into your editor just like I’ve done for years and years.
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We have some extensive documentation available for the new editor at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/
Specifically, adding blocks: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/#adding-a-block
And, the Classic Block: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/
What you’re trying to do should work just fine in a Classic Block.
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Hello again, I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t a problem with copy/paste from Blogger specifically.
I just created a couple of test posts copy/paste from Wikipedia and both posts, one pasted into a Classic Block and the second pasted directly into the Block Editor, transferred the original formatting with a few small exceptions, notably the quote came out correctly in the Classic Block.
https://teachandtestsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/copy-paste-wikipedia/
https://teachandtestsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/copy-paste-wikipedia-classic-block/Original for comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_system
@ldalford can you help us out here with a few links?
A link to your original post on Blogger
A link to the same post you copy/pasted here on your site.If your site is marked Private, that’s OK because only Staff will be able to see it.
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staff-blorbo et al – perhaps unrelated to the original poster’s issue, this is what the paste directly to the Block Editor looks like in the Editor (temp screenshot)
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I work about 2 months ahead of my publications. Here is the link to my latest:
Writing – part xx314 Writing a Novel, the Plot of Catcher in the Rye
Here is the blogspot it was taken from:
https://pilotlion.blogspot.com/2020/08/writing-part-xx314-writing-novel-plot.htmlI use wordpress to do a repost blog. I take elements from my blogpost and review and edit them.
If you notice, the cut completely screwed up my list. The other lists are okay because I took them from the previous wordpress post.
If you could see the cut before I edited it, it did the same thing with the paragraphs, Your previous editor would seamlessly take them in. Now, when I cut and paste from blogspot, the paragraphs all run together and I have to edit them to make it right.
You can also see the picture did not post correctly with the original formatting from wrodpress as well.
While I have your attention, I have no idea why you changed the scheduled posts from newest to oldest to oldest to newest. Professional writers, like me, usually start a blog with a previous blog. I run series so I always start with the last scheduled blog. Your change a few years ago added a minute to my time. It did not help me at all. Only an unprofessional or someone writing day to day would want this kind of format.
Also, the previous editor and process was completely logical and relatively easy to use. The current one is terrible. Your selections are cumbersome and now there are two menu options post and block. I don’t see any added capability or utility in this. It only makes the editing and publishing more cumbersome.
By the way, one of the reasons I use blogpost instead of wordpress for my long form blog is that I’ve always had problems with the way your editor misinterprets word documents. I thought you were getting better–it isn’t.
Blogpost also is making a change. I’m not happy with their new editor, but it hasn’t caused me as many difficulties as yours. I realize you can’t keep old editors or systems for many reasons, but if your users don’t have complaints, why are you making extreme changes that affect your market and usability? I would encourage evolutionary rather than revolutionary changes–this will retain more market and help you grow. Look at Word as an example. Any revolutionary changes to that model would cause their public to look for a better product. They retain their current capability and look while adding features. You did the opposite. You took a perfectly good product and turned it into a more difficult to use product with no additional features that I can see.
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Here is today’s short form blog:
Writing—So You Want to be a Writer, Current Novel, Entertainment, Uneasy Conflict
I copied this from Word, and the formatting looks good, but I’m not taking it from blogpost and I’m not taking it from a previous wordpress post.
I forget to mention. Why did you make it so you can’t select the entire text with the standard ctrl-shift-end? You can’t select multiple blocks with shift-arrows or shift-pages either. Not that your pages worked in the previous editor correctly.
In the past, you had the ability to start with an old post, but I can’t find that function anymore. Do you have actual bloggers and writers making these changes. Sorry for being snotty, but inquiring minds would like to know.
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Hello again, are your two posts here on WPcom scheduled posts? Those links end up as 404’s for me (as volunteer not staff).
Regardless, let me test a bit with your blogspot post on my test site and revert here. From what I can see on your blogspot post, there are formatting issues there as well, such as no spaces between paragraphs, odd formatting for lists. So if you are writing in a word processing program and then copy/pasting there, those issues will continue if you then copy/paste to your WPcom site.
As someone famous said, “I’ll be back.”
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Hello again, Since you didn’t reply concerning the 404’s I went ahead and tested with your published post on Blogspot. Here’s the results and it was quite varied depending on whether I pasted your content into the Block Editor directly, a Classic Block and a Classic Block that I then converted to Blocks:
Block Editor: https://teachandtestsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/copy-paste-blogger-3/ (This is the least successful; most formatting was removed)
Classic Block: https://teachandtestsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/copy-paste-blogger-classic-block-2/ (This was the most successful in retaining formatting)
Classic Block Converted: https://teachandtestsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/copy-paste-blogger-classic-block-converted/
I should note that all these tests were done in Firefox latest on a Win10Pro PC. I’ll leave this up on my Private test site for the next few days so you can see these.
Staff: I’ve also added two other examples from folks who asked me not to post their content publicly and those are Private posts on the same site. In both those examples when pasting the content into a Classic Block, the entire content was pushed to a narrow column on the right of the content column, to the point where partial content from a regular Paragraph block added below the Classic Block appears at the top left of the Classic Block.
@ldalford As far as pictures, I recommend that you upload them to WPcom’s Media Library and insert them directly.Regarding your other concerns, I’ll defer to Staff.
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