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  kristi2903 · Member · Mar 6, 2014 at 5:49 pm

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  Hi, I am trying to publish a post, but when I do, the only thing that shows is the title -no text! I wrote the post in Word and pasted it into WordPress, and the pictures i also pasted into the post/dropped them into the post from iPhoto. Still, nothing appears on my blog, only the title. Do you have any idea why this is happening?
  Thank you for helping!

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Mar 8, 2014 at 1:37 am

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  Hi there!

  I wrote the post in Word and pasted it into WordPress,

  Rich text editors like Microsoft Word add a lot of extraneous code to their documents so that it displays correctly. Because of this, it’s not guaranteed to appear the same when you copy the contents from Microsoft Word and paste it into WordPress.com editor.

  We recommend that you:

  * write directly to our editor
  * use either a plain text editor like TextEdit or Notepad then post to our editor
  * use a desktop client to post to WordPress (http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/ — including Word 2007 or newer via API)
  * use post by email feature (http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/)

  More details can be found here, including a screencast showing how to clean Word text:

  Microsoft Word

  the pictures i also pasted into the post/dropped them into the post from iPhoto.

  We don’t support dragging and dropping images straight into the post editor. You can either add an image from the “Add Media” button at the top of the editor:

  

  Or through the Media Library directly:

  

  Let me know if you have any other questions!