Embedding Text
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Let me start by saying I am completely unfamiliar with HTML. I have asked support on three occasions to help me learn how to embed text and I am thoroughly not understanding. Can someone walk me through this. I searched the web for help, but the instruction evidently does not apply on the Word Press site, for security reasons, I’m certain. I tried do to what I was instructed by support, but it didn’t work for me. Must be doing something wrong. I hate to sound stupid, but I need step by step instructions. Can someone help?
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I Cannot answer you until you clarify what you mean by “embed text”. These are the codes we cannot embed for security and stability reasons. Attempting to embed them is not fruitful because the software will strip the codes out. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
Please go here and enable this setting:
Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”If you wish to create a post or page and copy and paste text into it you must use either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
If this does not answer your question then please post again and expand including specific details about what you want to achieve so we can help you.
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Hi, veronicalsingleton I found your post searching how to embed or attach a pdf file. I searched further after seeing your question and found this:
You use the MEDIA button, the one that looks like a sun. I was able to attach a .pdf file from my computer, however, wordpress creates another wordpress link in that post window. I must click on that link to see my .pdf.
I’d like to see it embed similarly to YouTube, where I can see a preview and view it within that same comment space. I think this is what you’re asking, I haven’t figured that out yet.
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If raincoaster’s question is to me, sharonkeene, the answer is no. I can do that by converting it to a jpg. Displaying an image is not the same as embedding a document. For example when a YouTube video is embedded, you can play it right within the WordPress (or facebook) window. I wanted to do the same in WordPress, which is what I think the original question was.
When I uploaded my .pdf into WordPress using the media button as I explained above, it created a link, that when clicked on, opens to a new browser window that has made a .jpg of my .pdf:
Again, this isn’t the same as embedding the .pdf.
My solution was scribd. Now the user can scroll around the .pdf within the WordPress window. When they click to see the .pdf full screen, for example, they are taken to scribd. Once there they can scroll around and manipulate the pdf for other views:
https://allsaintsepiscopalchurch.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/sunday-bulletin-insert-august-7-2011-2/
This works for both WordPress and facebook. (FWIW facebook doesn’t allow embedding documents of any kind; “notes” isn’t the same thing.)
I mention FB since I use it frequently to link to my WordPress blog. Works well!!
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Even the Support document on Uploading documents says at the bottom,
Note: If you would like to embed an actual document into a post or page, you can use Scribd.
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