how do i easlily post an article?

allaboutheight · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm
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how do i copy and paste an article in to a post?
rosclarke · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 8:59 pm
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Where from? And do you have the copyright permission to do so?
allaboutheight · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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i just want to be able to post news articles like this one: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4242093/

thanks Rosclarke
panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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The blog linked to your nick is not a wp.COM blog. If your question has to do with that blog, you’re in the wrong forum.
rosclarke · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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And indeed, where to? We can’t even tell from your post if you have a wordpress.com blog or not, since your username links to a different site. Please change that link to your blog.
allaboutheight · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:04 pm
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ok..i fixed that. just got this going. now links to http://www.allaboutheight.wordpress.com
panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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The decent thing to do is LINK to the article, not copy-paste it. Anyway, if you do want to copy-paste, paste it in your editor via the “Paste as plain text” button, so that you won’t introduce any junk code that might mess your blog. And again give a link to the original source.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:12 pm
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The decent thing to do is LINK to the article, not copy-paste it. Anyway, if you do want to copy-paste, paste it in your editor via the “Paste as plain text” button, so that you won’t introduce any junk code that might mess your blog. And again give a link to the original source.
allaboutheight · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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nice…thanks for the assist.
rosclarke · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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Okay, thanks. So you shouldn’t just copy and paste an article from elsewhere. That’s copyright theft and it’s illegal. It is acceptable to post an extract with a link back to the original site, especially if you offer your own comment on the article.

How do I make a link to another site?
arifsali · Member · Dec 2, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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Use Press This bookmarklet. Use it, abuse it and report bugs, that’s what I’ve been doing.

PS: don’t take ‘abuse it’ seriously, but people should use the feature if it is available and it should be improved.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 3, 2008 at 12:07 am
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allaboutheight,
as panaghiotisadam and rosclarke said.
The decent thing to do is LINK to the article, not copy-paste it. Anyway, if you do want to copy-paste, paste it in your editor via the "Paste as plain text" button, so that you won't introduce any junk code that might mess your blog. And again give a link to the original source.
and if you want to make an excerpt, use the “quote marks” in the visual editor to be clear that you are citing a quotation.

Proper links and proper quotes may take readers away from your blog for a little while, but they also give you a cloak of respectability. You’ve done research and are interested in giving your readers good information.
rosclarke · Member · Dec 3, 2008 at 12:18 am
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Proper links and proper quotes may take readers away from your blog for a little while

I always use the ‘open link in a new tab’ option. That way, even if readers do spend sometime at another site, they always come back to your blog at some point.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 3, 2008 at 2:14 am
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rosclarke,
exactly.
It seems the option in wp.com is to open in a new window rather than in a new tab. Am I missing something?
vivianpaige · Member · Dec 3, 2008 at 4:07 am
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Isn’t that a browser setting? Mine open in a new tab.
rosclarke · Member · Dec 3, 2008 at 8:20 am
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Mine open in a tab, too. I think IE might open a new window.

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