How to edit page
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I have checked other queries here, but can’t find an answer.
I want to edit a page. When I click “edit” at the bottom of a page, it goes to the page in code. I don’t have code skills. How do I switch it to regular language? Thank you.
Lovecraft theme.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there!
I’m not sure what you see on your end but there’s no need to edit code on WordPress.com. To edit a page you will want to go to My Site>Site>Pages, click on any page you want to work on, and update it.
Here’s more information about pages:
https://wordpress.com/support/pages/
If you’re still having issues, please share a screenshot of what you see. You can use an online tool for that (such as https://snipboard.io/), or follow the instructions described here:
https://wordpress.com/support/make-a-screenshot/. -
Thanks for your reply, fresatomica. A screenshot of what I see when I click “edit” is now in my media library. Here’s the URL:
Thank you for your help.
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Ah, it looks like you have an HTML block on that one. Has it been that way for a while?
I’d sort of recommend visiting the /recipes page, and copying the text.
Then paste that into the editor.
You may need to re-add line breaks and what not, but when you’re finished you should have a page that looks basically the same and is more manageable. You can remove the HTML block at the top at that point.
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Hi supernovia. I have not yet attempted your instructions, but that’s my next task. So I understand that I am going to copy and paste all the text from Recipes into editor. But do I delete all the code HTML stuff in editor at the same time? If so, I’ve got to get this right, otherwise I risk losing the page info, and I can’t even imagine trying to recreate that, HTML or otherwise.
To answer your question, it’s been like this for over a year. It’s DRIVING ME CRAZY! (Sorry)
Just recently, I went to edit something there, and it was normal — not HTML. But it didn’t last, and returned to HTML. I have 5 pages, and the otner 4 are normal.In addition to asking if I need to remove the HTML part when I copy and paste, I don’t understand “you can remove the HTML block at the top at this point”. How do I do that exactly?
Thank you for your help.
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After copying the text from the page itself, you’ll click in the editor where it says “Start writing or type / to choose a block”, and paste. So you’ll paste in the text underneath the HTML block that’s there at the moment. So at this point, if you were to click update, the same content should appear on the page twice.
After pasting that in, you then click on the HTML block at the top and remove that.
So the content will still be on your page, but it won’t be in the HTML block any longer.
And if you make a mistake, you can just roll back the changes by restoring a previous version of the page from the revision history.
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Followed the instructions, copy and pasted from the page to the edit page, but when I previewed the edited page, it was one continuous run-on sentence.
This page is an index of all the recipes I have posted for the last 11 years. Everything is a URL. The URLs don’t copy and paste at all.
Below are links to the previewed page after copy and pasting:
and the desired page — what I want to see in the edit page:
I really wish a tech person could go into this page and switch it from HTML to the text I can deal with.
Thank you, everyone, for your assistance to help me resolve this
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Thank you, EVERYONE for your assistance! I don’t think I’m there yet, though.
When I pasted in and did “preview”, this is what I see, almost one, continuous, run-on sentence. No URLs :
This is what I want to see:
This page is my recipe index. The entire page is URLs, linking to the recipe posts. I can’t imagine having to go through this and inserting all the URLs for all my recipes from the last 11 years.
Further advice is requested. Muchas gracias!
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The first screen shot you link to above is still just the page with the existing HTML block that you gave before, and the second screen shot is of the page as it currently looks. I don’t see any changes to this page from yesterday, so I’m not sure what it is you want me to see.
Unfortunately there is no way to just automatically convert content in a HTML block into regular blocks, so you will need to do this manually.
Go to https://kathleeniscookinginmexico.wordpress.com/recipes/, use your mouse to highlight what is on the page, and right-click ->Copy.
Open that page in the editor, click underneath the existing block, and Right-click ->Paste. Then click Update.
If it doesn’t look right, let us know and we can take a look at what’s going on. But without being to see the problem ourselves I’m afraid our ability to help is a bit limited :)
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You are correct. The screenshot I provided is the existing HTML. I have looked at and attempted to fix this so much, I’m getting cross-eyed looking at the page.
Here is what it looks like when I copy and past:
I clicked the HTML block at the upper left to make it go away. The instant I click the cursor to make an edit, the HTML block the reappears.
I clicked preview. This is what it looks like. (I can’t click update if this is how it appears. I need individual line listings, each as a URL.)
Thank you for your help. I appreciate it. I’m sorry if I’m not being clear about all this. I really just understand, and work with, plain text.
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I think you have pasted the text inside the HTML block, that’s why it looks odd.
Once you have copied everything and you’re back in the editor, click just above the HTML block – next to the black plus sign, like so: https://d.pr/i/s3cPkR
You’ll then have to add the spaces between each item, for that you’ll click on Shift+Enter after each item.
I’d also suggest taking this one step further, setting up categories, and then displaying the Blog Posts block instead. That way you won’t need to add any new posts automatically:
https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/blog-posts-block/
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Fresatomica, kokkieh & supernovia, I got it! You were right, fresatomica, I put the new material in the original block, instead of a new one, even though that’s what kokkieh told me to do. I’m not yet familiar enough with the block editor to know to create a new block.
The test was when I went to the new page, clicked edit, and saw a non-HTML page appear.
Thank you, everybody, for holding my hand and walking me through this. Sorry for being dense about it.
Muchas gracias, and may everyone have a beautiful day.
Kathleen
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