LaTeX not supported

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  camingdon · Member · Apr 19, 2016 at 9:03 am

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  Trying to get started with a wordpress.com blog.

  LaTeX doesn’t seem to work at all, nor do I see how to install plugins. (I read somewhere that I can’t install plugins on a wordpress-hosted blog. True?)

  What are my options for getting LaTeX to work?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Apr 19, 2016 at 9:11 am

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  Hey there,

  Just so that I report the issue correctly, have you all already cleared your cache and refresh the pages with the error messages? The LaTeX issue resolved once several people tried this.

  You’re correct about plugins. You won’t find a plugin tab in the dashboard because plugins are installed and utilized solely for those with self-hosted WordPress.ORG installs:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  The good news is that there are plenty of plugins already bundled and configured within the WordPress.COM blog/site. You can find out about bundled WordPress.com plugins here:

  Plugins

  Please let me know if you have any questions.

  Thanks!

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  camingdon · Member · Apr 20, 2016 at 4:27 am

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  I am not getting any error messages.

  I am just trying to type things like…

  $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

  …and instead of turning the equation into math, wordpress leaves the string of characters as-is. It makes no attempt to recognize it as LaTeX.

  Should I be doing something more in order to “force” wordpress to look out for LaTeX expressions? (When I looked up the LaTeX entry in the help menu, it didn’t seem to mention any such steps.)

  Thanks.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Apr 20, 2016 at 2:43 pm

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  Hey there,

  Our support page provides information on how to include LaTeX code into your posts:

  LaTeX

  Take a look at our instructions and let me know if you are still having issues with the code showing up correctly.

  I’ll report the issue internally if you do.

  Cheers,

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  camingdon · Member · Apr 21, 2016 at 4:25 am

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  Hi, thank you. My mistake was to write:

  $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

  Instead of:

  $latex a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

  Now that’s working!

  Just one more question: is there any way I can include aligned multi-line LaTeX equations on my wordpress.com blog?

  Thanks!

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Apr 21, 2016 at 6:19 pm

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  Hey there,

  There have been multiple alignment bugs in regards to LaTeX alignment. Do you have a current example of the issue you are having on your blog?

  It may be something that can be corrected by CSS as this user did here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bug-report-twenty-eleven-latex-vertical-alignment?replies=3

  Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

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  calculoufsm · Member · May 9, 2016 at 1:41 am

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  Hi! I’m absolutely new in blogs. I read your support on latex, I put your equations

  $$latex ihbarfrac{partial}{partial t}left|Psi(t)right>=Hleft|Psi(t)right>$$

  or simply

  $latex N^3=2$

  but everything remains the same whenever I view the post, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, or maybe I have first to write something in order to “calling” latex.

  Thank you

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · May 10, 2016 at 3:58 am

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  The second LaTeX code worked for me.

  Make sure to use $latex your-latex-code-here$ as your template to make the code. That is most likely the first code didn’t work while the second one did.

  Are you posting the code in your visual editor?

  Let me know, thanks!