My post is 2700 words long, but it gets truncated with the last 500 words cut off. Please help.
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My post is 2700 words long, but it gets truncated with the last 500 words cut off. Please help.
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Hi @bobrich18, would you link to the affected post or tell us its title if it is not published yet? We’ll take a look.
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Hm, the part where it stops seems to be copied from elsewhere, it’s declaring a font that doesn’t exist.
Try copying it again, but this time paste it into the code editor, not the visual editor, that should strip those out, leaving just the text: https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/#document-settings
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Thank you for responding, Mac.
I always use the code editor. The document before the cutoff part has many html code bits. I’ve done what I always do, and this hasn’t happened before.
In the “Edit post” window, my full pasted text is there. When I try to preview, the end is cut off. I don’t understand this.
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I now see the full text of the post when I preview. Have you made any changes since your last comment here?
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No I haven’t but have been doing other work. I’ll try to preview again, and thank you for your attention to my problem.
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It still does the same thing. I made a trivial edit, updated, and looked at the preview, which cuts off at the same place. Sigh. :)
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Hmm, now it’s cutting it off for me as well.
As staff-blorbo said above, there’s a bunch of invalid HTML in that post. Specifically, this is repeated several times:
<font face="Arial, Helvetica">...</font>HTML does not contain an element called
font. It used to, but that element has been deprecated and should not be used at all any more. Please remove every instance of that tag from your post and save it. Let us know if the preview is still broken after you do that. -
Thank you. I’ve been consistently using the font tag in all my posts, and have had no trouble until now. Can you please advise me of a workaround?
When I specify colored font, I’ve been using
Is that kind of thing legal for font face?
I really appreciate this help.
:)
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It should work, but I’m curious to know what happens without, since that’s the only missing text in the post.
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I have removed all <font>s but still have the same problem of an electronic gremlin chewing up the end. It stops at exactly the same spot.
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Wow yeah, this is making no sense.
Since the post isn’t published, we’re a bit limited as to what we can do to test fixes.
Would you please switch the theme to https://wordpress.com/theme/twentynineteen to see if there’s any difference?
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I tried <div style=face: “Arial, Helvetica;”>. It did nothing; didn’t work. However <font face=”Arial, Helvetica”> produced Arial font.
Either way, my text is still hiding.
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Would you please switch the theme to https://wordpress.com/theme/twentynineteen to see if there’s any difference?
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Sorry for being dense. I found Twenty Nineteen, downloaded and opened the zip file, but now can’t see how to install it.
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Go to My Site ->Design ->Themes, search for Twenty Nineteen, and activate it there. On WordPress.com sites themes are not installed from a downloaded file.
I do still see some problematic HTML:
1) In your first paragraph you still have a
fonttag2) A few paragraphs down you have a
ultag, but there’s nolitags inside it, just regular text. That could be messing with things.3) I see you use the
<i>tag several times for italics. While that tag will still work, it has been deprecated in HTML5, and the recommended way to do this is now to use the emphasis –<em>– tag, which most browser style as italic by default. This tag at least is unlikely to be causing the problem here, but it would be good to start usingeminstead, as browser will eventually drop support foricompletely.If cleaning up the remaining
fonttag and thoseultags also don’t help, my next suggestion would be to actually publish the post and see if it’s still missing content then – this could be a problem with the preview only, rather than the post itself.I tried <div style=face: “Arial, Helvetica;”>
That won’t work for two reasons. The entire value of a
styleattribute must be in quotes. That means everything after the=. Andfaceis not a valid value for the style-attribute. In HTML5 and CSS3 the value used to specify fonts isfont-family.https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family
That said, changing fonts in this way is not recommended. If you want to change the font for your site it’s better to use one of the free Google fonts we support in the Fonts section in the Customizer to change it for the entire site at once:
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Thank you for the tutorial on new html. I don’t see why they need to fix something that isn’t broken. :)
I found the … beside the theme and have installed it. Now I have to redo about a dozen things like site logo and categories and stuff — and the post is still truncated at exactly the same spot.
The new theme looks ugly. Is there any problem to returning to twenty ten?I’ll use a workaround: have this large file on my website, and merely post a short announcement with a link to it at my blog.
Thank you all for your generosity.
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Thanks for trying the theme switch. You can definitely switch back to Twenty Ten, but please do that from https://bobrich18.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?search=twenty%20ten, as in this case it won’t work from the My Sites ->Themes page.
It looks like you may have missed part of my reply above:
If cleaning up the remaining font tag and those ul tags also don’t help, my next suggestion would be to actually publish the post and see if it’s still missing content then – this could be a problem with the preview only, rather than the post itself.
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Thank you for the link to switching back. It also regenerated all my settings.
Kokkieh, do you like reading? I’d be happy to email you a free electronic version of one of my books as a thanks for all your time and effort.
I’ve also spent an inordinate amount of time on this post, and what I want to do is write the story I am working on. So, I shortened it, and posted the main thing to my web site.
Have a good life,
Bob
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