Paste Text Broken – Visual Editor
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I’m having the same issue but on an iPad mini. I’m using a word processing app called Textilus to write the blog and then I copy and paste it into WordPress.org in safari (which seems a more reliable way of dealing with WordPress than the often glitchy app).
The paste function just isn’t working. I’ve tried as many options as I can think of, such as writing a word with a speeling mistake so I can highlight it and then paste over it. The word is removed but nothing is pasted. Frustrating. -
Hi everyone!
Thank you so much for your patience. The problems you’ve had with pasting into the visual editor should be ok now after a recent patch. Can you please try this out for us? Again, while reporting your findings, mention your OS, browser version and method of pasting. Cheers!
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Yes, I can now paste non-formatted text from WordPad and NotePad, and YouTube embed codes into the visual editor using the preferred right click copy and paste method. From July 22 until this fix I’d been unable to do so.
OS: Windows XP
browser: FF 31.0
right click copy and paste method:- highlight selected text
- right click to display drop-down menu
- select “copy” from the menu
- move cursor to the location where you intend to paste the copied text
- insert the copied text by selecting “paste” from the menu
I’m not sure if the following method had been affected by the July 22 update, but it works now.
Drag and drop method:
- highlight selected text
- drag and drop text into desired location
Other copy and paste methods still working include:
- Ctrl + C copy, Ctrl + V paste
- copy and paste menu bar options
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@musicdoc1f: Thanks for the in-depth report! That helps a lot in keeping track of things. Cheers! :)
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text from wordprocessor (WordPerfect) for me now work again. However, the pasted material used to preserve embedded links when using IE9, but not Chrome.
It would be nice if you could make it so embedded links in pasted text would be preserved.
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wryheat2, did you try using Ctrl + V on your keyboard to paste? It doesn’t work perfectly but does keep the links intact now.
My problem is that after I’ve pasted the text, there are extra lines between paragraphs and sometimes the blockquote doesn’t come through, so have to add each manually. Or in the last case of a writer submitting their work to me for publishing on my blog, I said I couldn’t do it. The paste function is better now but not worth my time in putting in the formatting that needs to be in the article.
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@druesome, @wryhead2, @dandelionsalad:
OS: Windows XP
browser: FF 31.0I hadn’t tested links, but did so after reading the post by wryhead2 just above. Links were copied and pasted without issue using each of the methods that I mentioned above, namely the following:
- Right click menu options
- Ctrl + C copy, Ctrl + V paste
- drag and drop
- menu bar options (copy and past buttons)
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In IE9 (using Vista) any of the paste methods now include embedded links. But in Chrome, the embedded links are lost.
Another issue. in IE9 for some time now, the PREVIEW will not work, also it does with Chrome.
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@wryheat2
IE9 is an outdated browser version from 201. The most recent stable version is IE 11. You need to upgrade or download another browser that’s up to date. http://browsehappy.com -
I am using the latest version of Chrome. But my OS is Vista and IE11 is incompatible with that. For most purposes Vista works fine for me and I will not upgrade until I buy a new computer.
Embedded links are now preserved when pasting into dashboard under IE9, but they have never worked with chrome.
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OK, today I have a new problem with pasting links to video urls in the old “classic” semi-functioning editor.
For example, this blog post needs 5 urls added. So, I added the first one, and then clicked “Update”. It did not save the edit and it took me to my Drafts folder.
So, I do it again, and it does save my edit.
Next url to edit, after clicking “Update”, it does the same thing as the first time: Not saving; brings me to Drafts folder.
I click the back button on my browser to get to the older blog post that I am attempting to edit.
I do this again for the other edits and it continues to not save the edit, and goes to Drafts folder. So I repeat action and then it does save.
So, why do I have to edit everything twice before it works?
Now, this is ridiculous. I have over 4,000 blog posts to edit and can’t be wasting my time doing everything twice before it works and updates.
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I’m sorry, after the edit and clicking “update”, it goes back to the Posts folder, not the Drafts folder.
Thankfully the paste function works and the internal scroll bar is working because otherwise this would be wasting even more of my time.
Should I make a new thread for this new problem?
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Update: Problems as stated above for 2 different old blog posts that I’m editing. Both had the video urls in the comment section that I copied and pasted into the post.
So, I went to edit another 2 older blog posts where I copied the urls from Youtube and pasted them into the post and the edits updated and worked fine.
I’m using Firefox 31 and Windows 7.
It seems to be a copy/paste issue but only for those posts that I copied from the comment section below the blog post in the classic editor.
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OK, found a work-around for this technical problem with pasting youtube urls from the comment section.
I “update” the comment and add a letter before the url and then the comment shows the link and I copy it and paste it into the blog post and it saves properly.
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@ dandelionsalad,
Add a letter?
Does the issue described occur with videos from YouTube only, or with videos from other libraries as well? Are you using WP shortcodes? I wasn’t able to duplicate the issue. -
To be clear, I am using the old “classic” editor as the “new, too-blue, BBB” editor will not allow pasting of Youtube urls (without the shortcode).
I have a reader who has volunteered to help me look up Youtube urls for the videos I posted from 2008 through 2011. He finds the videos on Youtube and then pastes the url into a comment on the blog post.
When I look at the comments, nothing appears. Totally blank. So I click “quick edit” and see the url. Copied it and pasted it into the blog post and then it would not save and returned me to “All Posts”. Very strange, indeed.
I found a work-around by editing the comment with a letter and a space before the url. That made the whole comment show up. I then copied and pasted the url into the post and saved and it worked fine.
So, it looks like this: “h https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeFDev5M-ZQ”. (Me adding the letter h and a space before the url.)
I am not using the WP shortcode as I have over 4,000 blog posts to edit and don’t have the time to add anything else.
Also, haven’t tried with any other video url except the ones from Youtube.
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Think I wasn’t following you correctly. If you’re saying that the YouTube video URLs submitted as comments do not appear in the administrative or dashboard Comments page, then we have the same result. I noticed that a long time ago, years ago maybe, but I’ve ignored it because the videos display normally in the comments section of the post or page.
Sympathize with your task of replacing Vodpod codes as I had used the VodPod Firefox Extension for WordPress for non-YouTube videos for a couple of years and lost quite a few of them in July. However, probably not more than 5% of the thousands of videos on my site were VodPod shortcodes. So it wasn’t such a disaster, but I’m still replacing them little by little.
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