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  vanderleun · Member · Jan 21, 2008 at 8:17 pm

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  For my first post to my first blog, I tried to paste in an item from my MovableType blog.

  But when I went to preview the WP post showed up with all the code.

  Here’s what I pasted in:

  Intelligent design: New Laboratory Robot Can Lift The Burden Of Boring Work

  Word Press sees that as

  Intelligent design: New Laboratory Robot Can Lift The Burden Of Boring Work

  So it is evidently seeing the <‘s as &lt’s.

  Can this be over-ridden or worked around? I have placed the text in Text Edit to strip out invisible codes, if any. But this seems to be something to do with the WYSIWYG word press editor. Am I correct?

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  dissfunktional · Member · Jan 21, 2008 at 8:24 pm

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  if there is any code in there that is java, script, iframe it won’t post. We can’t use that kind of code. Did it include that kind of code? We can use html.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 21, 2008 at 8:25 pm

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  Code has to be pasted in code view, not in visual.

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  vanderleun · Member · Jan 21, 2008 at 8:32 pm

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  Well, that didn’t quite show what was happening in the code section, but I hope you get the general idea.

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  vanderleun · Member · Jan 21, 2008 at 8:33 pm

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  Ah, okay. Thanks a lot.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 21, 2008 at 10:39 pm

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  When you want to display code in the forum so we can look at it, you have to put it between backticks, those little things on the same key as the ~.

  So it would look like backtick, code goes here, then another backtick to close the "code" box

  Like that.