Posting from Word
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I can no longer post from MS Word using the Blog Post format. The setting is the same as always – http://justabovesunset.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php – and the password is correct. But I get “Word cannot publish this post…” This seems to be on your end.
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Hey Alan,
The latest version of Windows Live Writer was released in 2012. It is currently not in development and its future status is unknown. There may be compatibility issues as WordPress.com implements new functionality.
As you may have noticed, we’ve updated our WordPress.com interface quite a bit in recent months.
If the problem is stemming from a browser or compatibility issue, I can help with it. Otherwise, we might be out of luck until Windows chooses to support and update Live Writer again.
Here’s a link to a forum post that gives you a list of troubleshooting items that you can work down to see if this is a fixable issue:
Scroll to the bottom of the thread and check out the suggestions made by our forum volunteer, timethief.
Please get back to me and let me know how the testing goes. Hopefully it’s a compatibility issue I can assist with.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.
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I’ll begin testing – but this could take days – and my blog can’t be dead for days. I’m running Windows XP Premium, all up to date, and Chrome and Flash and all the rest in their latest versions. Windows Live Writer just won’t talk to the latest WordPress iteration any longer – so be it. I need to find another way of working – and find it fast. I publish a 3000-word column six evening a week, which I write and proof in Word. Let me see if there’s a way to paste a Word document as a New Post – and keep the formatting, and the embedded links. Is that possible?
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Hey there!
Yes, we definitely don’t want you hamstrung. Here’s a link to instructions about pasting from Word:
Give that a try and let me know if you need any assistance. Thanks and best of luck with this post.
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That really doesn’t help at all. If you glace at my blog you’ll see I have a specific font and font-size that I’ve used for years, with block-quotes done a certain way, and lots of embedded links, and I’d lose all that importing that as plain text. That’s what Chrome does with my word documents. I tried. It cannot be fixed. There are no WordPress commands for font and font size, for example. I suspect I’ll have to write my column each evening, and get everything right, and then rewrite it again in pure HTML – adding all the complex code myself, line by line, paragraph by paragraph, as an ASCII plain text file – and then paste that into a New Post box. My HTML skills may or may not be up to that. And that would take many extra hours each evening.
I’m shit out of luck, it seems. I’ll post a note at my blog that the site is going dark until I figure this out. I suspect I’ll have to find another platform however, and start a new blog with a new name elsewhere, not WordPress. And I have a ton of followers and an international readership, and eight years of archives. Damn.
Or maybe I can change themes – and set a new standard format. I’ll investigate that. I don’t want to throw eight years of work away.
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Alan,
You are right…you would have to do the formatting in WordPress.com, rather than Word. However, your font and blockquotes are all available to you. You aren’t losing features, but you will have to take advantage of them on WordPress.com’s editor, rather than in Live Writer.
In case font face and size is a concern, you shouldn’t have to make any changes with that. The font settings are already setup for you to be able to post without making adjustments.
Regarding blockquotes, you have a button in your editor that allows you to create these. Right about your content box, you’ll see a button with a double-quote icon. Highlight the text you want, then click that button.
You can create a test post, if you’d like. Nothing too extensive, of course — just something that allows you to do a few minutes of experimenting. Then, look at the Preview and see how it looks.
My HTML skills may or may not be up to that. And that would take many extra hours each evening.
You shouldn’t need to know a lick of HTML to post directly on WordPress.com. Your site is using most of the
Will there be some learning curve here? A bit. But much less than you’d have moving to another platform. We can help as you learn the ropes. After a post or two, everything will feel natural.
Or maybe I can change themes – and set a new standard format. I’ll investigate that. I don’t want to throw eight years of work away.
Certainly take a look at new themes, if you’d like! Here is a link to the Themes Showcase:
If this is the direction you decide to take, and need assistance finding the perfect theme, let me know.
Finally, it wouldn’t hurt to write Live Writer support to see if Windows has any plans to update and support their software in the future.
Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers!
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As for now, I’ll take a day off and see how it is to do what I do in Word – where I think and work things out – and then move it, as plain text, to a New Post box on WordPress. I did choose a new general font for the blog entries – I hate it, and if I adjust its size down too much it ruins the font in widgets in the gutters, so it has to remain ugly and very large, but it will have to do. My blog will look different now – crude might be the word. My readers will be surprised.
Ah well – so the plan, for now, is to keep two windows open at the end of each evening and toggle between them, and one by one set the block-quotes and add the hot-links from the Word document into the WordPress draft. That will be tedious, and I do wish WordPress didn’t automatically italicize the block-quotes, but so be it. And one day, I suppose, I’ll do it all on WordPress in real time, as it were – but probably not, as Word has a thousand more features.
Your product just got a whole lot less attractive, and a whole lot less useful – and I will investigate other options. Thank Bill Gates.
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I’ll drop the Windows folks a line, for all the good it will do. Do you really think they care about you guys?
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I’ll drop the Windows folks a line, for all the good it will do. Do you really think they care about you guys?
I hope so! About 23% of the internet runs on WordPress.
The question is, does Microsoft think enough people use Live Writer? Is it cost effective for them to update their product, rather than let it become antiquated? That’s why making your voice heard is important, in my opinion.
I do wish WordPress didn’t automatically italicize the block-quotes, but so be it.
That is something I can help with! You have the Custom Design upgrade, which means you have access to change the CSS code for your theme’s design. I’m happy to give you code to make the blockquotes “normal” text.
If you’d like to give this a try, click Appearance → Customize in your site’s Dashboard. Then, click CSS in your right-hand menu. In the CSS Revisions box, please paste the following underneath all existing text:
blockquote {
font-style: normal;
}Then Save your changes.
That should do the trick! If I can help in any other way, please drop me a line. Cheers :)
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