publsihing exactly what the preview shows me

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    marthaborst1 · Member ·

    Why does the preview look great – exactly what I want BUT when it’s published it’s not the same? I’ve cleared cache, cookies, and can NEVER get my picture to be in the center when it publishes. It’s always aligned left no matter what I do. In the preview, it’s perfectly centered. Published, it aligns left. I’ve tried EVERYTHING.Cleared history, cache, cookies, logging in & out, centering after the upload to insert centered, AND uploading my photo, inserting it left and THEN centering it after its in the post… still doesn’t work. What does it take to get an either an ACCURATE preview of what will be published or keep the picture in the center?? Preview should be EXACTLY what will be published, otherwise, what good is it?

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    timethief · Member ·

    Are you copying ans pasting? You need to be cautious and use the correct approach when copying and pasting from any document created in a word processor. Microsoft Word, for example, is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

    Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
    Formatting
    _ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
    “save changes”

    I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’ve cleared cache, cookies, and can NEVER get my picture to be in the center when it publishes. It’s always aligned left no matter what I do. In the preview, it’s perfectly centered.

    See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment

    The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it.

    Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.

    Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.

    Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

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    marthaborst1 · Member ·

    Thanks anyway, Timethief, but I’m not having issues with text. I’m uploading the image to the media library and centering it from there to insert in post.
    When this didn’t work, I tried (once) using the text alignment icons in the editor in addition to image editor. Image is not being copy&pasted, and I’m not centering it only using the editor icons.
    I’m uploading & centering it from the image editor.
    But it’s never centered when it publishes. Never.

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