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How do I get my blog to not be blacked out?
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I do a newsletter on Real estate that I send out through Constant Contact. When I try to copy and paste into a blog here, the first section is blacked out. However, none of the graphs, charts or text in the other sections are blacked out. If a reader what so highlight the blacked out part they could see the text. Does anyone know how I could make it so the text is seen?
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Hi greenwichrealestateguy, what were you pasting from? It looks like you have pasted tables into your post body, and the formatting is getting all messed up. They’re also extending your text outside of the width of your main column, so a number of things are happening here.
Two things to consider:
a) if you are copy/pasting from Microsoft Word or another text editor that may bring in weird, unwanted formatting or coding, make sure you use the ‘Paste Word’ button. You can see instructions here.
b) while tables can technically be made to work on your blog, it might take some coding knowledge to keep it clean. Which can be fun, though a little outdated in web development terms. (Info on tables here, in case you need a little clarity.) On the other hand, if you want to make it easier for yourself, you should compose your content in a way that won’t require any tables at all.
It does look like the content you have pasted in those tables would just as easily be served by entering your text and formatting it, and adding images using the ‘Add Media’ button.
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@greenwichrealestateguy
The constant contact form cannot be used on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. Form codes are not accepted HTML code tags here. http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/
Copying and pasting from forms means you are including extraneous codes that cause a mess.Design your own custom form http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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Thank you so much lettergrade and Timethief. So, in your opinion it is the form. Hence, if I was to copy and paste the text inside of the form it may work? There are just a lot of links that take forever to do in the newsletter, so to retype would double the work.
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There is a workaround for newsletters for free hosted WordPress.com bloggers here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/10/07/wordpress-com-newsletter-subscriptions/
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Hence, if I was to copy and paste the text inside of the form it may work?
No that’s not what I said above. I said design your own custom form http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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