Why do italics so frequently convert themselves to normal text?
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Two problems:
Quite frequently when I look at a post in which I have italicized text, the italics are gone and the word formerly italicized is jammed against the words on either side, the spaces being gone. Often I don’t catch the error until later, when I look at the post. This is HIGHLY irritating. It’s a bug, I believe, not a feature.
The other problem is when I click “Publish” (or “Update”), the little progress circle starts spinning and, quite frequently, it then stops without posting. I can reclick and sometimes that works, but often it fails a second time. So far, a third click will see it published. This is very bad, IMO, and it also seems to be a bug.
Blog url: http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there!
When you experience such formatting issues, could you try switching to the HTML editor, and check whether or not there are spaces between your italicized words and the others?
You can switch editors by following these instructions:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/#switching-editorsThe other issue, however, seems to be a bug indeed. If you keep experiencing such issues, could you try disabling the Proof-reading service, by going to Users > Personal Settings in your dashboard?
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When I see what has happened, I’ll check for spaces in the HTML editor—though I suspect no spaces will be there: whatever it is that eliminates the italic tags also eliminates the spaces. But I’ll verify the next time I see that it’s happened. As a preventive measure, however, the suggestion obviously falls short. What I would prefer is that it not happen in the first place. Or is this just diagnostic?
Proof-reading service is already disabled. I have never checked those, and I just verified that they remain unchecked.
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whatever it is that eliminates the italic tags also eliminates the spaces
Thank you for the precision. I understand how this can be frustrating.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue on my end. Could you let me know if you use a third-party editor to post to your WordPress.com editor, or if you paste content from a rich text editor such as Word or Open Office?
Regarding the Publishing issue, may I suggest you try publishing in a different broser such as Safari, just to make sure the issue is not related to your browser?
Thank you!
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No, I use only the WordPress editor. I’ve been using Firefox (version 12.0 on OS X—and when I checked the version, it started downloading an update, so I imagine the version number will change), but I’ll try Chrome.
It seems to be relatively rare—I cannot reproduce it when I want. I doubt that it would help but I’ll offer anyway: the next time I found that it’s happened, should I just leave post and notify you? The problem (I imagine) is that once the damage is done, no trace remains of what caused it. But I’ll give this a go if it might help.
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If you don’t mind posting to this thread again next time it happens, it would be great. We will then be able to have a look, and see if we can investigate further.
Thank you!
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Just got burned again on the broken “publish” button: clicked, saw the rotating circle indicating publishing is underway, went to other tabs, came back and clicked “Add New” and entered a new post.
Later I went to my blog and looked for one of the posts I had just published, could not find it anywhere, looked in “All posts” and there it was, still unpublished.
I would nominate this as a hateful bug: making you think a post is published when it’s not. Really a great flaming pain. Hope you are able to fix it, but since it’s intermittent, I can understand that fixing it will be difficult. But boy, does it make one (at least, me) angry. Here’s the post that didn’t publish until I tried again (after publishing another post in between):
http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/take-a-look-inside-d-r-harriss-london-store-on-line/
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Did it appear to have published before you hit “Add New,” or was the indicator still spinning?
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I never hit “new” while the indicator is spinning. What happens is I hit “Publish”, see that the indicator is spinning, and while that’s going on, move to a new tab to read something else (the newspaper, for example). If I see something of interest, I return and click “new” (and no spinning indicator is visible), and do a new post.
When I’ve done that, it’s only later that I realize a post wasn’t published, so I see out the post is the “all posts” list and find that it’s a “draft,” never published.
Now that I know the publishing function is buggy, I try always to wait at the post until I see the screen blank an instant, showing that the post was published. If it’s a new post, I also make sure that “Publish” has become “Update”. This waiting to see is how I observed that relatively frequently the indicator will stop spinning, often after just a couple of seconds: if it stops quickly, after I reclick Publish/Update, it will begin spinning again, but then it often stops again without publishing/updating, though the second spin goes longer.
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Would you mind telling us which browser (and version of) you’re using when you run into the problem?
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Excellent point. Apologies for the oversight. I am on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.4. My main browser for blog posts is Firefox 13.0, but I also update posts in Chrome Version 19.0.1084.53 (which will update itself as soon as I relaunch). I believe I’ve seen the problem in Chrome as well, but know for certain it happens in Firefox—it’s happened today, for example.
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Would you mind double checking with Chrome?
If it happens in both, please try disabling all of your browser’s add-ons and extensions the next time you publish.
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I’ll try with Chrome. How casually you ask for all add-ons and extensions to be disabled! I publish a lot and I use the extensions, but I understand the reason and I’ll give it a go.
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Yeah, sometimes add-ons/extensions can interfere with our Dashboard. The only way to be sure that is not the case here is to disable them all temporarily.
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Well, they’re disabled, and it was a good exercise. I didn’t realize how many I had, and some are no longer relevant, so I’ll be deleting those. Good suggetion.
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So far, two observations:
a. The problem has not recurred since disabling the add-ons. I could turn them back on, one by one, to see which triggers the problem, but that brings us to:
b. I don’t miss the add-ons at all.
Many thanks for the help.
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I wrote too soon. Just now I went to publish a post. I clicked “publish”, the progress wheel started, and then, as I watched, it vanished. Post did not publish. I clicked again and the second time it worked. All add-ons are still disabled.
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Do you have any better luck if you enable or disable HTTPS?
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