Why is this happening

guerro · Member · May 18, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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I add one sentance, hit save, and then find that sentance 10 inches down the page. I look at the code and find this entire block …

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I have spent 30 – 40 minutes trying to make one little addition, and I keep getting this. I’m exhausted.

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mark · Member · May 18, 2008 at 9:42 pm
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Are you typing directly into the editor, or using something else like Word ?
guerro · Member · May 18, 2008 at 11:03 pm
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Typing directly. It’s been happening all day. And now nearly half the page is gone. Vanished. Any way to get it back?

There was a ton of work into that. It just vanished for zero reason.

Only part of the work I struggled with today survived, and all the the past work simply went away.

This is so not good.

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gamehq · Member · May 19, 2008 at 12:00 am
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Typing directly

Typing directly into???
because if you used word pad it will put funky tags in your
post…
guerro · Member · May 19, 2008 at 12:46 am
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Directly into, yes. Everytine I hit save, a chunk of this cod shows up willy-nilly somewhere on the page.

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dlager · Member · May 19, 2008 at 1:35 am
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do you have the Xhtml nesting/ correcting feature turned on?

Goto to your dashboard:
settings–> writing

you should see a box that says Formatting
on the box that says: ” wordpress should correct….”
if that is checked : then uncheck it and save

see if that stops these mark ups
guerro · Member · May 19, 2008 at 3:42 pm
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Thanks, I’ll try that.

I gt this two minutes ago when adding a few words, and it kicked the tect down a few inches …

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guerro · Member · May 19, 2008 at 3:46 pm
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It’s not checked.

It adds this block of code where I am working, and automatically at the bottom of the page as well.

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guerro · Member · May 19, 2008 at 5:45 pm
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This is rediculous …

I spend 90% of my blogging time trouble shooting.

Here’s the scenario …

I click media. Most of the time I only get the bottom half of the media wind, and need to exit out and click it again.

Once I have the whole window I add a photo, which still always goes to the top of the page where I need to cut and paste it where I want it. This always leaves behind a code that needs to be erased.

So, when I hit paste, the whole window shifts down, and then fills the screen left to write. At the bottom of that windo where it says path, a line of SPAN suddenly appears. Sure enough when I hit save so I can see what happened, it has been posted several inches down from where I wanted it.

I then need to open the window again and look for the code to delete it, usually several lines, as you can see by my posts. It takes a few minutes to figure out where it starts and stops.

Once that is done I hit save again and go back to see if everything is where it is supposed to be.

And there goes all my blogging time.

Please don’t say it’s my computer. This was not a problem before, and I am a poor guy from a poor country, and there is zero economic option to upgrade to all the bells and whistles. This is all I got.

So, now what? This was not happening when you first made the change. It’s a new problem.

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guerro · Member · May 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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My blogging time is up for the day …

http://alexwhitmer.wordpress.com/my-soap-box/

You can see big chunks of space mid-way, and at the bottom. Happens everytime I hit save. Every time!!

Photos jammed together, chunks of code for no apparent reason …

It will have to stay like it is until I can deal with it, and once again spend the whole alotted time trying to fix it instead af actually adding new material.

Arg.
gamehq · Member · May 19, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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here is a link that explains why not to use
microsoft word » Why not to use Word
guerro · Member · May 19, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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I’m NOT using word. I am typing directly into the window provided.
dlager · Member · May 21, 2008 at 1:07 am
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all i can say is goto your soap box post and open it up the editor.
click on the HTML button

and go down you see:
[p align=”center”] [a title=”remb” href=”http://alexwhitmer.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rembrandt4.jpg”] [img src=”http://alexwhitmer.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rembrandt4.thumbnail.jpg” alt=”remb” /] [/a] [/p]

(note i changed < > to [ ] for this forum entry)

delete everything below it and save.

That is right below the Rembrant thumbnail on your post. If still writes more crazy code try deleting the rembrant picture. and see what happens.

Everything below that picture is bad code, I do not catch any bad mark ups before that thumbnail.

hope that helps.
dlager · Member · May 21, 2008 at 1:37 am
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ok there is a mistake

the code in front of the line Like the ephemeral buterfly….

Like the ephemeral butterfly, you quickly passed

your gonna have to remove the: first to 

thats no good.

Sometimes the editor will try to solve a mark up problem, when it cannot it will continuously

and you want to use instead of “small at wordpress”
dlager · Member · May 21, 2008 at 1:38 am
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oops will continuously generate code to close a markup… forgot to finish my thought.
trent · Member · May 21, 2008 at 1:40 am
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On the by and by, @guerro don’t post entire amounts of code like that. Upload a text document or just post a portion as that is really distracting. At least use the “backticks” around the code (key to the left of the 1). Thanks!

Trent
guerro · Member · May 21, 2008 at 5:24 am
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That code under the Rembrandt keeps coming back. I have deleted it at the same point you mentioned several times, and it comes back no matter where I am working on the page. Weird.

I’ve gone through and found what I could to delete, but there’s no garauntee it won’t keep coming back.

Sorry, but what is a markup?
guerro · Member · May 21, 2008 at 5:26 am
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Hey Trent, point taken.
singularcontiguity · Member · May 21, 2008 at 5:27 am
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Markup is an HTML tag; it’s all the stuff <inside the angle brackets>.
dlager · Member · May 22, 2008 at 12:50 am
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all those HTMl codes in angle brackets <> have a certain logic. I will use these brackets [] for the forum post:

They must follow in a inside out matter.

[p][bold][i] the text content [/i] [/bold][/p]

the first one is called an open markup
[p] starts a paragraph
[bold] starts the text in bold
the “mark up” with the backtick closes the command. so
[/p] closes a paragraph, [/bold] stops the rest of the following texting in bold

the problem with your post is that HTML is not in the correct order in certain places
in the example above you must close inside

[p][bold][i] the text content [/i] [/bold][/p]
3 2 1 1 2 3

The line before “Emerald butterfly” is not following this logic, and is no good.

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