[Liz Brown]

Hi, I had a weird experience with one of my blog posts, which generated the following on the recent networkwide blog posts area on my Commons site. I don’t know of any way to edit or delete the posts that show up in this widget. Is that possible, and if so, how? this looks pretty terrible. Also, what is that stuff, and why did it post that way? This has never happened before so don’t know if it was a fluke but if there is something I can do to prevent it, please let me know. But most important, how do I remove this post from the widget??

thanks!

Liz

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[Matthew K Gold]

Hi Liz,

Did you by any chance copy and paste the text for your post into the
WordPress visual editor from a Microsoft Word document? If so, try to use
the “Paste from Word” feature in the toolbar. And you can edit the
gobbledly-gook code from post itself using the WP post text editor (instead
of the visual editor)

Best,

Matt

[Liz Brown]

Hmm I did copy and paste, but from another webpage.

I should say that the gobbledy-gook is not in the blog post itself (that looks fine) but in the widget area for network-wide blog posts. That’s where I’d like to either delete the post or edit. I changed it to just display the most recent blog post in the meantime so did get the weird code off the widget area that way. (but would prefer to fix the display so I can show the other blog posts again).

thanks for the tip about pasting from word! I’ll have to be careful about copying and pasting, even if the post itself looks fine.

 

[Matthew K Gold]

I think it would be worthwhile to remove the formatting from the post — if
you haven’t done so already, you might check the post in the text (rather
than visual) editor and remove the extraneous formatting. I am not sure
whether that feed gets refreshed when posts that feed into it are edited,
but if you are a sitewide admin, you may be able to delete the post from
the sitewide post feed (I don’t think you can edit individual entries from
the feed without going to the database).

[Liz Brown]

Ah, I am thinking you are right—it looks fine on my browser, but might not on other browsers! I don’t know if the feed gets refreshed—I don’t think it does. I don’t know how to edit it, but perhaps someone with knowledge of that might weigh in, that would be really helpful!

I will definitely remove that formatting, in the meantime, thanks!!

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