Library Web Chic

One of the more annoying things about Wordpress is that if doesn’t come with a built-in WYSIWYG editor. The LITA Blog using Wordpress and I had to give Michelle B. a quick lesson in HTML entitites this mornings so that she could get someone’s post to look right ie. show the code they wanted posted. We had to transform all the greater-thans and less-thans into their proper entities.

My true geekiness shines through again!

The experience made me realize that other people might not realize why it was that their posts aren’t whoing up. So here is the quick and dirty guide to HTML entities if you happen to be using Wordpress without a WYSIWYG.

• < - &lt;
• > - &gt;
• & - &amp;

If you have a long segment of code then another trick is to paste the code you want to post into a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver then flip to code view and take the translated code and copy and paste it back into Wordpress. Another option is to install a WYSIWYG plug-in for Wordpress. I’ve used a couple of these but haven’t been overjoyed with any of them yet. Beside I’m an XHTML geek who is pretty content coding as I post.