At Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:46:42 +0200 [email protected] wrote: > > Russell L. Harris (HE12025-08-17): > > Would someone kindly point me to a WordPress.org user email list? I > > have searched without success. > > Wordpress is strongly on the Open Source side, not the Libre side, they > probably prefer if users seek paid support instead of helping each > other.
Not entirely so. > > Also, Wordpress is aimed at computer un-savvy people: a webforum or a > Discord server is more likely than a mailing-list. Yes indeed. There is a wordpress support forum: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ There no mailling list. > > > My problem seems simple. I have numerous lengthy academic articles in > > LaTex markup which currently are on-line in PDF format. But posting > > them also as WordPress would do much to make them findable by search > > engines. > > > > The make4ht package (based on latex4ht) does a marvelous job of > > converting LaTex to HTML, while preserving features such as italic, > > boldface, boldface italic, and footnotes. > > I would also suggest to give pandoc a try. Yes, pandoc will generally work better. > > > But I have yet to find a procedure (which actually works) for > > importing HTML into WordPress (version 6.8). The procedures currently > > posted on the web do not agree with what appears on my WordPress 6.8 > > screens. > > Consider cutting the Gordian knot: do not use Wordpress for that. You > have the HTML content, you just need to add standard HTML headers and > footers to it and create an index and you have a static site. > > You can still use Wordpress to handle the parts of the site that change > frequently and/or need to be edited by computer un-savvy people. > > Regards, > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
