At Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:33:04 +0000 "Russell L. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:46:42AM +0200, Nicolas George 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. > > That is why there is wordpress.org and wordpress.com. > > Back in the dark, dark ages of M$, I used WordPress when the package > first was released. But it was not long until the revisions began, > and they grew in frequency until simple maintenance of a WordPress web > site soon required religious devotion. Not so much anymore -- one can turn on auto updates for both the workpress itself and for most plugins. (Themes don't have auto update.) > > ... > > >> 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. > > I already am using make4ht; I have no complaints with make4ht. I use > make4ht to build my present website; a complete build takes only about > half a minute, providing tables of contents for each section. > > make4ht provides me with syntactically-correct HTML files, and it does > so automatically from my articles written in LaTeX. And the HTML is > faithful to the LaTeX source. > > > >> 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. > > The HTML generated by make4ht constitutes a complete static web site. > I generate it and upload it without modification. I love the site and > I intend to keep maintaining it. > > > >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. > > I post documents which seldom are revised. But the time required > (less than a minute) for generation of the site permits revision as > often as necessary. That is not my motivation for creating a > WordPress web site. > > The problem is that the sites noticed by the search engine algorithms > of the present day generally are WordPress sites. Most of the people > who are skilled at Search Engine Optimization have no expertise > outside of the WordPress environment. There are many packages > available for SEO of a WordPress web site. But most of the tools for > SEO work only with WordPress. So if your material is not displayed on > a WordPress web site, it is not likely to be found. > > My need, therefore, is to find a technique -- other than manual data > entry on the keyboard -- to import HTML into WordPress. Manual data > entry is not practical, because my articles contain italic, boldface, > boldface italic, and footnotes. Aside from data entry, the task of > proofreading would be astronomical. I copy-paste. I have a Tcl/Tk application to help with that. I turn off Block Edit and switch to the code editor (I hate the visual editor and find it hard to use in any sane way). I use pandoc to convert to HTML (non-standalone mode) and then copy-paste into WP's "code" editor, (I also hand edit HTML and copy-paste that into the code editor.) > > Sadly, the developers of WordPress either have not envisioned a need > such as mine, or have conspired to make the task difficult. There is an *insecure* post-by-email option (but it is not recomended as it is insecure). The copy-paste hackery works, but yes, it sucks in many ways, WP has poor or no support for CLI oriented people. I generally hate web-based text editors (include *all* forum systems, Google Docs, etc.). What really sucks with these editors is that I have deeply ingrained muscle-memory of EMACS keyboard commands, which generally do all sorts of completely different things with Firefox (often totally unrelated things). > > RLH > > > -- 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
