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If you have an occasional Microsoft Word document or RTF formatted document you want to convert to clean HTML–and I mean HTML that has no more than standard formatting applied such as bold and italics but no font or color declarations–and you have to get those documents on the internet, then it’s hard to find a good tool for easily converting those documents. Having switched to using a MAC full-time I’ve been looking for a good process for converting such documents to HTML for posting through the WordPress blog interface. The article at macosxhints.com, Convert formatted text to valid HTML using TextEdit, is just what I was looking for. This is a simple process that uses TextEdit on the Mac to cleanly and easily format text for the web.
Over on my main blog I posted about my favorite method for posting to your blog — ScribeFire, a very handy Firefox extension. I also link to a piece for many other methods for posting to your blog.
I think this is a very good move. Small Potato–who is no small potato when it comes to WordPress themes–it looks like he has well over 30 well designed themes–has just committed to switching all his themes from Creative Commons licensing to GPL.
What he’s done is very good for the WordPress community. It has been good to see the huge number of themes being made for WordPress over the last few months but disturbing to see how many of them insist that sponsor links remain if you use the theme.
I’m committed to linking back to the theme designer when I use and modify a theme but when I see a theme that requires I keep the links–no matter how good it is–I move on.
Update (4/12/07):Â Matt checks in on the issue of sponsored themes.
Dean Barnett quotes from the WSJ this remark about bloggers from Brian Williams, anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,”
“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years”
This is bound to rile some bloggers–for good reason.
WordPress 2.1 offers “vsual” editor and “code” editor tabs when you’re writing posts if you have the “Use the visual editor when writing†option enabled in your personal profile. What you don’t see is a few advanced options under the visual editor tab that are only visible if you press a key combination.
In Firefox on the PC press alt-shift-v, on the Mac press control+V and in Internet Explorer on the PC press alt-v to toggle the extra editor options. One of the options I’m pleased to see is the “paste from Word” button that helps you retain some basic formatting from Word documents you wish to paste into a WordPress post.
Check out the screen shots and more details at the Solo Technology blog.