Hiya,
What about it doesn’t work, could you go a bit more into detail of what happens? You should be able to do this just like before (if anything it should even end up with a better result now)
In the past I would go to the text view, copy the HTML and paste directly into the other site’s custom CMS. There was never much HTML there, just the words, images., a few links, H2 or H3 headings and maybe a block quote or two. The site would then publishing this without a problem.
Now, with Gutenberg, the HTML is full of extra codes. Most look like comments with <– –> wrapped around them, although there is a little more code in some places. This plays havoc when I paste it into the CMS… in most cases it inserts extra line blocks like </p><br><p> between paragraphs, this sometimes renders in the CMS as six or more blank lines.
Earlier today I took one post and manually edited out all the crud. It took nearly an hour. I can’t do that every time I post.
That’s odd, and honestly sounds like it may be an issue with the other editor.
The HTML comments are what we use to denote the different blocks, and as they are comments, they should not render (and if put into a code view, and not text view, should not cause lines to show up either).
That being said, when I’m copying content between sites, I like to either preview, or look at the published post, and mark the content there for copying, this way I am certain to also get any elements that are affected by shortcodes or other things that require server side processing first, would that be an approach that works for you? (When I do this, I do not paste it into the receiving editors text mode, but in visual mode, so it retains headings and all those things).
If not, what kind of editor does the other side use, as I’d be happy to take a look at what might be happening if nothing more?
It’s a custom CMS that only accepts what used to be called text view. If I paste the finished story all links, headings and other markup is lost.
At this stage I’m left wondering if it’s possible to go back to a pre Gutenberg WordPress or if I should look at an alternative.
Is the text editor of the custom CSS literally just a text box, or does it use some form of editor library to give you formatting controls etc?
I am using the Twentyseventeen theme, and have the same scary issue. I used to cut and paste my blogpost from Word into the WP blog of my website but with Gutenberg this is a disaster and does not work at all. When I paste it in, it turns to gobbledy gook and is not decipherable any more. It simply does not cut and paste text but makes some kind of machine-language change and does NOT result in blog text when checked in the preview. This looks like a serious bug and I certainly hope Gutenberg is not implemented before this is fixed. Yikes.
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