{"id":253,"date":"2010-02-07T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T06:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-02-19T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:38:02","slug":"cleaning-your-text-in-wordpress-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/seo\/cleaning-your-text-in-wordpress-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning your text in WordPress (part deux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a backup post to my earlier recommendation to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/advanced-search-engine-optimization\/you-want-better-search-results-clean-your-text\/\">Clean your text<\/a>&#8221; to get better search results AND keep the formatting of your pages\/posts.<\/p>\n<p>Well the great news is that within WordPress there is a cool little button within the Visual tab named &#8220;Paste as Plain Text&#8221; It does the work for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a screen shot to show you the location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_260\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/paste-as-plain-text-wordpress1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/paste-as-plain-text-wordpress1.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/paste-as-plain-text-wordpress1.png\" alt=\"Paste as Plain Text in WordPress Button\" title=\"paste-as-plain-text-wordpress\" width=\"500\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-260\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/paste-as-plain-text-wordpress1-300x34.png 300w, https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/paste-as-plain-text-wordpress1.png 858w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paste as Plain Text in WordPress Button<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n(click for detailed view)<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the next time you MUST copy from Microsoft Word to WordPress, simply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy the text in MS Word<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Visual&#8221; Tab<\/li>\n<li>Click your cursor inside the main text field in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Then click the &#8220;Paste as Plain Text&#8221; button<\/li>\n<li>Your done!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clean as a whistle and now you actually have a chance to have Google come through and index your site, finding WORDS and not formatting &#8220;cr@p.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>;^ )<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\n\/\/Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a backup post to my earlier recommendation&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/seo\/cleaning-your-text-in-wordpress-part-deux\/\">Continue Reading<span> Cleaning your text in WordPress (part deux)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,46],"tags":[15,42,43,41,40],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo","category-social-networking","category-web-development","tag-clean-text","tag-clean-text-in-wordpress","tag-plain-text","tag-remove-ms-word-formatting","tag-worpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is just a backup post to my earlier recommendation to &quot;Clean your text&quot; to get better search results AND keep the formatting of your pages\/posts. 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