noel alanguilan

recently, i tried embedding a video from youtube into this blog. the built-in editor — a modified version of tinymce — sort of “cleans up” the youtube embed code in such a way that when the post is published the layout of the whole blog looks out of whack. i didn’t want visitors to see that so after a search for a suitable plugin, i found gecko tube.

timbaland, apologize, polydor

tinymce, the visual editor that came with wordpress 2.3.2 has a little trouble with html tables. i made a couple of tables in my html editor, copy and pasted the code into the wordpress page editor, in code mode of course. when i saved the page only the first row of the tables came out in the final page. apparently, the visual editor was stripping some table tags before the page is saved — part of its function i suppose.

a search in the wp forums gave a few solutions, mostly relating to installing a plugin. what worked for me was to turn off the visual editor while i pasted and saved the page. quick and dirty solution i think.

in the wp dashboard, click on users – your profile and uncheck the “use the visual editor when writing” checkbox (above) and then click on update profile.