Title: HTML Editing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# HTML Editing

 *  [freakinggenius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakinggenius/)
 * (@freakinggenius)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editing/)
 * Hi there,
 * I just recently started using WordPress for a new Blog. I’m using the Hemingway
   theme also. I found that when I try to insert HTML into either a Post or a Page(
   through “New” or “Edit”), it doesn’t seem to let me do it.
    To be more specific,
   I tried to add Amazon Ads by inserting HTML. If I paste it directly into the 
   post window (WYSIWYG), it just disappears. If I open the HTML editor, first of
   all there’s nothing there (even if there’s text on the page) and if I paste the
   Amazon HTML, it also doesn’t work.
 * Any idea what the problem may be? And how I can fix this?
 * Thanks much.

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 *  [marcy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcy/)
 * (@marcy)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editing/#post-336371)
 * To see if it’s a problem with the editor or something else, try turning off the
   WYSIWYG editor — there’s a check box under “users” ‘your profile.’
 * Unfortunately, whichever way this test goes, I don’t know what else to tell you.
   Hopefully someone else will jump in.
 *  Thread Starter [freakinggenius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakinggenius/)
 * (@freakinggenius)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editing/#post-336446)
 * Thanks. That seems to work. If anyone can help me figure out why it doesn’t work
   with WYSIWYG, please let me know.
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editing/#post-336456)
 * It seems that the Rich editor just allows for a few elementary things. Other 
   things are filtered out when you save the post. This is probably to make posting
   safe for the not so coding savvy.
    If you don’t know a lot about markup and JavaScript,
   it’s very easy to mess up your posts. And worse than that, the content is saved
   in a database and very few bloggers know how to make rescue operations in MySQL.

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 * [inserting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/inserting/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editing/#post-336456)
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