Importing InDesign content to WordPress

  • triquet1

    (@triquet1)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Is there a way to copy-paste content from InDesign into WordPress without losing the bolding and italic formatting?

    I’m not interested in a seven-step process involving creating a CSS template or post-prandially de-stabilizing the metanarrative or any other technobabble. I’m not up for a lecture about how I need to have a master’s degree in fonts and how they’re installed and what “true” bolding is, etc. I have a basic document with italics and bolding in it sitting in InDesign. All I want to do is paste it into my WordPress template, and I cannot, cannot, cannot believe that there is no simple way to do this. The closest I have come is a plug-in that wants $69.95.

    I have been using the workaround of pasting into Word and then copy-pasting into WordPress, but Word screws up some of the time (a coupleof words end up jammedtogether every so often, an italic with a comma ends up creating an unneeded space, etc.).

    Thanks.

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Does InDesign have an export to HTML feature?
    If so, that can be pasted directly into the HTML view of the editor (if it’s block editor, best to use a Classic block or Custom HTML block).
    If InDesign does not have an export, then I’m not sure what you would be getting when you paste. The Classic editor (and therefore the Classic block) has a button to control whether you are pasting plain text or from Word format.

    justwander

    (@justwander)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    I just opened InDesign with an old file and discovered something that may help. I am using an older version so I’m not sure the current version is the same. Goto…

    File > Cross-media Export > XHTML / Dreamweaver

    Unfortunately, the file I saved did not have much in the way of formatting except for <p> and <div>. The bolding, italics etc is not there because the InDesign file has no css with it. If you will be doing this often you can build a basic <style> file and use it for many indd files.

    Hope this helps.

    aCstudent

    (@acstudent)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Respectfully, you are using a tool for something it was not intended. InDesign is a page layout tool for printed material. Sounds like you have found work-arounds to get content from InDesign into WordPress and that’s awesome – good for you. But … ya can’t expect it to be smooth or easy.

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