Sometimes when I want to move pieces of text around (e.g. pressing return to move the last sentence to a new paragraph), after the text is in its new position, that bit of text will propagate itself in the original position causing my copy to have duplicate lines and even duplicate paragraphs if I don’t catch it.
I read many WordPress.com blogs too, and although I don’t know for certain if this problem is occurring there too, I’ve noticed an increase of double text on those blogs as well.
I can’t say for certain when I started noticing this, but it’s a fairly new problem. Perhaps just a few months.
It’s happened again on my most recent chapter; one of my readers caught it. I corrected it, of course, but I pressed return to most the last sentence of the first paragraph to a new paragraph, but the sentence appeared again in its original place after pressing return.
Jes, it’s definitely a problem with the editor, and yes, it’s only been happening during the past few months. Sometimes the page will “let” me fix it–and sometimes it won’t, necessitating the post’s removal to an entirely new page (and deletion of the original post). It’s not always caused by hitting the Enter button, either. I wrote a fiction chapter (post) tonight that looked like it was going to run about 2,500 words…until I realized there was duplication happening in seemingly random locations I had not instigated in any way, shape, or form. After repair, the chapter was a mere 2,013 words.
Even worse, I’ve had a few pages (especially in really long posts, say 5,000 words and up) where I deleted the duplication in Edit mode but the Published version still showed the extra “goodies.” (Those are the pages where I end up moving the whole thing to an entirely new WordPress page for lack of a better solution.
It’s difficult to be sure of your text as sometimes the text can be duplicated just as you submit.
I know I should always proofread the front end as well as the text in the editor, but occasionally a duplication gets through. It makes me look worse at proof-
reading than I am!
I am surprised that this doesn’t seem to be as common problem for others as I expected.
Yeah, me too. So far I’ve seen it on 3 different WP.com blogs and then my own of course. I always proofread before I publish, but sometimes whatever this glitch is happens after I fix the text and before it posts!
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