Title: WordPress recoding my posts.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress recoding my posts.

 *  [dakev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dakev/)
 * (@dakev)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-recoding-my-posts/)
 * I run a video blog. And I’m switching from blogger. As I’m not able to get the
   import function of WP to work with Blogger I’m manually entering every post and
   comment. (While this is frustrating and troublesome, it is not the reason I’m
   asking for help.)
 * I have a snippet of code I need in my posts so it displays an image that people
   click, a JavaScript is called (which I added to the header) and a dynamic html
   page is generated from a php page.
 * I add this something like this to the post.
 * `<a href="javascript:openpopup('qtdisplay.php?movie=landau.mov&amp;title=On the
   Job Training')" />`
 * <img border="0" alt="On the Job Training" title="On the Job Training" src="[http://dakev.com/thekeverreport/qtimg/landau.jpg&quot](http://dakev.com/thekeverreport/qtimg/landau.jpg&quot);/
   ></a>
 * <a href="[http://dakev.com/thekeverreport/qt/landau.mov&quot](http://dakev.com/thekeverreport/qt/landau.mov&quot);/
   ></a>
 * These two clips hold a wealth of very valuable information. This one, where the
   drunk lady bashes the reporter is down right funny.
 * Hopefully this post will display the code as I’ve copied it. If the code does
   not make sense, then the post is missing some of what I put because of tags and
   all that.
 * Anyhow, WP is duplicating lines, adding `</a>` and subtracting them. There doesn’t
   seem to be any method to this but it’s totally messing up what I’m trying to 
   do.
 * I certain this is not a user error.
 * I’ll go to the html window, get the code just right, select it all, copy it, 
   and then click update. I’ll immediately click the html window again, and WP has
   messed the code up… and it will not display correctly. I’ll select all the code
   and paste it and try again and WP does it all over.
 * This is extremely frustrating and honestly, I’m wondering why I’m leaving blogger
   to begin with.
 * Has anyone heard of this before or knows a fix?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-recoding-my-posts/#post-417241)
 * Have you tried disabling the WYSIWYG editor? It certainly will not handle pasted
   in code gracefully…
 * Click on Users -> Your Profile. Scroll to the bottom and uncheck the option to
   use VRE. See if that works better.
 * One other option you might turn off (not sure if it is only for Wysiwyg editor
   or not): Options -> Writing, uncheck “WordPress should correct invalidly nested
   XHTML automatically ”
 *  Thread Starter [dakev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dakev/)
 * (@dakev)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-recoding-my-posts/#post-417242)
 * That absolutely fixed the problem.
 * With a response in less then 3 minutes I must concede I’m impressed.
 * Thank you.
 * Now back to the labor some task of manually transferring everything over.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [dakev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dakev/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-recoding-my-posts/#post-417242)
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