BillHam

Thanks for checking, Steven.

I’ll certainly have a look at the suggestions in that link.

Thanks for the reply, and yes, I do want to mess with the dynamics.

I’ve seen the Archive widget and it specifically does not do what I want to do, which is to clear off 12-months-worth of posts from the homepage so I can start again with a clean sheet. The posts would be moved en masse to a new page, which will ‘un-dynamicise’ them and they will just become static text in that page and would no longer be ‘posts’ as such. I don’t just want a have a new place to get at old posts from a different place (e.g. a widget on the sidebar) and have them remain where they are.

As far as I can see all the archiving plugins such as you suggest leave the original posts where they are, and if one is deleted it’s deleted from the archive. That’s not really what an ‘archive’ is to me.

Now, I could do the clear-out manually by copy & pasting them one at a time and then deleting them but that would get a little tedious after doing about ten and I currently have 37. I was really holping a plugin might be able to to this for me. Is it such an unusual thing to want to do?

Thank you.

Now I feel really stupid. I may be a WordPress ingenue but I’m not that green. Normally when I experience an unexpected behaviour the first thing I do is google it to see if it happens elsewhere. That particular part of my brain failed to kick in with this one, so thank you for your patience and pointing out these simple resolutions to what appears not to be a problem at all but a feature.

Issue over, and thanks again.

Thanks. I had a likely suspect and deactivated it. The symptom went away. The plugin is called Media File Manager and lets the user set up and maintain their own bespoke folder structure within the Media Library.

It looks like MFM is persuading WP that PDF files are Image files as the four JPGs are the sizes as specified in Settings/Media, plus another presumably standard size. They are all copies of the original PDF.

Unfortunately this is a free plugin and the author seems to have abandoned it as it hasn’t been updated for some time and is said to be compatible only up to WP 4.8.

I’ve put a post on the plugin support page, but I’m not holding my breath for a response let alone a fix.

I have quite an extensive structure of subfolders and can’t just abandon it so it looks like I’ve got to bite the bullet and either delete all the extra files after uploading, or deactivate the plugin and reactivate it before and after uploading, especially for the multiple uploads.

Thanks for listening. Closing this off now.

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate them and understand the implications.

In my working career I wasn’t restricted to VBA. I worked with mainframes for a large insurance company. I started with the low-level language PLAN (never heard of it eh? Not surprised). I moved on to COBOL when we converted from ICL machines to IBM ones, and then as a systems programmer used SAS extensively for capacity management and computer performance reporting and the like. Oh, yes, there was a fair bit of BASIC programming on my BBC computer at home too. Only in the three years or so before I was invited to take early retirement in 2002 was I significantly exposed to PCs and got sucked into MS Office and Dreamweaver and went on a VBA course. I’ve used that latter expertise ever since to help organise and run competitions for the various target shooting organisations I’m associated with. I’m too old a dog to learn new languages properly now although I did poke about with PHP a few years ago so have an idea of what it’s about but as I said, my HTML knowledge is pretty sketchy and frequently involves looking up ‘how to’ sites.

Sorry, you didn’t want to know any of that.

I’m sure I’ll find a reasonably usable solution to the issues I’m facing.

Closing this off now.

Thanks for the reply. I looked at Tablepress quite early on and rejected it pretty quickly. It’s one of those plugins that require the cells comprising the table I want to go onto my WP page to be saved as a separate file (and btw, CSVs don’t carry any formatting info) and that is one of the things I’m trying to avoid. Anyway, saving it as an xls file instead and importing that into Tablepress results in a very plain-jane (sorry, are we allowed to say that these days?) table with minimal formatting that it has thought up all by itself. In particular, borders are again removed and any bolding is also removed.

Tablepress’s table manipulation page just does not give me the options to format the table the way I want it and I would not want to have to do that every time one of my tables was changed and needed to be replaced on the WP page. Maybe I’m not understanding Tablepress sufficiently. Call me old-fashioned but I want my tables to look like what I want, not what some plugin developer thinks might look good.

I’m still looking for a quicker and more direct way of transferring selected cells from Excel to a WP page and keep the original formatting than by 1. extract, 2. save, 3. import (by whatever method). If I really have no option but to go that way I’d probably use Docxpresso. I live in hope though.

I tried “2 ways 2 do it” too and it worked. ish. The title did not appear on a Preview but did so on a View Page and when accessed directly using its permalink on the Page editor in another browser.

I tried “20 ways 2 do it” and “20 ways to do it” and both failed – no title on any of the ways to view the page. Same with “2 ways 20 do it” and same with “2 0 ways 2 do it”. However, “2 0 ways to do it” gave the title on View Page but not on Preview.

“1 2 3 4 ways to do it” and “1 2 3 ways to do it”- title shown on both views.
“1 2 ways to do it” gave no title on Preview but it was present on View Page.

I’m even more confused. Multiple digits seem to be confusing WP too.