(I have my own wordpress blog, and I use a script to switch, but now that I think of it we can use the original that I based mine off of) check out latex2wp
which I've used extensively, and so in theory can debug
That worked great for the formatting stuff, I just need to get the TikZ stuff to images now (which I'm probably going to do a clunky way, but I know it'll work...). Thanks for the program! :)
@mixedmath Hmmm.... ok, my "align" environments aren't working exactly right...
@mixedmath I believe I have it in a nice form, but I want to double-check in the morning when I'm more awake. I tagged it with tagnames that correspond with actual MSE tags, using the ones I would have used if it were a question. (I think our "categories" should be used for target audiences (e.g. "undergraduate," "high school," etc.), and our tags should mirror MSE tags.)
I'm headed off for the night, but I'll check back here in the morning, so if you have any comments or problems viewing it, just leave a note. :)
I might suggest having a Meta post that just details all of the instructions. However short they may be, it's good to know how the process runs and having a Meta post would be a good way to keep it contained and easy-to-link.
That or a nice image that just has all of it in there.
Q: Where can I ask a question about the blog?
A: First, look here to see if your question is answered. Otherwise, the answer might be elsewhere on meta. If you can't find the answer, either ask in the blog chat room or ask a meta question.
(I just wanted to make sure someone agreed before I went around editing stuff...)
Hm. I must have mis-read. You have it like I just said, but I'm sure I saw something different. I must be trying to "go too fast." :)
@mixedmath Could we have "Advanced High School" and "Undergraduate" categories? I can't seem to create them--I'm wondering if it's out of my permissions...
After 20 minutes of struggling with Wordpress's multiple levels of escaping and encoding, I'm not sure I want to spend much more time trying to make this work.
Well, it seems there's only one remaining broken paragraph.
And when I put <img src="abc.jpg" alt="..." /> into the text box, and save it, WP helpfully converts it to <a href="abc.jpg" />, just in case maybe I didn't want my image inlined or something.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to write a mathse2wp script that would take valid input on math.se style markdown and transform it into wp - that should be doable, except for images
I did do that. It's a yucky hack, and doesn't quite always work, but I will share it in a minute.
Otherwise I would have had to maintain corrections in both the WP version and the original Markdown version of the article, which would have been madness.
@MJD: I've quickly went through your proposed post, and made some fairly minor changes. (I changed the heading levels to all be stronger, since some (sub-)section titles were indistinguishable from surrounding text, and the rest of my intentional changes were what I felt were typos. (The system seemed to clear up trailing whitespace by itself.) Feel free to check the diff, and revert whatever you feel was egregious overstepping on my part.
All in all, I feel that your proposed post is ready to go!
Thanks. I was also unhappy with the formatting of the level-4 headers, so I am glad you changed them.
Your changes all look good to me.
The only change of yours that I see that are not purely typographical are the replacement of $a$ and $b$ with $A$ and $B$ in one place, and the removal of [mathjax] at the top of the article.
@MJD I felt that the a->A and b->B changes were typographical, since you introduced that example (with the capital letters) in the previous paragraph. (The removal of the [mathjax] from the top is due to our setting an option on the site that will automatically load MathJax for all pages, making it (hopefully) unnecessary to include any explicit mention on any post.)
Guess I'll be needing the privilege to post and edit my draft. How to embedd images? I can easily convert all my images from eps to gif, if that helps (my first guess would be that it does help).
@JyrkiLahtonen You should already be set up to create/edit your own drafts. Posting is something that will be left to the admins (that is, for now the math.SE mods) to handle). See mixedmath's answer.
I would imagine that .gif or .png would be preferred image formats. When editing there should be a visible button to "add media", and I am pretty sure that you upload your images using this, and then from the "Media Library" you can insert the images into your drafts/posts.
@NotNotLogical I'm now 90% sure that a script I have can convert math.se style Markdown to what wordpress needs semi-instantaneously, with the exception of images (which need to be done by hand)
so if you have something that formats well on MSE, it should format well on the blog