Warning: Tiny bit of language ahead.
It began, as my technical difficulties often do, with an idea.
The idea involved removing a WordPress installation from the main directory of one of my sites, and doing a fresh install into a sub directory there. Also adding a HTML landing page, but that’s not really pertinent to this.
We have Fantastico, so installing WordPress just involves a bit of filling in the blanks and a few clicks of the mouse. The new installation into a sub directory went smoothly. Removing the old installation was just as smooth.
I’d plotted out my pages, their content and posting categories beforehand. Had already chosen a theme and edited both the two image files I needed to and the CSS. Uploaded the theme, no problem. Activated it. No problem. Set up and published the pages, set the categories. No problem.
Uploaded the plugins I needed/wanted and activated them. No problem.
Proceeded to copy/paste the fourteen chapters from the MS Word doc file I wanted on there, directly into the visual editor. No freakin’ problem.
I usually paste to the HTML editor because the fonts/font sizes do funny things if you don’t. I was tired last night, so went the easy route after seeing the first one didn’t have weird font/font size problems going on.
Next up was posting the first bit of revision to the work. I copy/pasted it from its MS Word doc file.
Error.
Wait, didn’t that same thing happen when they did the last security updates to the servers? Why yes, it did.
So I trotted off to tell D it had happened again. He went through the steps to fix it.
Publish attempt #2: Error.
D makes certain the server hasn’t blacklisted me because I’ve posted so much in a short time. He whitelists me just to be absolutely certain that doesn’t occur.
Publish attempt #3: Error.
D: “Are you kidding me?” [Double checks. Triple checks.] “Try it again.”
Publish attempt #4: Error.
D and me: “WTF?”
I delete the empty, saved draft and try a brand new post.
Error.
A support ticket is put into the IT guys at our server center. I go to bed.
Wake up this morning to find a forwarded email from D where the tech says there were some permissions issues. They were taken care of.
Cool. I try to add the content.
That would be Publish attempt #6, for those keeping score.
Error.
Grr. Need more coffee.
Returning with more coffee, I copy/pasted the error message into the draft and hit publish.
Success! It publishes! Yay!
Edit the post to remove that, add my content, hit publish and…error.
WTF!
Edit again, check the HTML editor and find a couple of lonely span div tags hanging out at the end of my text. Delete them, hit publish.
Publish attempt #9: Error.
W. T. F.
Okay, there must be something in the text that WordPress has taken a dislike to. I edit to add just the first 200 or so words and hit publish.
Success!
Edit to add another paragraph.
Success!
Edit to add another one; upon pasting it, I noticed WordPress has actually double pasted it. Delete the extra and hit publish.
Success!
Awesome! I’m cruising now!
Edit to add all the rest. Hit publish.
Error.
WTF?!
Edit to add just a single sentence. The double pasting thing happens again. Delete the extra, hit publish and…success!
I now have 453 words of a 653 story revision successfully published.
No matter how I try, WordPress flat refuses to let me add those last 200 words. No way, no how.
Well crap. Time to visit the WordPress forums for help. This has to be a WordPress problem, right?
One post from someone having the exact same problem, using the exact same method of copy/pasting from a MS Word file.
Solution offered?
Never copy/paste from MS Word! Use LiveWriter instead!
Say what?
Okay, I have ten (10) WordPress blogs. Granted I seldom paste into the visual editor because of that font funny business, but something like 80% of my posts are copy/pasted from MS Word. I have never had an internal server error occur from doing that before.
I have never had that error with any of the other nine (9) WordPress blogs (yes, I tested them with the exact same content giving me crap on the one. All published without blinking!).
Apparently this one, single installation is speshul. Fine.
Download and install LiveWriter. Copy/paste from MS Word doc and hit publish – the whole schmear posts to the blog.
Success! Yay!
Wait, I forgot the tags. Crap. Try to edit to add those in WP visual editor. Error.
[head desk] Fine, I’ll add them via LiveWriter. Do so. LiveWriter sticks them into the post as Technorati tags. WTF?
Whatever, don’t care. Hit publish, post is re-published to my blog. Yeah, buddy.
Just to say I tried it, I do a new post and manually type the content in. Hit publish.
Error.
Conclusion?
WordPress doesn’t like the words ‘pussy’ or ‘bitch’. Both were in the portion it didn’t want to add at the end; I guess I offended its virgin editors.
Well, not me, but Shadow did. She’s the one who said them. Heh.
Seriously, that’s ridiculous. How can only one WordPress installation freak out like that, when it and the other nine were perfectly fine with my copy/pasting from MS Word docs prior to that? And the other nine still are?
That doesn’t even make sense to me. I’ve been a WordPress girl for roughly two years now. Love WordPress.
But that’s just stupid!
Ah, well…welcome to my life where computers/software/electronics are concerned. Heh. 
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