A Word document saved in HTML form should NEVER be published inside of a blog, especially a WordPress blog. It brings with it styling junk and code that is horrendous and must be removed to preserve the style of your WordPress Theme. I can’t tell you how many blogs and websites I’ve had to clean up from errors in the code, errors that blocked search engines as well as caused other problems, from Word-to-HTML files.

One person was totally freaked out because their header font style suddenly showed up in the middle of their blog post. Word didn’t know that their WordPress Theme used the H1 header in the header only. How could it?

For this type of conversion, copying and pasting text was the way to go. It’s a small group and they needed to know how to do this in the future, not just for the conversion.

I’ll be talking about some other methods for converting content, but honestly, having been down this route many times, it’s better to copy and paste or strip it down to text and import it.