Grok WordPress formatting can be challenging when trying to copy from LibreOffice or MS Word into the X composer. How do you suggest to a Billionaire (richest human on planet, in fact) a possible way to make more money on a business he basically stole from the Progressives? BTW, they are still whining about Elon Musk stealing Their *BELOVED* Twitter from them – after almost three years!? They want to destroy all his businesses now. I would put an emoji or two or three at this point, but … but I’ll explain later in this post. Anyway, here I am getting less than $1,000 a month from Social Security – trying to write a post suggesting a possible way the richest man on the planet can make more money on X (formerly owned by Progressives).
✦ Chats with Grok
ME: Last time I tried to use italics in my standard premium posts – the post had scattered areas with italics that I didn’t enter with the button. Also had same issue with bold where some words only had half bold it them…it was a mess. Maybe those issues have been fixed now, and will test on next post. Thanks!
Grok (snippets): ❝You’re welcome! It sounds like you ran into some glitches with the rich text formatting in the X post composer for standard Premium, which can be frustrating. Issues like unintended italics or partially bolded words could stem from bugs in the composer, Unicode rendering issues, or copying text from external sources (like WordPress or Word) that carry over hidden formatting codes …
• Paste as Plain Text: If copying from WordPress or Word, paste the text into a plain text editor (like Notepad or Google Keep) first to strip hidden formatting, then copy it into X’s composer. This reduces glitches from residual HTML or rich text codes.❞
It was a long Chat with Grok that continues as I try to find a way to make my posts on X look ‘Clean’. I have sorta merged my WordPress blog and X – first posting a post on the blog and then copying it over to X whilst considering the different formats. Short posts or reposts on X I’ll use the X/Publish (https://publish.twitter.com/#) tool to post certain X posts to my blog’s side bar. Another tool I use to ‘Cover’ the format differences is the Quote Emojis & Text (https://emojicombos.com/quote) tool.
✦ Overcoming Formatting Hurdles
Point is, without using Grok in this post to “smoother flow and clarity” – there is still a lot of work trying to post a long post on both my WordPress blog and X premium account, i.e., even *WITH* or without Grok. Grok WordPress formatting is tricky, IMHO. Born in Texas, I am practically unable to open my mouth without uttering 100 words minimum. In X that’s an “estimated characters: 500 + 99 = 599 characters”. Forget a limit of 280 characters, i.e., the $84 I pay a year for the X subscription is well worth it to me!
Grok says to: copy Grok’s draft → to LibreOffice writer → then copy that to blog’s Classic Editor for blog post OR → copy to Notepad for X post. Lots of work! For this post – I did rough draft on LO writer → copied that to WordPress Classic Editor → and will then copy final post from WordPress to Notepad → copy that from Notepad to X composer…and then do the BOLD and ITALIC formatting from inside the composer. WHEW!
Notepad apparently clears formatting issues, and then can be copied to the X composer. Then, you can add the BOLD and ITALIC formatting you want there.
✦ Editing Issues – discovered too late
My subheadings (or whatever Grok calls those?!) were in BOLD following the ✦ symbol. When I edited this – “.” to this – “🐀🐀🐀” the BOLD subheaders lost their BOLD, and that section looked like the image with “Department probe for potential false” scattered format issues. Copying from Grok’s draft to LO writer dropped the rat emojis and input the ❝”.”❞ – which I caught late, then edited, and didn’t notice the corrupted formatting from the edit until it was to late to edit again. Ditto on the WHEW!
See the entire change at X post “RealClear Investigations Leads the Charge: Unraveling Russiagate” (https://x.com/KarmiTux/status/1948387372527423558).
✦ Conclusion & Suggestions
Will not have Grok check this post for me so structure and flow will be my normal stuff before Grok fixes it.
I cannot afford the Premium+ tier at $40 per month or $395 per year. Blog is self-hosted – I pay $335.52 for a Hostinger 48 month subscription – which breaks down to almost $84 a year.
I could probably do around $130-160 a year for an X subscription that included a composer that would make my posting easier, e.g., something closer to WYSIWYG when copying and pasting. No BIGGIE either way since I am very happy with the standard Premium X subscription; however, maybe I could support X (formerly owned by Progressives) a little more with another Premium Tier?
(NOTES: BTW, I just used Grok to help me come up with a Title for this post. Grok also produced a “smoother flow and clarity” post to this, but will only use the Title we worked on. Did not use formats I would normally use on a WP blog post since I wrote this post up mainly for an X post – which doesn’t allow all the format options that Classic Editor does.)