I use Wordpress to run a few other websites, such as this CommunityHost site, and wanted to add a form to support a mailing list.  My hosting company, Servage, supports mailing lists and I’ve used them with some success, so I didn’t need to re-invent the wheel and decided that the best bet would be to somehow get the HTML form that Servage supply on to a Wordpress page.

I did try the obvious – just paste the HTML source code in to a page – and that was about as effective as the proverbial cat flap in an elephant house.  So I then decided to create a new template page containing the code.  And for all who’re interested, here’s what I did in Version 2.3.x.

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Here are some useful tips if you get weird stuff happening with your Wordpress installation.  I’ve experienced all of these, and the fixes seem to work.

Cannot write text or edit text in IE7

If you’re using IE7 and you try and edit an existing post, or create a new one,  with the ‘Visual’ editor in operation, you are either unable to enter text or existing text disappears.  On the Status bar you may see a Javascript error warning, which will include such phrases as Permission Denied or ”this.contentWindow.document’ is null or not an object’.

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