The issue is that Zotero is exporting empty span tags for the COinS data. That is, all the metadata goes in the opening span as it’s supposed to, but there is nothing between it and the closing span tag.

Some software strips any so-called “empty” span tags out. WP did not do this before but it is now. The workaround is to put a non-breaking space in between the opening and closing span tags. But that is clearly a pain.

The other issue as I see it, and this is a WP issue is that if you drag ‘n’ drop into the visual editor it strips out the COinS spans immediately. So you have to switch to so-called HTML editor mode before you drag ‘n’ drop and then you’ll get a chance to add the non-breaking space before saving.

Before I upgraded I just dropped the darn thing right in the visual editor without any problems.

I think as Walt says that 2.5 might be better in some ways but I’m not sure it is that much better. Of course, I was a couple versions ahead of him so maybe he is seeing more improvement.

I’m just pissed that I waited several days and read a few reviews and people’s upgrade stories. One of the big features touted was the HTML editor was replaced by the Tiny MCE editor which is supposedly–based on what I read–really good.

But I have serious issues with any editor not showing paragraphs or line breaks being called an HTML editor. Quasi-HTML editor maybe. As I see it, any quality HTML editor will show me all of my markup.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2645/wordpress-25-stripping-coins-from-drag-n-drop-exporting/#Comment_11347

I asked another question re whether I can repair my HTML export to do this automatically.

I also have some concern since I get a translator failure from the main page. Maybe once only “new” entries are on the main page it won’t happen. But only time will tell there.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2645/wordpress-25-stripping-coins-from-drag-n-drop-exporting/

I poked around in the Zotero forums yesterday and I can’t find anything that looks like this issue. I may have to register and make a posting myself.

There was a posting that seems related and I need to try it again before I bother them, though.

But the additional COinS metadata is not. Before the newest version of Zotero I had to do it “by hand.” With the new version it was a simple drag-n-drop operation, even into the visual editor. I got some odd formatting but the metadata was there. And stayed there.

Now it is getting stripped out entirely.

Also as for the paragraphs being added if one hits the enter key 2x, well, I ain’t seeing it.

I found an odd comment in the forums earlier about paragraphs in the new interface. Supposedly if you hit enter 2x it will put in paragraph tags. But why does it seemingly appear to put paragraphs in with a simple single enter? Are they really just 2 line breaks? Hard to tell with no tags displaying is my thought.

For you? Apparently the other way around. No insights to offer…