Argh!
I really have no room to complain because this blog is on a free site, but it’s still frustrating… I wanted to try to do another ink blog post with an image map to do some “links in ink” (Sumocat, you better TM that phrase!), but WordPress.com’s editor automatically strips out the HTML code that creates the image map hotspots. I did a search on WordPress’s support pages and saw a couple cases where people turned off the WYSIWYG editor to get the image map code to work, but it doesn’t work for me. I may do some more Googling to try to figure out an alternative, but it is probably more likely that for some reason the HTML map tags aren’t supported on WordPress.com at all now (gah, I can’t even type out the map tag enclosed with the greater-than/less-than symbols around it within the text editor because it strips it out, even though I’m not trying to code up HTML!)?
Like I said, this is a free blog that is hosted for free, so I can’t really complain about a little thing like this, but if anyone can give me any suggestions on how to do this within WordPress.com’s editor, I’d be really appreciative! Until then, I guess no links in ink for any of my subsequent ink blog posts… 
Silver at INKINESS uses WordPress and she posts her Links in Ink(TM) by generating a separate web page (using Frontpage, I think) and linking to it in her blog posts via an inline frame. Might want to check out her code. http://inkiness.com/
Sumocat
May 18, 2006 at 6:10 am
Thanks for the tip, Sumocat. As I mentioned on Silver’s blog, I don’t think I can use that same method because I can’t upload HTML files to WordPress.com. I’m not using the standalone version, so I don’t have that flexibility, unfortunately.
jezlyn
May 18, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Hey Cheryl I know EXACTLY how you feel cuz’ the same thing happens here when I tried Hugh’s way of integrating the map and area tags into the HTML. WP doesn’t recognize the coords and shape attributes, and so deletes them! It’s so irritating!
Another thing you can do is to host your stand-alone pages somewhere else, some other free host, and use the iframes to link to them? Remember that WP doesn’t do well with iframes too though! You have to force WP to close the iframe tag by inserting it in the WYSISYG editor AFTER the iframe image.
Silver
May 18, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Yeah, I might look into a free hosting site… I hope that WordPress fixes this sometime for more advanced users who would like to tweak their blog without having to do a full-blown standalone WordPress site of their own. I get the feeling that I’m going to try to set up my own site sometime, though.
jezlyn
May 19, 2006 at 11:58 am