Formatting posts to look more like Wordpress blog

[jimkleiber]

Soooo the problem seems to be that your Wordpress post has HTML classes, which are successfully being pasted to the Discourse post (as is shown in the raw HTML you posted from Discourse), however, when Discourse is displaying the post, it strips out the HTML classes:

What are the different ways to customize content inside a post (custom attributes and such)

It is possible to uses some HTML classes in Discourse, however, most HTML in a post is sanitized for security reasons, and only very strict whitelisted HTML is allowed in markdown. To add classes to the white-list you must use a plugin, the sanitization happens server side as well as client side. Check out Whitelisting HTML tags / attributes for some details on where to add the whitelisted attributes, and I believe it would look similar to something like this: Discourse HTML Whitelist. and a…

And this is some more info on creating a plugin to make this happen:

Whitelisting HTML tags / attributes

I vaguely remember that there was a way - using a site setting or a plugin - to add entries to the whitelist of allowed HTML tags and attributes (https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/addon/white-lister.js). I’m not very familiar with the internals of this part of Discourse. Does anyone have some pointers on how to add to this list using a plugin or maybe even site settings?

I’m not sure what the easiest solution would be for you. I personally wish it were much easier to whitelist HTML classes so that we wouldn’t have to create custom plugins each time we want to whitelist an HTML class.

If you can figure out how to make the classes not get stripped when the post is displayed, then after that you’d have to make sure that Discourse has the proper CSS for the HTML elements you have on your Wordpress site.