Hi, what file type should be used to upload words from a file? “Add from file”
The upload input on the watched words page is looking for a .txt file. That file should contain one word per line.
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Thanks! I’ve now uploaded my .txt file. I get a message that says, “Upload successful. Words have been added.”
However, no words then appear to be added.
Is the ‘show words’ checkbox checked? Words will only be shown when that box is checked.
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Hi, yes. And when it isn’t checked, it shows the “0 words” text.
Which action are you trying to upload the words to? One thing to note is that you cannot add the same word to multiple watched word actions.
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Hi, so I took the risk of deleting my watched words section, then attempting to upload the .txt file to the blocked words section. Unfortunately, it is still not loading the new word list from the document.
Do you see any errors in the browser console or /logs?
Having the same problem and can’t see any solutions on here - did you crack it @outofthebox ?
I’ve just given it a run-through on my test site with a 3 word csv file added to ‘Block’ and it has worked for me?
Could you give a few more details of what you’re trying and what’s going wrong?
Hi Aaron, I wish I could help, but I don’t remember how that worked out!
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Exactly the same as the OP, thanks @JammyDodger
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Thanks @outofthebox, it was a while back so understandable!
I’ve just given it a go with a .txt file rather than a csv and that did work for two of the three words, but not the third as I had forgotten to add the comma at the end. 
Does your word list have commas in, or just a list of words?
eg.
dog,
cat,
pancake,
Thanks so much @JammyDodger - I managed to get it working by adding the commas, but made one small tweak to the text and it won’t work again. Finding this function really inconsistent 
Working with 75 words or phrases so it’s a few too many to do manually
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I think you can break them up and do them in smaller batches, which may help you find the one that’s giving you trouble. 
I also find typing them into a spreadsheet (with no commas) and exporting that as a csv to be a pretty smooth way of adding bigger lists if you ever need to do a bigger one.
Thanks for your suggestions @JammyDodger , I’m repeating the same task with the same files and sometimes getting no words added, sometimes one, sometimes three!
Will pick it up again tomorrow when Discourse may be feeling differently! Appreciate your help though 
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In my case there was a special character being used by excel’s csv which was breaking it. I had to edit the csv in my text editor to fix it. However, there is another issue, which is that if you try to upload a list to the “Replace” tab, there seems to be no way of indicating in the csv that the output should be in HTML. The download also doesn’t provide any flag to indicate html or not.
One other interesting issue I have. I’m inserting links after product names like this:
And sometimes people do stuff like “AirPods Pro 2’s” and I’ve tried matching on the apostrophized version first to avoid having the link icon followed by
's but it seems it doesn’t matter the order of the watched words, the text is always broken up.
Noticed that Watched Words also manipulates text in the post preview. Is there any way to suppress this?