I should think that a fresh publishing of the whole site would rectify any issues.

But I still insist that I used to be able to flow text around an embedded picture.

I am sorry, but this has NEVER been possible in WebPlus without manual intervention. As GB has suggested, you must have taken a different route. The help file cannot help you with a feature that has never existed in the software!

In my naivety as a novice web designer way back when, I did think at first that this was an oversight in WebPlus and lobbied for it when I was a member of the closed beta testing team, but I have since come to realise that there were and remain very good reasons for not implementing it, and they are related to the way that HTML works. Because of being a beta tester and from the many websites I built with WebPlus (for myself and for clients), I knew the software pretty intimately. I am afraid you are chasing shadows if you continue to believe that WebPlus can do this.

Any suggestions for reminding this "old dog", and amateur WP user, of how to wrap text around a picture?

I am sure you'll just ignore this, as you have ignored all of my posts so far in this thread, but there is and never was a text wrap option in WebPlus. The only way to do it is manually by eye.

Pilotlon wrote:

I don't see anything in WWB that addresses autoflow, however.

I asked Pablo (WWB developer) about this a year ago and his response was similar to MeadowWeaver's above in that HTML and text flow, etc. are at odds. I don't believe he has any plans on addressing this.

As I have said (three times now), a web page is not a magazine page, and should be handled differently. Once you get into this mindset, you save yourself a lot of angst.

It would be nice if the OP responded to all replies. There's not much point in taking time to write a reply if they cherry pick the posts they read and/or just move on to another query.

I think the problem is that you are trying to replicate a magazine. A web page is not a magazine page, and it would be better to treat it for what it is. By continuing to try to replicate text flow, you are only making life harder for yourself.

I used to automatically flow text around images but I've forgotten how to do that. And WP Help is no help.

That's because it was never possible to do it automatically with WebPlus.

There never was any flowing text in WebPlus, only in PagePlus.

APoster wrote:

But I'm hoping that someone has discovered a less laborious method for producing pages comparable to magazine text.

No, there isn't an easier way.

Fundamentally, a magazine page and a web page are two different things. The limitations in text handling are down to HTML, and not WebPlus per se. It doesn't matter how meticulously you curate your page, you cannot guarantee that it will look 'right' in everybody's browser.

Nowadays, many people surf the Net on smaller devices (phones and tablets), so creating responsive sites is all the more important, which is why I switched from WebPlus to WYSIWYG Web Builder a year ago.

The only way that you can guarantee that a web page will look like a magazine article is to turn the magazine page into a picture and add it to your page, but the text would not be searchable. This is why a lot of people will provide PDFs of things such as menus that they want visitors to see with the correct formatting.

What's your cheap trick for making HTML look like WYSIWYG?

I have completely changed my approach as it's too much effort for very little return and won't ever look right on the mobile devices that are pretty much ubiquitous these days.

The bottom line is that you are on a hiding to nothing, unfortunately. There is no panacea.

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(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Happy New Year!

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(13 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

A belated happy birthday, Geoff! x

Some of you will already be aware of Mike's excellent Unofficial Guide to Affinity Publisher V2, but this new version for Affinity Studio comes to you hot off the (Discord) press: https://mikeloader.ca/2025/12/21/expert … canva-3-0/

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(4 replies, posted in WebPlus)

The only problem I had was that WP would no longer launch from its shortcut icon. I had to double-click the .exe file instead. Otherwise, it worked fine, but I chose to update to current (different) software that creates responsive websites this time last year.

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(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Thanks for the comments on my image - it's one of my Christmas decorations and both I and the cats' scratch pole ore in there!!!

As for staying positive: it is not always well received, but thank you.

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(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

https://www.alisongwright.me.uk/images/christmas_card_web.jpg

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(4 replies, posted in General Discussion)

You can throw broad Scouse into that mix!

But (and it's a big 'but'). over the past ten or so years, there has been a mass homogenisation of English in the UK. I have noticed this particularly in news items where younger people (late teens and early twenties) are interviewed: although there are still hints of thick and long vowels (north v. south), there is no discernible dialect or pronounced accent. Young people from Nottingham sound more or less the same as young people from Leeds, from Norwich, from Bristol and from London.

It was bound to happen in a world where TV and Internet (mainly the latter) reign supreme. I think we have reached the point where, within another 50 years, regional accents and their dialects will die out almost completely. It's just the next step on what Melvyn Bragg called the Adventure of English, and as a linguist, I find it fascinating.

These minority languages will succumb, too, in time.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P … hMHSyq-lhe

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(20 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Myrrh is/was also used in the embalming process, so most likely he got it on his death as well.

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(7 replies, posted in WebPlus)

You might have to force the issue by giving it a Z number (9999, for example). But, as Alfred says, a .wpp file containing the page in question will help.

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(15 replies, posted in WebPlus)

Is it possible to create a horizontal navigation bar with drop down options?

I have no idea - I don't use WordPress ... Sorry.

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(15 replies, posted in WebPlus)

jfg17 wrote:

Thanks Ali,
The website I quoted was built using WordPress, again very easy & straight forward.

WYSIWYG Web Builder gives you way more control over your websites than Word Press, It is not a hosted solution - it's a build-your-own solution like WebPlus. It's a different animal altogether.

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(15 replies, posted in WebPlus)

jfg17 wrote:

You seem to have created the effect on your website. smile

This is where WebPlus falls down, and it's one of the reasons I stopped using it in December last year when I started building my new website. I now use WYSIWYG Web Builder 20 instead, which makes responsive websites nice and easy to do.

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(15 replies, posted in WebPlus)

From Windows 10 to Windows 10 - do you mean Windows 11?

What exactly do you mean about a fixed page size? What's the effect you want?

Happy birthday, Lon! x

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(3 replies, posted in WebPlus)

The section for WebPlus queries is here: https://punster.me/serif/viewforum.php?id=6

I never experienced this in all the years I ran WP, so it must be something that you have done, but I don't know what. I don't use WP any more - sorry.

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(17 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

cgw wrote:

I'm puzzled - I get the "New version Available" splash screen on opening Affinity but clicking Download just takes me to their normal  'new user' webpage where I have to decide which version I want.  Not like it used to be...

This is correct. When you run the downloaded file it will then run only the update bit for you. Choose Enterprise if you have the EXE installation, but for MSIX run the Windows option.

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(17 replies, posted in Affinity Studio)

And the blog page about the fonts has been taken down!