If WYSIWYG is enabled, your content in the edit box looks like it will on the site. You won't see any code markup when you enter your content into the blog editor.

Enable WYSIWYG mode, then copy-and-paste from your group's site. Everything will appear exactly as it did on the page you copied it from. Images and links will be copied along with the text. Text formating will be copied also, so anything that was in boldface or italics will appear that way in the new entry.

Here's how:

Login to your writer account. At the top upper left, click on Dashboard. Go to User Preferences. At upper right, under Preferred Format, click on the drop-down. Select XHTML. Then at bottom right, click to check the box where it says Enable WYSIWYG Mode. Click on Save at bottom before exiting the User Preferences.

If there are entries you have already created using Wiki format, and you need to edit them, you can convert them to XHTML. In the edit view, at right, click on the text link that says Convert to XHTML.

Some things you can't do:

Images in copied-pasted entries won't be stored in the Media Manager for future use. What's copied is the link to the image on the web, not the image file. Don't try to copy images from an email, or images that are on your computer, directly into an entry. They won't work. You have to store those in the Media Manager first, then link to them.

WYSIWYG makes it easier

and faster for you to post listings to the site. I hope this information encourages you to use the site more to promote your dharma activities.