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   wpcooperposted 8 weeks ago

   is there a way to downloa the articles we've published...so we can move them other places?

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      bravewarriorposted 8 weeks agoin reply to this

      Right click on each article in Author View, print as PDF and save it to your computer. That way you have them, can convert to Word doc if you wish, and move them wherever you want them to go.

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         alexadryposted 8 weeks agoin reply to this

         I tried the print as PDF and that works fine, but one thing to be aware of is that the source of the pictures doesn't appear unless you click on "source" for each picture. Also, the little intro will be missing unless you go to the article on your profile page (where all the articles are showcased) and copy and paste that to wherever you are moving the article to.

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            wpcooperposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

            well i guess basically i should kiss my hubpages articles goodbye then

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               alexadryposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

               It's very time consuming. I have many articles and am afraid I won't be able to remove them all. I wished they could extend the deadline. I have multiple accounts.

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                  Kenna McHughposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                  It feels overwhelming, but start, work it day by day, and you have them all.

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                     alexadryposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                     Thanks for the encouragement. According to my calculations, I would have to transfer about 55 articles a day but I am going to have family and friends help out.

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                        Kenna McHughposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                        You have wonderful friends and family!

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                        SerenityHaloposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

                        I sort of wonder if you can manipulate the Wayback Machine to get articles.
                        
                        Copying and pasting while doing other things made it possible for me to get all of them moved. While cooking, using the bathroom, watching TV, staying up a little late.

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                           SerenityHaloposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

                           Now I’m in the processing of deleting all of them. It takes me about 10 minutes to delete 42 articles.
                           
                           There’s no reason to keep content here if we’re not getting paid but TAG is getting paid for traffic, etc.

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                              SerenityHaloposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

                              I’ve also deleted all bios and my profile description.

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   wpcooperposted 8 weeks ago

   thank you. I was looking for a direct response, not to be directed to a link. appreiate you

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      theraggededgeposted 8 weeks agoin reply to this

      I gave you the link to the main forum so you could see all the threads, including the official announcements about the closure of HP.
      
      Sorry if that's not what you wanted. I didn't have time to type out the whole sad story and what action you need to take.

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         wpcooperposted 8 weeks agoin reply to this

         no i thank you some of the information was helpful. I am just currently frutrated wtih the way this site turend out

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   eugbugposted 7 weeks ago

   I'd advise people to clean their HTML code before posting to other platforms or just save as a text file from Adobe Reader or similar PDF viewer, after saving to PDF first. I just save the webpages from Discover and then rebuild them. It has taken over a day to rebuild some of the longer ones. Simply copying and pasting from Discover drags in a lot of TAG HTML dross that can be incompatible with other platforms. For instance on Blogger, I discovered that h3 tags are standard for sub-titles and Discover was using h2. Also TAG hosts images on their servers, so people who copied and pasted articles to a new website may get a surprise and wonder where there images have gone when and if that server is no longer available. It's pretty simple to do a clean, knowing a little bit about markup.

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      wpcooperposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Yes I sort of discovered that one trying to move his article I downloaded them all now. This really sucks I was hoping to keep them on the site but I guess the site is going to be disbanded soon. I'm not sure what to do really. I don't know if anybody else is having this problem

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         eugbugposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

         Als oif you're saving to PDf, scroll down the whole article before doing so. Hubpages lazy loads articles so they're not downloaded until you scroll down to them. Also saving to PDF doesn't save the full resolution image that you may have uploaded originally. On desktop, the way to view that in Windows is to right click and select "Open image in a new tab". Then save that image. This tediousness is why it's taking me forever to rebuild articles on a new platform. You may not need high resolution images, but if any of them are tables or diagrams with annotations (which many of mine are) it may be necessary.

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            eugbugposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

            Sorry, that should read "lazy loads images".

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   Nell Roseposted 7 weeks ago

   Hiya all, If I delete my account now, will I still get paid any excess money? Not sure if it will disappear from their database if I shut down? thanks guys

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      bravewarriorposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      I wouldn't risk it, Nell. I would wait until you've been paid, just to be sure you don't fall through the large fissure that HP has created.

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         Nell Roseposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

         Thanks, yes that makes sense. trouble is, at the end of Feb I don't think we can get into our accounts, which means I'll have to delete my all my stuff, which is a pain.

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   Nell Roseposted 7 weeks ago

   Back again. Stuck, simple as that!
   I downloaded my hubs by going into the hub in author view then just copying the whole page including pics into pdf.
   Now when I open them they are all narrow!
   So I widened them and tried to copy and nothing, zilch, nada!
   So it seems my masterpieces, cough, are going to be no longer.
   Unless a genius wearing a cape and goggles pops up with the solution.
   thank you!

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      bravewarriorposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

      Nell, I went into Author View for each article, right-clicked, and chose Print, then in my printer's drop down, I chose the PDF option and saved them to my computer's hard drive. They came through fine. Try it that way.

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         Nell Roseposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

         Too late I'm afraid I deleted them as I go! I did convert them to doc but still can't copy. Never mind, and thanks for your help.

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            Jodahposted 7 weeks agoin reply to this

            I did that too, downloaded as PDFs, but can't copy anything to paste it elsewhere. My word program wants an extra $11 per month to be able to convert from PDF to word and I am not willing to pay that.

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               eugbugposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

               Try using either the LibreOffice or Google Docs Editors Suites. There's also Apache OpenOffice.

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                  Jodahposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

                  Thank you, Eugene.

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   Phyllis Doyleposted 6 weeks ago

   You can copy the articles, paste them to your google documents for free. From there you can edit the article, add images you want and copy to pdf. Then the edited and ready article can be submitted to contests or other sites. Hope this works for you, John. If you have a gmail account you have a documents folder. When on you gmail page click on the square of dots top right and scroll down to Documents.

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      Jodahposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

      Thank you, Phyllis. That is very helpful.

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   DREAM ONposted 6 weeks ago

   I am struggling to copy all my stories on Hubpages. You all have been so helpful and you have changed my life for ever. Simply put you have made my life wonderful. I would appreciate anyone who wants to stay in touch please e-mail me so we may stay friends. I would hope that we all find each other once again on another site. That we may once again enjoy all the fun and excitement of sharing and caring for everyone who we have met over the years. I wish everyone the best and I am speechless when it comes to how grateful and sad to see everyone leave one by one. I still believe everything in life happens for a reason. The move we make will only open up great opportunities for bigger and better things. Thank you all. I have been so busy with life that my stories got pushed to the backburner. My friends are so important to me. Connections that last a lifetime. New stories can be written and a new chapter will begin. Please stay healthy and safe. Take care. I am but a shadow of you in a dismal day. The rain will come and go. Giving water to the earth to make all things grow. The skies will clear up. The sun will shine again. With it I will rise to a new occasion and see all the good the world has to offer. Realizing the beauty has not gone away it has just transformed itself into this wonderful day.   Thank you all Dream On.

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      Nell Roseposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

      Its been a pleasure knowing you, and I hope we all bump into each oher on other sites. Most of us are on facebook where we still chat. Are you on there? It would be great if you were.

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      Jodahposted 6 weeks agoin reply to this

      It has been a pleasure reading and engaging with you Dream On. I have sent you an email.

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   DREAM ONposted 6 weeks ago

   Neil Rose I am on Facebook and I am not the fastest on the computer but slowly I will find a way to get where I want to go. I have always struggled with technology and how great and fast everything is. There are so many wonderful places to be and go I am forever lost in this incredible world we live in. I will do my best to step into 2026 instead of 1978. I get so busy with work I don't know if I am coming or going. Jodah I will check my e-mail. Thank you both so very much. I appreciate all the writers here on HubPages who continue to amaze me with all their talent and passion.  Everyone have a fabulous day.

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      Nell Roseposted 5 weeks agoin reply to this

      It will be good to see you there!

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   Kaili Bissonposted 4 weeks ago

   I have one article left, though I have made a copy of it. Deleted all of my photos too. Deleted my bio. Leaving my account here until we get the final payout that was mentioned in the email/forum post.
   
   Trying my hand on Medium. Good luck everyone...I'll miss the community here  :-)

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      Nell Roseposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

      I've saved loads now just going to delete my account to get rid of the rest. Feels weird, going to miss it

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         Kaili Bissonposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

         me too Nell, it used to be so great. Maybe keep your account until you get your final payment? Not sure if that's needed, but I deleted all my articles and have left the account open for now, just to be sure.

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            PaulGoodman67posted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

            That's an interesting point. After deleting articles, I was going to delete accounts, but maybe we need to keep them open to get a final payment?

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    Phyllis Doyleposted 4 weeks ago

    If you have a gmail account it is easy to copy and save your articles then you can do what you will for your articles. This is how I do it:
    1. Open you gmail account and click on the 9 dot square up top right by your photo.
    2. A menu box will appear. Scroll down and click on DOCS. Give the doc a title (ie HUBPAGES ARTICLES)
    3. Open you HP account and go to your article list.
    4. To copy an article, click on 'Author View', copy your article then paste it in you google docs.
    5. I copy 20 articles in a doc then open another doc.
    6. I delete all images in the copied articles because they will take up a LOT of space.
    7. I go back to my article list and delete the article I just copied to a doc.
    8. When I want to move an article to another site, I copy it and paste it in the new site. I leave a note to myself on the article in doc to let me know I transferred that article to 'new site name' and the date I transferred.

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       eugbugposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

       How do you copy all your images?

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          PaulGoodman67posted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

          Yes, I see the images as important, along with the relevant attributions. It takes a long time to re-find them online or wherever if you don't save them.

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             eugbugposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

             I normally right click and open in a new tab. That shows the highest-resolution version that was uploaded. I normally uploaded at high resolution for guides where someone might like to examine something in the image in greater detail. The images shown in articles are the lowest-res versions.

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                PaulGoodman67posted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                You are more diligent than me. I left everything until the last minute so have rushed through everything (I have around 320 hubs in total). I copied and pasted to Medium. However, as long as I have the link to the original image, I will be fine.
                
                I plan to rework articles before publishing them at Medium. They're currently in draft form. I can deal with any image issues then.
                
                Hubpages went through many iterations and my hubs reflected that. At first, the recommendation was to be pretty minimal. Then they wanted us to add a multitude of images and vids. Then it went back to pretty minimal.
                
                Some of my old hubs have ridiculous amounts of pics but I'll figure that out later.
                
                (I've already done lots of backing up, of course)

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                   eugbugposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                   Remember the links are to TAG's SayMedia server which hosts the images.
                   I've only migrated and deleted 10 articles so far. It's easier to transfer from Discover and I want to be able to access the full-size images for re-uploading on my blog, but that takes at least half a day per article to rebuild it. (I don't trust pate without formatting, because it still seems to drag in unwanted TAG HTML). So I clean the HTML in an editor.

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                      PaulGoodman67posted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                      No, I believe the links become Medium ones. The images are copied over to the Medium server, not just the articles.
                      
                      Anyway, I also have original addresses, Wiki commons etc.

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                         eugbugposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                         The way you can check is to look at the page source: In Firefox, Tools -> Browser Tools -> Page Source and then do Ctrl F on the page to search for Saymedia or do the equivalent in other browsers.
                         I just had a look at one of my articles that has around 25 photos and in Reader View, not all the photos are actually displayed.

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                            PaulGoodman67posted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                            This is an example of a copied image at Medium:
                            
                            https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/880 … fBM9U9.jpg

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                               eugbugposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                               I just did a test to see what happens when I paste and I'm looking at the source markup now.
                               
                               I'm uploading my science tutorial to Blogger and I registered a domain for the blog. I created the original blog over two years ago, but Google wouldn't index it. When I registered the domain, it was indexed within two weeks. I asked our local journalist who has been running the town's online newspaper for the last 20 years to backlink to it, so that should also give it some E-E-A-T.
                               
                               Edit: I looked at the page source of the draft article in Medium that I copied over from Hubpages and there are 551 references to SayMedia. I'll try pasting without formatting next. That'll wipe out any markup formatting of copied-over sub-headings, tables, bulleted/numbered lists etc.
                               
                               Edit Edit: So I checked again and those Saymedia references are actually absent, so Medium is actually recreating and storing images on its server. This may not be the case for other platforms, so check page source when you upload. I know from saving my articles as html pages locally to my hard drive that links are preserved to the Saymedia server, so if you're rebuilding from backed-up webpages, images may need to be pasted as they could be implemented as links.

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                                  Kaili Bissonposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                                  Now following you on Medium, Eugene.

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                                     eugbugposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                                     Thanks Kali, I followed you over there too.

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                               bravewarriorposted 4 weeks agoin reply to this

                               So crisp and clear, Paul!

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                   Kaili Bissonposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                   I just started on Medium, Paul: four stories so far, all in The Daily Cuppa.
                   
                   I will look for you on Medium.
                   
                   My total number of Hubs is in the hundreds, but I deleted/unpublished many over the years, as I got sick of fixing broken links and dealing with HP's sometimes awful edits to keep things "fresh." So, I may rework some better pieces for Medium, but for now, I'm having fun with the format on the Cuppa.

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    eugbugposted 3 weeks ago

    It's off topic for this thread, but just to let you know ChatGPT had been extremely helpful to me, customising my Blogger blog and the ads on it. Under my direction, it has designed the multi-page contents page that lists all articles per month, the Posts by Category page, all the icons on the home page, the coding for search and now it has done the ad placement, much better than what Hubpages implemented on this site (I told it where to put ads and not to be putting them in the middle of tables, lists, breaking up paragraphs etc). I only know basic HTML, JS and CSS, so I wouldn't have been able to do all this coding. Have a look at the blog here. I presume you could do the same if you're designing your own website from scratch, or adding code to WordPress or other platforms.
    My blog was initially about science issues relevant to where I live, but I decide to migrate all my STEM stuff from here to it.
    
    https://www.kilcullenscience.com

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       eugbugposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

       "has", not "had", It's an ongoing process, trying to get the ad insertion process right.
       Are there ads other than Adsense that I can use? Adense earnings per thousand impressions are only tiny and I make a few cents per month.

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          PaulGoodman67posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

          That's the big issue.
          
          Putting a website together is relatively straightforward and fun. Making money from it is difficult and is generally measured in cents rather than dollars.
          
          It's easier if you're selling products and/or services. But getting paid just for views is miserable, in my experience.
          
          That's one reason why I doubt I'll go down the own website route with my HP material.

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          Kaili Bissonposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

          I just had a look at your blog, great job!
          
          I, too, only know basic HTML and JS, so there is no way I could do the level of coding required. The ad placement on your blog is way better than it ever was here.
          
          A friend who monetized her blog used sponsored ads and affiliated links, that was the only way she made any money. Like you say, AdSence pays pennies.

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             eugbugposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

             Thanks. Maybe if I could get views up, some science and engineering companies would sponsor it.

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                PaulGoodman67posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                Affiliated ads was the only way I made money, but even then it wasn't much compared to what I was getting at HP.
                
                There are lots of options out there if you look. I even tried some of the bigger retail companies, but with not much success.
                
                Science isn't generally a lucrative area either. Your DIY home stuff would've been easier, if earning is a thing. There's more scope for affiliate ads and the general ads for views and clicks pay more.

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                   eugbugposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                   I still have to build the website on Wordpress or Blogger for that. Now that I've customised the template on Blogger, I can reuse it for a DIY site, without much effort. If I go the Wordpress way or use other platforms, I have to pay a subscription to be able to place ads, but I don't know whether I'll get the traffic to make any revenue from those ads, and it could take years, so it's a catch-22 scenario.

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                      PaulGoodman67posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                      Online ad placement is difficult. I tried studying it for a while. If there's too many ads and they're too obtrusive, it looks spammy. However, if you go the other way and the ads don't grab attention, earnings can be very low. To do it effectively, you need a lot of data analysis.
                      
                      It's fine for readers to complain about ads. But when you're the host trying to generate money, you're coming at it from a very different place.

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                         eugbugposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                         I can control them fairly accurately now with the JavaScript ChatGPT has written for me. They're excluded from all the positions that they annoyingly appeared in on Hubpages articles like in the middle of lists or between images and captions or after sub-headings, just before text. The code counts words, and then inserts an ads after a set number of words and keeps doing this ( I can choose the numbers of words between ads, and also the number of ads). If the insert position coincides with say the middle of a list, the ad is pushed to the end of the list. I had a problem with one article having a lot of diagrams and no text, so no ads were appearing because the word count threshold hadn't been reached, so I told ChatGPT to alter the code to also count images and insert after a certain number of them. It's really wonderful what it can do.
                         For short articles, no inline-ads are inserted, so there's just the ones in the footer or right sidebar on desktop. The latter get pushed down to the bottom of a page when the mobile version of the site is shown on a phone. I could put an ad at the top of a page or a banner, but I don't want to annoy readers.

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                            PaulGoodman67posted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                            But how do you know that's the optimum formula for making money?
                            
                            You seem to be thinking just in terms of your own reader experience.
                            
                            There's always some conflict between what the reader wants (minimal, unobtrusive, or better still, no ads) and having ads that people notice, which is what the advertisers want.

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                               eugbugposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                               I don't. I'm just placing the ads unobtrusively as a starting point. It's better than Google's Auto Ads which are somewhat randomly inserted and in one's face, although there's control over what can and can't be shown. Not sure what the best way of doing it is. Maybe place next to images or text that attract readers and they pause on. Not sure how that can be programmed.

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                Kenna McHughposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

                I've worked with Affiliate links, and I know others who have as well. It is profitable.

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