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Question To Self Hosted Wordpress Users Need Quick Tip:

by entrepreneurjay
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Question To Self Hosted Wordpress Users Need Quick Tip:

This has not happened to me before and I am not sure whats going on. I published a new blog post on my blog and I cannot get the space between paragraphs to show up.

It is being published as basically one big blog of text. I have tried editing my post by manually putting spaces where they should be but when I publish it nothing happens it shows up the same way.

Anyone know whats going on or how to fix? Thanks in advance, Jay!
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    Double check that you're not putting your text in while in 'html' mode or it will not see the line breaks.

    If you want to add one to check that it works, put into html mode and type <br /> and see if that helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author peekay
    Go into HTML editing mode and try using the following tags
    Line break: <br />
    Paragraph tag: <p>Some text in a paragraph.</p>
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  • Profile picture of the author Tenzo
    I had this happen recently. I'm not sure what causes it, but I was advised to go to the HTML tab on the post entry form, and manually add the line break tags < br/ >where I wanted them.

    Hope that helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    Thanks everyone appreciate the help.
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    • Profile picture of the author Blogmudgeon
      What browser are you using to do your WP edits? Chrome in its newest iterations is causing issues with several platforms--in both editing and configuration saving. Try another browser and see if this rectifies any issues.
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      • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
        Originally Posted by Blogmudgeon View Post

        What browser are you using to do your WP edits? Chrome in its newest iterations is causing issues with several platforms--in both editing and configuration saving. Try another browser and see if this rectifies any issues.

        That didn't work same old problem I tried with Firefox but it was a good tip thanks.

        Question? Where do I put the < br/ > tag to make the necessary changes for a space?

        These are the html tags that are currently there.

        </a></strong>

        <strong> </strong>

        </div>

        < br/ >
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        • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
          You put the <br /> (note the space <brSPACE/> ) where you want an extra line.

          I think you can also do it as <br>.


          Hope this helps.


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          Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay View Post


          Question? Where do I put the < br/ > tag to make the necessary changes for a space?
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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    I am using Chrome too thanks that could be it I will try Internet explorer and see if it helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Blogmudgeon
      Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay View Post

      I am using Chrome too thanks that could be it I will try Internet explorer and see if it helps.
      The most problematic Chrome version is the most recent 6.0.472.63. There is much discussion of the editing/save issue in the website coder and developer community boards.

      You can use the Chrome "Inspect Element" function to look at your pages after doing edits and find out if the code is being inserted or not--and determine if any scripts, CSS class statements, or other issues are causing you issues. Or if the conditional formatting statements (such as new paragraph) are even being inserted in your text. Right click on a site to display the menu to find this tool.

      If using FireFox (although bloated, recommended for site editing) install the FireBug tool. Do a search for it, and install it to your FF browser as an add-on. It is accessed through a right click, is identical to the Chrome tool, and can show you a lot of things.

      One of the major benefits of all this is it is difficult for the average user to access the debug info in WP sites. There is a lot of useful info to be found--such as just how much bandwidth your pages are using, how many queries are executed (both determine how fast a page loads), and finding any errors in your website function.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tymarkinc
    Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay View Post

    Question To Self Hosted Wordpress Users Need Quick Tip:

    This has not happened to me before and I am not sure whats going on. I published a new blog post on my blog and I cannot get the space between paragraphs to show up.

    It is being published as basically one big blog of text. I have tried editing my post by manually putting spaces where they should be but when I publish it nothing happens it shows up the same way.

    Anyone know whats going on or how to fix? Thanks in advance, Jay!
    Cut and paste your post into notepad. Then switch your wordpress editor to the HTML tab. Delete any tags in there. Paste your post into the HTML side, and make the proper spaces.

    Publish post. You should be good.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sheila Atwood
      Originally Posted by Tymarkinc View Post

      Cut and paste your post into notepad. Then switch your wordpress editor to the HTML tab. Delete any tags in there. Paste your post into the HTML side, and make the proper spaces.

      Publish post. You should be good.
      Haven't tried that one, yet. I still have a post that is buggy. I will be giving this tip a try. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanLeonard
    I think it may have to do with a problem with the CSS in your theme. If you can't figure it out through this forum- pay someone five bucks on odesk.com or fiverr.com and ask them to explain how they did it. I was having a lot of problems after I installed a new WP theme- so I outsourced it for like $5 to a guy in the Philippines and he did it super fast.

    PM me for his skype handle if you need it
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheila Atwood
    Be sure you are NOT using a word doc like MS word to write your post, then moving it to WP. Always write right in WP or use a text editor like TextPad or TextEdit.
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    • Profile picture of the author Blogmudgeon
      Originally Posted by Sheila Atwood View Post

      Be sure you are NOT using a word doc like MS word to write your post, then moving it to WP. Always write right in WP or use a text editor like TextPad or TextEdit.
      Absolutely! Most people have no idea how much MS function code rubbish comes along with a simple "copy" operation.
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  • Profile picture of the author 7dollargiveaway
    may be you copied it from MS Word document
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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    Fixed I figured it out I deleted all the </div> tags in my post in HTML mode and it fixed the issue.

    Thanks for everyones help was a pain in the ---
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    • Profile picture of the author netkid
      @Jay

      Also remember if you pre typed your post in MS Word, that in your Wordpress post box icons above there is an "MS Word import" where you can open that up and paste the text body there and click "insert." It seems to do the trick everytime.
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      • Profile picture of the author TSDMike
        I ran into this a while back... I came up with a non-conventional work around that worked really well.

        What I did was a I took and created a solid white image that was about 5 px tall and 20 px wide. Just a rectangular image that was the exact same color as the bg of my content area.

        I then inserted the image anywhere I couldn't get the proper white space. Just make sure the image is set to 'align=none'.

        One other note, make sure the image doesn't have a title or alt tags... otherwise they'll show up on occasion and look weird.
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        • Profile picture of the author netkid
          @tdsMike,

          Only downside to that is images tend to slow the load time a bit. If you did that to many of your posts it would make a big difference in load times.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    The lack of space between paragrapghs is, usually, casued by 2 things:
    - (as it was said) a faulty browser that over-writes your formatting when transmitting your content to the webserver
    - a bad theme without space between paragraphs! (Yes, I have seen such idiotism where the theme "designer" set the margin between paragraphs to zero...)

    By default, browsers can "read" the <p>...</p> tags in your markup and they leave a deafult space between them. In the style.css of your theme, usually, it is defined what fonts are used in paragraphs, how big the top/bottom margin should be etc.

    Instead of inserting images it is way easier to add something like
    margin-bottom: 25px;
    to the definition of the p tags

    P.S. Non-standard "techniques" like copy/pasting directly from MS Word deserve all the mess one gets with them... Even if you need to write your text in Word, learn how to transfer it to WordPress: there are 2 [two] buttons to use in your Visual monster editor. Learn what they do!
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  • Profile picture of the author dremora
    Put your paragraphs between span tags and put br tags in between them. I never use the visual editor, I always use code editor cause the visual editor sucks and doesn't put the spaces as I want.
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