Double Spacing In WP

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Hello,

I am not sure what happened. Every time I go to write a post and hit the return button, it is double spacing or starting a new paragraph.

I have attempted several things to fix this problem and nothing I have done has remedied the problem

Here is the web address. St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church - God is Love! - St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church

The only thing I can think of is I did an update on the timely plugin for the calendar. It started double spacing after that.

Can someone please help me fix this problem.

Thank you so much in advance.

Kimberly
#website design #double #spacing
  • The easiest thing I have found to do is write in the html area...then it does not double space.

    I love wordpress it is my friend...lol
  • You can edit it in the HTML area or press shift + enter in the visual area, which (I believe) creates a line break as opposed to starting a new paragraph.
  • As others have suggested review the posts both in the visual and text editor to remove any paragraph breaks or spaces.

    Also, you are using an old theme that hasn't been updated through 3 significant updates of the wordpress core. That could be a pert of the problem.
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    • Thank you for the replies. I have tried those things that you speak of. None of them work.
  • Unless the theme author has applied a stylesheet to the editor that mimics site styles, it is a rare occasion that what you see in the editor matches visually what you see on the site.

    When you are on the Visual tab of the editor, hitting Enter will always result in what appears to be a double-space, but really isn't. You're just seeing the spacing between paragraphs dictated by the editor's standard styles.

    The posts that actually show on the website are formatted correctly, i.e., no extraneous empty <p> tags, no stray <br /> tags.

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you believe the problem is and the effect it's having.
  • Of course, that is what it is supposed to do? When you type something in any document, hitting enter will always start a new paragraph..If you don't want to start a new paragraph don't hit enter?

    About the double spacing, your theme has nothing set for p tags in css, so you need to adjust the margins of ".postcontent p"..
  • Install the Raw HTML plugin and enable it's features on the post/page. It will remove extraneous P and BR tags.
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