Change paragraph spacing in 2016 Theme

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  metbaseball · Member · Apr 24, 2019 at 2:32 pm

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  In the 2016 theme,

  1. How can I reduce how much spacing there is after a paragraph?

  2. How can I reduce how much spacing there is both before and after an image?

  My site is at https://writerhoward.wordpress.com/.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 25, 2019 at 8:19 am

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  Hi there,

  Changes like that would require adding custom CSS to override the default styling of your theme. Custom CSS can only be used from our Premium Plan upwards.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/

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  metbaseball · Member · Apr 25, 2019 at 10:39 am

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  If I upgraded to the Premium Plan, what would the CSS look like that I would add to slightly reduce the size of the paragraph spacing?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 25, 2019 at 12:11 pm

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  .entry-content p {
    margin-bottom: 1em;
  }

  should do it. That will reduce the distance between paragraphs in the content of your posts and pages only.

  For images it’s a bit more complicated, as the code you’d need to target with an image is different depending on how the image is aligned, and whether or not it has a caption.