Correcting word breaks on "Recent Posts" widget
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The words on my right side-bar widget “Recent Posts” are not breaking properly. See: http://speculativenonbuddhism.com/
How can I correct that?
Thanks.
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I have visited your blog but I’m not clear by what you mean. Please expand and provide details so we can sort this out.
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Yes, in the upper right-hand corner it looks like this:
Recent posts
Buddhist Anti-Intellectual
ism
Fanged Dialogue
X-Buddhistic Hallucinatio
nHow can I correct the letter breaks?
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WordPress puts non-breaking spaces between the last two words in a title to keep from having orphaned single words on a line, but in this case, with the last word being a long one, that causes the problem you are experiencing. Sometimes there is something that can be done to fix this and sometime not. In this case I can’t see any trick to use to fix the issue.
This is also somewhat dependent on what browser is being used and the settings in individual browsers. On Safari, I don’t see the breaks in the words, but in Firefox I do (both set at normal zoom level, both with the same base font settings in preferences).
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You can edit the post title and replace the space between the last two words with the HTML for a breaking space:
& ensp;
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Thanks, panaghiotisadam. I tried that, and the & ensp; ended up showing in the title. Is & ensp; correct, and should it go in the blog title, or did I do something stupid (entirely likely!)?
When you say “without the space after the ambersand,” do you mean between the first ; and e? And should the code go somewhere other than the title?
I am new to WordPress, so my apologies for my ignorance.
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Oh, I just saw the original code. (It looked different as an email message.) I’ll try that.
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& e n s p ;
Without any space between any of the characters.
And I meant edit the post, put that in the post title box instead of the actual space before the last word, click Update. Please try it in a post and let us know which post it is so we can check the result.
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