Easy way to get more space between paragraphs

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  ubriaca · Member · Mar 15, 2010 at 1:35 pm

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  My theme won’t give me much space between paragraphs. I’d put in extra spaces and they’d disappear. So I went looking in the forums and found lots of people have run into that problem. The suggestions for fixing it were mostly too technical for me (I guess — anyway, when I tried them, nothing worked). But I came up with a simple, jury-rigged solution.

  After each paragraph, I put in a hard return, a period, and another hard return. Then, since the background color of my theme is white, I changed the color of the periods to white. Shazam! There was my clean space between paragraphs.

  I hope this idea may help someone else.

  Diane

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  timethief · Member · Mar 15, 2010 at 3:58 pm

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  HI Diane,
  Here are other approaches > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-between-paragraphs/

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  ubriaca · Member · Mar 15, 2010 at 5:26 pm

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  Thank you, Timethief. Panos’s approaches (which I didn’t find in my initial searches)are much more flexible than my little idea, and his examples are so clear that even I can probably work with them!

  Diane

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  timethief · Member · Mar 15, 2010 at 5:28 pm

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  @Diane
  You’re welcome. I used to do exactly what you suggested until I learned the other techniques. Happy blogging. :)

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  ubriaca · Member · Mar 15, 2010 at 5:33 pm

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  Forgot to say — I just bookmarked your site and his (Is Panos a man? Sounds like a masculine name), which if I check regularly should make me a better blogger.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 15, 2010 at 5:44 pm

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  Thanks for bookmarking my site. It’s always great to hear I have a new reader. Yes, the blogger we refer to as Panos is a male and I do recommend his blog to other wordpress.com bloggers. :)

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  chadwarren76 · Member · Apr 20, 2010 at 3:36 pm

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  Here’s how I fixed this. I wrote an article in Notepad.

  I switched off the word wrap, copy and pasted it into my wordpress post and the breaks were there.

  I tried
  ,
  , ‘
  ‘ (got two quotes), <p>, hit enter twice. Entered some code that someone made to make the enter button put in a break – none of that worked.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 20, 2010 at 3:45 pm

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  This does work > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-between-paragraphs/

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  recluseclub · Member · May 6, 2010 at 4:27 pm

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  Ah! Timethief- THANK YOU! This was driving me crazy until I found your post. (Couldn’t even find help for it in the WordPress support pages.)

  Happier blogging. :)

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  recluseclub · Member · May 6, 2010 at 4:33 pm

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  And now that I’ve looked at it, your blog, http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/, is great. Love the circuity of it, and as a new blooger, it would seem to in demand! Cheers!