Editing formatting differs a lot from final result?
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I’m editing an article in “visual” mode and it looks exactly how I want it to look, however when I want to preview it the formatting is really different and looks awful. The way it “justifies” is retarded (and doesn’t hyphenate at all for some reason) and some paragraphs are really close to previous ones even though I inserted a lot of line breaks. When I make changes using the html editor, it’s a bit better, but as soon as I switch back to visual mode, it removes the html changes I made, even if I saved my draft. Help
Editing mode, everything looks good
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Are you using the new Beep Beep Boop editor?
If you are then the line breaks issue this is a known issue.See https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-do-my-spaces-disappear?replies=12#post-2359575
http://dat8stringguy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
If you use the classic editor here Dashboard > Posts > Add New to create your posts what I provide below may be helpful.In the classic editor, if you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph. If you are working in the HTML editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/
If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. If you use the Paste as plain text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text Therefore you have to do your own formatting and spacing.
Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”IMPORTANT NOTE: When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.
Also note raincoaster’s editing tip:
When you fix the spacing, you have to start at the top and work down. If you start at the bottom and work up, it always double spaces at least one line.
If you’re using the mobile app then see here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/single-spacing-4?replies=5#post-2346693
For editing in the classic editor please see: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2015/04/05/navigating-the-classic-wordpress-com-interface/
2. To use the classic editor when you edit posts,
go the Posts -> All Posts menu, hover over the post title and click the Edit link.http://INSERT_NAME_OF_YOUR_BLOG_HERE/wp-admin/edit.php
Here’s the link on your blog http://dat8stringguy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php for bookmarking.
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