Format changes when saved, previewed, or updates
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I’ve been having issues of saving a draft, then when I previewing it I find headings lines have disappeared or spacing changed. When I return to edit sometimes these changes are still there sometimes not. If I fix it and then preview they might revert to the messed up version or might not.
Sometimes the preview is fine but when I go back to edit the spacing and lines are messed up.My current post is a top ten list. Two of the items heading disappeared. I fixed it and they were still gone. I kept going back and forth and finally they showed up. The wrong size and color but I was so relieved to have them show I let that go.
The post I am drafting now also a top ten list. I have a picture for each item placed left and the number and a city name on the side of photo.
When I publish the pictures stagger across the page. I’ve fixed it several times but the staggering keeps returning.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Blog editors are not word processors. They operate differently. You will get double spacing between paragraphs in every theme here of which I’m aware. To get single spacing hold the SHIFT key down when you click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.
Space between lines. > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-betweeen-lines/
Space between paragraphs > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-between-paragraphs/
Writing and Formatting > http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/
Image alignment > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-alignment/If you have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
And go here > Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”
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The h1 heading is set in the CSS with a ton of top margin. Don’t use h1 in post and page content as it isn’t defined for use there. Try h2 and see if that doesn’t work better for you. If h2 does not work, try h3 and see what happens.
This is partially theme related as Ocean Mist is kind of old and the designer did not take into account that h1 might be used in a post or page body, so they never set that up in the CSS for the theme.
One other note: The editor is not entirely WYSIWYG, it is sort of semi-WYSIWYG so that means that things can look different in the editor. The preview also does not always display exactly correctly either. With some themes it does and on some it does not.
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I should note that my above comments are based on looking at your latest published post since I cannot access or see anything you have not yet published.
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Thank you to all of you that helped me.
I can see now that I’ve been my own worse enemy; working under the assumption that if it looks like a duck (word processor) it will quack like a duck. I though what I see in the editor will be what I get.I’ve been guilty of adding hitting enter to get extra space. And not using shift-enter to get less.The tip about Ocean Theme heading 1 giving too much space helps is good to know as well.
I think my posts will look a lot more professional in the future. And I’ll be less crabby creating them.
I might even consider a newer theme.Again Thanks.
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You are welcome. If you need some more space between a couple of paragraphs than the theme design gives, there are some HTML stuff that can be used to create that extra space and overcome some of the “web” limitations so if you need that sort of thing, we can help with that.
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In fact, I’ll give you this link to one of Panos’ articles that discusses that very thing.
Formatting text pt. 3: space between lines, characters, and words
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@klerosier
I know what you mean by the quack-talk lol ::D I do remember the days when I was first learning to blog and using a blog editor. Best wishes to you. :)
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