Formatting when editing posts looks correct but when published it is different
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I checked different browsers and refreshed the page. There is a space between each paragraph of my most recent post in editing, but when I publish and view the post, after the first 2 paragraphs the rest are smushed together. The spaces are taken out. I don’t know how to fix it but it looks bad. Please help
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lets see if I can explain what I do
set the cursor at the end of the paragraph above where the space is missing – hit the delete key until the first word of the next paragraph comes up to the end of the paragraph where you set the cursor – needs to be next to the cursor – then hit return – that should give you a paragraph break –
if you still have problems – highlight the offending paragraphs and clear the formatting (the eraser looking thing) – but for me the delete the then return seems to most always work
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Hmmm well I tried that edit from my app and it didn’t fix it :( I can try from my computer later today. Bummer!
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Having the same problem. When I edit an existing post, it looks normal in the editing mode, but on my blog all the paragraph breaks have been taken out.
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I am having a similar problem, but with my pictures I’ve inserted. They are where I want them when I edit, but when I preview, they are stacked one below the other, rather than side by side.
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My post seems to have “fixed itself”…. I don’t know how that happened but it looks normal now. It might have been a bug?
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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/writing-and-formatting-poetry/
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 (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
P.S. 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.
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If you are copying and pasting you are copying and pasting from a word processor like Microsoft WORD, but failing to do that in the correct manner (see below) the mess you see now may not be immediately apparent but will be cumulative and will manifest over time.
Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in icon 5 Row 2 of the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
_ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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I’m having a similar problem with ‘featured image’? I chose a pic for my featured image, but a different image from same post is featured in reader.
The blog I need help with is foundfootageblog.com
thanks!
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I chose a pic for my featured image, but a different image from same post is featured in reader.
That’s not a similar issue. It’s a completely different one.
Currently, when a post with the Standard, Aside, Link, Quote, or Status post format contains a video or audio embed or slideshow, that embed is pulled out and used in the Reader. Otherwise, it uses an image from the post.
If the post has the Gallery or Image post format, a video or audio embed in that post would not be used in the Reader – one or more images would be used instead.
The way our RSS feeds work is that it pulls and displays the first image it finds inside the post content. When the Reader looks for an image, it goes for the featured image first and then an image inserted into the post — if there are no images that meet the size criteria mentioned above, it will display the image as a thumbnail instead of a large image.
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