Gateway. Where is my blog post?
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No, that is not how I want it, now it has jumped around again, and erased text that I can’t get back.
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Look, I don’t want you to fix the blog post, I want you to fix the website, so that it works. So that you don’t have to fix my every blog post for me. Otherwise it is completely useless. I can’t keep doing this every time.
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It sounds like there are two overarching issues that you’re experiencing:
1. Content has been disappearing while you’ve been editing
2. Laying out your content the way you’d like has been difficult
Content Disappearing
I noticed a spot in the editing of your most recent post where the editor went completely blank aside from the title of the page.
I’m not sure if this was the case, but typically I’ve seen that happen when multiple instances of the editor are open at one time. It’s best to have only one instance open at a time.
However, even if that’s not what happened in your case, having your content disappear is frustrating for sure. While you’re typing into the editor, it regularly and automatically saves your content. So if you ever need to go back to your previous changes, the revisions feature can help you save time so that you don’t have to redo all of your changes. Once you’re inside of a revision, just move the slider at the top until you see the content you want on the right side. Then click the Restore This Revision button.
The only other reason I’ve regularly seen the editor lose content is if code is being pasted in that the editor doesn’t allow. From looking at your post, it doesn’t look like that was the case here.
If you’re regularly experiencing lost content, it would be helpful if you could list the steps that reproduce the problem, and we can look further into it.
Content Layout
I see that Chad explained some things earlier about clearing when he provided the code for the HTML div:
If you have a situation where you have one image that goes with one bit of text to the side, then a separate image for a different bit of text, but you don’t want them to run into each other at all, you can use a trick called “clearing.” It’s done by editing your post’s HTML.
I see that you had some early success with the example Chad gave:
Ah, they cleared up when I put them in separately.
The only change I suggested to the code Chad provided was to use the hr tag instead of the div tag. The editor will sometimes erase the div tag if you go back and make changes to the post, but it will leave the hr tag, keeping your layout intact.
Generally, if you’re putting text next to an image by using the alignment button, it’s a good idea to add the hr tag just after that text/image combo. This tells the editor that you want to separate what is above the hr tag from what is below the hr tag.
So if you want do have multiple sections of images with text next to them stacked on top of each other, that’s possible by using multiple hr tags. Just add an hr tag after your first image/text combo, then insert another image/text combo followed by another hr tag, and so on. It should work for any blog post or page that you create.
If that does not work, could you point me to a post/page that has the hr tag in it so I can look at how you’re using it?
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I already told you that the hr tag goes away a few seconds after I put it in. It isn’t in any post, coz it doesn’t stay when I write it. I’m not going to try that again, I will end up throwing my computer into the wall. Yes, the other one worked for one post, (although it’s really sad that the users are supposed to learn a million tricks to get around all of the malfunctions of this website), and now it’s not anymore, and neither is the other one. I don’t really understand why I’m being asked to fix the websites problems.
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