Indent Paragraphs

ababynanny · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 3:49 am
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Can anyone explain in super simple terms how I indent paragraphs in my posts?
Also why on earth word press makes simple things so hard? I can’t even hit the tab buttton.
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auxclass · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 4:34 am
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Duplicate Post – see response here:

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/indent-paragraphs-1?replies=2
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 4:36 am
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The web isn’t a wordprocessor. Sorry.

There are two ways to indent whole paragraphs or groups of paragraphs.

1. The blockquote

2. The indent button

If you are talking about indenting just the first line of a paragraph, then you have to use HTML to do that and enter it in the HTML tab in the editor.

<p style="text-indent:20px;">Paragraph text here</p>

Or you can do it by wrapping everything in the post in a div tag.

<div style="text-indent:20px;">All your text and paragraphs here here</div>

http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/
ababynanny · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 4:43 am
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i don’t know what editors or div tags are!!!
thanks :)
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 4:56 am
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The editor is the thing your write posts in. At the top right there are two tabs, visual and HTML.

Are you wanting to indent the first line of paragraphs, or entire paragraphs?
ababynanny · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 5:23 am
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first line! thanks!
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 5:32 am
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Write all your text and do not worry about the indent. When you have finished and it is ready to publish, switch to the HTML tab in the editor, make a new blank line above all the text you entered and put this on that line.

<div style="text-indent:20px;">

Then scroll down to the very bottom, make a new blank line below all your text and put this on that line.

</div>

Save and/or publish the post.

Here is an example of what the above will do.

http://allhatnocattle.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/first-line-indent/
timethief · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 am
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@ababynanny
If you want to indent the first line of every paragraph then you will have to use HTML code and work in the HTML editor. This is not what most bloggers do. They accept the way blogging editors work, forget the indenting, and work in the Visual editor. I think that’s what you ought to do too.

Have you located the step-by-step tutorial Staff have prepared for learning wordpress.com blogging? It’s here. > http://learn.wordpress.com/
timethief · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 5:38 am
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@TSP
G’evening. :)
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 6:20 am
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G’evening TT.
ababynanny · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 2:52 pm
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thank you!
are you saying most wordpress blogs don’t indent their paragraphs?
auxclass · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 3:22 pm
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The indent is at the mercy of the Theme designer – the Themes I can remember just had a space between the paragraphs, might be a Theme here that has the indent, maybe one of the other Forum Volunteers know of one and will pass it on.
thesacredpath · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 6:13 pm
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No themes here have indented paragraphs, and on the web you seldom find anyone using paragraph indents. I guess indents aren’t web 2.0 enough. Or are we on web 2.5 now? I can’t keep up. :-)
timethief · Member · Mar 10, 2011 at 7:18 pm
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Exactly and that’s why I would not be bothered with coding in a paragraph indent on every paragraph. It’s not common at all on web — it’s so rare I never witness it in blogs. It’s also time consuming and if a person is not accustomed to coding it’s easy to make a mistake. My advice is to forget this indenting and just blog. :)

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