Inserting blank lines
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I have been having a very difficult time doing this and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. In the page in question, I am trying to create a list for users to click for specific stories –
https://bakedscribe.wordpress.com/the-guest-scribes/
If you scroll down to the bottom, there isn’t a clean line between the last two entries. I have tried everything I can think of to get WordPress to insert a blank line so I have a clean list. I have tried the
command I have tried using the <p> </p> command. Is there something I need to change in my overall site settings to get the text and pictures to render correctly, on their own lines?Thank you for any help
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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.
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re: image alignment
See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignmentThe alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it.
Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).
If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.
To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the Text (HTML) editor after each image/text pair:
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