Line spacing

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  teefaburdeu · Member · Apr 19, 2015 at 3:20 pm

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  Hi there. I’m using the Bushwick theme. I have a problem with spacing. There appears to be no connection between the way I space my blog when I write it and the way it appears when I preview it. I’ll put no space between the lines and the preview will show a huge space, or I’ll put a lot of space and the preview will show none. My concern is that it looks extremely unprofessional when I’m done. The formatting is all over the place despite the fact that I’ve been quite meticulous when writing.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 19, 2015 at 10:34 pm

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  Use the classic editor please. See here for how to access it http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2015/04/05/navigating-the-classic-wordpress-com-interface/
  Dashboard > Posts > Add New
  http://burdnam.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

  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”

  To display the second row of icons in the Visual editor, select the toolbar toggle icon at the end of row 1 and click it. https://i0.wp.com/en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kitchensink.png

  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.

  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.