line spacing, separating paragraphs

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  draconline · Member · Mar 25, 2010 at 4:39 pm

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  I am using the site home page as a calendar of events. Instead of creating a new post, I go in and edit when I want to add or delete an event. I’m having trouble separating my event listings. See draconliine.wordpress.com. When I am in the edit screen, the different listings are separated by at least 2 line spaces, some are 3 line spaces, yet they show up with no space between them on the page after I update. Can someone tell me how to get a line or 2 of blank space to show up on the post?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm

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  I believe you will find these posts to be helpful. Space between lines. > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-betweeen-lines/
  Space between paragraphs > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/space-between-paragraphs/

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  draconline · Member · Mar 25, 2010 at 5:15 pm

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  I visited those posts – thank you! – and clicked on some links that brought me to other very helpful info, but I have to confess that I have NO idea what I am supposed to do with the code that is in the boxes on your page. Is the idea that I copy the code and insert it into my text where I want the spacing? Sub-novice here!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2010 at 6:08 pm

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  The posts I linked are not my own. They are on another volunteer’s blog (Panos). Why not click the comment link on the posts and ask him for help?

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  draconline · Member · Mar 25, 2010 at 6:56 pm

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  Will do. Thanks again.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 25, 2010 at 8:42 pm

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  Paste this above each heading (after swiching the editor to HTML):
  <div style="height:24px;visibility:hidden;">drac</div>
  You can change the number to adjust the space.

  By the way, you’ve got numerous bad html tags in your post, so first go to Settings>Writing, tick the option “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically”, click Save Changes.

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  draconline · Member · Mar 26, 2010 at 10:47 am

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  Thanks for looking at the site and noting the errors. I will go in and make the changes you suggest. Your willingness to answer newbie questions contributes much toward making wordpress an attractive site for me to use.

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  phlamper · Member · Mar 26, 2010 at 12:28 pm

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  Here’s some more info:
  http://www.tystips.com/archives/54/how2-insert-space-between-paragraphs-in-wordpress-without-using-br-and-p-tags/

  and
  http://www.sjoystudios.com/2009/03/how-to-add-extra-spacing-between-paragraphs-in-wordpress/

  Good luck!

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 26, 2010 at 1:08 pm

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  @draconline: You’re welcome.

  @phlamper – re the links you gave: in the first one, the code is mistyped; should be like that (straight quotes and a semicolon after the em unit):
  <br style="height: 4em;" />
  In the second, the code is correctly written but unstable: will be stripped out if you switch the editor to visual.