My theme is deleting spaces?
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When writing a post or page within the editor it will be fine, but when I preview and publish it, appropriate spacing is randomly deleted and no amount of retyping and updating is fixing it. The theme is San Kloud. Pretty sure it’s not my computer though. What’s wrong?
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Hi there,
This is not a theme related issue. 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”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/
P.S. 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.
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Ah, I see. I often copy and paste from sticky notes, which explains that. I changed my settings and cleared the formatting, but the issue still persisted, at least in my drafts. Would I need to delete them and start from scratch with these guidelines? I wasn’t using any advanced HTML either.
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No. Follow TT’s instructions and edit the drafts; make any change like a period to a semicolon or whatever, then change it back and hit Update. That should fix it all.
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