Paragraph Editing Problem
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Could someone tell me why I lose my paragraph formatting when I go to edit posts, and have to put them back in by hand? It seems to be something to do with new edit system. Fantastically annoying.
Thanks.
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The first thing that springs to mind is wondering whether you’re composing directly in that new editor or your copying and pasting text from another source.
Sometimes, when you copy and paste, you will carry over formatting that gets stripped out or references CSS that your site doesn’t recognize. But I’m surprised you’re losing paragraphs. Are you composing in the HTML tab or the Visual tab of that new editor?
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Thanks Susan. I’m using the visual tab. I open the post and the paragraph spacing is gone. The first time it happened I assumed it was just a display thing and updated the post. A mistake, since I had to trawl through it adding back in all the para. spaces. It’s happened twice and now I don’t dare save an edited post. It’s a new problem, so I assume something to do with the new editing system.
But if nobody else has the problem it must be something else.
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So, no paragraph spacing at all is preserved? Does everything run together without any breaks? Or is it just the double space between paragraphs that’s disappearing?
I haven’t heard of this problem with the new editor yet – I’ve only seen people who completely lose their posts when they use that editor! I can’t replicate what’s happening to you, even using your Twenty Ten theme and the new editor. Very strange.
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Aha. I usually post direct from Windows Livewriter, and do not write the post in the editor. Could that be it?
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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: To display the second row of icons, 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
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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Thanks timethief, but that’s can’t quite be it. I can put the paragraphs in, but I want stop the system taking them out in the first place. I don’t usually write posts in the WP editor. The post displays just fine after uploading , but if I go to edit it the paragraph spacing disappear.
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Hi @guymax,
I’ve seen several reports of this, but I’ve yet to track down the cause or reproduce it myself. It shouldn’t be due to creating the post in Windows Live Writer. Can you let me know if the post is opening up in the new editor (WordPress.com/post) or the classic editor (theworldknot.wordpress.com/wp-admin)? Also, could you point me to a post that is currently missing the spacing (if you have one available)?
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@jeremeylduvall
Thanks so much for assisting here. I’ll be ghosting the threads so I know what’s going on. -
I gave this a try with Windows Live Writer and the only way I can see it happening is if you are working in the Source tab instead of the Edit tab of the Writer. It would look like you were entering paragraphs, but they would all vanish when you published because they weren’t within paragraph tags.
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Thanks @teatimeyall – Admittedly I’ve never used Windows Live Writer myself so that’s great to know!
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Give me a bit of time and I’ll run some experiments with a dummy post. It may yet be human error.
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Nope. I can’t reproduce the problem. It’s happened twice recently, once causing me a lot of wasted time. Both times it was the new editor. But everything works fine today. Not much I can do unless it happens again.
I’ll be straight back here if it does happen again but for now it all seems okay.
Many thanks though for all the help. Appreciated.
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