Question about indenting the first words of each paragraph in an article on my blog

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    mbyello8440 · Member ·

    On my blog bevyellowley.com the first story- ‘A Glimpse of Heaven’ the paragraphs are not indented. I tried to fix it and Siteground did also, but we couldn’t so they told me to contact you. So, I’m asking if you could please fix the indents or tell me how to do it. Thanks Bev.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi Bev,

    SiteGround was speaking of https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ – those are the forums for the open source WordPress software you’re using. The forums where you are posting now is for WordPress.com, a hosting provider like SiteGround, and your site is not hosted with us.

    That said, looking at your most recent post’s source code in my browser, it looks like the entire post is a single paragraph – all the content is a single p tag, with “paragraphs” as you see it on the page being created by single line breaks, the br HTML tag. The most likely way this could have happened is if you pressed Shift-Enter instead of just Enter, or else if you copied the content into your site from somewhere else.

    Edit the post, position your cursor at the start of the second paragraph, press Backspace, and then Enter. Repeat with each paragraph in the post.

    Or edit the post, switch to the HTML view of the editor, and delete all the br tags in the post, leaving a blank line between each paragraph. Then switch back to visual mode and update the post.

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