Spaces between paragraphs

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  emmawolf · Member · Aug 28, 2015 at 6:05 pm

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  For some reason, I cannot add spaces between paragraphs. I try it in the visual post mode and in the HTML mode. I add
  multiple times in HTML mode, and when I switch to visual, I see my paragraphs are miles away from each other. But when I post, they are right on top of each other. I thought it might be an issue with my theme, so I switched themes. That didn’t solve it. Any advice?

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  emmawolf · Member · Aug 28, 2015 at 6:06 pm

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  Ugh….that should read, “I add < br > multiple times” but see how it recognized it as code here? In my blog, not so much.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 28, 2015 at 6:12 pm

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  If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

  If you use the classic editor here Dashboard > Posts > Add New to create your posts what I provide below may be helpful.

  In the classic editor, 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 Text or 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.

  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: 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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  emmawolf · Member · Aug 28, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  Thanks. I was doing all that, but something was still wonky. The issue was I was copying and pasting. For some reason, it added some sort of code that made normal code just not work. I probably did something silly, but to fix it, I copied the text from visual, brought that over to HTML (so I just had my words and no wonky tags left over from someone else or me), then went back to visual to format it how I wanted it. Weird.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 28, 2015 at 6:17 pm

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  Thanks for letting us know you have resolved this.