Text Editor Annoyance

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  seanfitz · Member · Apr 20, 2006 at 5:44 am

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  I’ve been having trouble with something lately, how come everytime i try and use enter to leave spaces between paragraphs the editor shows them as existing when i originally write it but then when it posts it changes it so there’s no spacing between paragraphs?

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  sulz · Member · Apr 20, 2006 at 11:14 am

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  that’s because you’re using the rich text editor. if you turn it off it wouldn’t mess with your spacings, but you have to insert your own html

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  drmike · Member · Apr 20, 2006 at 12:57 pm

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  You’ll have better control over your code as well using the normal editor instead of the rich text one.

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  seanfitz · Member · Apr 28, 2006 at 4:43 am

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  is there an easier fix for this on the way? it seems like a pretty poor editor right now.

  Not bashing you guys, love wordpress, but i hate when it doesn’t love me back

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  sulz · Member · Apr 28, 2006 at 5:26 am

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  why don’t you give it a shot, turning off the rich editor? i’m not great at html but i now prefer using it cos i notice the write post page loads faster without the rich text editor and thr r loads of sites that teach u html in layman’s terms… that’s about the easiest fix right now…

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  drmike · Member · Apr 28, 2006 at 2:52 pm

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  The rich text editor is actually a program called TinyMCE and is used as an editor for many Open Source projects. (ie PHPNuke, Drupal, phpBB as a plugin, etc.) It gets used a lot because it’s fairly easy to work into another setup, it’s fairly quick to load even over dial up, and it’s interface is one a lot of people find easy to use. It pretty much the best and most supported of what’s out there.

  See their main site here.

  If you haven’t guessed by now, I can’t stand the thing. I’m glad it’s out there and people swear by the thing but it runs about 10-15% of our support tickets with my hosting and i would say about 20-25% over here. (ie the dropped sidebar, different fonts, weird characters, additional and missing lines, etc.)

  I doubt Matt and staff have actually worked on the code for it except for submitting bug reports.

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  joehalvorson · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 11:55 pm

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  Is there a quick fix for the darn thing automatically removing spaces input by me? It’s really annoying for this thing to work so well and have such a simple issue of removing the spaces input by the user.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 12:01 am

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  I posted this in response to your other thread. You may have missed it:

  Joe, you’re at the wrong site. You need to be over at http://wordpress.org if you’re installing your own software elsewhere. We don’t do that here. wp.org is for the software.