Why can’t I add extra line or paragraph breaks?

frymaster · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 12:54 am
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vanbleau, I have no problem adding enters via BlogDesk now with either your suggestion or the changing color of the periods suggestion. The problem is WordPress not recognizing that BD has comments enabled and WP turns them off, so when I edit them on using wordpress.com, WP reverts all the BD formatting back to normal.
timethief · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 12:58 am
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Actually wordpress changed some coding that caused this and support from BlogDesk is on to it. The good news is the BlogDesk support guy posted into a thread on a blog that he’ll be releasing a hotfix. So stay tuned.
lmdalton · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 2:18 am
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If you want to try one more thing for spaceing… I just type it in Word and cut and paste it back into the edit page.
raincoaster · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 2:22 am
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I wouldn’t suggest doing that. Word adds all kinds of weird HTML that can mess up your entire blog. I speak from experience.
timethief · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 2:35 am
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I’ll also attest to Word being a bad choice. And I’d like to suggest an alternative. NoteTab Lite is freeware.

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beesbees333 · Member · May 6, 2007 at 6:35 pm
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Actually I had the same problem, where all of a sudden WordPress didn’t use any breaks in my posts. MY PROBLEM was simply to be found in the css; the paragraph had the settings
margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
when I removed these, all my breaks came back. Hope this helps.
katm · Member · May 6, 2007 at 7:55 pm
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but hrstuks work around won’t work unless you have the CSS upgrade…
frymaster · Member · May 10, 2007 at 2:57 am
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yeah I’m going to have to agree with katm on this one
timethief · Member · May 10, 2007 at 3:01 am
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Agreed.
joniev · Member · May 20, 2007 at 2:18 pm
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okay. i’ve just done it. you type any text (i followed people’s suggestion and typed a period) in the line you want to leave blank. than color it the color of your background. it’s cheating, but it works.

http://averynonnymouse.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/birthday-song-for-the-twice-over-sea/

see?
hghmtn48 · Member · May 23, 2007 at 4:39 pm
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Ok, this makes sense, no more tags or changing text colors. WP wants you to use css not inline tags, which makes sense.

Add a p tag into your style sheet and adjust paragraph spacing by changing the padding.
katm · Member · May 23, 2007 at 5:03 pm
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Changing CSS will only work if you have the upgrade. The inline HTML support here isn’t perfect, but it works well enough for me (still haven’t managed to get a table to work).
nazcadesigns1330 · Member · Jul 18, 2007 at 3:36 am
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I know and feel the aggravation with this simple issue. My bigger concern is why this was never fixed and at least simpler. Great application, but cannot do the simplest of simplest things. Hasn’t anyone at WordPress heard of this and tried to fix it? So confused on this one.

Anyways, I first added this code in the stylesheet .colorfont {font-size1px; color:#fff; background-color:#fff; } than turnoff the rich editor under users>profiles>uncheck the rich editor. Than add a back tick “" before the first and after the last one. It will add the space and yes put those ticks on the page, but with .colorfont class it will reduce the color and shrink it. The final output would be ` Thank you above for the input.
rkjxxxblues · Member · Sep 25, 2007 at 11:08 am
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I messed around with trying to get double line breaks for a whole day! Am not in rtf mode, either. What a pain. I found a workaround. I merely insert:

 


(Minus the extra spacebars.)

This is probably similar to vanbleautenbil’s:

 

(Minus the extra spacebars.)

What a pain in the backside!
nhevergreen · Member · Oct 20, 2007 at 2:01 pm
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I checked the theme’s CSS and noticed that the designer grouped a bunch of tags together, including the paragraph tag, and gave it the following attributes: {margin:0;padding:0;border:0;}.

I simply removed the p (paragraph) tag and left the others unchanged. It worked like a charm. Hope this helps someone!
timethief · Member · Oct 20, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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removed – posted in error
dlmtleart · Member · Jan 18, 2008 at 8:51 pm
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so how would a newbie figure out this one? I simply want to be able to indent paragraphs and put a space between my image and the text. I really don’t know any Html…
mindytan · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 10:36 am
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Thanks rjkxxxblues. I was up to my neck with this space between text and pictures thing.
I tried inserting all other codes posted on this site but to no avail. Amazingly, yours code works for me. Brilliant
knoizki · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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<img src="http://yourimae">"text here"
knoizki · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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i think that will help and it works in wordpress.com blogs. See mine at http://knoizki.wordpress.com

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