why does my post look so different than intended???

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  balicravings · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 11:33 pm

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  My post does not look as I want. My pictures are all over the place. and not wher I place them, text starts and ends different then intended and I can not control any of the layout. My final post looks just bad and messy!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 11:35 pm

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  I recommend using the classic editor at Dashboard > Posts > Add New
  http://drsil.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

  Make sure you have third party cookies enabled on your browser please or you will continue to have issues http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/#how-do-i-enable-third-party-cookies

  See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment

  The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it.

  Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.

  Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.

  Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

  If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

  To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the Text (HTML) editor after each image/text pair:
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>

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  balicravings · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 11:41 pm

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  thank you
  the text editor didn’t work for me. It came up on the post as a sentence <div style=”clear:both;”></div>…..

  I’m so frustrated. is it because I use the com and not buying my own?

  Also, do I need to know coding?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 11:45 pm

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  What I posted above definitely works. Please go over the instructions again slowly.

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  balicravings · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 11:49 pm

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  ok. will do!!!! I appreciate it. I’ll go step by step

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 11:52 pm

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  Go slowly and you will be able to do this.

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  jenschwartz798 · Member · Nov 11, 2014 at 2:01 am

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  Also, make sure your alignment of pictures is correct. Try all options to see what you think looks best. Make sure to preview before you post, as well, I usually have to redo the posts a few times after checking.