Why is the preview of my blog post eliminating the breaks between paragraphs?
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My post is appearing as one long paragraph.
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It happens occasionally. Just edit it to keep the breaks in, copy all before you post it, then publish. If the paragraph breaks are missing you should be able to just paste it in from your clipboard.
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Also, just to be sure you are saving the code you intend for the breaks and formatting, switch to the text editor where the actual code is, select all, and copy. Then press “update” or “publish” or switch to the visual editor. The visual editor occasionally is possessed by gremlins. Paste your code into a plain text editor to save it.
One long-time volunteer suggested that folks should publish posts privately, then when you finish editing and all is well, change the post to public.
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Sometimes I have this problem when pasting in from another document or email – I will go up to the end of the paragraph above where I want the break to occur the press “Delete” to bring the text up from the line below – then I just press “Return”
If all else fails – try one of the other of the codes below – put them in the Text Editor – one or the other should work
<br class="blank" /> - gives a blank line <br /> - Force a line break -
Trouble with that is, you get posted farther back in the tag pages than if you’d posted live.
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re: publishing privately
Trouble with that is, you get posted farther back in the tag pages than if you’d posted live.
If a post were published privately it would not have been picked up by search engines. Changing the date to “today’s date” when it’s made public should not return any 404 not founds and thus the tags for the public post would be current / up to date. right?
I’ve been away for awhile, but I always worked mostly in the text editor. Switching on the rare occasion to the visual editor would bring up unanticipated changes in the preview. Sometimes the code in the text editor would also become one long “paragraph” and sometimes refreshing the screen would restore the code to what I’d intended. But back-up copies on textedit (or similar) do work well.
Another option is to use an offline editor.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
Get the post to function the way you like, then publish it.
Bonus is you have a copy right there on your hard drive. -
I mean that when it goes live, if you’re using the “News” tag or some other busy tag, you will never be on the front page of that tag. You will appear farther back.
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