WordPress doesn't save draft correctly

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  johngraham2021 · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 6:43 pm

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  In the draft paragraphs are indented. When the draft is saved these are undone.Why??

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  timethief · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  Blogs are not designed to have every paragraph indented.

  Simplest way is to use this at the beginning of each paragraph:
  <span style="margin-left:32px;">FIRST WORD HERE</span>

  and use line breaks instead of paragraph breaks to separate the paragraphs (i.e. one instead of two returns in the HTML editor, shift-return in the Visual editor).

  From https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/code-for-initial-line-indentation?replies=4#post-840453

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  timethief · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 6:49 pm

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  See here please Visual editor Row 2
  Outdent – move text further left
  Indent – move text further right https://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#outdent-indent

  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 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.

  Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. If you use the Paste as plain text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text Therefore you have to do your own formatting and spacing.

  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”

  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.