If you just do a carriage return, this should create a new paragraph. If no paragraphs are created, it could be because of your theme. You don’t need to add a break tag, but just hit enter. WordPress will add paragraph tags automatically.
If that doesn’t work, can you provide a link to your site, so that we can look at your site.
I have a similar problem. I’m using my WP on the index page of my site… in it’s container. And have actually (after TOO many months of trying to figure it out) gotten the feed into it. The food is there. Plus the title. But I have ZERO clue as to how style the paragraphs. And make sure each subsequent after that, that I post is the same. So I need a line break after each entry… Spaces between the title and entry as well. And the addition of the date/time and author. I’m a designer. And coding is one of those things that I wrack my brain figuring it out. Lol. Sorry so much. Thanks for any help anyone could provide!
-Brett
http://www.onlyaspark.com
this is the page that I’m trying to put a few breaks in…
It’s strange, because it’ll work for a little bit, but then when I make any other edits it reverts back to scrunching all the lines back together again 🙁
http://events-sugarhouse.com/receptions/
@tonedru: I can’t see anything wrong with that page.
@onlyaspark: It is considered impolite to interrupt another poster’s thread. Please post a new topic.
It’s all readable, but I want a few line breaks between each paragraph.
For example, where it says “Reception Packages starting at $65 per person.” I want that paragraph to start around the middle of the picture, and the next paragraph where it says “Intimate Receptions & Gatherings” I want to start after the picture of the bride, just a few lines down from the previous paragraph. Basically I want a few lines breaks in between the three paragraphs to make it spaced out nicely.
I can achieve that effect for a while by putting a few times in the html coding, but it only lasts until the next time I publish the page, then it all goes away again. Very frustrating!
Thanks!
ToneDru
I just got it to work by putting
between each paragraph, so it works for the moment, but I know that next time I go to edit that page, that’ll all go away. Which doesn’t make any sense to me…
http://events-sugarhouse.com/receptions/
No, what I meant was – I see quite clear line breaks.
where it says “Reception Packages starting at $65 per person.” I want that paragraph to start around the middle of the picture
It does for me.
Sorry, that shows up as nothing, this is the coding that I put in.
What I’m saying is that it works right now, but it will revert back to being scrunched together after i edit it next time.
You’d be better off adding a new class to each of these lines and then styling that class to add large upper & lower margins.
How would I do that?
I also saw on another post that you can add a ‘spacer’ using this code in the css:
#your_area_id .spacer {
height: 200px; /* adjust to desired height */
clear: both;
}
but I haven’t been able to get it to work…
No – don’t use spacers. Something like:
<span class="spaced">Some Text</span>
and
.spaced {
display:block;
margin:30px 0;
}
should work.
Ok, I can give it a try, how and where exactly do I use this coding? I just put in the
.spaced {
display:block;
margin:30px 0;
}
where i want the break and it totally messed up the page.
That’s the CSS! It belongs in your theme’s stylesheet! The first code snippet is a markup example for your page content.
ok, works great!
Thanks again 🙂
