Double spacing never works…?

Resolved tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago
I’m trying to get spacing to break paragraphs and lines. Initially, I parsed my emails via plaintext on Postie and that didn’t do it, so I switched to HTML. Neither makes a difference.

Here’s what I want to do: I just made a space above, breaking one paragraph from the other. The WordPress.org support forum will make a white line between the paragraphs. For some reason, regardless of whether I’m making one or two or three paragraphs, the output is this:

paragraph1
paragraph2
paragraph3

instead of

paragraph1

paragraph2

paragraph3

Why would this be? I can’t use newlines since I’m on HTML mode. I’ve even put two spaces between paragraphs like this instead of one per the above. Unfortunately, WordPress.org doesn’t display the break (which I tried to show) so I can’t illustrate it.

I just don’t like the text being jumbled and difficult to follow.

Thanks!
- This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by tamar.

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Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

7 years, 11 months ago

I would need to see more details. Please install and enable the Support AddOn send a test email through then send the file from your media library to help@postieplugin.com and reference this thread.

http://postieplugin.com/downloads/support-addon/

Thread Starter tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Wayne. I have set it up to send my next logs over to you.

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

7 years, 11 months ago

To be clear you will have to send the file to me, it won’t automatically send.

Thread Starter tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago

Sent, thank you.

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

7 years, 11 months ago

As far as I can tell everything looks like it should. Since your site is password protected I can’t see what it looks like in situ.

I’d guess that your theme is interacting with the post causing the layout to be different than you expect.
Thread Starter tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago
Sorry, that’s out of necessity.

I’ve tried three themes. Doesn’t look like that’s it 🙁

https://wordpress.org/themes/farad/
https://wordpress.org/themes/aeroblog/
https://wordpress.org/themes/simplelin/

In case you’re wondering about my testing method, I’d download > activate the theme, send an email, and then manually run the script. Rinse and repeat.

What do you think I can try additionally to troubleshoot?
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Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

7 years, 11 months ago
Thanks for the access.

When I look at the text mode editor for the sample post this is what I see:
```
<div dir="ltr">

i installed a new blog.
<div></div>
<div>it's up and running.</div>
<div></div>
<div>hello wayne, and welcome.</div>
<div></div>
<div>i'm going to leave this here.</div>
</div>
```
The reason you don’t see any spacing is because of the <div> tags.

Are you by chance using the new Gmail interface to send these emails?
Thread Starter tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago

I’m not, actually. It’s the old interface. That’s strange.

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

7 years, 11 months ago

You could create a quick Postie AddOn that replaces all the <div> tags with <p> tags. See http://postieplugin.com/extending/

Thread Starter tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago

Thanks. Very odd that this is only happening to me though.

What filter do I use for the extending?

And then a str_replace() would do it, right?

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

7 years, 11 months ago

See http://postieplugin.com/postie_post_before/

$post['post_content'] has the email text.

Thread Starter tamar
(@tamar)

7 years, 11 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate your help, Wayne 🙂

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