Line spacing on about page

There are different ways to handle this. If you want space between paragraphs throughout your site, you can modify the Constructor style.css file.

Save a copy of the original style.css file in case anything goes wrong so you can restore the original. Open style.css in a text editor like notepad (for PC) and find

.hentry .entry p{
    text-indent:12px;
    margin-bottom:4px
}

Change it to

.hentry .entry p{
    text-indent:12px;
    margin-bottom:16px;
}

Save the file as style.css (that is, don’t change the name). If you are using Windows, make sure it doesn’t add .txt to the file name. Now use FTP software like WS_FTP (there’s a free trial) or Cute FTP on a PC to upload style.css and copy over the existing style.css.

You can adjust the margin-bottom value to your liking. Try 16 and see how it looks.

I’m assuming you know how to use FTP software, but that might not be true. Let me know if not.

You can also do this “manually” using in-line CSS. That’s fine for once or twice, but if you want your changes to apply to all paragraphs, it’s better to use the method above.

For in-line, in the HTML editor window of WordPress, you can do this to a paragraph.

Say you have some text like this.

Put the follow code before and after it.

<p style=”margin-bottom:16px”>Put the follow code before and after it.</p>

As for eliminating the automatic indent, please give your URL so I can see what you mean and I’ll see if I can find the CSS responsible for it.

What a brilliant concept! Good luck in your reborn sail venture.

Can you give a specific page and paragraph so as to see what kind of case by case you mean?

I would create a class called “deep-margin” or something along those lines and give it a larger margin.

In your case, open your stylesheet.css and use

body.page-id-2 p { margin: 20px 0; }

where 20px can be adjusted according to your preference. It will adjust both top and bottom margins of the paragraphs on About page.

The only reason I recommend not using inline styling: If you don’t like it, that’s a LOT of changes overtime.

@mcbuzz’s recommendation WILL work, but in the long run it’s better to make global calls to elements through your stylesheet, particularly when you want to give a uniform style to more than 3 elements.

@chase Adams is right. The global technique is best for anything but a one-time change. I don’t know @rebornsails website URL so I can’t look at the CSS.

I looked at the Constructor theme and assumed that
‘.hentry .entry p{
text-indent:12px;
margin-bottom:4px
}’
was the right general paragraph formatting. But @rebornsails – if you tell us your URL, I can check.

@chase Thanks! I thought is was the ‘ single quote. Now I see it. So that’s what a backtick looks like.