Cannot add empty line in my post!

  • Resolved ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi everyone,

    I’ve been trying to figure this out for 2 weeks now.

    http://www.graphicwhispers.com – I am trying to put an empty line after the first line of my introductory text on the Home Page. Also, would be nice if it was bold too.

    This is what I tried so far:

    <p></p>,
<br />,
<p><code><br /></code></p>,
<p> </p>,
<br style=”height:4em” /> ,
<code></code>

    I even tried to do <p class=”introduction”></p> – and put in style.css

    .introduction
{
margin-top: .25em;
margin-bottom: .25em;
}

    This doesn’t work either:

    <div style="margin-top: 125px;">
 Paragraph content goes here.
 </div>

    It completely ignores everything.

    Don’t know what else to try…

    Please let me know if you know how to fix this

    Thank you

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  • Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Not sure why it didn’t display correctly in the above message.

    This is what I tried so far:

    <p></p>,
<br />,
<p><code><br /></code></p>,
<p>&nbsp;</p>,
<br style=”height:4em” /> ,
<code></code>

    Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    When I look at your HTML source code, I can’t see any P tags near your text. I think that something is not quite right with the theme.
    I would recommend that you switch themes and see if the issue goes away.
    If not, then deactivate all your plugins and see if one of them is the culprit.

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Ok, I will do this. Thank you!

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    I de-activated all my plugins, but still no luck.

    Maybe I could manually re-install WordPress?

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Christine,

    I just had an idea – I could write a text in illustrator and append some nice graphic to it – and put it on my home page…

    In your opinion, is this something that’s worth considering?

    I’m so new to this…

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    sorry forgot to mention, i swiched the theme, but still not working.

    Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Just looking at your site again and the theme is still the same.
    This is very strange. Usually this happens because of the theme or plugins.

    If you use a graphic, then it defeats the purpose of using WordPress and none of your content will be accessible by search engines. I don’t think that this is a good idea.

    Can you try switching to the 2012 theme?

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Christine,

    Here we go. I’m in a different theme now.

    I just updated my WordPress automatically (not manually).

    I’m just thinking that maybe while I was figuring out the WP maybe I altered some file by mistake? I was careful, but you never know.

    Would the automatic update notice this alteration?

    If I re-install WP, do I need to re-install the theme too?

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    The only thing that it seems to recognise is  &nbsp;

    Once I made a lot of these   and on my browser there was a whole empty line! But on other computers people didn’t get the empty line.

    Right now in my post there’s 

    <p></p>
<br />
<p><code><br /></code></p>
<p> </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<br style=”height:4em” />
<code></code>

    and only space character works on my browser

    Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    When you are writing blog posts, you shouldn’t be inserting p tags or
    tags. WordPress will just get rid of these.
    What you want to do is just hit enter when you want to start a new paragraph. WordPress will automatically wrap the paragraphs with <p> tags.

    The in your CSS, you can add more margin or padding to the P tag.

    I would recommend that you add more content to your site. It’s really hard to fix things when you only have 1 paragraph.

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Christine,

    You are right about the amount of text.

    I just changed the theme to 2011. This is what I get:

    The actual summary of the text does not allow any new paragraphs.

    But when I click on Read more… voila! We have paragraphs! (although I still need to figure out how to change their width because when I pressed Enter several times and changed p tag in css it didn’t work. maybe it was a wrong tag).

    Thread Starter ElenaDn

    (@elenadn)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Christine, I FINALLY sorted it out.

    I realised that while I was figuring out my new theme I wrote a text box in .php file, which I formatted in CSS. And it was in this box inside the .php that I had to insert the new line, not in the post!

    And of course you didn’t know about this. I’m sorry for taking your time on this. Thank you for your help!!!

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