Title: Frustrating Formating Issues. Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Frustrating Formating Issues. * [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/) * Hi everyone. I’m new around here! First of all, I’m loving wordpress! * Now, I’m having a little bit of formating frustration. I write an article, and I include spaces between paragraphs, but when I publish the article, it removes the spaces I created between articles. So I go back to edit the article, I add the spaces again (by hitting enter) and republish, and nothing. The spaces disappear. * How can I make it so the article is published exactly the way I see it when I write it on wordpress? Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681887) * Your theme may be using `` instead of `` in its template files. Simply edit the relevant template files and replace` ` with ``. * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681890) * Thanks esmi for the superfast response. * I barely know anything about coding, could you be a bit more specific? I should go to every single “php” file that has the word “template” withing my theme and look for and change it to ? * Thank you esmi! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681894) * It might help if you provided a link to a page demonstrating the problem. * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681897) * This is the preview link of the post I’m trying to make. It ignores the “enters” I give it between paragraphs. Everytime I hit preview, it just goes back to its Douple-spaced self. * [http://theskiffler.com/?p=320&preview=true](http://theskiffler.com/?p=320&preview=true) * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681898) * Ok, sorry, the page is not working… let me repost the item because I trashed it.. haha… * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681899) * [http://theskiffler.com/?p=357&preview=true](http://theskiffler.com/?p=357&preview=true) * here we go… * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681902) * You need to post a link to a **published** Page or Post. * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681904) * sorry, here we go: [http://theskiffler.com/?p=357](http://theskiffler.com/?p=357) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681906) * I can’t see anything wrong with that page. All of your paragraphs have quite good margins. * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681911) * Esmi, thanks for the time for helping me. Here’s the thing: I’m trying to widen the space between paragraphs, but even though I hit ‘enter’ between paragraphs in post editing, once I publish, it goes back to what you see. 🙁 * Is there a way to add more spacing between paragraphs? * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681913) * I’ve updated the post to illustrate the point better. Each title has a small graphic underneath it, aligned to the left, and some text beside that picture. * After this, a space is needed for the next title, graphic and text. But watch what happens: [http://theskiffler.com/?p=357](http://theskiffler.com/?p=357) * No matter how many times I hit ‘enter’ to space out each paragraph, it keeps crunching back, thus overlapping tittles with the picture that it does not correspond to. * I hope this helps illustrate my problem. * Thread Starter [skiffler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skiffler/) * (@skiffler) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1681919) * Ok, I think it’s formated so that I can ONLY double-space. No matter what I do, even if I add code several times to widen the spaces, I can’t get it to work. I’ve tried

code, too, and it just won’t budge. One space between paragraphs is all it will allow! * What can I do? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1682048) * You’d need to: 1. Stick to the HTML tab 2. add a custom class to your p or div elements. 3. Amend your theme’s stylesheet to apply larger top & bottom margins on your custom class. Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘Frustrating Formating Issues.’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [formating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/formating/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 13 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frustrating-formating-issues/#post-1682048) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics