Paragraph Spacing in Rhythm WordPress Theme Issue

  • Resolved bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)


    8 years ago

    Hey guys,

    I am having issues with paragraph spacing on my website. I recently had to change themes, I started writing a new post tonight and realized when I try and press enter to start a new paragraph when I go and preview it the text is all one paragraph. I have searched all over these forums and could not find one that fits my problem.

    The only way I can solve this is to insert
    on every paragraph in the text editor and that is way to annoying.

    I have tried to find .p and .entry p into my stylesheet for my padding and cannot find this at all. Maybe the coding is different than most, I don’t know. Hoping you guys have an idea. Thanks!

    Here is a link to the post: http://freefitfed.com/the-bookmarks-of-life/ (I published it to show you how it still is just a block of text)

    *note: my other posts are correctly spaced because they were backed up from my other theme. I was using X Theme.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    8 years ago

    This is a CSS issue. Check the “margin-bottom” setting for “p”. If you can’t find it, try

    p {
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  }

    You may want to add a custom CSS file rather than edit the theme’s. If so, search for the plugin “simple custom css” and install it.

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    Sorry as I am not super proficient with WordPress and code. I installed “simple custom css”. Now do I add what you put down or am I not following?

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    Ok, I installed the plugin and added that line of code. It did not work. I think the problem might be because there is no “p” in the CSS stylesheet. Thanks again.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

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    8 years ago

    OK, I just looked at your site. Each line is <div>, not a <p>. That’s weird. Did you paste stuff in from somewhere else?

    It will be hard to target the right div via CSS because the divs have no classes assigned.

    Why are those <divs> there? If you edit the home page in TEXT mode, remove the <div> </div> surrounding each line.

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    Ok, I removed the unnecessary <divs>. It still is the same though. The only thing that has worked is putting
    between each line. Obviously thats not very efficient though.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    8 years ago

    the <div>s are still there.

    see http://storage7.static.itmages.com/i/16/0404/h_1459812186_4748571_e6217f283a.png

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    Weird. On my end in TEXT it isn’t. Any idea what that is?

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    The other weird part is that on my old posts that I had with X Theme the paragraph spacing is fine seen here: http://freefitfed.com/health-professionals-need-take-responsibility-bodies/

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    8 years ago

    something your theme is doing? Or a bad paste?

    What I’d try is to copy all the text from the front end of the site into a text editor (notepad, whatever), then go to the back end, delete the contents from the editor, select the text button to paste as text, go to the text editor, select all and copy, then paste into the WP editor. That should get rid of all that.

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    I did that and it worked! So does that mean I need to write only in TEXT? What do you think the reason is why visual will not space the paragraphs?

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    Last question I promise! Is there a certain reason why the feature image I post is always aligned left? I would like it centered. Thank you so much!

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    8 years ago

    I think the issue with the text was just from one bad paste in the past. (Heh!)

    Use your browser’s inspector (F12, Developer tools, etc) to look at the CSS for your page and figure out what to modify.

    Thread Starter bobbyj33

    (@bobbyj33)

    8 years ago

    ok thank you!

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