I would double-check the styling being applied to the text in the editor. It’s formatted as HTML and might have some extra padding applied to paragraphs in the WYSIWYG editor. Sometimes this is done by the theme. Sometimes it’s done by mistake.
I checked all that … I am using thesis on sites that this does and does not happen on … and I have checked in Text mode (Text tab) on the editor. Is there some other place in WP where the CSS on the editor is controlled ?
WordPress themes can add an editor stylesheet directly in PHP – not through a user interface. Try inspecting the styles of the misaligned text and see where the rules are coming from.
Thanks Eric, still not sure why this is happening “randomly”. I messed with the CSS (see screen shot) but not sure why its happening in the first place.
https://gyazo.com/6a4489358e926dae02dde1ea794cf807
I also checked my Thesis theme where you can add CSS for the Post editor, and there is nothing added there by mistake.
weirdness !
Here is a screen shot of the one that is working as expected…
https://gyazo.com/59d86667271006d445fa1d08ff375d5f
There is no .grt class added in … any idea what that is ?
I got it !!!!!!! its the Thesis skin called Classic responsive that is doing it to me … grrr.
Thanks for the pointers Eric …
For anyone else who stumbles on this …
Custom themes (and child themes) and things like Thesis skins can apply their own styling to the WYSIWYG text editor within WordPress by applying an editor stylesheet. This feature is provided so a theme can tweak the layout such that what you see in the editor matches the format of what you see on the front-end.
However, sometimes their styles are flat out broken in the admin. You can often remove these editor styles with your own functionality plugin, though. Just be sure you use things like Chrome’s web inspector or Firebug to figure out what’s happening first.
And, FYI, premium/paid themes like Thesis are not supported in these forums. These forums are for free themes available in the WordPress theme directory at http://wordpress.org/themes/. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products
It’s best for premium/paid theme users to go to the support site where they bought the theme for help with customizations and issues. They paid for support when they bought the theme.
Yes songdogtech I agree, but it took me a long time to sort out that the issue was coming from a paid product, so I asked here incase I had clicked a button somewhere by mistake or something.
Believe me I wrote to them as well!
Thanks all for the assistance! Now who do I talk to about getting those lost hours back ?! 😉
Petermac
