Title: Recognizing the first "paragraph"?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Recognizing the first "paragraph"?

 *  Resolved [jeffmccormack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffmccormack/)
 * (@jeffmccormack)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-the-first-paragraph/)
 * Not really a bug, and not really a problem, just a confusing issue that could/
   should be addressed. The plugin gives the notice “The focus keyword doesn’t appear
   in the first paragraph of the copy” even though the first line of text contains
   the word.
 * The only thing I can assume it that the plugin considers the opening image as
   being the first paragraph, even though it is an “img” tag. Posts have an image
   first, then text begins underneath – is there some way to make the plug in recognize
   this typical set up, and know that the img tag is not the first paragraph?
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 *  [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
 * (@habannah)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-the-first-paragraph/#post-7130402)
 * Interesting — I have a similar issue with “The focus keyword doesn’t appear in
   the first paragraph of the copy”, but it’s basically the reverse. In my situation,
   the first block of text is sometimes in a div tag, so the content analysis doesn’t
   pick it up even though it should.
 * It would be nice to be able to filter or otherwise customize the results of this
   functionality… I’ll try to look into it and see if I can find anything 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Julie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habannah/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-the-first-paragraph/#post-7130402)
 * Status: resolved