Title: Strange formatting even without CSS
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Strange formatting even without CSS

 *  Resolved [krollins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krollins/)
 * (@krollins)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-formatting-even-without-css/)
 * I’ve used this plugin many times, but for some reason this time when I am trying
   to use it the formatting is all strange. I have it set so that the plugin doesn’t
   use the default CSS.
 * There’s heaps of padding before and after all the different sections of the content
   and the meta information is formatted on different lines.
 * For example,
 * Posted on Jan 10th, 2013
    – By admin – 1 Comment
 * I can’t seem to find anything in the CSS that might make it appear this way. 
   I even tried removing my own stylesheet just in case that was affecting something
   but it appeared the same just without the styles for the rest of the page.
 * Help?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-category-posts-list/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-category-posts-list/)

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 *  Thread Starter [krollins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krollins/)
 * (@krollins)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-formatting-even-without-css/#post-3418809)
 * Oops! I figured it out. I pasted in the shortcode in Visual mode and it added
   a `<pre>` and `<code>` tag before and after it making it look strange.

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 * [formatting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/formatting/)
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 * Last reply from: [krollins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krollins/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-formatting-even-without-css/#post-3418809)
 * Status: resolved