Formatting
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Hi,
I hope you can help. While preparing my post today, I obviously hit some button that changed both the width of my blog posts and I’m also having problems with big spaces between paragraphs when I publish. The paras look find until I publish.All advice welcome.
Thank you,
j.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.
If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.
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I obviously hit some button that changed both the width of my blog posts
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You are copying and pasting from a wordpressor like Microsoft WORD into posts then note that Microsoft WORD is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text You need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
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“save changes”I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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Hi, thanks for this info. I haven’t managed to sort out the width issue and it seems that only half the screen is being used.
Any further advice, please?j
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Every blog is designed to have a maximum width. You cannot alter that at all unless you have a cusom design upgrade and you don’t appear to have one. Spring Loaded 570 pixels.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting. Please post a screenshot, of this width issue upload it to your Media Library, and return to this thread to provide the file name so Staff can examine it.
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Thanks, I recently got the WordPress.com Premium Upgrade.
I’m having a little trouble posting a Screenshot but essentially, it’s like there are very wide empty margins at both sides of the screen with the blog posts looking very slim in the middle of the screen. -
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Thanks! Will I get email from there automatically or do I need to do anything to make sure I see what they say?
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Good then we can stop posting into this thread and moving the time stamp forward. Staff deal with threads tagged for their attention that have the earliest date stamps and timestamps first and work progressively forward to those with the most recent ones. :)
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it’s like there are very wide empty margins at both sides of the screen with the blog posts looking very slim in the middle of the screen.
I checked http://socialbridge.wordpress.com/ just now and I can’t see any abnormal wide empty margins at the sides of the screen.
From your description so far, it sounds a little to me like you’ve changed a local browser setting and that’s what’s causing the display oddities for you. Could you try selecting View > Actual size from the menus in your Chrome browser to see if that helps?
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I’m going to mark this thread as resolved since there haven’t been any replies in the last few weeks. If you need further help, please start a new help request.
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