Issues:
- In this blog, I never moved beyond novice newbie level of WordPress use. I’m using the WordPress service that comes as part of OneAndOne’s hosting. I edit via their web-based editor, which I now realise is a widely used one, called TinyMCE. That editor is frustrating to use, not only because it is fragile and clunky but in particular if I try to break text into paragraphs then it removes the break, producing a single block of text. Surely there is a better way, but I have little time to invest in looking into this.
- The main workaround I have been using is to employ bullet-point lists. Each paragraph goes under its own bullet-point. The result doesn’t look too great but at least it’s better than monolithic blocks of text.
But there are other ways.
The simplest, I just discovered right now (by making a fortunate mistake) is to click the Indent button, even when there are no bullet points. This seems to put the text into a paragraph-respecting mode.
I wish I had found this a long time ago! Though it’s still a bit clunky/fragile, e.g. how come this very line didn’t get spaced only one line below the previous paragraph…
There is also another approach:
- http://www.picker.it/tricks/space-between-paragraphs-in-wordpress.html
- Add a paragraph style into the style.css file.
- What style.css file? Somewhere on my ISP’s server? How do I access it?
- Add a paragraph style into the style.css file.
- http://rubayathasan.com/wordpress/plugin/enabling-line-break-in-wordpress/
- This one seems best, but how do I add a plugin? My ISP’s control panel doesn’t appear to have any “add extra plugins” option.
- TinyMCE-Advanced from wordpress is a wordpress plugin, which adds the option to disable the removal of <p> and <br> tags when saving a post and in the HTML editor (autop). After installing-activating, the option to enable line breaks can be found in the Settings->TinyMCE Advanced pane.
Can I upgrade the version of WordPress on my OneAndOne package?
- http://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/2009/07/14/upgrade-wordpress-to-2-8-1-on-1and1/
- Title: “Upgrade WordPress to 2.8.1 on 1and1”