I hate to use a thread for this, but I have not been able to figure this one out. I love wordpress, but I do feel they lack a bit in their help/support.
Anyway, I am having a hard time inserting a line break between things. I recently posted my first product, a download meditation recording on my videos and recordings page. The post is just above an affiliate entry I had made some time ago and the two are one on top of the other. I would like a line break between them (or two) but WP won't let me do it
Stephen, whenever you decide you've finally suffered enough with the darn WordPress WYSIWYG editor, download the Microsoft's Windows Live Writer. Blogging will suddenly stop being a pain and become a pleasure. External blog editors seem to be the best kept secret in blogging and this free download is the best of the lot. It has many of the usability advantages of MS Office without all the WordPress quirks. You can type in your copy, insert your images and see it just as it will appear on the blog while you're writing. I keep it on my desktop and can open it like a program and it uploads to WP without me even needing to log in. But you feel you still need to put in your blogging dues, keep using the WP editor.
Wade - you just converted me! I come across References to Live Writer every so often and I've not done anything about it...
I've just downloaded it and after seeing a warning about having to enable something (xml rfc protocol or whatever) I drafted an article with much less bother than the frankly awful text editor in Wordpress.
I am frankly astonished that something this good is, Gulp, done by Microsoft!
All the "enabling" you have to do is to go into the WP Dashboard>Settings>Writing and put a check in the "XML-RPC" box. This is a system that allows you to remotely control your WP blog. It still needs your username and password to work and with Live Writer you shouldn't have any security issues.
Well, darn, Stephen. I put you through that trouble and it still won't give you your line break? Sorry, but blog entry will be a lot better now anyway, I promise.
WordPress can be cantankerous about HTML for some reason and perhaps Writer's code is getting messed around after it gets there. I find that the <BR> tag doesn't do it. Maybe somebody else will come along with a more sophisticated solution, but here's a quick and dirty way to do it:
From your last text, hit enter once and put a period at the beginning of the line. If you need more breaks, repeat that on each line. Now select your period(s). Go into the text color selector and select white (or whatever color your blog's page is). You'll have line breaks and WordPress will be happy.
Wade, your period idea would work! I haven't given up on the live writer yet! I had company yesterday so I only gave it a quick shot. I try again today and see how it goes.
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