[brigidwardParticipant]

Hi, My site is brigidward.com
Wordpress 4.1
X Theme Integrity 7

Every time I write a blog post (in the Posts tab) I can’t get my “hard returns” to stay. It ends up looking like one big HUGE block of text. What do I need to do to make this work? I have tried several different ways and it always ends up taking hours to manually fix and most of the time it doesn’t last if I dare go back in later and make one tiny edit. And then I have to go back and manually update again. It is extremely frustrating. I have to believe there is an easier way.

Please, let me if there is some code I can use or what I can do to make sure when I hit enter it actually creates a new paragraph like in the “Pages” section of the site. My blogs shouldn’t take as long as they are taking, and it has to do with the editing I am doing because of this theme.

Please advise.
Thanks

[ChristopherModerator]

Thanks for writing in! Regretfully, at this time I am not entirely certain what it is you would like to accomplish based on the information given in your post. If you wouldn’t mind providing us with a little more clarification on what it is you’re wanting to do (a link to a similar example site would be very helpful, or perhaps some screenshots), we’ll be happy to provide you with a response once we have a better understanding of the situation.

[brigidwardParticipant]

Can you tell me how to upload an image to show you exactly what I am experiencing? I have NEVER been able to upload a jpg or anything like that. It would be super helpful if I could. Thanks

Basically once again, in case someone else reads this. In the blog post section of the X Theme every time I create a blog post when type up a paragraph and hit “enter” I can see it go to the next line (hard return) but when I show preview and publish it. All I see is two paragraphs together. See my rough example below.

(PARAGRAPH1)”akdfjkadjfkadjfkajdklfjadslfjlakdjfklasdjfkadjfksadjfkjasdfkjasdklfjadkslfjakldsjfkajfkladsjfkadsjfklsjdkflajdsklfjakfjaksdjfkadsjfkladjfkladjfklasdjfkadsjfkajdsk;fjad;kfjasdk;fjaksdlfjkaldjfka;ldfjkalsjfkaljdfkladjf;jadsfjak;lfjadkfjakldsfjakldfjka;fjk” <<<INSERT HARD RETURN>>>>

(PARAGRAPH 2) “skdjfkadjsfk;lajdfklajdfklajdsfkajds;fkjadksfjadskfj;adfjaksdjfk;aldsjfkl ;adjfkladjsfkladj sfk;ajdfklajdsfk;ljasdklfjadsklfja;dfjak;dsfjkadlfkadsfjsdajf;<INSERT HARD RETURN”

See there is a SPACE between the two separate paragraphs. But when I am in the POST section of the X Theme all I get is.

(PARAGRAPH 1) “”akdfjkadjfkadjfkajdklfjadslfjlakdjfklasdjfkadjfksadjfkjasdfkj asdklfjadkslfjakldsj fkajfkladsjfkadsjfklsjdkflajdsklfjakfjaksdjfkadsjfkladjfkladjfklasdjfkadsjfkajdsk;fjad;kfjasdk;fjaksdlfjkaldjfka;ldfjkalsjfkaljdfkladjf;jadsfjak;lfjadkfjakldsfjakldfjka;fjk” <<<INSERT HARDRETURN>>>>(PARAGRAPH 2) “skdjfkadjsf k;lajd fklajdfklajdsfkajds; fkjadksfja dskfj;adfjaksd jfk;aldsjfkl;adjfklad jsfkladjsfk;a jdfklajds fk;lja sdklfjadsklfja;dfjak;dsfjkadlfkadsfjsdajf; <INSERT HARD RETURN”

I have tried inserting </br> but even that doesn’t seem to stay put when I go back into make any additional edits. I don’t understand why there is this glitch. I don’t ever experience it on the pages within the XTheme but I experience it every time I create a blog post.

[Paul RModerator]

Hi Brigid,

You can upload your screenshots here
Then you can share to us the link of the image.

With regards to your hard returns I am assuming you are referring to your blog page?

http://brigidward.com/blog/

The blog page are showing just excerpts of the actual post content and wordpress automatically strips any formatting in your content in displaying the excerpts.

You can try this third party plugin to be able to control the formatting of your excerpts.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

Hope that helps.

[neoinoakleysParticipant]

I had the same issue and I wanted to share with you what I did to resolve the “Hard Return” problem. Hopefully this helps you too.

I used a shortcode. I inserted “[x_gap size=”15px”]” Wherever I needed a hard return.

It is not ideal, but that was my work around.

Hope this helps.

[Rue NelModerator]

Hello There,

WordPress has this function that convert soft return and hard return to a line break or paragraph. And yes the gap shortcode could really help in separate paragraphs.

Please check out this article (http://blogsitestudio.com/5-top-editing-tips-for-wordpress/) regarding some tips in having soft and hard returns when you are editing in WordPress editor.

Hope this helps. Kindly let us know.

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