why do posts keep leaving an extra line?

  • Hi,
    Whenever i write a post or page and press return, a line is automatically left out.
    For example:
    i am writing a post and press return

    and this happens! a line is left out, so how can i make it so when i want to start a new line that:
    this happens and i can write on the line below without leaving a gap

    any help will be much appreciated
    many thanks
    jonny

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  • Thread Starter jonny12345

    (@jonny12345)

    just read on a previous forum post it could be due to “generous line height in wordpress but that doesn;t sound right

    It sound’s like you have encountered WP’s wpautop.

    Most probably it’s because when you hit ENTER, you start a new paragraph.
    And each paragraph is encolsed in <p> tags.

    You can disable wpautop by adding this to your functions.php file:
    remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop');

    But then you will not get paragraphs when hitting enter.

    Thread Starter jonny12345

    (@jonny12345)

    I cant find wpautop in theme functions.php or ds.functions.php.
    Any other ideas?

    Thread Starter jonny12345

    (@jonny12345)

    Are you certain it is due to wpautop?

    If you look at the HTML code for your post, you will probably see that they are wrapped in <p> tags.

    Just add this line in your funtions.php file, and it will be removed:
    remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop');

    Personally I don’t remove wpautop, because then I don’t get paragraphs in posts.

    You may want to try shift+return this should give you a line break instead of a paragraph.

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