• hello, any ideas as to why my numbered and bulleted text is indented to the left of the preceding paragraph? i’ve tried fussing with the indentation buttons but am not having any luck?

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  • Thread Starter busygirlshopping

    (@busygirlshopping)

    sorry, my site is https://www.busygirlshopping.com and you can see what i’m asking about by clicking “blog posts”

    I am having the same problem with twenty-fifteen. The bullet dots always hang out to the left of the rest of the text.

    In the HTML editor it looks normal, using unordered list item tags.

    Actually the indent button on the toolbar becomes grayed out (unavailable) when the bullet text is selected, so I can’t indent the bulleted text that way.

    If I indent the text first, then apply bullets, it only increases the space between the text and bullet.

    I found the solution on another WordPress support post. There seem to be many people with this problem using many different themes, not just twenty-fifteen. I tried about 5 of the .css file editing solutions suggested in various posts, but only this one worked:

    Note: I am currently using Twenty-fifteen version 1.2.

    1) Find this text in your wp-content > themes > [go into your theme's folder] > style.css file under the section called 4.0 Elements:

    ul,
    ol {
    	margin: 0 0 1.6em 1.3333em;
    }

    2) replace the above code with this

    ul, ol {
        margin: 0 0 10px;
        padding: 0 0 0 15px;
    }

    Save the edited .css file, and then go to a page of your blog that has the problematic bullets on it, and refresh the page to see if it worked.

    Of course, the experts here will always caution you that changing the main theme style.css is not the best solution as the .css file will revert back whenever you update your theme. Better to use a “child theme” and edit its .css file. However, if you don’t yet have a child theme set up (my case at present), and this fix works in the main theme .css file, you’ll at least know that it works before you go to the trouble to set up a child theme with this edit.

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