Adding just a bit of html to a post

could you be more specific? i see a lot of <p> </p>s in your post.

Yes but I don’t know why. I want the text to be under the images but I can’t get it there. And if you look at the word Stories near the last image you can see it’s in the wrong place. Frustrated.

Try use center tag like

<center><img …></center>

Nope. Doesn’t work. I put the code in and save and when I go back to the post the code has disappeared.

Your images are set to float:left in your stylesheet. Remove that.

No I don’t think images are set like this. This is what my style sheet has (if I’ve got the section that determines images in posts right)

.post-content {
padding: 1em 0 0;
}
img {
border: #ccc 1px solid;
padding: 3px;

And I still don’t understand why I can’t use common tags like <p></p> or </br>.

Yes, they are set to float, just not in your CSS. You must be using the Visual Rich editor (which would also explain why you’re getting your p tags stripped out)

Your images are have “align=left” added to them. That happens only when you add it manually (but you’re giving the impression that you’re not) or when you use the Visual Rich editor. Turn that sucker off and use the regular Quicktags to add your p tags when you want to.

After turning off the editor, you’ll have to go through each post individually and remove the alignment – it won’t do it for you automatically.