post editing…why doesn’t it work?

  • I’m having lots of trouble editing a post in a new blog. I’ve tried Fusion and now I’m trying Gear 1.1 as themes. The biggest problem is, Gear runs the text together in one big paragraph. This despite my entering three line spaces after each paragraph. It doesn’t recognize paragraphs, either. It does seem and use text changes. But formatting the page and text, it just ignores any changes.

    Fusion had similar problems. The thing I don’t like about Fusion is the font options…there aren’t any. The drop down list to change sizes is too limited to suit.

    Is this typical of all or most themes? Are there any out there that allow use of Windows font selections? I create posts in CopyWriter using Rich Text format. But when I paste it into the blog, the formatting mostly goes away.

    My understanding, perhaps erroniously, was/is that text editing was WYSIWYG. It definitely is not. At least that’s been my experience thus far.

    Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

    Wes

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  • Don’t paste content from word processors into WordPress as the pasted text could contain formatting that could stop your pages from being displayed correctly (if at all) in some browsers. Paste your text into NotePad (or another text editor) first, then copy from NotePad into WordPress.

    Within themes, font type is normally controlled by the theme’s stylesheet – not by what you paste in from word processing application. The same goes for the paragraph spacing.

    Thread Starter wesnathan

    (@wesnathan)

    I use CopyWriter as a text editor, and to paste article copy into WP.

    <<<Within themes, font type is normally controlled by the theme’s stylesheet – not by what you paste in from word processing application. The same goes for the paragraph spacing.>>>>

    I assume its possible to edit the stylesheet. Any tips on the best way to do that?

    W

    Use the Editor in Admin/Appearance. To learn how to use CSS, try https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

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