mulligankm

You mean try some basic troubleshooting steps? Umm…no. Why would I do that when I can waste everyone else’s time? ?? On a serious note, thank you for taking the time to point out the obvious. I disabled a handful of plugins, that I wasn’t even using, and the feeds are now working. I appreciate your help and grace in pointing out the obvious.

webjunk! You did it! I adjusted the margin as suggested and this did the trick. I clearly need to hit the CSS books. Thank you so much for all of your help. It is greatly, greatly appreciated!

I’m sorry for being less than clear regarding item #4, webjunk. I will blame it on sleep deprivation.

From a visual standpoint, the CSS styling does not achieve the objective. I still have an unsightly blank line between the label and the input field. e.g.

First Name:

[___________]

instead of:

First Name:
[___________]

webjunk

1. What do you mean by “Remove close tag.”

2. The <br clear = "none"> didn’t work. WordPress changed the text to:
<p><label for="first_name">First Name</label><br clear="none" /><br />

3. Removing </p> didn’t work either. WordPress just adds it back.

4. I added the recommended code to style.css. In html, I put the following:

<p id="newbr"><label for="first_name">First Name</label></p>
<input id="first_name" maxlength="40" name="first_name" size="20" type="text" />

WordPress turned this into

<p id="newbr"><label for="first_name">First Name</label></p>
<input id="first_name" maxlength="40" name="first_name" size="20" type="text" />

Why do I feel like I am reinventing the wheel here? Surely, there must be a way to lay these elements out nicely. Calling all WordPress experts. Please help!

Thanks webjunk. No. I am not switching to the Visual tab. I am simply clicking on the UPDATE button. Once I do this, the page is refreshed. When I scroll down to see my code, I see the mysterious changes.

Thanks esmi.

Unfortunately, no luck. With the first option, WordPress changed the code to

<p><label for="first_name">First Name</label></p>
<input id="first_name" maxlength="40" name="first_name" size="20" type="text" />

WordPress changes the second option to

<p><label for="first_name">First Name</label><br />
<input id="first_name" maxlength="40" name="first_name" size="20" type="text" /></p>

If I remove the <br / > tag after the </label> tag, WordPress automatically reinserts it.

Any other ideas?

I have encountered this behavior many times since I initially wrote my first reply and I am still encountering it in v3.0. Luckily, I have found that in more cases than not, this behavior is caused by some extra white space at the end of the page/post.

Specifically, try the following to work around this problem:

1. Switch to the HTML tab
2. Scroll down to the end your page/post. In my case, I encountered this behavior in pages.
3. Most likely, you will find extra white space at the end. Erase this. Click on UPDATE.
4. Click on the Visual tab. Everything should appear normally.

Thanks for the quick response, @esmi.
I am using the HTML tab.

As a follow up to this post, I just discovered that Codex uses MediaWiki.
Is it using a bridge between WordPress and MediaWiki?

For what it’s worth, I am having the same problem. I narrowd it down to the Plugin Link to Post

I haven’t resolved it yet. At least I know the culprit, though.

I am having a possibly related problem. It is trying to upload the images to a completely different domain on my server and I have no idea where it is getting this information from.