{"id":304,"date":"2007-05-07T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/wrestling-with-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:32:16","slug":"wrestling-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/wrestling-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I move my content from various places (LiveJournal, static HTML) into WordPress, I&#8217;ve had my share of tussles with WordPress over how everything looks. I made a number of modifications to my theme (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.headsetoptions.org\/2007\/03\/17\/green-lush-new-wordpress-theme\/\">Green Lush 2 Column<\/a>). The CSS can be complicated but at least it can be mastered eventually. I accept the complexity in exchange for the control I get over the layout and design.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMy biggest struggle, though, has been over <em>line breaks<\/em>, of all things. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s something with this theme in particular or WordPress in general, but I&#8217;m having a hard time getting WordPress to always skip a line between paragraphs. The problem is not the style of the paragraph&#8230; that&#8217;s set correctly. The problem is that <strong>WordPress will sometimes swallow up a line break and smoosh two paragraphs together.<\/strong> This tends to happen at least once in every entry with more than two paragraphs.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI tried many things to impose my will. I re-entered all the line breaks in the WYSIWYG editor.  I manually added break and\/or paragraph tags in the HTML editor. Nothing worked consistently!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI finally came to a compromise solution, which is stupid but always works. After writing or importing an entry, I switch to the HTML editor and put a <strong>&amp;nbsp;<\/strong> (blank space) on the empty line between each paragraph.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve encountered this issue yourself, I&#8217;d love to hear about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I move my content from various places (LiveJournal, static HTML) into WordPress, I&#8217;ve had my share of tussles with WordPress over how everything looks. I made a number of modifications to my theme (Green Lush 2 Column). The CSS can be complicated but at least it can be mastered eventually. I accept the complexity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}