My first few blogs on this site are going to be looking at the various techniques and challenges with using wordpress. My wife’s blog is a far more visited site, and rather than test things out there I will use this as my test bed!
The first challenge I have been set is to insert blank lines in my post.
In the visual editor having pressed “enter” 3 times I was hopful word press would convert this into the right HTML. But as you can see this did not work! Next step was to look at the html:
I started by typing in a line break “</br>”. At first this worked in the HTML view (after saving as draft), but as soon as I went back to the visual view and saved I was once again thwarted.
A quick search on google revealed the code I might be after: “<br clear=”all”>” but this also failed. I wanted to understand this a litttle bit more. Some other searches on Google suggested an issue in the stylesheets and others to the editor (TinyMCE). Finally I found a wordpress plugin: TinyMCE Advanced. This allows the user to control the editor in a much more flexible way. Looking at what this offers, I would recommend this plugin to the regular wordpress blogger.
