
If the problem is not enough space, you can add it yourself. Here’s more on line spacing issues from the WordPress support forum. The theme is the design template or the layout grid that you’re using for your blog. Spacing issues also could be related to the theme you use.


In those cases, you can use the “Text” view to see what extra coding is there and remove it. If you write blog posts in a different program, say Microsoft Word, and then copy and paste them into WordPress, the text could contain some coding that doesn’t play well with WordPress, and as a result, could affect the spacing, font or font size. If as you say, there’s too much space between a photo and the paragraph that follows it, you may just need to go into the “Text” view and remove a line of white space. For example, here’s what your questions looks like with the HTML code showing: When you do, you’ll see your post, but with all of the HTML coding in it. Look at the top right of the Dashboard window where you add text and click on the “Text” tab. To fix that, you’ll need to switch to the “Text” view of the Post dashboard. Sometimes, though, extra HTML commands get into posts, commands that could be messing up the spacing between paragraphs, or in your case, between a picture and a paragraph. The “Visual” view hides the HTML coding that WordPress (and other blog software) use to create blog posts.

If you use WordPress, you probably use the “Visual” view of the Post dashboard for writing and editing posts.

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