New User – Why are there no paragraph breaks in my posts?

It may be that you are looking at excerpts of your posts – which does take out formatting by design.

Can you post a link to a page where this is happening?

BTW, you can switch themes – when you switch back, you should get back to what you’ve set up in the initial one.

For code editor (TEXT)

<p>Bla Bla Bla</p>

<p>Another Bla</p>

<p>Another Another Bla</p>

For Visual editor:

Bla Bla Bla

Another Bla

Another Another Bla

If all of those doesn’t work then your theme’s css have problem, in that case, ultimate solution:
Code editor:

<div>Bla Bla Bla</div>

<div>Another Bla</div>

<div>Another Another Bla</div>

And the funny thing is ”   is html code of space. ”

Wow, that was superfast! Oddly, the <div> tags didn’t work for the paragraphs, it just created line breaks. However, once I removed them and put the <p> tags back in, it seems to have worked! How can this be??

I just turned off maintenance mode so you can see the page here: https://designsage.net/about-me/

Strange but glad to hear it seems to be working?

BTW, to post a link, just past the URL – no need to use the link button.

I just tried another one as a test and the problem is still there, on the site homepage! I used the visual editor this time and there are no line breaks even though I typed them in. As someone who works in the field of user design, this sure doesn’t seem very common sense! What am I missing?

Sykat, how do I access the code editor?

Are those excerpts on the home page?

How do I find out if I’m using an excerpt? It just says Classic Editor at the top of the box.

I just figured out how to turn on the Excerpts box on my post page, but that is not where I’m typing my post.

What you see in the editor is not necessarily what you will see on the site. That’s a big difference between how websites are coded and desktop publishing. I just tested twentyten in a test site and the paragraphs seem to work fine. What’s not working on yours?

BTW, are you set on using this theme? It’s pretty outdated and not responsive – meaning it won’t work very nicely on smaller devices.

You may want to check out this plugin, BTW –

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-edit/

Not necessarily set on this theme, but wanted to be able to use the specific background color and header that I’ve chosen, and other themes I tried couldn’t be customized that easily (for me).

What can I do so that what I see in the editor and on the site are the same? Do you think WordPress is too advanced for me to use? A few people suggested I use something easier like Weebly…

Background and header can be customized in many themes – or you can generally do so fairly easily using custom CSS – people here can usually help with the code and/or you can start learning basic CSS – which will be quite useful and actually isn’t that hard :)!

See the plugin link I posted above.

I think there’s a learning curve to anything new, including WP, but I think it’s better than other options – of course, that’s just my opinion :)! LOTS of people start out knowing nothing and learn by doing and create sites they are totally pleased with.

I appreciate all of the help, and so fast too! I did install the plugin WP Edit and will play around some more. So basically everyone with a WordPress site actually has to type <p> tags into every paragraph in every post they write on their site? This sure seems inefficient…hopefully someone will eventually find a way around this!

If you are using the visual editor it should be letting you make paragraphs by using “return”. Is that not working?