Has anyone figured out how to get bullet lists to work in WordPress?

I’ve spent the last two days trying to format a post based mostly on bullet lists. And no matter what I do it falls apart. My blog is 12 years old and I’ve written hundred of posts, mostly in prose form. Hence, I use bullet lists once in a blue moon.

This time I wrote a 3,000+ character post that’s mainly made of bullet lists. And, of course, some of those bullet lists have more than one paragraph under a bullet. Some even have sub-bullets under a bullet.

I wrote the post in Apple Pages (like I always do) and exported it as text. Then I placed the plain text in. WordPress (like I always do) and attempted to format it.

Well, I can’t get WordPress to add some padding under the first paragraph of a bullet and the paragraph below it. Why would I want to do that? Because the way it is now it just looks ugly. Furthermore, to the reader it just looks like one big blob of copy. I need some separation between my paragraphs.

When I try to create sub-bullets it changes the bullets above. Altogether it’s driving me crazy.

Please excuse me if I sound irritated, but after two days of pulling my hair out I’m almost ready to delete the article altogether and stick to prose.

Am I missing something here? Can this be solved with CSS?

I’ll appreciate whatever help you can send my way!

P.S. Just in case it makes a difference, I’m using the Classic Editor. Also, I didn’t link to the article because I haven’t yet published it.

• This topic was modified 1 year ago by accucomm.
• This topic was modified 1 year ago by accucomm.

Thanks for this awesome plugin.

Issue: Extra space is added between the levels. Please see this page as an example: https://www.tipsforsuccess.org/numbered-list-text-test-page

Is there a way to make the space between the levels equal?

Start ordered list and first item is #1

Figured out on my own that hitting Shift+Enter starts a second level with A. Hitting Shift+Enter from there does not start a third level.

What now?

Any chance you could create a FAQ tab here on the plugin page and write a couple of sentences on How To Use?

thx

I am able to get this plugin to work well with Divi, but only on the pages, not the posts. I have a custom post template that I have created so I’m not sure if there’s a conflict or a way to override Divi’s native ordered lists.

Is there no block to use this in Gutenberg? Doesn’t seem to work with the Classic block even.

We want to be able to display numbered lists like this to use the site for policy references

1 Xyz
1.1 Abc
1.1.1 Def
2 Jki
2.1 Bgh
2.1.1 Uvw
2.1.1.1 xyz`

Tried out this plugin, which worked great, except now I see it doesn’t work correctly when there is a start number for a list, e.g.

It always seems to start the ol with 1. (??)

Ended up just using css which suffices for my purposes:

ol ol {list-style: lower-alpha;}
ol ol ol {list-style: lower-roman;}

Hello.

I have the strangest situation. Letters in the headings seems to randomly appear faded out. For example, if the heading is: “SATURDAY”, then the letter T and A may appear faded out..almost like a typewriter that didn’t correctly stamp the letter on a page. It seems to happen to bold text specifically.

I do not get this faded look when I make a normal header using a default WP header block.

Also, it is also happening elsewhere in the nest… wherever there is text in bold text the body of the post, it has this random faded look in some of the letters, but not all..

Any idea what this is about please?

• This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Mel.

After working with the author of Enlighter plugin, it seems like Nested Order List plugin is interfering with the layout:

https://wonghoi.humgar.com/Temp/2020-12-17%2011_49_52-Python%203%20Scientific%20Installation%20To-do%20List%20%e2%80%93%20Rambling%20Nerd%20with%20a%20Plan.png

Here’s the discussion
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/displayed-code-block-misaligned-after-wp-upgrades/

I tried deactivating Nested Order List plugin and my Enlighter layout is correctly again

I noticed that lists block no longer lines up when other paragraphs in desktop mode (it’s flushed all the way to the left of the window without the space) when I have Nested Ordered List plugin installed.

@kjellr kindly answered my question below and referred me to report this problem to you:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/list-blocks-not-aligned-with-paragraph-block-twentytwenty-theme-2/#post-13788637

I’ve uninstalled Nested Ordered Lists for now until I need to use nested order lists again. Thanks for your attention.

Hi, i am using the plugin and i am very happy. Now i have a problem. I must insert a jobsearch-platform in my page and all of the jobs are shown with bullets as a list.

This does not look good. Is it possible to deactivate / mask out the plugin on specific pages (maybe with css / page id?)

Thanks Patrick

Hello.

I have used the Nested Ordered Lists and it works fine in WP editor – everything is in perfect order, see: the screenshot here. However, it is not displayed properly on the page. See how it is displayed here: the actual display here.

Why is that?

Best,
Michal

• This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

I have determined that the plugin causes conflicts on post comments. With the plugin deactivated, post comments displays correctly, but when the plugin is activated, comment avatars seem to overlap user name and avatars are not all the same size.

Please could you assist

Gerhard

hi, i have a problem with this plugin. I already finish to type all the information on the text box, but the problem is, when i want to view it, it do not come out as the one i typed.

When using Nested Ordered Lists Plugin, I am getting double Bullets when I try and do a bullet list. The Ordered List works correctly

In order to make groups of lists more presentable sometimes it’s good to break out of the list and then restart it. This is supported behaviour of the < ol > tag: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_ol_start.as

<ol start="10">

example

1. sad
2. miserable
3. resigned
4. smug

Some text and then we continue

5. fair
6. dark
7. red

I am not sure why this does not work with this plugin (or your premium Legal Tiered List which we have purchased).

Can you advise?

Thankyou

• This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by 2020media.

Hi,

I’m having some conflict issues with this plugin and the comments feed on my site. Whenever the plugin is activated, the comments feed (which is ordered by

tags, I found out) have formatting and indention layout issues. See attached screenshot. It is not the text of the comment itself but instead the comment feed that has issues.

Is there a quick way around this?

View post on imgur.com

Thanks,

Nick

I just installed you plugin because it is something I really need. But, even though the visual editor shows lower case alpha for the second level, the live page shows numbers – starting at 1.

I have purged cache to make sure that is not the issue. Did not solve it.

As others have stated, I would also like to be able to change the letter / number options. I’ll live with it if it works but would pay for the feature as long as not exorbitant.

Hi, thank you for this plugin.
It’s possible to create a nested list like 1.1, 1.2 etc?

Thank you in advance

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/nested-ordered-lists/