A few quick questions (formatting, comments, etc)

  • Hey all – I’ve searched these forums but the myraid of topics on my problems just haven’t seemed to help.

    1) On my blog you see the white space between the right hand side of the content and the sidebar. I know how to increase/decrease this space – but do not know how to make the text fill up this new space.

    2) Is there a specific plug-in or setting to make a comment box appear on the front page without having to specifically click “comments” before being prompted with the box.

    3) There is a slight space above “The Purple Youth” at the top of the page, above the logo, how do i eliminate this space?

    Thanks all!

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  • A few answers:

    RE:

    #1 I don’t think the white space is bad at all, at least in Firefox 3. Looks like you’re using some Microsoft tool to write your content because there’s a lot of presentational stuff in your code. For example:

    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span> </span>“Well, if Obama gets into the presidency, then he’ll receive all the experience he needs. Another responded</span></p>

    Some of these spans and inline styles could be throwing you off and are arguably not needed.

    2) Not sure. You could probably mod the template to do this, but the intent of the home page in a blog is to list multiple articles with links to comments. I’m guessing that you set it to just display one.

    3) Again, looks good to me on FF3. I’m a big fan of whitespace, though. ?? I’d even add more between the lines of text by putting something like this in your style.css file:

    p {line-height:170%;}

    Thread Starter 725469

    Hey thanks for the response.

    The problem with the white space though is that it limits the amount of content i can have on one line – making the entire post take up much more physical space.

    I know no code and I take all my posts from word docs – unfortunately though WP keeps on messing up the formatting and wont even allow me to add line breaks.

    Help ??

    No problem.

    The problem with the white space though is that it limits the amount of content i can have on one line – making the entire post take up much more physical space.

    Understood. For usability’s sake, though, you don’t want lines that are too long because they become harder to read. From what I’m seeing here, you’re talking about less than the space of one average word.

    I know no code and I take all my posts from word docs – unfortunately though WP keeps on messing up the formatting and wont even allow me to add line breaks.

    Again, I think it’s not so much a WordPress issue as a Word issue. You may want to save your Word docs as plain text before pasting them into WordPress.

    Check these out:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_Files

    https://corpora.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/how-to-convert-word-document-files-into-plain-text-files/

    https://bavatuesdays.com/pasting-a-word-document-into-wordpress/

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