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Get a new and improved WordPress Editor
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There was an annoying thing about the WordPress article editor I started out using, the basic editor you might be using too.
Line breaks that I added for spacing effects usually would not be saved. Even when using HTML code, the software would remove the paragraph and line line break codes I would enter when saving and updating posts.
Luckily some research has solved this problem. I found a great new customizable WordPress editor plug in. More than a quarter million users have downloaded this Plugin. It’s called “tinyMCE – advanced”. Download it at the WP website, install it and customize it as you wish.
However there is one important box you must check off to prevent line break and paragraph codes to be retained.
To get this tool, login to your WordPress blog admin. Click on the Plugins Icon on the left sidebar of Edit Post , select Extensions, type in “tiny MCE – advanced”. It is important to check off the final box which says “stop removing line breaks and tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor”. Then you download the zipped file and upload the software. Now you can select some of the many extra editing tools and add them to your toolbars. You will appreciate tools like layers, fonts, subscripts, tables and quite a lot more – tools you can play around with in all your spare moments, like the Insert/Edit Image that has General, Appearance and Enhanced options.
One More Thing Be very careful when hitting Return since every carriage return you insert will be coded. If you are adding returns trying to configure your blog post’s appearance, you may be faced with having to remove the unwanted carriage returns by switching from the Visual to the HTML mode. When this happens to me, I wait until I am ready to publish before removing returns I inserted incorrectly.
AND, if you go back to the post at a later date to edit something, after updating the post, go to View Post to be sure no unwanted line breaks crept in. If so, return to the HTML view, remove the spaces, then save, and recheck.
This plug in isn’t perfect, and I look forward to future updates.
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