Title: editing posts, newlines
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# editing posts, newlines

 *  [simonkittle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonkittle/)
 * (@simonkittle)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/)
 * Hey,
 * I’ve got a new WordPress site (2.0.5). I’m creating a few static pages, and I’m
   using just the plain HTML editor. I’ve got a couple of paragraphs in there, but
   instead of P tags I want to use BR tags to get bigger spaces and custom spaces
   between the paragraphs (there are some images in there, too, so I need control
   over the spacing).
 * I’ve typed BR and can see these tags in the content in edit mode (if I reload
   the page in the editor I still see the BR tags), but, when the page is rendered
   in the public view, the BR tags are gone and are replaced by just one P tag so
   there is basically no spacing in the wordpress Page at all.
 * How do I control this aspect of the content?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/#post-495510)
 * You can give your p tags some “bottom space” by adding or adjusting the margin-
   bottom or padding-bottom in the stylesheet.
 *  Thread Starter [simonkittle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonkittle/)
 * (@simonkittle)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/#post-495519)
 * Hey man,
 * thanks for that.
 * I realise I can do that by editing the stylesheet. The problem is, some of my
   static pages are quite unique in that I just want to be free to put in an extra
   line of space here or there if i need it (I have just a few static pages, but
   with different graphics requirements, and different sub-headings, etc).
 * If I do it in the stylesheet, then it’ll apply for all p’s in all the Pages, 
   or if I restrict it with classes, well, it just becomes more hassle.
 *  Thread Starter [simonkittle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonkittle/)
 * (@simonkittle)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/#post-495739)
 * So is there any other way to get this functionality ?
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/#post-495740)
 * You can try disabling wpautop – copy this code into notepad, save as disableautop.
   php, load into your plugin folder, activate. I don’t know if it will help but
   it probably can’t hurt. Note, please: this may make no difference to whether 
   you can insert and retain `<br />` tags.
 * `<?php
    /* Plugin Name: Disable Formatting Version: 1.0 Plugin URI: http://elasticdog.
   com/ Description: Switches wpautop formatting off for all entries. Author: Aaron
   Schaefer Author URI: http://elasticdog.com/ */ remove_filter('the_content', '
   wpautop'); ?>
 * Other than that, setting up several page templates with the different spacings
   etc. (using different ids/classes in the stylesheet) would be the only thing 
   I know of.
 * Forgot to ask: have you tried using the html editor button to see if the `<br/
   >` tags will be retained that way?
 *  Thread Starter [simonkittle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonkittle/)
 * (@simonkittle)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/#post-495752)
 * Yeah that helps loads mate. Thanks for that.

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 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/)
 * [newlines](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/newlines/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [simonkittle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonkittle/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-posts-newlines/#post-495752)
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