Title: Layout issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Layout issue

 *  Resolved [HeleneFi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helenefi/)
 * (@helenefi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-issue-3/)
 * Line breaks (blank lines) are not taken into account in posts, and there is no
   blank line between a post a the link.
 * Also, when the post is a bit long, the link shows only after the post is expanded,
   so there’s no trace in the truncated post that there’s a link associated. It 
   would be preferable to truncate the post and the link info separately.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/)

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 *  [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/)
 * (@ellbristow)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-issue-3/#post-3889122)
 * Hi [@helenefi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helenefi/),
 * Can you provide a link to your site so we can see what you mean? I’ve used this
   plugin on my own site and the line breaks seem to be respected as expected, so
   I suspect this could be a theme issue.
 *  Thread Starter [HeleneFi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helenefi/)
 * (@helenefi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-issue-3/#post-3889123)
 * Hi @jigsawspain.
 * Here: [http://commonsabundance.net/groups/communicating-the-commons/](http://commonsabundance.net/groups/communicating-the-commons/)
 * Look at the post starting with
 * “Looking forward to collaborate with Remix the Commons as a follow-up…”
 * I wrote it with a line break between the two sentences, and there’s a link there,
   not visible. Click on read more and you will see it, all crammed up under the
   text.
 * In another example, the link goes through, but with no excerpt of accompanying
   text. See [http://commonsabundance.net/activity/](http://commonsabundance.net/activity/)
   the link commons as generative system about 24hrs ago.
 *  [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/)
 * (@ellbristow)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-issue-3/#post-3889127)
 * This is definitely a theme issue, not the plugin. There is no bottom margin or
   padding on your <p> tags, so they are all bunching up. You need to edit your 
   stylesheet to add a bottom margin.
 * If you edit the dynamic.css file you should find a line like this:
 *     ```
       .activity-list .activity-content .activity-inner p {
       margin: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * If you change the margin line to read:
 * `margin: 0 0 15px 0;`
 * this will ad a 15 pixel margin under each paragraph in the stream.
 * Give it a go and let us know how you get on.
 *  Thread Starter [HeleneFi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helenefi/)
 * (@helenefi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-issue-3/#post-3889140)
 * Thanks. It seems to be working, though not before a video it seems:
    [http://commonsabundance.net/groups/communicating-the-commons/](http://commonsabundance.net/groups/communicating-the-commons/)
 * Now, how do I get a ‘cut off’ of three lines for the post and a few lines for
   the media description? In order to avoid:
 * 1. the link not to appear on the activity page (see the post starting with “Looking
   forward to collaborate with Remix the Commons…” above
 * 2. The link to appear with just a title and no description although there’s room
   next to the thumbnail
 *  [ellbristow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellbristow/)
 * (@ellbristow)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-issue-3/#post-3889151)
 * The video is actually INSIDE the <p> tags, so you should be able to just add 
   an extra line break 
    to fix that.
 * Changing the excerpts length to include the link etc is a bit more tricky. This
   is not part of this plugin and is part of BuddyPress itself. It was discussed
   on their forum at [http://buddypress.org/support/topic/change-displayed-description-length/](http://buddypress.org/support/topic/change-displayed-description-length/)
 * With the link description, I see your description text next to the image. Perhaps
   you could link me to an example where it’s not?

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 * Status: resolved