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In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Thanks, cube.
I decided to take your first suggestion to add a
<div>where I need it. Simple and doesn’t affect any other pages.Thanks a bunch. I’ll close this as resolved.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Yes, the old site uses a standard genealogical numbering scheme called the d’Aboville System in which each successive generation acquires a number and indent. This happens to be the very same thing as “outline numbering” in Word which is why Word was used.
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1.1.1.1.1.1.1.In converting to WP every document that uses three or more levels is becoming a pdf that I link to. Documents that use one or two levels of numbering I am cutting and pasting from the original Word document as plain text into into the WP editor and manually inserting the numbering and footnotes. The second numbering level I handle with individual paragraphs under the list item.
Which leads back to the original question, see? How to take a “list item” that may logically amount to as many as a dozen paragraphs and insert a blank line between those paragraphs.
I know this is not an “ordered list” in the html sense, though it certainly resembles one to the naked eye, and I did not wish to confuse or offend by referring to the genealogical list items as “list items”, but all that has absolutely nothing to do with my original question.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Again, they are not what is referred to as list items which is the HTML element li. Review your source code.
I have no idea what you are telling me. What do you call the numbered paragraphs in an ordered list?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Thanks. About 6,000 list items when all pages are finished.
I’ll try the wpautop conversion you suggested in my child theme. Thanks again.
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In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?graphical_force:
Using WP 3.7.1 and also 2012 theme. I believe I am up to date. Here’s a page that I’ve been struggling with all day long.cubecolor:
Voila! I have thousands of list items, so it will be a pain to do this for every list item, but a quick test looks like it does solve the problem. Thanks!Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?graphical_force, the paragraphs get stripped out when I save the file. When I reopen it, the paragraphs will be gone.
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In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Please read the link I posted.
Each webpage is the biography of a person. The person’s children are the list, with each person numbered in birth order. This is quite standard in genealogy, and I would hate to abandon the accepted convention simply to accommodate some weirdness of the WP editor.
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In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Oh, I see. The list items are essential elements of the page. Please look at the example link I posted. Scroll to the bottom to see some multi-paragraph list items.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Multi-paragraph List Items?Are you suggesting that I remove the paragraph tags?
If I remove the paragraph tags, I get the same result.
Regardless of how many blank lines I insert or how many
<p>or<br>tags I insert or don’t insert, or how many carriage returns I insert, they are all stripped out by the WP editor and the text becomes one giant paragraph.