How To Add Extra Line Breaks And Spaces In Your Wordpress Posts

Posted by Quentin Rademaker on Sun, Nov 9, 2008

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You are writing a new post in wordpress and are desperately trying to add multiple line breaks and spaces to make your post look nicer and easier to read? You tried adding manual line breaks with the tag but wordpress visual editor automatically deletes them?

You might have tried to create those extra spaces by using a point or dot between your paragraphs but it doesn’t look very professional. So how the hell can you have multiple line breaks in your posts?

To add an extra line break use this code :

<p align="left"> </p>

Go to the Code tab in your wordpress post and paste the code anywhere you want an additional line space. As a reminder, the tag simply means a white empty space.

Note : Do not remove the align=”left” otherwise Wordpress visual editor will delete the whole tag!

Voila! Hope this will do the trick! Leave your feedback.

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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Umar Says:

    Thanks, it helped

  2. Animals Need Help Says:

    Thanks, I was looking for a way of formatting my posts with some extra witespace and your post above did just the trick.

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