I’m not sure if I’ve posted about this before, but I know that a lot of people have had various issues with the paragraphing in the WordPress editor. My problem with the editor (in WP 2.6, I haven’t upgraded yet) is that when I am in the Visual editor, and I hit enter to create a paragraph it creates it fine. When I save it, however, it disappears. That basically means I can’t do line breaks without editing the HTML. Great editor, but that one flaw makes it almost useless to anyone writing more than 1 paragraph!

Up to now I’ve been using a plugin for WP that replaces the visual editor. There are a couple around, but none of them beat the look of the WP editor in my opinion. I found a solution today (or maybe it’s a workaround) within WP though. If you hit the enter key in the editor, it gives you a large gap between the paragraph above and your new paragraph. Saving that makes it disappear for some reason, like I said above. If you hit enter and get the big space though, and then hit the backspace key, you will have a paragraph break without a huge line break. The important bit here is that it actually saves!

Hoo-rah!