I seem to be having trouble with my blog posts. When I write a post I get it all formatted really nice and then as soon as I hit "save" all of my formatting goes away. No paragraphs, no nice font, nothing.

What am I doing wrong? The blog post I just wrote took me 45 minutes just to try and get the paragraphs right and they still won’t take.

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Shari Sultana
Online Business Manager (marketing for retail ecommerce)

That is a notorious blog program issue and one of the biggest reasons I stay away from Blogger in partiular - but I've not used wordpress a ton so haven't had the problem where it ruins the entire post at 'save'.
Was there *any* of your post that was copied and pasted? If so, remember to alway use the 'deformat' option on those bits and pieces before publishing - often times when you copy and paste from another site the text carries the formatting from that site's design elements with it - effectively ruining any fomatting you've done in your blog post.

If you didn't copy and paste anything in, I honestly don't have any ideas other than to say WP isn't exactly the most fabulous example of clean or stable code

It's frustrating I know...

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Hey Shari,

This is typical of Wordpress and the deformatting should help. Sometimes it helps to go into your post in "code" view and see if there are any extraneous bits of code that shouldn't be there. Sometimes when you put images in or change the text in some way, WP puts strange code in. If you keep having trouble, shoot me an email and we'll take a look at your template!

Bri

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Brianna Young, VA and Graphic Artist
www.virtualsolutionsadmin.com
"It's not the piano that makes beautiful music. It's the person sitting AT the piano!"

Thanks Tess and Bri,

I did what you both suggested and took the formatting out and now it's okay but the font is yucky. I don't like the default font on my template because it's too small. In the past I just went in and coded a new font but I really don't have time to do that with every blog post. Is there a new font I can put on my site?

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Shari Sultana
Online Business Manager (marketing for retail ecommerce)

You can add a stylsheet to your blog template that will tell it what font to use in each post - let me see if I can find an artice to help you do that - or maybe Bri knows of another solution?

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Originally Posted by Tess

You can add a stylsheet to your blog template that will tell it what font to use in each post - let me see if I can find an artice to help you do that - or maybe Bri knows of another solution?

Yes please. That's what I want!

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Shari Sultana
Online Business Manager (marketing for retail ecommerce)

Ok, I checked the WP site and found this article 'playing with fonts' it looks like it should cover what you want to do but let us know - there are lots of great resources out there!

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You're the best. It looks like it will do the trick. I'm giving you a big hug.

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Shari Sultana
Online Business Manager (marketing for retail ecommerce)

Awesome! You guys are totally on track with my next article "CSS and Wordpress!"

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Brianna Young, VA and Graphic Artist
www.virtualsolutionsadmin.com
"It's not the piano that makes beautiful music. It's the person sitting AT the piano!"