The wordpress is simple but powerful. I just don't like the editor. I do hear some editor plugins. Any sugggestions on editor plugins???
you can disable the rich text editor by clicking Users, and then click "Your Profile" and then make sure "Use the visual editor when writing" is unchecked and then click "update profile"..then what you're left with is a bare bones XHTML compliant editor. It really helps if you know some basic XHTML to use the editor properly if you're going to do more advanced stuff.
I know some HTML not xhtml. The problem I am having is with formatting. The paragraphs seem to have single line space between them but when I save it, all paragraphs have no single line space between them. I have entered html tags like <p> </p> or <br><br> but again when I save the page, all the single line spaces removed. These days, I enter the info on NVU editor and then jsut copy it into the WP. I'll try when you mentioned above. Do these WP editor plugins work well??
Aside from some syntax differences on a few tags and attributes, both HTML and XHTML are identical once you get into the elements that are used inside the <body> and </body> tags. If you're really bent on using an editor though, I really can't recommend anything to you, though I'll ask around and see what others say for you.
The paragraph formatting issues may be from the themes stylesheet. Sorry I can't expand on that, not much of coder, just have read about it somewhere. Here is an advanced visual editor: http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/tinymce-advanced/
I had the same problem with my wordpress blog. I disabled the rich text editor and just did the codes. the code for a line of blank space is: <p> </p> Hope that helps until you find an editor you like
That's actually an empty paragraph and is not appropriate or necessary. Katy gave me a wonderful heads up to a plugin that strips </p> tags from the raw code editor not too long ago. http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/disable-wpautop/
I am having a hard time with WordPress. I'm not very good with code to begin with, so I'm starting out reading all these tutorials.
Get the advanced Tiny MCE Editor... I love it. There's a bunch of copycats out there, so make sure you get the right one. It should add like 28 buttons to your editor.