wordpress is not done being stupid

[solarbird]

So hey Lazyweb – I got an answer for my previous question, but here’s another:

How do you make modern WordPress NOT smash all your separate lines and paragraphs together into one hideous pseudo-paragraph on the front page?

Does no one at WordPress think formatting matters anymore? Honestly, it looks like complete garbage. Pics attached.

What my previous post looked like in single-post view

The hideous, illegible bullshit WordPress turned it into for the blog’s front page.

Who the fuck would want this, ever? I mean, honestly, what the actual fuck. It’s not this theme, it’s every theme I’ve tried. EVEN BETTER: If I don’t put an extra space at the end of single-spaced lines, it takes out the newline and replaces it with NOTHING, cramming words together likethis.

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Comments

[mdlbear]

I think I see what's going on. The most common setup is for the front page to have just the title, one image, and an excerpt (usually the first paragraph; in some places it's called a "snippet preview") for each post, with a "read more" link to the actual post. The excerpt is also what a search engine is supposed to show for the post.

I don't see an obvious way to show the whole post, with formatting, in place of the excerpt. Which means that it probably requires a plugin, if it's even possible.

[solarbird]

Oh, setting to show entire posts is findable, though you do have to dig a bit in the theme customisation UI. That's not my issue.

But I rather like previews on the main page. I'd like to have them. I'd just like to have ones that aren't terrible and don't cram words together like so:

this
should
never

happen

-- becoming --

thisshouldnever happen

Because for one thing, that's violating HTML since 1.0, and for another, it looks godawful. (The only reason you're not seeing words directly smashed together is because I added a space to the end of every single-spaced line to prevent it, which is also very stupid and something I don't want to have to do.)

I've found a couple of answers, which I'll write up ... hopefully this afternoon.

[mdlbear]

Ugh! Yeah -- I must have avoided that problem by accident due to my weird workflow. WordPress doesn't handle hard line-breaks at all well.

[solarbird]

The shortest form is: there's a plugin for that and it works great. It's called Advanced Preview. It preserves your linebreaks! And also some of your HTML, for that matter.