I’m using a theme for my blog called “Journalist”. I wanted something no-nonsense, with a minimalist 2 column layout that I could remix to my taste. Once I read Matt Mullenweg (founder of Automattic) uses it, I was sold. I realized when making this choice, I was using an older theme (optimized for 2.7) and I was aware it didn’t have some of the bells and whistles of some of the more expansive Wordpress theme frameworks. This made me mindful to continually review what I was doing, looking out for conflicts with the latest Wordpress install, and researching features I needed to add myself. I’m glad I stayed on top of this, because a SEO problem was occurring in my header.php file I didn’t catch originally when I was tweaking the theme…
WordPress line break bug in posts
Recently I ran into a weird issue in Wordpress as I was remixing an older theme for a friend’s blog. Like most people, I operate under the assumption that Wordpress’ visual editor will work as the name sounds. But sometimes you can run into instances where the visual formatting of the entry/post you see in the control panel, does not match up with the content’s appearance on the blog. Glitches can show up when you hit the publish button, in this case- disappearing line breaks are the culprit. The source of the problem is likely a combination of at least two things…