How to change line spacing in WordPress to improve paragraph formatting

In today's article, we will learn how to add custom line spacing between paragraphs or blocks on a WordPress website. WordPress editors provide several features for formatting elements, but the option to control line spacing between paragraphs or components is not very customizable. For example, if you are using the traditional editor in WordPress, all you can do is add a blank line by pressing Enter to add a double spaced line break, which is a new paragraph. Or press Shift+Enter to add a single line break after the end of any line, which is considered a new line within an existing paragraph.

So if you want to add different heights and line spacing, you probably won't be able to do that in the default editors. But there are several ways through which you can change line breaks in WordPress to any specific values ​​you want, as we will explain to you in today’s article.

Why do you need to change line breaks in WordPress?

Proper paragraph formatting and layout within articles or pages is important to improve readability. Proper line spacing enables your site users to find things within the article or page more easily. It also helps make articles clearer and more elegant, enables readers to distinguish paragraphs, and improves the overall user experience.

In the following paragraphs, we will explain to you the ways to control line spacing options on a WordPress site in the correct way, either manually through CSS code, or through ready-made plugins that eliminate the need to write code and enable you to accomplish this task easily. Change line spacing in WordPress using CSS To add a line break to your WordPress site manually, you need to add some CSS code to the template installed on your site, as follows. 1-Go to your WordPress website control panel and choose the theme < تخصيص< تنسيقات (CSS) إضافية 2-أضف الكود التالي إلى المربع النصي .post p{line-height: 2em;} هذا الكود يقوم بتغيير تباعد الأسطر لمحتوى الفقرات إلى القيمة 2em (em هي وحدة عرض مخصصة للطباعة) واستخدمنا هنا الصف .post التي يضيفها ووردبريس تلقائيًا إلى منطقة المحتوى لجميع المنشورات للتأكد من أن الكود يؤثر فقط على فقرات المقالات وليس على الفقرات المستخدمة في أي مكان آخر في الموقع.

This code only changes the single spacing of single paragraph lines. If you want to change the spacing between paragraphs with double spacing, you will need to add padding to the code in the following form: .post p { line-height: 2em; padding-bottom: 40px; } Now click on the Publish button at the top to save the changes you made, then review one of your site’s articles and notice how the line spacing has changed with the new values. You can modify the previous numbers until you get the spacing that's right for you.

Change the line spacing in WordPress through the Spacer plugin. The Spacer plugin is considered one of the easy-to-use and lightweight plugins that enables you to control the line spacing in WordPress very easily. This plugin expands the classic WordPress editor and adds different line spacing options that you can use according to your need. It is also compatible with the Gutenberg editor, which relies on the principle of dividing content into several blocks that control each block separately. The addition adds a button to the paragraph block through which you can control the line spacing of any paragraph you add to the site. It also allows you to modify the line spacing specifically for mobile devices so that it appears perfectly on any screen size.

The plugin also enables you to enter negative spaces so you can move the content up if you wish. It also enables you to create your own library containing the line break values ​​you want. So they are always at your disposal and you can add them at any time with the click of a button.

The add-on is available in a free version and a PRO version that supports additional features. Below we will explain how to control line breaks in WordPress using the free version of this plugin. Installing and setting up the Spacer add-on 1- Go to the Plugins page in the WordPress control panel and search for the name of the Spacer add-on, then install and activate the add-on on your site.

2-Once you activate the add-on, go back to your site’s control panel< واختر الإعدادات< ثم اختر Spacer. سينقلك هذا إلى صفحة الإعدادات الرئيسية للإضافة. يمكنك من خلال هذه النافذة إعداد الإضافة بالشكل الذي تريده وإضافة الفواصل لتغيير تباعد الأسطر في موقع ووردبريس بالقيم التي تريدها حيث تحتوي الإضافة على خمس علامات تبويب كما هو مبين في الصورة السابقة.

Through the first tab, Default, you can customize the default settings for line spacing. This means that if you haven't added manual breaks yourself, this will be the only major break available to insert between paragraphs. The first field, Default Spacer Height: enables you to specify the default value for the line break, and its default value is 20 pixels.

The Spacer Height Unit drop-down list enables you to select a unit of measurement for spacing (px, em, rem,%). In the following two fields, Spacer Height Unit On Mobile and Spacer Height Unit On Mobile, you can specify a single default spacing value between lines that will be used on mobile devices. If you leave the Spacer Height Unit On Mobile field blank, the height of the mobile spacer will be the same as the spacer height specified for the desktop. If you enter the value zero, the breaks you added between the lines will be hidden when viewing the site on a mobile phone.

There is an additional but optional set of options you can customize in this tab: In the Default Spacer Class (Optional) field you can enter a custom CSS class to apply to all spacing elements. Multiple rows can be added by placing a blank space between the name of each row. Finally, in the Spacer Style text box, you can write custom code to format the spacing if you have a good knowledge of CSS, as this code will be applied to all spacing elements.

Through the second tab (Add Spacers) you can add custom line breaks: To add a specific line break to your own library, all you have to do is click on the +NEW SPACERE button in this tab, select all the options you want to create the spacing with the values ​​that suit you, then give the break a distinct name that expresses it so that you can distinguish it when you add it to an article or page. After selecting all options click the SAVE CHANGES button at the bottom to save your changes and automatically add the new break to your library. You can repeat these steps to add as many line breaks as you want.

After completing setting up the addition, all you have to do is add the separator you want within any article or page you want as follows: Open the page or article in editing mode. If you are using the traditional editor, you will notice that a new button has been added to the editor to add the separator, as in the following image. To add one of the separators you have created, simply click this button and your added separator library will appear, choose the separator you want and that's it.

Note: If you are using the Gutenberg editor, you can...

You can also use this addition by adding the (Traditional) component, which inserts the traditional editor into the article, and you can then choose the line break button as we explained previously. That's all, now review the article and notice how the spacing was changed according to the separators you added. In the end, we explained in today's article the importance of being able to change the line spacing on the WordPress site and adding different types of line spacing breaks on the WordPress site.

We showed how to add this feature to a WordPress site manually through code, or by using the Spacer add-on, which gives you the ability to add many different spacers upon request and specify different values ​​for them on different devices.