{"id":1411,"date":"2020-01-22T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/?page_id=1411"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:17:52","slug":"paragraphs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wordpress-how-tos\/paragraphs\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Creating Paragraphs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If text is typed at the block inserter placeholder, it will be the default block type of paragraph. Pressing return when a sentence is finished will create a new paragraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full img-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1432\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/block-inserter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/block-inserter.png 1432w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/block-inserter-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/block-inserter-1024x144.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/block-inserter-768x108.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1432px) 100vw, 1432px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The block inserter placeholder will default to a paragraph if it is selected and text is typed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full img-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1428\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-paragraph-inserter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-paragraph-inserter.png 1428w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-paragraph-inserter-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-paragraph-inserter-1024x219.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-paragraph-inserter-768x165.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">After typing text, if you press return a new block inserter will appear. If you type into this, it will also be a paragreaph. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full img-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1414\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-pargraph.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-pargraph.png 1414w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-pargraph-300x61.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-pargraph-1024x209.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/second-pargraph-768x156.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1414px) 100vw, 1414px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Here we see two paragraphs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If text is typed at the block inserter placeholder, it will be the default block type of paragraph. Pressing return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":995,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1411","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411\/revisions\/2364"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}