{"id":39207,"date":"2020-06-06T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=39207"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:58:07","slug":"how-to-centre-text-using-the-old-wordpress-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/06\/06\/how-to-centre-text-using-the-old-wordpress-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to centre text using the old WordPress editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurrah, I found out how to centre text in <a href=\"https:\/\/greasyfork.org\/en\/scripts\/8581-wordpress-com-edit-post-redirects\">the old &#8216;original flavor&#8217; blog post editor<\/a> on a free WordPress blog.  Yes, I know that&#8217;s easy to do on the fancy new one, but I still use the old one.  And the old HTML <em>center<\/em> tag has never been supported, because it messes up template themes.<\/p>\n<p>What you do is you get a snippet paster for your browser (try &#8216;Paste email&#8217; for Chrome browsers, or &#8216;Paste Email Plus&#8217; for Pale Moon) and set it to paste&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/center.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"23\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64801\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No need to add the end p tag.  Here there are also <em>Italics<\/em> tags.  I&#8217;m assuming you want a centred picture-title, in italics to clearly distinguish it from the body text.<\/p>\n<p>Demo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cats-space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cats-space.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39061\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Cats in space!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurrah, I found out how to centre text in the old &#8216;original flavor&#8217; blog post editor on a free WordPress &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/06\/06\/how-to-centre-text-using-the-old-wordpress-editor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64802,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39207\/revisions\/64802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}