Used to the flexible and advanced CMS Joomla, I found WordPress an ideal tool for blogging in a quick and ready-to-go way. Just to mention one aspect, Joomla doesn’t natively support comments but requires the installation of a dedicated extension.

On the other side of the coin, WordPress can be less supportive when you look for advanced features and settings.

I initially couldn’t view the true html code of my posts, and the built-in editor used to cut tags like <br/>. So I installed the plugin TinyMCE Advanced Editor, which gave me more flexibility and control. But I still couldn’t have a custom space between paragraphs…

Unsatisfied with some work-around solutions found out on the web, I started trying with my (improvable) CSS skills and I eventually succeeded.

Well, let’s go straight to the point. You just need to put the following lines into your WordPress theme style.css file:

p{
padding-bottom:7px;
}

This simple instruction puts a padding of 7 pixels every time you close a paragraph with the tag </p> (which is exactly what happens when you press the enter button in the visual view). Of course 7 pixels have been my choice, but you can change this value until satisfied.

Hope this helps!

I’ve been wondering about an effective wireless way to keep my calendars updated and synchronized: I wanted to look at my business + personal schedule on both my mobile phone (the basic one, besides of course the Blackberry) and a personal cookie-provided online environment such as the iGoogle.

I eventually found a two-step method I’m quite satisfied with.

1. Microsoft Outlook to Google Calendar. Developers have released some interesting software products for this kind of synchronization, including the very good SyncMyCal. Then BigG itself launched Google Calendar Sync, which is completely free and includes traditionally-premium features like scheduled periodic syncs. Whatever your choice, be careful not to use more than one of them at a time, or you’ll get duplicated events and other trouble.

2. Google Calendar to mobile phone. This step has an unquestioned winner: GooSync, a shareware software with support for almost every cellphone. It works pretty well and offers good support. The interesting part is that calendar features are fully included in the free version, so you’ll need to purchase the premium one only if you’re interested in syncing contacts and tasks. And for contacts sync I’d rather suggest products such as Zyb.

Just one final advice: before running one of these programs on your mobile phone, verify your operator tariffs for mobile data!