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Thanks, SwansonPhotos. The link is helpful for the function that can replace a “read more right here” plugin. The trick will be to get the “bookmark” automatically inserted after a couple of paragraphs, for example. (I take it that the function described in the link won’t work with the_excerpt() but depends on a user having inserted the <!--more--> tag.)

You just need to change the hooks in the plugin/function CSS. So add #wp-content-editor-container #content to the mix. (I haven’t checked to see how many of the old ids are still valid. I just added the new id to the style.

Thanks for the feedback. There are, however, 4 comments; and I (and others) see them fine with Firefox and Safari. I”m not sure how unregistered vs. registered (or logged in) users could affect what published comments are visible.

I’ve just reposted the comments now, changing the names and dates to be the same as the originals. I wonder if that helps. (Though what that would tell me, I’m not sure.)

Thanks, ClaytonJames. But it’s the two spaces after the end of a sentence that I want to get rid of. This is a multi-author blog, and some authors use one space between sentences, but others are stuck with the old typewriter rule and use two. It’s the latter I’d like to correct automatically. So… how might I ensure only one space between sentences, i.e. after a period.

Thanks, Figaro. That’s what I’ll try.

Would something like this work?

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
 <?php if ( $n == 0 && is_home ()  ) { ?>
           <div class="top_post">
 <?php } else { ?>
           <div class="post">
 <?php } ?>

I wasn’t sure from your answer, Microkid, how I was to include the $n=0 and the $n++

Thankfully I found the problem. I was wrong when I said all the posts were okay: One of our bloggers failed to close a tag for the footnote function we have (via a plugin). WordPress didn’t close it automatically — because it’s not “native” markup, I guess. Anyhow, the result was that it choked the main page. I only found it after checking the third time.