WordPress 911!

I have spiffed up my page of ebook links, which I now recommend to you all as a model of clarity and attractiveness.  I added thumbnails of the covers of all the books, just to make it all the prettier.

My original problem in attempting this was that the thumbnails tended to pile up and over and around each other, a phenomenon all you old HTML coders will doubtless recognize.  No matter how many empty lines I added, WordPress wasn’t interested in adding any more white space around the illos.

Fortunately Kathy remembered the old HTML command [br clear=all] (I am replacing pointy brackets with blunt ones, just so this isn’t read as a command).  I was able to add this command directly to the HTML, and it adds a hard return so that nothing’s crowding in on anything else.

I discerned the fly in the ointment when I discovered was that whenever I clicked away from WordPress’s HTML tab, the command [br clear=all] was automatically replaced by [ ], which so far as I can tell does nothing at all.  All the illos began to pile up on each other again.

I had to manually insert the clear=all command over 20 times without clicking away, and then saved the page.  Browsers will read it properly, even if WordPress doesn’t like it, and you now have an attractive and readable page to enjoy.

The problem will come when I need to add something to the page.  WordPress will automatically change everything again, and I’ll have to manually insert the command more than 20 times, and then have to do this over and over for the rest of my life, apparently.

Are there any WordPress experts out there?  Is there a WordPress command that says, “I mean what I say here, don’t fuck with this!”

Or is there a WordPress equivalent to clear=all that I can use instead, and that won’t vanish whenever WordPress throws a snit?

Any ideas?