Personally, I don't care for indented paragraphs - though I know some who like this. I think that justifying all lines in my posts, straight to the left margin, makes for a cleaner look. And, I separate each paragraph with hard line breaks, not "<p> ... </p>", which makes typing my posts faster - though that does complicate things a bit, by requiring that I use the "Convert line breaks" setting . Not everybody agrees with my viewpoint, which is normal for the blogosphere. Some folks like indented paragraphs. And from them, we see the occasional query I put blank spaces at the front of my paragraphs, and that looks fine in Preview mode. But the published blog shows no indents. Why? And the immediate answer is Preview mode, and the published blog, will always differ .