How to Create a Line Separator in WordPress

1. Open the 'Posts' section of the WordPress dashboard, and click 'Add New' to begin creating a new post. If you would like to add a line separator to an existing post, open the 'Posts' section and click the 'Edit' link under the post that you want to modify.
2. Click the 'HTML' tab at the top of the WordPress post editor.

3. Click to place the cursor in the section of the post where you want the line separator to appear. The cursor should be at the beginning of a blank line.
4. Type
in the blank line. Note that there is a space between the 'hr' and the forward slash.
5. Click the 'Update' or 'Publish' button in the upper right corner of the post editor.