Make LaTeX \paragraph behave like a paragraph

Since the LaTeX command \paragraph{} doesn’t start a paragraph but a subsubsubsection environment, I spent hours in debugging the spacings of my \paragraphs.

So I redefined the command to just look like the \paragraph command but acting like a paragraph:

\renewcommand{\paragraph}[1]{\par\noindent\textbf{\textsf{#1}}\hspace{\parindent}}

Written at the beginning of a paragraph, this will insert a bold non-serif text in front of the indentation.

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3119814/using-parindent-and-parskip-with-paragraph-has-no-effect