Line breaks disappear and unable to reach archive pages

  • I’ve discovered a couple of issues over the past day that I thought were perhaps due to the GZIP compression that got turned on last week on my host, but disabling that has not resolved these problems. Here they are:

    1) All paragraphs/line breaks in my posts are being disregarded. I cannot get paragraphs in either Visual or HTML editor to display properly on the published post, unless I insert <br class=”blank” /> between paragraphs. This was never a problem in the past. I haven’t installed any new plugins, modified my stylesheet, or taken any other actions I can correlate to this change. When the post starts to load, the paragraph breaks are correct. But then it refreshes automatically and those breaks are removed. You can see this by going to: https://www.serenityacresnow.com/?p=1207 Under “Edit Post” there are paragraph breaks (carriage returns) showing up between paragraphs in both Visual and HTML editors on that post, but they disappear when it is viewed on the site.

    I’ve gone through some of my more recent posts and updated them with the
    <br class=”blank” /> code and they are working now, just much less pretty than they were before, and frankly, I am aghast at the prospect of going back through all of my archives to make these changes. Trying to find where the paragraph breaks should be positioned in the SQL code is tedious and impractical – it’s not as though we are talking about a simple find/replace operation here. Has anyone else seen this sudden reformatting?

    2) Not sure if this is related, but I am also unable to use the page navigation at the bottom of my main page to view past posts, and the same problem exists when I view a category and attempt to view a previous page within those.

    Chrome errors out with: “Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.”

    Firefox errors with: “The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.”

    IE just tells me a bunch of generic possible causes. ??

    We’ve disabled the compression – I’ve flushed my browser cache – still getting this error. Any suggestions?

    Thanks so much!

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    (@tkreucher)

    It does seem that we’ve fixed the page navigation issue by turning off all compression. Of course, this leads to a massive ssssslllllooowwwdown of my site, but the alternative is that folks can’t reach large portions of my site.

    This leaves the formatting issue. I’m trying to track down what is modifying it. I have made zero changes to the stylesheet, and I’m using the Magazine Basic theme, which hasn’t been updated in some time, so no changes from that aspect, either.

    We thought perhaps it was a disk space issue, but we are in the clear on that. Any thoughts on this?

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    (@tkreucher)

    Well, this is now resolved. I’m posting this up in hopes it might help others.

    The problem was a plugin – but one I had installed months ago, and to my knowledge, it has not updated. But *something* it was suddenly doing was wreaking havoc on my site. So, if you have the Smart Sharing plugin by WP-Beginner installed on your site (https://www.wpbeginner.com/smart-sharing-plugin-for-wordpress/) and start to have issues with formatting, try disabling it. You may just solve your problem. We did! I’m uninstalling it and won’t be installing it on any of my clients sites, which I have done for some. I’m not sure what it’s doing to the CSS, but was overriding my settings, and that’s unacceptable.

    Hope this helps someone else to avoid the frustration we’ve had this morning!

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