Formatting Issues, Pulling My Hair Out

  • I CANNOT for the life of me figure out why WordPress continues to reformat my some of my post content upon update. The formatting worked just fine for like 6 hours, now all of a sudden, if I reformat a certain area, upon updating. IT simply remove everything I’ve done.

    For instance. The page is tell-it-how-it-is [dot] com/350/is-the-war-on-drugs-still-worth-it/

    The part where it has a unordered list for CCA and Geo, this REFUSES to stay one list, it always reformats itself to two lists, for whatever reason. And the paragraph below it with the private prison facts. That should all be broken up, with about 5-6 line breaks.

    Like to say, this was fine the first and second time I saved it. Now no matter what I do, I can’t get it to save correctly.

    This is super frustrating. PLEASE HELP! lol

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  • The theme in used has this Visual Composser page builder, that might or might not cause the reformat problem. The space in the <li> is an empty <p> that might be a result of new line return (when we click Enter).

    So try disable Visual Composser option, or try putting in the same content the same way you did but with one of the WP default theme without any plugin. If that work fine, then the problem is with Visual Composser thing, if the space still there then it’s how you use the editor.

    Thread Starter ImTheWebGuy

    (@imthewebguy)

    Ugh it’s always the same answer lol Try with a default theme and no plugins. I get that, but you know how hard that is to do on a production site? I’m sure you do. lol

    I do appreciate the help.

    That <p> tag is being inserted automatically. And it is/was doubling up my UL tags for whatever reason. I can’t even see why that would even be an option, honestly.

    When you say, ‘It’s how you use the editor’. What exactly do you mean by that?

    I’m simply using a text block for code or text is all, same as anybody would, I assume.

    Ugh it’s always the same answer lol Try with a default theme and no plugins. I get that, but you know how hard that is to do on a production site? I’m sure you do. lol

    Do it in the local dev. Have the dev site hosted somewhere or locally, make sure to have the same WP version same environment, test it until satisfied and then apply it to the live site.

    That <p> tag is being inserted automatically. And it is/was doubling up my UL tags for whatever reason. I can’t even see why that would even be an option, honestly.

    Mostly it’s the space or the hard return (just Enter) and soft return (Shift+Enter). Content in WP editer will go thru filter which will automatically add p tag.

    Learn the different between the Visual mode (the so called WYSIWYG), and the Text mode (formerly named HTML mode). Practice inputting different contents, headings, paragraph, blockquote, single image, gallery, ordered/unordered list, try switching back and forth and notice the different in code.

    Thread Starter ImTheWebGuy

    (@imthewebguy)

    I can write the code perfectly fine in all HTML, without issue. Even if I NEVER switch back to Visual mode, it will still break my formatting. The post is done, and doesn’t need to be touched again. I simply just need it to stay the way I inputted it.

    This does not apply to any other post, or text block, or anything on any other page on this site either.

    It’s super frustrating.

    You’re right about the test site though. I jumped the gun, and clearly wasn’t thinking straight lol. I do have a test domain for this, and have since tested with no issue.

    Again, super frustrating.

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