My WordPress Gives Line Breaks Instead of Paragraphs

What happens if you switched to the unedited default Theme (Twenty Sixteen.)?

Didn’t have any effect, but you’ve given me an idea – let me deactivate all plugins and see what happens
BRB

So I renamed the plugins folder
Fixed the issue except the Text side doesn’t show any <p> or <br />
But the Visual side formats just right
Then, I activated TinyMCE
And the problem came back
Then I activated ALL plugins and deactivated TinyMCE
Problem still exists:
See<br />
if<br />
This<br />
Fixes
Next, I deactivated Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
No joy!
Will<br />
it<br />
work<br />
this<br />
time?
Really got me stumped hey

– Also try flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches. Not just your browser, but any op cache or content network cache as well such as Cloudflare. If your host provider has a “Purge Varnish” option or if you can ask your provider to flush memcache on your server. If you are using SiteLock, manage your caching there.

– If still no joy, then try MANUALLY updating. Download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the old wp-admin and wp-includes folders and files on your server before uploading the new ones. Please read the Manual Update directions first.

– Backup: If you haven’t already done, always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong. You can never have enough backups!

Hey t-p I really appreciate you making your time available to help with this issue… thanks for that!
Sadly, I’ve now tried everything you suggested, still with no result
Also, I tested a new page NOT using SiteOrigin’s Pagebuilder, to eliminate a possible conflict with that:
<p>Here we are again<br />
Testing<br />
the<br />
paragraphs</p>
Same result unfortunately…

Then, I activated TinyMCE and the problem came back

Sounds like TinyMCE Advanced plugin might be the culprit. I’d suggest checking if “Keep paragraph tags” option is enabled there. If it is, try disabling it.

Tried that, got this (in Text and Visual):
One more time
Test
Does
It
Work?
So then I disabled TinyMCE and got this (in Text and Visual)

Try

it

again…

KINDA ??
But only if I select all the text and apply Paragraph to it

Next, I disabled Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

One more

time without

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

Only works if I select Paragraph once again, and no <p> etc in Text)

BTW I am refreshing the test page each time before I try something new

What happens<br />
if I<br />
enable TinyMCE <br />
again?
And I checked the retain <p> bit again

I’m out ideas.

I think it would be worth asking at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/tinymce-advanced so the plugin’s developers and support community can help you with this.

Mate I really appreciate your time and effort on this
I’m in graphic design and SMM etc
Any time you maybe need some art modified, or a blog post written etc email me
[email protected] ya… I owe ya one
I often do the same for my contractors so no trouble at all
Cheers from Australia
John

You are very welcome ??

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by t-p.

Hey TP
Thought you might be interested to know, while I got no reply so far from the TinyMCE people, I discovered something interesting on my own.
Accepting the fact I was stuck with the line breaks, I made a post just copping it sweet, and hitting double return between paragraphs.
The result?
I got paragraphs! Even though it doesn’t show any <p> in the Text view.
The I needed an actual line break, and held shift while I hit return.
AND I GOT A PARAGRAPH!
Again, doesn’t show in the code, but at least I now have a workaround of sorts
Thought you might be interested
Cheers, John

Glad to know it ??