Pre-filled posts lose paragraphs when publishing through Edit Post

Greetings,

I manage a politics blog (https://politisk.tv2.no) where the main feature is posts created from feeds, using the FeedWordPress plugin (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/). I’ve contacted the author for support, but thought I could try this forum as well.

It’s a paragraph vs. editor issue, but not one similar to the issues mentioned here earlier. The wpautop is enabled, and installing TinyMCE Advanced made everything worse. I’ve tried changing themes as well and disable all plugins. The theme we currently use is a child theme of Genesis 1.4.

The FeedWordPress plugin creates posts but leave them unpublished. The guys responsible for managing the site click on them (Edit Post), reads through and press Publish. By doing so the post lose all paragraphs (no <p>s or <br/>s), which practically makes the posts unreadable. But if they use the Quick Edit and publish from there, the post keeps all its paragraphs (the ones we already published from Edit Post are ruined). But we often need to edit the post, so this won’t work in the long run. If we create a new post ourselves, we never encounter the problem of losing paragraphs – so I’m thinking it’s got something to do with pre-filled posts?

We always see paragraphs in the Visual Editor, but no <p>s in HTML editor, only newlines. We’ve tried cutting and pasting, using “Paste as text” and “Paste from Word”, and from any other text editor, as well as marking each paragraph and click the “Paragraph” formatting. The only thing that works is switching to HTML editor and manually add <p>s. But the guys responsible for this are not exactly tech savvy and not willing to do that.

Anyone familiar with this issue, or have any tips I could try?