jimbaum

Yes, you might be right. I just can’t find what it is. For now I’ve turned off the visual editor in my profile. I’ll try it again sometime.

esmi, thanks! Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.

Jim

I created a new post and hitting enter worked to create a paragraph.

Then, I copied the text from the problem post and copied it into textpad. I deleted the problem post.

I copied the text from textpad into a new wp post.

I reinstalled the Twenty Ten theme.

When I try to separate paragraphs by hitting enter and then hit update, the font seems to change a couple of times and when done updating, the line breaks are gone.

Initially I did paste text directly from an email. But have since tried different approaches, like replacing the text via notepad.

The only theme file I changed was the footer and all I did was change a word that posts the “Proudly Powered by WordPress” to “Powered by WordPress”.

I deactivated all the plugins. Tried to insert a paragraph by hitting enter. When I hit update the post, the line break disappears.

Another piece of info: I just tried another wordpress installation on the same server for another web site. And this one has a worse problem. I tried to creat a new post and when I add text to the visual editor and hit update. All text in the visual editor disappears.

Is it possible the these two problems are related?

Here’s that page: https://blog.gospelforwestafrica.com/?p=512

Thank you for your efforts to help, esmi.

I normally use visual editor and hitting enter used to give me a paragraph. I just noticed the div tags.

I use html editor from time to time to adjust something.

I don’t know what changed to cause div tags to automatically be inserted.

Ok, thanks, esmi.

Here’s a page: https://procinwarn.net/2011/05/29/former-mormon-and-calvary-chapels/

I’m having similar problems. Also, I hit the html edit button, try to make some changes, it I get the endless hour glass. Then I get a dialogue that says a script is making things slow, do I want to abort? If I say no it just keeps going. Any ideas? I need to try the above options changes to see if that helps the editing problem. Jim B.

I fixed this problem by making the above recommended change to the
footer.php file in themes/default.