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Ok, thanks. I’ll try that.

I discovered another issue and am putting it in this same thread because I’m beginning to wonder if there’s something wrong with my install. I can add a regular HTML comment to a page with no trouble UNLESS it has code in it. Something about the closing angle bracket causes WP to interpret the end of the HTML comment (the — in –>) as an endash so it inserts the special character for an endash, and, of course, that wrecks everything.

Could some of these issues be because I’m working locally through XAMPP? Do most people work locally or directly on the server? I’ll have access to the server version next week but I don’t right now.

I can work with that kind of fix for now, but I’d still like to know what’s causing it. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Thanks, Andrew.

Any other ideas on this? I’ve tried everything I can think of but nothing is helping. I’ve Googled it and found a fair number of references to other users who’ve had similar issues (WP inserting empty p and/or br tags) – mostly a few years back. People have suggested various solutions but none of them have consistently seemed to work for all users and what’s more disturbing to me is that no one has ever seemed to understand what’s causing it. I’m leery of applying “fixes” when we don’t understand the cause.

Anyone?

All plugins deactivated – still inserts br and/or empty p tags in themes Twenty Eleven through Twenty Fourteen. No difference.

That’s the code I input in the Text editor. What I get back is either this:

<br>
Federal Tax ID:
<span class="redBold">^</span>
<input type="text" value="" name="taxid">
Type:
<span class="redBold">^</span>
<br>
<select name="taxidType">
<option value="SY" selected="selected">SSN</option>
<option value="EI">EIN</option>
</select>

or

<p> </p>
Federal Tax ID:
<span class="redBold">^</span>
<input type="text" value="" name="taxid">
Type:
<span class="redBold">^</span>
<p> </p>
<select name="taxidType">
<option value="SY" selected="selected">SSN</option>
<option value="EI">EIN</option>
</select>

Thanks obscure. I reuploaded all my wp-admin files and it works fine now.

I don’t have any solutions but I may be having a similar issue. When I click on either the “Write a post” link or the Write tab on the Dashboard, I get a totally white page. It’s not an error page, there’s just literally nothing on it despite the fact that it loads fully. View source shows absolutely no code despite the fact that my status bar says “Done”. I’ve been unable to add any posts to my blog since last night before 9pm ET, when it was working fine. The last thing I did in my blog was to allow a comment that was a TrackBack. Could that have messed things up? Anyone have any ideas about what to try?

I’m not sure if the problem I’m having is related to what the rest of you are describing or not. When I click on either “Write” or “Write A New Post” I just get a blank page. Not an error page, just a totally white page. I was posting fine earlier today. Is anyone else having this problem? I tried creating a new user name like someone had suggested but it didn’t help.