WordPress is automatically changing my formatting

I’m having that same problem! It wasn’t happening before I did the latest update to wordpress. I’m using the regular post editor and when I make a line break its visually adding it then when I post it, its not there. If I manually add one of the suggestions above it adds a gigantic, looks like 2 line, space. Its not adding or keeping or recognizing them correctly. Another issue is if you insert a picture first then in the editor add a line break it will not recognize it. I’d love some help too. Thanks!!!

Thanks for taking a look Esmi! Mine is http://www.theoddgirl.com I will say it occasionally works but more often than not its a big struggle.

http://www.theoddgirl.com/2011/08/sneaks-and-intro-week-is-at-an-end/

In this post you can tell the spaces (line breaks) are too big between the last 3 small paragraphs. Also there should be one between the first picture and the type. I keep adding it and it keeps not showing up. If I manually add one to the HTML it comes out odd like those last ones.

I actually didn’t add them, it is adding them. When I bring up the HTML portion of the editor I see the div tags you mentioned but not the <p> tags. I see   between the “paragraphs” though. If I were to insert a picture, type a post in the Visual portion using the regular Enter for line breaks, that is the weirdness I get, without me linking or other extras.

In the post below that one http://www.theoddgirl.com/2011/08/the-last-couple-days/ I see the <p> tag and didn’t have any problem that I remember.

I think it stems from adding a pic first thing, not sure why that would be, but I can’t add line breaks and have wonky text when I do that. This is another post that I remember gave me fits http://www.theoddgirl.com/2011/07/blow-me-away/ Its not as simple as “don’t do that” as if I type then add the pic up there after the fact it goes weird too.

I really appreciate your help Esmi!

It’s something with the default editor which removes <p> and some others tags.

That only happens if you switch from the HTML to the Visual Editor.

It has to do with the theme used.

That’s a separate issue relating to some themes not using the_content() correctly.

@someoddgirl: Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

I’ve done both. I’m already using the Twenty Eleven theme, though modified. I deactivated every plug in and also tried installing TinyMCE. If I start a post in the HTML portion of the editor, blank, then click over to the Visual Editor it seems like everything works fine. If I start in Visual and add a pic I still can’t correctly add linebreaks. Then if I click to HTML then back to Visual they are there but not the <p> code but the ‘ ‘ code. I hope that made sense!