Title: Automatically add paragraphs
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Automatically add paragraphs

 *  Resolved [qui_gon_jim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qui_gon_jim/)
 * (@qui_gon_jim)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/)
 * We use TinyMCE Advanced on our website, so that we can use the option to stop
   the main content editor from removing paragraph tags.
 * We never found that the ‘Black Studio TinyMCE Widget’ suffered from this problem
   until a recent update. I notice there is now an option ‘Automatically add paragraphs’
   which I imagine will keep the paragraph tags in the editor? instead of having
   them added when the content is rendered. However, no matter if I check the ‘Automatically
   add paragraphs’ on or off, when I go back to the source of the widget, my <p>
   tags are still being removed. Is there any way to get the editor source to always
   show these tags like before?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/)

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 *  [bmsinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmsinc/)
 * (@bmsinc)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394559)
 * we are having the same issue and i was about to post a ticket about this – we
   downgraded to the previous version and the symptoms went away. please change 
   whatever you changed back so that we are not having weird formatting issues with
   our developments.
 * thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394671)
 * Hi there,
    the issue you reported has been fixed in versions 2.1.3, just released.
   Please update.
 * P.S. The option ‘Automatically add paragraphs’ only affects rendering of the 
   widgets and not editing (it’s almost the same behavior provided by the native
   WP text widget).
 *  [bmsinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmsinc/)
 * (@bmsinc)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394735)
 * still have this issue…anyone else see the same thing?
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394736)
 * [@bmsinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmsinc/) please could you try with
   the current dev version that you may find on our [Github repo](https://github.com/black-studio/black-studio-tinymce-widget)?
 *  [axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/)
 * (@axtonc)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394738)
 * I am using version 2.1.6 with WordPress 4.1 within Page Builder 1.5.3 and am 
   getting the same problem with line breaks. If they are added using the visual
   editor or if they are added as <p></p> in the text editor they just disappear
   when the widget is updated. I.e they sometimes work once but if the widget is
   re-opened they then disappear. If there is no text in the widget (it just contains
   images) then the page break doesn’t seem to work any time.
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394739)
 * [@axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/) As I previously said please
   could you try if the github dev version is working for you?
 *  [axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/)
 * (@axtonc)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394740)
 * I am not really knowledgeable enough to do this. Tried replacing the 2 php files(
   kept the original ones) class-admin and class-compatibilty-plugins with those
   on github but got error on class-admin when loging in to wordpress. Are there
   any instructions on how to apply the dev version?
 *  [daniel1009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel1009/)
 * (@daniel1009)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394741)
 * On my site, when I saved, the visual editor widget removed 1 of the ending </
   p> tags (it kept the opening tag). The only way to keep it was to use the text
   widget. I didn’t see any dev version on the github link. I’m using Black Studio
   Tinymce version 2.1.6, WP version 4.0. and the latest Genesis theme version.
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394742)
 * To try the dev version:
    1. Unistall your current Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
   version from plugins admin (don’t worry, no data will be lost) 2. Go to [Github repo](https://github.com/black-studio/black-studio-tinymce-widget)
   and click the “Download ZIP” button on the right. 3. Go to your plugins page 
   => Add New => Upload Plugin and the upload the previously downloaded file and
   activate it.
 *  [daniel1009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel1009/)
 * (@daniel1009)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394745)
 * That fixed my problem. Thanks for the quick action. This is a great plugin.
 *  [axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/)
 * (@axtonc)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394746)
 * I have uninstalled 2.1.6. and installed the github repo version as mentioned 
   but it doesn’t seem to make any difference.
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394749)
 * [@daniel009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel009/) I’m glad that the
   dev version fixed your issue, it will be released soon.
 * [@axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/) Does your issue occur 
   only in widgets editor or even in posts/pages editor? Please take some comparative
   test by performing the same actions on those two scenarios. Also, please start
   a new thread, as this has been marked as resolved. Moreover please provide very
   detailed steps to reproduce your issue (i.e. see the 7th and 10th message of 
   [this other topic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-paragraph-functionality-still-appears-broken?replies=14),
   which has a very similar subject).
 *  [axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/)
 * (@axtonc)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394751)
 * If I scrap the the widgets that were originally causing the problem and start
   again from scratch using the new version then the problem seems to be solved –
   however note that if text from a “corrupt” widget is copied and pasted to a new
   one then it still seems to have the problem. However I can live with that as 
   its not likely to occur. Consider this thread resolved for me now. Thanks – it’s
   a great tool.
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394753)
 * [@axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/) Could you provide a sample
   of the HTML source code that is giving you problems? (If it’s large, please use
   pastebin).
 *  [axtonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axtonc/)
 * (@axtonc)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-add-paragraphs/#post-5394760)
 * Sorry but I deleted the widgets that were giving the problem and have not been
   able to recreate it since implementing your fix.

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