Try: <br class=”blank” /> for a hard line feed – paste in the html view.
WordPress has it’s own ideas about spacing between paragraphs – strips extra out – it is a sore spot with many users.
rwilki,
You might try downloading the tinymce-advanced plugin which has an option to maintain <p> and <br /> tags.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
Disable the visual editor. Whenever you switch between the visual and code editor, stuff like that tends to break down. Just have a preview of the web page open as your visual. Hope that helps.
Dear rwiki,
This is one of the most frustrating problems that I regularly encounter in WordPress blogs. You add paragraph marks in your pages or posts, and you click “Update” or “Save”, the paragraph marks disappear! This is not good. There is a lot of litterature of this problem on the Web and I don’t know why it keeps popping up in newer versions.
The basic WordPress Editor is very basic. There are several good editor plugin-ins that will not have this problem.
The one that I use to circumvent this problem is Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress. Install it on your blog and see whether you like it of not.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/
Hope this helps.
