Title: Formatting Hell
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Formatting Hell

 *  [Michael Gaio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miquael/)
 * (@miquael)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-hell/)
 * I love WordPress … BUT, why is the formatting so hard to deal with? Certainly,
   this can not continue:
 * When I write a simple post, I see there is “visual” and “code” mode. When I use“
   visual” mode, I write paragraphs, and naturally make line breaks between them.
   Yet, when I go to post, all the line breaks are gone, leaving a long, single 
   line of text (?!!). So then I go into “code” mode and place in by hand <p> or
   <br> tags to make the appropriate formatting (which already seems extremely inconvenient
   that I would need to do this for very basic formatting). When I post, everything
   will look fine. But then if I return to the editor to make any changes, then 
   all of the formatting will be stripped again.
 * This is totally unacceptable. I can’t imagine that a blogging application that
   is oriented around the most essential task allowing for basic formatting to potentially
   very long amounts of text would be so underdeveloped. Certainly, there must be
   some mistake. I am new to WP, maybe I am missing something. Will someone please
   inform me?
 * I am using WP 2.2.
 * Thanks.
 * ~ Michael Gaio
    blog.michaelgaio.com

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-hell/#post-600197)
 * There must be something wrong with your installation. Although the wysiwyg monster(
   what you call the “Visual”) is certainly an evil thing… but not **that** evil.
 * Any text formatting plugins active?
    Does it happen, too, if you deactivate all
   your plugins?

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