Title: Theme text formatting disappears
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme text formatting disappears

 *  [wesnathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wesnathan/)
 * (@wesnathan)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-text-formatting-disappears/)
 * Since this seems to be a common problem, at least for me, I’ll ask the question
   and hope for a more or less universal answer that fixes the problem whenever 
   I run into it.
 *  Just spent close to half an hour changing themes and reformating the page text,
   using Copywriter. (WP 2.8.4) Pasted it into the new theme, previewed it, and 
   all the formatting disappeared. The text was bunched together, no line spacing,
   no formatting at all. (Theme is Pet Charms 2.0 from FreeWP Themes)
 *  This is not the first time I’ve run into this problem. Other Themes I’ve tried
   also ignore text edits, especially Page text edits. Is there something I should
   be doing prior to editing the text. Ideally, I’d like a WYSIWYG, but I don’t 
   guess that’s going to happen anytime soon, or it would’ve happened by now.
 *  It’s a very frustrating, time consuming problem. If you have a fix, I’d sure
   appreciate knowing about it. Thanks
 *  Wes

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-text-formatting-disappears/#post-1225490)
 * Does the theme use `the_excerpt()`? If so, try replacing it with `the_content()`.

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