Visual editor stripping line feeds on SOME paragraphs

  • nosillacast

    (@nosillacast)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    On one blog post only, if I switch to the visual editor, all line feeds between paragraphs are stripped out. I don’t have <p> or </br> tags in the text editor, but of course they SHOULD show up in the source.

    In the link referenced, all of the paragraphs run together from the sentence “After the great backpack theft” if I simply switch to the visual editor and don’t even save. I can’t see anything in the text editor that would account for exactly why it occurs at that spot.

    I’ve tested on 3 Macs, Chrome and Safari, and it’s 100% repeatable. I’ve tested other pages and don’t see this happening so I’m baffled.

    The paragraph I noted had a lot of links, so just in case I boogered it in some way, I retyped the whole thing, re-adding the links from scratch. No joy.

    I’ve read a lot about the TinyMCE editor being the root of all evil but I don’t see why that would cause only this post to break only in this one specific spot.

    Here are three screenshots to illustrate the problem. Starting with the text editor you can see nice line feeds:

    https://goo.gl/photos/omMjtMAeExhAnasM9

    Now simply switching to the visual editor it looks like this with line feeds gone past that noted paragraph only:

    https://goo.gl/photos/D9rqjvGGk1Xtxy2cA

    And then switching back to text editor shows line feeds are gone:

    https://goo.gl/photos/Nmd81WwVP82czKua6

    My theme is Site Origin North. Here’s a list of my active plugins:

    advanced-nocaptcha-recaptcha
    akismet
    css-javascript-toolbox
    display-posts-shortcode
    google-analytics-dashboard-for-wp
    limit-login-attempts
    page-list
    podfeetstream (home grown to show icecast stream when running)
    post-tags-and-categories-for-pages
    powerpress
    search-everything
    simple-backup-ultra
    siteorigin-panels
    so-css (Site Origin specific plugin)
    so-widgets-bundle (Site Origin specific plugin)
    ultimate-google-analytics
    wp-hashcash-extended

    Hope I’ve included enough to explain my setup and the problem,
    Allison

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • HudsonValleyWebDesign

    (@jaycbrf)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    you can not switch between visual and text/html. it is a one or the other situation. You either decide to let WordPress write your code or you do. If you switch to visual all your tags get stripped. It a well known fact.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Try:
    – deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
    – switching to the unedited default Theme (Twenty Seventeen.) for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

    Thread Starter nosillacast

    (@nosillacast)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hudson – uh, no, not true. Have been doing just that for a decade.

    t-p: I hesitate to follow the suggestions because this is only one post, and only one part of one post, If it was affecting all of my posts, then the steps you describe would be logical in eliminating the root cause.

    The thing that drives me nuts is this happened once before a few years ago and I didn’t document how I fixed it.

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