When creating posts in WordPress Blog my paragraphs are disappearing.

  • Resolved building5

    (@building5)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I have both WordPress Thesis 1.8 running 3.1; and a self-hosted WordPress Blog 3.2 with a Twenty Ten 1.2 theme.

    When I paste my 600 word post from a notepad .txt file into the new post>>HTML tab of each (thesis & Blog), all is perfect. When I tab over to the VISUAL tab in Thesis, the post still appears normal. When I tab over to the VISUAL tab in the Blog, one of the five paragraphs along w/ the previous paragraphs ending anchor link completely disappears. In Thesis, when I tab back to HTML, I must cleanup so extra characters that strangely suddenly appear in the link. No problem and all is fine. When I too, cleanup the characters in the remaining links of the Blog – all is fine. But there is a whole paragraph and link missing!!!!

    Is there a problem with this Blog theme as to why it is acting up this way. I’ve tried numerous different content from different sources with the same result of one paragraph magically disappears. Is there some plugin or code that can be added somewhere in Editor that would get the Blog 3.2 to act like Thesis? Totally perplexed.

    The EXACT same copy and steps were used for both sites. The first is Thesis which is ok.
    http://www.callbuildingdreams.com/5809/how-to-find-a-roofing-contractor/

    This one is the Blog which was shortened:
    http://bdiholding.com/78/how-to-find-a-roofing-contractor/

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  • Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    First, Thesis is simply a WordPress Theme, not a separate application.

    Second, you’re using different versions of WordPress on the two installs; I would recommend ensuring both installs are running the most-current version of WordPress.

    Third, you will run into issues if you switch between the Visual and HTML editors. I would recommend choosing one, and sticking with it, rather than switching back-and-forth during editing.

    Fourth, if copying-and-pasting from a text editor: 1) make sure that the editor is a plain-text editor, rather than Word or other rich-text editors, and, 2) I would paste plain-text directly into the Visual editor, so that paragraphs are preserved properly.

    Thread Starter building5

    (@building5)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    First, I am well aware that Thesis is a theme.

    Second, the two different versions are on two different sites/domains so they are not related or an issue to the problem at hand.

    Third, technically you’re not supposed to have any ‘issues’ if switching between editors. Visual doesn’t recognize HTML, while HTML pastes create extra characters in anchor links which aren’t visible until switching back and forth.

    Fourth, as mentioned the text is ‘clean’ coming from a .txt file. 2) if paste any anchor text and links into the visual editor – it won’t recognize them.

    I’m thinking on switching Blog themes to see if it clears up.

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    First, I am well aware that Thesis is a theme.

    Just wanted to make sure, because you kept referring to “WordPress” vs “Thesis” or “Thesis” vs “Blog”.

    Second, the two different versions are on two different sites/domains so they are not related or an issue to the problem at hand.

    Not running the same version of WordPress is absolutely relevant, and often the cause of observed differences.

    Third, technically you’re not supposed to have any ‘issues’ if switching between editors. Visual doesn’t recognize HTML, while HTML pastes create extra characters in anchor links which aren’t visible until switching back and forth.

    No. The official recommendation is not to switch between editors while editing Posts. Doing so can and will cause problems or unexpected behavior, because the two editors do not allow the same HTML tags, and handle them in different ways.

    Fourth, as mentioned the text is ‘clean’ coming from a .txt file. 2) if paste any anchor text and links into the visual editor – it won’t recognize them.

    Indeed, if you copy/paste into the Visual editor, you’ll have to add in hyperlinks after pasting. However, it is much more efficient to paste large swaths of text into the Visual editor.

    Alternately, you could paste into the HTML editor, and re-apply your double carriage returns, in order to maintain your paragraphs.

    I’m thinking on switching Blog themes to see if it clears up.

    Always a good idea, to help rule out any Theme-specific issues.

    Thread Starter building5

    (@building5)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Update: I dropped the Twenty-Ten theme and errors cleared up instantly with a new theme. Thanks for the help.

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