Dr. Frankenbox

No suggestions? I can’t imagine what I’m doing wrong. I double-checked, and the filter is registered in default-filters.php:

add_filter( $filter, 'wpautop' );

but it isn’t doing its job. Even if I call it directly, the <p> tags simply aren’t there:

$post = get_the_content();
// Add <p> tags since WP isn't doing it for us
$post = wpautop($post);
echo $post;

Certainly. It’s very simplistic. The only unusual thing about it is that for a given page – the main page – it embeds The Loop for posts as well, to display news posts on that page, underneath the regular page content. The problem I’m reporting hasn’t been observed on the main page, so that code should be irrelevant.

<?php
	$page = get_page($_GET['page_id']);
	if (!isset($page))
	{
		include('404.php');
	}
	else
	{
		echo "<h1>";
		echo $page->post_title;
		echo "</h1>";
		echo $page->post_content;
	}
	if ($page->post_title == "Main")
	{
		query_posts('category_name=news&posts_per_page=4');
		if (!have_posts()) { /* No posts to display */ ?>
		<h2>No Posts Found</h2>
		<p>
			No news posts were found matching the specified criteria.
		</p>
	<?php	}  else { ?>
		<div id="newsposts">
	<?php		while (have_posts())
			{
				the_post();
	?>
		<h2><?php the_date(); ?></h2>
		<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
		<?php the_content(); ?>
	<?php		}
		} ?>
		</div>
<?php
	}
?>