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## Forum Replies Created
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* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [Saving a draft of a page that's already published](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saving-a-draft-of-a-page-thats-already-published/)
* Thread Starter [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saving-a-draft-of-a-page-thats-already-published/#post-6293748)
* Ok, thanks. I’ll try that.
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [Empty p tags inserted before the select tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/)
* Thread Starter [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/#post-4757407)
* I discovered another issue and am putting it in this same thread because I’m
beginning to wonder if there’s something wrong with my install. I can add a regular
HTML comment to a page with no trouble UNLESS it has code in it. Something about
the closing angle bracket causes WP to interpret the end of the HTML comment (
the — in –>) as an endash so it inserts the special character for an endash,
and, of course, that wrecks everything.
* Could some of these issues be because I’m working locally through XAMPP? Do most
people work locally or directly on the server? I’ll have access to the server
version next week but I don’t right now.
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [Empty p tags inserted before the select tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/)
* Thread Starter [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/#post-4757395)
* I can work with that kind of fix for now, but I’d still like to know what’s causing
it. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
* Thanks, Andrew.
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [Empty p tags inserted before the select tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/)
* Thread Starter [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/#post-4757387)
* Any other ideas on this? I’ve tried everything I can think of but nothing is
helping. I’ve Googled it and found a fair number of references to other users
who’ve had similar issues (WP inserting empty p and/or br tags) – mostly a few
years back. People have suggested various solutions but none of them have consistently
seemed to work for all users and what’s more disturbing to me is that no one
has ever seemed to understand what’s causing it. I’m leery of applying “fixes”
when we don’t understand the cause.
* Anyone?
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [Empty p tags inserted before the select tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/)
* Thread Starter [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/#post-4757304)
* All plugins deactivated – still inserts br and/or empty p tags in themes Twenty
Eleven through Twenty Fourteen. No difference.
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [Empty p tags inserted before the select tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/)
* Thread Starter [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-p-tags-inserted-before-the-select-tag/#post-4757298)
* That’s the code I input in the Text editor. What I get back is either this:
* ```
Federal Tax ID:
^
Type:
^
```
* or
* ```
Federal Tax ID:
^
Type:
^
```
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [write new post = 30 second delay VS edit existing post = instant](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-new-post-30-second-delay-vs-edit-existing-post-instant/)
* [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-new-post-30-second-delay-vs-edit-existing-post-instant/#post-528155)
* Thanks obscure. I reuploaded all my wp-admin files and it works fine now.
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [write new post = 30 second delay VS edit existing post = instant](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-new-post-30-second-delay-vs-edit-existing-post-instant/)
* [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-new-post-30-second-delay-vs-edit-existing-post-instant/#post-528143)
* I don’t have any solutions but I may be having a similar issue. When I click
on either the “Write a post” link or the Write tab on the Dashboard, I get a
totally white page. It’s not an error page, there’s just literally nothing on
it despite the fact that it loads fully. View source shows absolutely no code
despite the fact that my status bar says “Done”. I’ve been unable to add any
posts to my blog since last night before 9pm ET, when it was working fine. The
last thing I did in my blog was to allow a comment that was a TrackBack. Could
that have messed things up? Anyone have any ideas about what to try?
* Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
In reply to: [sudden disappear of visual editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-disappear-of-visual-editor/)
* [tryintolearn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tryintolearn/)
* (@tryintolearn)
* [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-disappear-of-visual-editor/#post-519274)
* I’m not sure if the problem I’m having is related to what the rest of you are
describing or not. When I click on either “Write” or “Write A New Post” I just
get a blank page. Not an error page, just a totally white page. I was posting
fine earlier today. Is anyone else having this problem? I tried creating a new
user name like someone had suggested but it didn’t help.
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