No paragraph breaks….please help

Strange. Are you running any plugins that change the way the post editor works? Also – are you using the visual editor, or the html editor?

Hi peter, thanks for the reply. If it helps, I’m using the visual editor and the only plugin I have activated atm is Akismet.

Thanks again for the reply. I guess I’ll just have to add the <p> tag now. Weird, I never had to do it before, but at least now I know that works.

Very strange. Did you make any changes around the time it stopped working (new theme, plugin, etc)?

Nope. No major changes, just updated to the latest release.

Oh, I almost forgot…..I tried the automatic update, but it would just hang up and not do anything. I tried that several times with the same result. I had to do the upgrade manually.

Very strange, sabbz. You might try installing a fresh version of the core files manually, just to make sure nothing got corrupt along the way.

If that doesnt work, we’re off into the territory of serious debugging. The function that should add those <p> tags in for you is wpautop, and it’s hooked in via the the_content hook. If that function is somehow modified, or broken, or if it’s never even being called because of something going on with the hooks, I suppose what you’re seeing could happen. Unfortunately, to figure either of those things out would mean you’d have to write some code, which could be a bigger hurdle than you’re looking to take on, depending on your ability.

If you’re interested, I could at least point you in the right direction.

Good luck!

I also had this happen after the update to 3.0.1. I manually use br / in between paragraphs.

Where can I start looking, Peter?

Thanks again. I’ll try doing another manual install of the core files and see if that works. ??

I changed the CSS

p 	{
	padding: 7px;
	}

Works perfect and all my older posts have the line break where they need it!