WordPress: Why aren't paragraphs being displayed properly?
One of the most common and annoying issues with WordPress is that when you paste text into a page from another program, e.g. Microsoft Word, WordPress lumps all of the text together into one long string - it doesn't put the paragraph breaks into the text.
You may see the breaks in page editor but when you view the actual page on your web site, the text is all lumped together.
To get round this, we use the TinyMCE text editor plugin. All you need to do is:
- Go to https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ and download the plugin
- Log into the backend of your WordPress web site and then click on 'Plugins' | 'Add New'
- Once the plugin has been installed, go to 'Plugins' and then click on 'Settings' under 'TinyMCE Advanced'
- On this page ensure that 'Keep paragraph tags' is ticked
- Click on 'Save Changes' and now when you paste text into a page, the paragraphs will remain in place.