Editing posts goes to new post editor and introduces extra code

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  artphotowall · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 9:33 am

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  I always use the classic text editor. I now find when I edit a post after publishing, I am taken to the new post editor by default.

  When I click to go to the classic text editor, I find new code has been introduced.

  For example:

  I have a site ‘I Use This For Testing’ and another site ‘I Use This For Testing Too’. I have the same post in both sites. The name of the post is ‘Hello’

  In the post there is a list of themes I have used, the name of the newest being at the top.

  When I try a new theme, I add a name and the code that WordPress introduces behind each line is <br />

  I just went in to edit the post in ‘I Use This For Testing Too’ and found that after switching to the text editor that WP had introduced an ordered list and a non-breaking space between each item in the list.

  I just went in and took out each instance of the   (because the list was now much longer with large spaces) so you won’t see that, but the ordered-list coding is there.

  My preference is for an ability to set the classic text editor once and have it apply to writing posts and editing.

  I have several self-hosted WP sites – and I would like to register that I hope that the new coding introduced in WP.com will not be extended to WP.org.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 9:41 am

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  Which exact sites are we talking about that are experiencing the problem? We need the URLs starting with http.

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  artphotowall · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 10:03 am

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  The two specific URLs to the same post on the two sites:

  http://iusethisfortestingtoo.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/hello/

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  http://iusethisfortesting.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/hello/

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 10:07 am

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  On the Settings->Writing page, have you selected “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML?

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  artphotowall · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 10:12 am

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  Thanks,

  I have not selected that on either site.

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  artphotowall · Member · Aug 28, 2014 at 10:23 am

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  It occurred to me that the issue might be theme specific.

  I thought I would give others a chance to see the ‘before’ code on

  http://iusethisfortesting.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/hello/

  which is why I haven’t gone into it to edit the post yet.