Paragraph breaks not showing on Pages
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I have been using the Gutenberg editor since I figure I may as well find my way around it before it’s compulsory. Most of the time it works fine, but I have found that when creating or editing a page (rather than a post) each ‘paragraph’ block, while separated when editing, is NOT separated when publishing the page – so my carefully formatted prose is turned into an ugly wall of text.
It seems to work just fine when creating posts, but not pages. I’ve managed to get around it using Shift+Enter to force line breaks and bypass the ‘each paragraph is a block’ system, but that’s time-consuming and suboptimal.
Am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated.
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Howdy –
Thanks for getting in touch.
I have been using the Gutenberg editor since I figure I may as well find my way around it before it’s compulsory
You can still access the classic editor now and in the future. It won’t go away. I hope that provides some relief. We are still working out bugs and kinks with Gutenberg and your feedback is crucial to us being able to sort it all out.
my carefully formatted prose is turned into an ugly wall of text.
That’s no good! Have you noted if the issue occurs across multiple browsers? Or just in your default one? Could you let me know which browsers and version numbers are involved with that issue? A screen shot would be great too (you can just add it to your site media library and I’ll pull it from there). Last thing, do you have any browser extensions enabled?
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Thank you for your reply!
To answer your questions, I’m using Chrome on a laptop, but the issue occurs on Safari on iPad as well. I’m running the Nucleare theme.
Chome: Version 70.0.3538.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Safari: 12 on iOS 12.1I’ve added a whole bunch of screenshots to this test page at my blog: https://inkbeatheart.wordpress.com/test-page/
As you can see, the issue is unique to pages – paragraph spacing seems to work fine in posts.
One thing I noticed that when selecting, copying and pasting all text from my test page to a test post, it added a classic block before and after the chunk of blocks I copied. Those classics blocks (from Image 5) didn’t show up in any way in my test page, nor did I add them there.
I have several browser extensions added to Chrome: Pinterest, Grammarly, Adblock, ColorPick Eyedropper, Hypothes.is and Etymonline. Adblock and Grammarly are not active on my site.
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@hummingbeebird I was actually able to confirm this on my test blog as well, so I’ve filed a bug report. Thank you for reporting this!
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@supernovia Thank you! Will I find out here when the bug has been resolved, or should I just keep checking the page editor periodically?
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We’ll try to update you once this is fixed, but you’re also welcome to follow the discussion on this bug at https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/28866
It looks like this is specifically related to the Markdown setting, though, so if you don’t actually use Markdown on your site, just disabling that should fix things for now. You can change that setting here:
https://inkbeatheart.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php
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I too am having the same issue and it’s about to have me go to another blog site. I’ve tried finding the wp-admin/options-writings but it keeps taking me back to the default backend page. I am using the free version but chose WP because it can upgrade when ready. However, if a simple paragraph break is breaking the whole system than blogger might be in my future. is there anyway I can get around this with the free version?
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I got around this problem just recently somehow but I’ve forgotten what I did. When I tested the issue just now it looks like the bug I had may have been fixed.
Something you could try to get around the problem is to copy the text you want and paste it without formatting (Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows, Command+Shift+V on a Mac [I think – I’m not very handy on a Mac]) into a Classic block in the page editor. I think that worked for me when the paragraphing problem was still showing up on my website.
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I’m wondering if the issue is copy and past. I’m copying from Evernote. When I past it deletes the formatting and I’m forced to reformat. It seems like anything that was pasted has formatting issues regardless of reformatting attempts within the WordPress editor.
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That is very possible, yes. I’m going to guess Evernote uses rich text rather than HTML. Word Processors use rich text as well, and there has always been issues with pasting from word processors into HTML editor like WordPress use – the two types of code are not completely compatible, and copying rich text content sometimes copies some invisible code that completely confuses your browser that’s only designed to understand HTML. This is especially true if the content you’re copying contains a lot of formatting.
Please try the following: After copying your content from Evernote, paste it into a plaintext editor like Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac). The copy it from there and paste it into your site. Pasting into a text editor will strip out all formatting, so leave adding stuff like headings, bold, italics, etc, until the post is in the editor here. But it should also strip out any invisible code that you may have copied from Evernote that’s causing problems.
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Here’s what happened. Evernote Gives you the option of taking snap shots of webpages. I transferred my website and needed to archive 400 blog entries. The quickest way was to just take snap shots. This of course but not immediately obvious saved all the css tags. When I copied and pasted it carried the div tags along with it. Stripping the tags worked. All is good and the blog doesn’t look like word vomit anymore. Thanks to several suggestions on here.
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