Editor removes <p> tags

Question

How do I stop the editor from stripping my <p> tags and "empty (& nbsp;)" divs on pages?

Since @scribu asked for a sample code here it is:

Input:

<p>text</p>
<div>&nbsp;</div>

Output:

text

Answer 1

1) Try a few different plugins that disable formatting and stop WP's built-in stripping of extra paragraphs and whitespace: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=formatting&sort=

2) You can fool WP into adding a paragraph break by using <b>&nbsp;<b/> in the html editor. It's a non-breaking space in <b> tags. You won't be able to see it in the visual editor, so add it in the htnl editor. It's ugly, but it works without needing to fully disable formatting.

3) You can also do this in functions.php and then wrap the text you don't want formated with <!-- noformat on --> and <!-- noformat off --> tags.

function newautop($text)
{
    $newtext = "";
    $pos = 0;

    $tags = array('<!-- noformat on -->', '<!-- noformat off -->');
    $status = 0;

    while (!(($newpos = strpos($text, $tags[$status], $pos)) === FALSE))
    {
        $sub = substr($text, $pos, $newpos-$pos);

        if ($status)
            $newtext .= $sub;
        else
            $newtext .= convert_chars(wptexturize(wpautop($sub)));      //Apply both functions (faster)

        $pos = $newpos+strlen($tags[$status]);

        $status = $status?0:1;
    }

    $sub = substr($text, $pos, strlen($text)-$pos);

    if ($status)
        $newtext .= $sub;
    else
        $newtext .= convert_chars(wptexturize(wpautop($sub)));      //Apply both functions (faster)

    //To remove the tags
    $newtext = str_replace($tags[0], "", $newtext);
    $newtext = str_replace($tags[1], "", $newtext);

    return $newtext;
}

function newtexturize($text)
{
    return $text;   
}

function new_convert_chars($text)
{
    return $text;   
}

remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
add_filter('the_content', 'newautop');

remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
add_filter('the_content', 'newtexturize');

remove_filter('the_content', 'convert_chars');
add_filter('the_content', 'new_convert_chars');

Answer 2

I had problems with TinyMCE Advanced. I struggled with this for a while. Finally discovered a simple solution - Use Shortcodes!

Place this code into functions.php and enter [br] wherever you want a br tag to appear.

add_shortcode("br", "br_tag");

function br_tag(){
        return("<br/>");                            
}

Answer 3

Add in your functions.php

remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop');
remove_filter ('the_excerpt', 'wpautop');

But you have to add no

and
manually. This tags are not saved in the database.

Answer 4

Ik heb tiny advanced geinstalleerd. http://rubayathasan.com/wordpress/plugin/enabling-line-break-in-wordpress/

It does solve the problem, but now I need to enter a double enter to see a single one.

Answer 5

If you're going to be adding HTML tags, why not just use the HTML Editor?