WP text styles not coming through to actual post

Question

So Long story short, im working on a custom theme and wrapping the WP hooks onto said theme etc and i noticed that, When writing a post/page etc, that say for example i want to make a word bold/italic etc, That applied styles dont come through.

So for example, say i select a word, click the "B" icon to make the word bold, its visually displays the word as bold on the editor but when i save and preview the page, the text is normal. There are no visible stylings on the word whatsoever.

I also tried to go into the HTML pane, and apply the html tags manually like <b></b> or <i></i> etc and, the same thing, i save and preview page and the text appears as if no style was apply.

Any ideas as to whats going on? Probably something im missing? Any Tips, links etc i humbly appreciate.

Thanks in advanced.

***edit: this is my current wp post loop

<?php 

while( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
<div class="post">
<h3 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink();  ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<div class="entry-content"><?php the_post(); ?></div>
<div class="entry-content"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Answer 1

Most likely, your theme uses some form of CSS reset. Your markup ("b", "i", etc) is probably being saved and rendered correctly, but the CSS reset overrides all of the styles that the browser would normally apply. Try viewing the source of your page, and see if the markup ("b" tags, "i" tags, etc) actually exists. If so, you've got a reset problem. All you need to do is add styles specific to whatever container wraps your posts (probably a div with the class "post"). For example, to make your b tags bold again, you might add ".post b { font-weight:bold; }" to your stylesheet.

The other possibility is that you're using the_excerpt() to render content. By default, all markup is stripped form excerpts--this is expected behavior. You won't see any formatting at all unless you use the_content() or something equivalent.

Answer 2

Sometimes you need to apply the_content filter to your post_content.

Examples with the_content filter:

$content = get_the_content();
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);


for($i = 0; $i < count($allPosts); $i++){
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $allPosts[$i]['post_content']);
}

foreach($allPosts as $thePost){
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $thePost['post_content']);  
}

Otherwise, check into setup_postdata()