Paragraphs not displaying on front-end in WYSIWYG custom field

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Last updated by Christian Cox 7 years, 3 months ago.

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August 16, 2017 at 4:09 pm #560484

guyA-2

I am trying to: use a WYSIWYG custom field for an event description, but the formatting gets stripped out on the front-end. Elements such as bullet points pull through, but all paragraph spacing is removed.

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link

I can insert <p> tags into the html to make it display, but I can't expect my client to have to do this every time!

The screen shot shows paragraph spacing in the WYSIWYG editor, which doesn't display on the front-end (see link above).

Thanks.

August 16, 2017 at 4:48 pm #560502

Christian Cox

Hi, if the WYSIWYG field is added as a shortcode ins a Content Template, you must ensure that the Output Mode of that CT is set to include automatic paragraphs. This setting is at the bottom of the screen in the Content Template editor.

You can find a similar setting in a Layout Visual Editor cell. If neither of these solutions works for you, please provide some more information to help me understand how the WYSIWYG field is added to the post, and if enabling a default theme like Twenty Seventeen makes the paragraphs render with appropriate p tags.