Losing <p> and <br> tags (using Multiple content blocks plugin )

OK esmi. Here’s the link and the additional information.

The page I was working on is http://skye.net-commerce-solutions.co.uk/
(Please note: this page is in development – content and layout are very much first draft)
I set up the content blocks, started to add content and clean up the formatting.

I got the central block “Isle of Skye Psychic Centre” looking OK, with paragraphing using p tags, then started on the LH block “The Magic of Skye”. After a couple of updates to this block I noticed that the centre block had lost all paragraphing.

I then tried updating the LH block, noting what happened (using the HTML tab).

1, I set up the block, with p tabs (here displayed as {p} tabs so as not to mess up the posting

Here’s what I entered, and confirmed to be in the database using PhpMyAdmin. (note the p tabs

(strong)The Magic of Skye(/strong)(p)

(/p)Since the arrival of the modern industrial age, most people have lost touch with the aliveness of nature. Nevertheless, there are many of us who feel the throb of that aliveness in our bodies and long to restore a real connection, knowing it will help to heal and restore our energies and vitality.(/p)

(p)The Isle of Skye is a place where the aliveness of nature is still palpable. Everyone who comes here feels its special energies immediately. It is so wonderful to move out of the mechanical time-bound world of modern life, from a world where most things are dead, to a world where you can feel the magical energies of revival and connection all around you.(/p)

(p)Skye is a place where you can enjoy feeling connecte, where the sense of separation and isolation begins to dissolve. Here, you begin to experience your sense of oneness with everything around you. Whatever it is about this island, it is a very special place, and the vast majority of people who come here experience something that uplifts them.(/p)

(p)There are some things that are really worth the effort, and to make the Isle of Skye one place that you can say you have visited, seen and experienced is one of those things – a unique and wonderful experience, just in itself.(/p)

I then used the update in the admin page, and found that the p tags had gone, although the block was still paragraphed in the admin edit diaplay. The paragraphing appears to be with newlines, not with p tags. PhpMyAdmin confirms the entry now looks like this

(strong)The Magic of Skye(/strong)

Since the arrival of the modern industrial age, most people have lost touch with the aliveness of nature. Nevertheless, there are many of us who feel the throb of that aliveness in our bodies and long to restore a real connection, knowing it will help to heal and restore our energies and vitality.

The Isle of Skye is a place where the aliveness of nature is still palpable. Everyone who comes here feels its special energies immediately. It is so wonderful to move out of the mechanical time-bound world of modern life, from a world where most things are dead, to a world where you can feel the magical energies of revival and connection all around you.

Skye is a place where you can enjoy feeling connecte, where the sense of separation and isolation begins to dissolve. Here, you begin to experience your sense of oneness with everything around you. Whatever it is about this island, it is a very special place, and the vast majority of people who come here experience something that uplifts them.

There are some things that are really worth the effort, and to make the Isle of Skye one place that you can say you have visited, seen and experienced is one of those things – a unique and wonderful experience, just in itself.

This displays on the front end as a concatenated string, as at present.

How should paragraph splits be entered an processed by the system?
How can I stop (p) and (br) tags being lost in this way?

Thanks:

I’ll try your suggestions, meanwhile I’ve done some more checks.

Usng the normal WordPress edit page I enter the user text

UK xxxxxText Readings

Text ‘Skye’

and your question to 78887

£1.50 / reply. UK Callers Only

The newlines are entered with the ENTER key.

This gets stored in the database with the newlines stored as hex 0D 0A.
It is then displayed correctly with 0D 0A replaced by <p>.

The reply to the admin screen however displays as 1 line

UK xxxxxText Readings Text ‘Skye’ and your question to 78887 £1.50 / reply. UK Callers Only

When I check the source code of this edit page reply, the newlines are actually there as 0D 0A, but they are not showing as newlines.

For comparison I went back to a test bed I set up before startimg this project, and checked in an additional Content block on that system. There the newlines are also 0D 0A, but they are displayed correctly.

So it begins to look as if the problem is in the display of the additional content block in the wordpress standard edit page, and that there is something in my system which is breaking it, which is not present in the testbed system.