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The solution posted by @timothyblynjacobs worked for me – though I did it through my site’s control panel.

Thanks Timothy. Can you tell me if the plugin requires those privileges at all times, or just when updating? Could I remove them and expect the plugin to keep functioning until the next update?

I spoke to my webhost to see if the problem was some kind of character encoding limitation. They temporarily lifted some of the mod_security rules to see if that would help, but the problem persisted.

Weirdly, I have found a workaround of sorts. Changing all the linebreaks from <br> to <br /> makes it possible to save, and the lines still display correctly (in Chrome at least).

Of course this isn’t idea, so I would still be grateful if there’s any way you can help work out why I’m experiencing this issue.

I just spoke to the Cryout developer who said:

I tested right now and saving strings with
works fine on our test site.

So it seems it’s not a length issue but a content limitation instead.
Could you test if saving <br> works in any Polylang fields that do not relate to Nirvana?
And then any other text fields in WordPress (inside a Text widget, the site title / tagline, for example).

I did what he suggested and added a linebreak to a different plugin and a text widget. In both cases, saving the string with the linebreak, resetting the strings to default.

So it looks like it isn’t necessarily to do with Nirvana. Any thoughts?

I really appreciate your help with this. Thanks!

Yes, even the security plugin. I didn’t manually undo any of the changes it has made to .htaccess etc., but I deactivated it from the dashboard.

Sorry! Didn’t realise that would get messed up. Here is a sample of some of the html which I’m using in the Nirvana theme:

<span id="Introduction">Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet</span>

<a title="The Fowl Fleet" href="http://www.nellycootalot.com/the-game/"><span class="dropcap">N</span>elly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet</a> is currently in production. Join Nelly in this indie adventure game, and rescue birds hypnotised by the villainous Baron Widebeard. She'll meet a delightful cast of characters and face perplexing challenges in her quest for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.
<a title="The Fowl Fleet" href="http://www.nellycootalot.com/the-game/"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.nellycootalot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nelly-wave.png" alt="Nelly Cootalot" /></a><br><br>
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is being co-developed and published by <a title="Application Systems London" href="http://www.application-systems.co.uk/" target="_blank">Application Systems</a>. In 2013 we ran a successful <a title="Nelly on Kickstarter" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/315061806/nelly-cootalot-the-fowl-fleet-retro-pirate-adventu" target="_blank">Kickstarter Campaign</a> to fund development. Even though the campaign is over, you can still <a title="Nelly Cootalot Pre-order" href="http://www.nellycootalot.com/games/nelly-2/preorder/">pre-order a digital download or boxed DVD of the game</a>.
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Nelly Cootalot's original adventure <a title="Spoonbeaks Ahoy!" href="http://www.nellycootalot.com/games/spoonbeaks-ahoy">Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!</a> is a free adventure game for Windows. Help Nelly rescue kidnapped birds without spending a daalder.
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Check out the <a title="Blog" href="http://www.nellycootalot.com/blog/">Blog</a> and subscribe to <a title="Nelly on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/NCootalot" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a title="Nelly on Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nelly-Cootalot/479990382054808" target="_blank">Facebook</a> for updates.

Sorry, I spoke too soon!

I am able to add translations for SOME of the strings. but for others saving still doesn’t work. And when saving fails, it resets the strings which I’ve successfully translated.

So that workaround doesn’t work properly. Can you help fix this issue?

(Apologies for double-posting. I don’t seem to be able to edit my posts.)

Thanks for the reply!

Is pagination unavailable for ‘events’ for a specific reason? Without an ‘unlimited’ specifier or pagination it’s not possible for a visitor to a site to realise that you have more than x events coming up. So I think both would be an improvement.