There is a filter that gets run on the_content (and the_excerpt), called wpautop
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop it looks for 2 carriage returns in a row, and converts them to a <p> You should be able to either add this to your output (it is actually a pretty good idea ... I do it for all my cf cms content too), or just run a cf script once to go fix them all in the db if you want to solve it once. hth. (I have a pretty good understanding of wp at this point, feel free to hit me up with any questions if you need to) On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Rick Eidson <cfh...@kchost.net> wrote: > > So I have a client that is in a WordPress Site but we are moving to a > customized site using ColdFusion. > > > > I am going to use the database that WP used. > > > > So my problem. > > > > The <br> tag. WordPress's editor will remove the BR tag and it doesn't > store > it in the database. Now I have done some research to find out how to stop > WP from doing this. BUT there are over 2000 post and like I said. we are > moving to CF. > > > > What I do not understand is when the post is output to the WP site and you > look at the source the BR tags are there. They aren't in the database. So > obviously they aren't in CF Output either. > > > > I do not see any replaced ascii or other in it's place. Somehow it seems > the > WP knows where the BR tag is supposed to be even though it isn't in the > database. > > > > Is this confusing? > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358071 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
