As one of my tasks to make this basic blog I had to learn a little about Wordpress (2.71), just enough to get it skinned and get writing. I very quickly came across what I can only assume must be an extremely common problem that expert users face when writing their posts / pages in this excellent platform, text formatting. At first I thought I was doing something wrong. When I swapped between the Visual and HTML views I seemed to lose any <p> tags (and likely countless others) and when I actually viewed the site’s source I had gained <br /> tags… I did what most people do and hit Google for quick solutions, but I couldn’t find anything acceptable.