At some point in the last couple months ACF has stopped rendering new lines as paragraphs in a text area that was (and is) set to “automatically add paragraphs.”
I only noticed because I targeted some CSS against the p tag and now it is busted.
I’ve tried resetting and testing on a fresh post but no joy.
I just texted and ACF textarea fields are working as expected.
There must be something else that’s causing it.
I turned off all plugins (save ACF) and it does the same thing. I switched to WYSIWYG instead of text area and the behaviour is the same.
This is only happening in ACF, p and br behave as expected in the post’s regular body copy.
ETA:
Actually, I misdiagnosed the issue. It’s not that ACF is turning p into br+br. Rather, it is stuck on “auto br” and it not honoring changes to that new line value even though it will say “auto p” or “no formatting”
I duplicated as ‘fieldname2’ and with the same text copied, it works as it should.
So how can I unstick this?
I would suspect a filter on the fields. I don’t know why it has recently changed for you but I cannot reproduce the issue.
Well, if anyone else finds this via Google. I managed to ‘fix’ this by:
1. Created ‘fieldname_2’
2. Renamed the busted field ‘fieldname_old’
3. Renamed ‘fieldname_2’ to ‘fieldname’ (the original name of the busted field)
4. Erased ‘fieldname_old’ (the value data was now in ‘fieldname’)
5. Then I had to go into every post and make some change (I added a space to the text) to the value and save.
That got things back to where I needed them. I’m sure there’s a way you can automate all of some of that above but that’s beyond my ken so I had to go in and edit 100+ posts which is as fun as it sounds.
