There are times when you want to add your own line breaks or paragraph tags manually. WordPress makes this easy by having a Text Tab within the WordPress Page/Post Editor. One thing that can be very frustrating is when you switch back and forth from the Visual and Text Tab WordPress strips out your HTML. If you have ever encountered this issue and need a simple solution, today is your lucky day.

Follow these instructions kick this problem in the pants:

1. Install TinyMCE Advanced: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
2. Login to your WP admin and go to Settings > TinyMCE Advanced 
3. Check “Keep paragraph tags”
   
4. Save Changes.