If you are like me and you are new to wordpress and how it’s online “write post” section works, you may have run into this issue.
Lets just say that you want your post to be more than just one paragraph of straight text. You want to add code to your post to handle various tasks even if its as easy as forcing a line break. You may have noticed that wordpress interprets it in a way other than what you intended.
They way to get the “coding” to work properly is to put the “<code>...</code>” tag around each desired element.
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