Wordpress visual editor not making line breaks

Question

This should be very simple, i can not believe that a company the size of Wordpress cannot provide users a very simple way to make line breaks.

I know how to use the text tab and code the page using html (im a developer). However my clients have absolutely no idea what html is so they obviously can not use it.

All the client wants to do is make a "space between lines" , in our terms a break line. They only want to use the visual editor.

Now when they start typing and hit enter, it creates & nbsp; or closes a paragraph tag.

Many articles are saying that shift + enter will make one, however this 100% does not as ive tried.

Ive tried a plugin that most articles are suggesting called "tinymce advanced". But this does not resolve the problem.

Is there any way possible for a normal user with no html knowledge to only use the visual editor and create br lines without actually using code?

Answer 1

Holding down Shift+Enter definitely works.

Alternatively, you can always prevent Wordpress from automatically adding <p> tags to the markup using the following code inside of your theme's functions.php file:

remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');