How are you outputting the category description? You might need to use something like apply_filters('the_content', category_description( $category_id ));
or wpautop(category_description( $category_id ));
to have paragraphs in the output.
Edit:
Adding what you had in JSFiddle – note where $term->description
is, I wrap it in wpautop
. See if that works. If not, try apply_filters('the_content', $term->description)
instead:
<?php
$taxonomies= array('taxonomy'=>'area-type');
$terms = get_terms($taxonomies,'orderby=id&hide_empty=0');
$count = count($terms);
if ($count > 0) {
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$id = str_replace("#","",$term->slug);
$term_desc .= '<div id="nav_menu_desc_' . $id .
'" class="section hidden formateIt">' .
wpautop($term->description) .'</div>';
}
echo $term_desc ;
} ?>