CraftCMS Redactor is adding  tags to viewable source code... but then removes them when saving We are in the midst of a migration from WordPress to Craft.  Much of the content contains line breaks, which are converted to &lt;p&gt; tags in Redactor (as seen in Redactor's view source plugin).

But when the entry is saved (or previewed, as seen in the attached image), those &lt;p&gt; tags are stripped back out and never make it to the database.

Is there a config setting to "retain the automatically applied formatting from redactor when the entry is saved"? (we want to keep these styles that were temporarily added in by redactor)
In the Advanced section of your field definition, there are settings for clean-up actions and Purify HTML.

I suggest trying to disable Purify (or use a custom config).