title: Don't remove empty p (<p>&nbsp;</p>) tags from Wordpress on page load
body: <p>In my basic Wordpress editor I have an article with html-code like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h4&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hello!&lt;/h4&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;my text&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When that article page is loaded I always see only this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h4&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hello!&lt;/h4&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;my text&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I force WordPress to stop removing empty <code>p</code> tags?</p>
  
  <p>I have tried two methods and neither one worked:</p>
  
  <p>1.I tried to add such lines to 'functions.php' of my theme:</p>
  
  <pre><code> remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' );
   remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2.I tried to add slashes to all <code>add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' );</code> in 'wp-includes/default-filters.php'.</p>
  
  <p>None of these helped. Any ideas how to solve my problem?</p>