Wordpress not outputting post in <p> tags

Question

So I'm using a custom loop to output a custom post type on some pages.

It works just fine, grabs the content etc, but it doesn't wrap the paragraphs in p tags. I'm relatively new to WP, being as though I've just done front end stuff before, so forgive me if I'm making an elementary mistake here.

<div class="home-grid-1">
            <?php 
                query_posts(array( 
                    'post_type' => 'Headerhome',
                    'showposts' => 1 
                ) );  
            ?>
            <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

            <?php echo get_the_content(); ?>
            <?php endwhile; wp_reset_query();?>

    </div> <!-- end home-grid-1 -->

Answer 1

Instead of echo get_the_content() , which often does not have filters applied to it, use the_content() which will automatically echo the post content, with filters applied.

while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 
    the_content();
endwhile; 

Answer 2

The filter you need is a transformer of double-line-breaks to <p> and </p> . It's called wpaup and is explained here