From 27cf3f29910ceb94200f0d7a50be8bc0aed559ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ozz <azaozz@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:37:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't output <br /> for empty posts, props Denis-de-Bernardy,
 fixes #6128

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@11048 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/formatting.php | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 0d247afd0a..2517dc506a 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ function clean_pre($matches) {
  * @return string Text which has been converted into correct paragraph tags.
  */
 function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
+	if ( trim($pee) === '' )
+		return '';
 	$pee = $pee . "\n"; // just to make things a little easier, pad the end
 	$pee = preg_replace('|<br />\s*<br />|', "\n\n", $pee);
 	// Space things out a little