Trying to restore tags to the excerpt, needing paragraphs to display correctly

[David BorrinkMember]

I used the code below to restore the stripped tags in front page excerpts. It works fine except that my paragraphs are still merged into one block up to the excerpt limit cutoff.

// Add html to archive content limit.
add_filter( 'get_the_content_limit_allowedtags', 'custom_get_the_content_limit_allowedtags' );
function custom_get_the_content_limit_allowedtags() {

	return '<script>,<style>,<strong>,<b>,<br>,<em>,<i>,<ul>,<ol>,<li>,<a>';
}

I tried adding <p> to the list of tags above to return, but that doesn't do anything because the "text" mode in the visual editor doesn't have <p> tags. Is there any way to get paragraphs to be separated?

We just moved from a TwentyTwelve child theme to Genesis, so the excerpt replace function I used before won't apply here. We had paragraphs breaking in the excerpt on that theme with the following code:

function my_custom_excerpt($text) {
	global $post;
	if ( '' == $text ) {
		$text = get_the_content('');
		$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
		$text = str_replace('\]\]\>', ']]>', $text);
		$fulltext = str_replace('\]\]\>', ']]>', $text);
		$text = strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');
		$excerpt_length = 100;
		$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
		if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
			array_pop($words);
			array_push($words, '... <a href="'. esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '">Read more »</a>');
			$text = implode(' ', $words);
		}
		else {
			$text = $fulltext;
		}
	}
	return $text;
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'my_custom_excerpt');

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[David BorrinkMember]

Okay, I found that I had an unnecessary function from my old TwentyTwelve based theme that might have been interfering with the new function I listed above. I tried the code example from Brad Dalton above again and I'm still getting the same issue. If my excerpt has an italic tag that doesn't close before the excerpt cut-off, the rest of my page and sidebars are show up in italics. How can I retain the tag formatting without sending the rest of the page into tag chaos?

And I'm not getting paragraph breaks if I add <p> to the string of tags.

[David BorrinkMember]

I don't know if bumping is allowed, so I'm bumping one month later.

[David BorrinkMember]

Anyone?

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