Paragraph breaks missing from shortcode output - shortcode

Question

I created a shortcode in Wordpress to perform a query and display the content, but the content line breaks are being removed.
add_shortcode( 'resource' , 'Resource' );
function Resource($atts) {
$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
'category' => ''
), $atts );
$categories = explode(',' , $atts['category']);
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'resource',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'orderby' => 'title',
'order' => 'ASC',
'posts_per_page'=> -1,
'tax_query' => array( array(
'taxonomy' => 'category',
'field' => 'term_id',
'operator' => 'AND',
'terms' => $categories
) )
);
$string = '';
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
if( ! $query->have_posts() ) {
$string .= '<p>no listings at this time...</p>';
}
while( $query->have_posts() ){
$query->the_post();
$string .= '<div id="links"><div id="linksImage">' . get_the_post_thumbnail() . '</div>
<div id="linksDetails"><h1>'. get_the_title() .'</h1><p>' . get_the_content() . '</p>
<p>for more information CLICK HERE</div></div>';
}
wp_reset_postdata();
$output = '<div id="linksWrapper">' . $string . '</div>';
return $output;
}
Any suggestion on why this is happening and what to do to fix it. This is only happening on the shortcode output. On regular pages - the content displays correctly.

Answer 1

found a solution through more searches:
function get_the_content_with_formatting ($more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
$content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
return $content;
}
works perfect, so I thought I would share..