Hi guys,
I had a weird problem and as I was typing.. i fixed it. However, I'm going to post it to share.
So.. I've been overriding the article and blog item layouts with a customized template (with the "html" subfolders of the template). Originally, the "$item->text" property was being outputted, but I wasn't satisfied with that because "$item->introtext" and "$item->fulltext" were put together in the "$item->text" property.
So I decided to "echo" both "introtext" and "fulltext" separately to enclose them in separate "divs" ...and that was the mistake. The Seblod magic (parsing) completely stopped functioning. After searching, I found out that the content plugin relies on the "$item->text" property. It doesn't parse the "introtext" or "fulltext" at all !
The solution for me was to remove my overrides (in the customized graphical template) and make a Seblod template (for my content type).
Thanks for bringing Seblod to the community.
..just need to learn the tricks.