diff --git a/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-basic-html-input.js b/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-basic-html-input.js
index 1122cca02f..e4f1c5ee2f 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-basic-html-input.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-basic-html-input.js
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import cleanBasicHtml from '@tryghost/kg-clean-basic-html';
 import parserPlugins from '../options/basic-html-parser-plugins';
 import registerKeyCommands, {BASIC_KEY_COMMANDS} from '../options/key-commands';
 import validator from 'validator';
-import {BLANK_DOC, MOBILEDOC_VERSION} from './koenig-editor';
 import {DRAG_DISABLED_DATA_ATTR} from '../lib/dnd/constants';
+import {MOBILEDOC_VERSION, getBlankMobileDoc} from './koenig-editor';
 import {arrayToMap, toggleSpecialFormatEditState} from './koenig-editor';
 import {assign} from '@ember/polyfills';
 import {computed} from '@ember/object';
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export default Component.extend({
     html: null,
     placeholder: '',
     spellcheck: true,
+    defaultTag: 'p',
 
     // internal properties
     activeMarkupTagNames: null,
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ export default Component.extend({
         let mobiledoc = this.mobiledoc;
 
         if (!mobiledoc && !this.cleanHTML) {
-            mobiledoc = BLANK_DOC;
+            mobiledoc = getBlankMobileDoc(this.defaultTag);
         }
 
         let mobiledocIsSame =
@@ -441,7 +442,7 @@ export default Component.extend({
     // inline markup that directly maps to HTML elements
     _getHTML() {
         if (this.editor && this.editor.element) {
-            let firstParagraph = this.editor.element.querySelector('p');
+            let firstParagraph = this.editor.element.querySelector(this.defaultTag);
 
             if (!firstParagraph) {
                 return '';
diff --git a/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-card-accordion.hbs b/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-card-accordion.hbs
index b7cd86a3da..60c1d3b65f 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-card-accordion.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-card-accordion.hbs
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
                 @placeholder="Add your heading here..."
                 @class="w-100 fw4 bn bg-transparent kg-accordion-card-heading"
                 @name="toggle-heading"
+                @defaultTag="h4"
                 @onChange={{action "setHeadingText"}}
                 @onFocus={{action (mut this.isFocused) true}}
                 @onBlur={{action (mut this.isFocused) false}}
diff --git a/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-editor.js b/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-editor.js
index fba4d9393e..4c0e214780 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-editor.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/lib/koenig-editor/addon/components/koenig-editor.js
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ export const SPECIAL_MARKUPS = {
     SUB: '~'
 };
 
+export function getBlankMobileDoc(defaultTag = 'p') {
+    return {
+        ...BLANK_DOC,
+        sections: [
+            [1, defaultTag, [
+                [0, [], 0, '']
+            ]]
+        ]
+    };
+}
+
 export function arrayToMap(array) {
     let map = Object.create(null);
     array.forEach((key) => {